Quick start with my M6
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Staging Lane
Joined: Jan 2003
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From: New Orleans, LA
Quick start with my M6 I feel like a dork asking this but I am brand new to driving a stick. I do not know how to punch it off the line at a stop light. Mustangs keep smoking me because I can't drive my WS6. I feel like such a loser. When I try to practice giong fast, I am obviously doing something wrong beacause it smells like a fire after(I think I'm burning the clutch. What am I doing wrong. What I have been doing is reving the engine to about 3000 to 3500 RPM with the clutch all the way in. Then I let it off till I feel it start to catch...then its too late and the burning smell comes. Help Please, or refer me to driving school. <img border="0" alt="[bang head]" title="" src="graemlins/gr_banghead.gif" />
Launching!
Joined: Oct 2002
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From: Neshanic Station, NJ
Re: Quick start with my M6 Ok, try this:
Push clutch to floor
Shift to 1st gear
Rev up to 2000-2500 (how high depends on how well tires grip).
Release clutch quickly (don't feel for it, just release it quickly) while giving a little more gas
As soon as you feel the car start to move, floor it.
That should help you win some of those races (and elongate your clutch life)!
Chris
Push clutch to floor
Shift to 1st gear
Rev up to 2000-2500 (how high depends on how well tires grip).
Release clutch quickly (don't feel for it, just release it quickly) while giving a little more gas
As soon as you feel the car start to move, floor it.
That should help you win some of those races (and elongate your clutch life)!
Chris
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From: metro st louis
Re: Quick start with my M6 YES you are definately killing your clutch! I ( being the poor bastard that I am) just let the clutch out at 1500rpms and feather the throttle to control wheel spin. Tires are much cheaper than a clutch. The only time you should let a clutch out like that is on heated slicks, and then you have to let the clutch fly, not feather it.
I'm not bashing you by any means, everyone has to learn somehow. Find a back road and practice launches and shifting. Take it easy off the line. Every other mustang may take you in first, but second gear you will definately be checking your mirrors to see how he's doing.
My first time out I got beat by a 99 GT. I went up in a blaze of tire smoke and I missed second and gave up. So I went and did my Ralph Machio on the back roads and my first run was a 00 cobra. I was new to the LS1 game and all the articles rated that car 15hp stronger than mine, plus I could hear his exhaust mods, needless to say that I was worried. We pulled pretty even until 3rd. I pulled so hard that I thought he quit. When he asked what I put in it I almost said "gas".
But the fact remains that there a lot of modded mustangs out there as well. Even with a good launch you'll get beat every now and then, there is always a faster car out there.
Good luck with it. You will learn. You will humble a lot of mustangs stock. All the ford guys hate us and those three digit codes "LT1"&"LS1". 345hp comes standard with a cup holder, I love it!!!!
I'm not bashing you by any means, everyone has to learn somehow. Find a back road and practice launches and shifting. Take it easy off the line. Every other mustang may take you in first, but second gear you will definately be checking your mirrors to see how he's doing.
My first time out I got beat by a 99 GT. I went up in a blaze of tire smoke and I missed second and gave up. So I went and did my Ralph Machio on the back roads and my first run was a 00 cobra. I was new to the LS1 game and all the articles rated that car 15hp stronger than mine, plus I could hear his exhaust mods, needless to say that I was worried. We pulled pretty even until 3rd. I pulled so hard that I thought he quit. When he asked what I put in it I almost said "gas".
But the fact remains that there a lot of modded mustangs out there as well. Even with a good launch you'll get beat every now and then, there is always a faster car out there.
Good luck with it. You will learn. You will humble a lot of mustangs stock. All the ford guys hate us and those three digit codes "LT1"&"LS1". 345hp comes standard with a cup holder, I love it!!!!
