one again another issue with my friends camaro, 98 z28 only 74k miles 6 speed. He had taken it out the other day, hes not that expierienced driver when it comes to horsing around, he attepted to do donuts and failed, he came to me and asked how to do them, so he told me to take the car out and see if i could do them. SO we get to the parking lot, swap drivers and i hop in the car. at first i just barely rev it up to like 3k and then hammer down on the gas and it just grabs and launches straight, i was like hmm...so i attempt again and this time i drop it at 4500. and it barely spins the and hooks again, i was like waht the hell, so i looked and sure enough he has no tcs so at this point im puzzled..so i try once more and this time i drop it at 5500 still nothing, it just wont spin the tires for the life of it, can anyone please tell me what can cause this? that would be great..

 

well...a nmods list will help...does it have an suspension mods? is it stock? stock clutch..does the clutch slip?

also..wrong forum.

 

check the tire pressure. Sure he is not running drag radials? I can get my car to spin from a 2k launch. Also, are you sure the clutch is fully engaged/good? When my car is cold(winter time cold), the clutch slips because the fluid does not flow through the restrictor as well. I have to baby it until everything heats up.

You could also try fanning the clutch a little to keep the revs up.

 

completely stock, has some crappy tires on it, its like 80 degrees outside, and yes the clutch is fully engages, the slave cylinder was just replaced like 4 days ago but im sure thats not it, it has 35 psi in some regular radial tires

 

are you sure it doesnt have the ASR button by the fog light switch? thats the traction control switch. it should light up the tires at like 2500rpm if you dump it there.

 

If there is nothing else obvious, I would start with the clutch and hydraulics. Seeing as that it was touched recently there is at least the chance that something is different. Was all the fluid replaced during the slave install? If so, the viscosity would be higher than the old fluid. Was the drill mod done on the clutch line? You might be running into the same problem that I have when the temps are low just because the fluid is new. Instead of dumping the clutch try modulating it to get the wheels to spin.

 

I wish my car would hook like that, when i matt the pedal im all over the road sideways. Sounds that car is a dud, Sell it to a past mustang owner, they will never know something is wrong with it.

 

It MUST have traction control in it ? Any LS1/LT1 with has more than enough power to smoke street tires, especially on a 5500 rpm drop.

 

Would getting it dynoed and see if maybe there is something wrong internally where it may only be pushing 240ish to the wheels. Not sure but for all the experts maybe that would help. I don't know just a thought.

Then yeah If somethings wrong sell it to a stang driver

 

Traction control or the clutch is messed up in some way.

A 305 tbi 5 speed car can smoke the tires with a good clutch dump.

Hell....just about any car with a manual transmission and no traction control can smoke the tires with a clutch dump.....or at least spin them better than what you are saying.

Something is definately wrong. I dont care if he only puts down 200 to the wheels....that is enough to spin them good.

 

It has to be traction control.

5500 rpm clutch drop?

You could spin the tires with 100hp doing that.

 

clutch

 

i can spin tires in my saturn station wagon 5 speed easily so u have to be able to. does the car feel incredibly slow?

 

well we figured out the problem, the car does have ars on it but the switch was taken out of the console, but when we went to the dealership they told us that they removed it so that the test drivers couldnt go out there and beat the **** out of the car, they fished it out of the console and re-installed it, moments later we couldnt keep the thing going straight! and being the noob that i am i was looking for the tcs switch by the cigarette lighter like on a t/a oh well at least i learned something new today

 

I was gonna say, you just need more gear.

4.56's are nice. Reeeaaalll nice.

 

God what i would give to be able to hoook like that ahaha. i drop it at 1200 and im all over lol i can stomp on it in 2nd and just get sidewayz

 

Damn didn't you feel the gas pedal kick back? Right then you would have been able to tell that the car has tcs/asr.

 

yeah id like for mine to hook alot better too.....
nothin like leaving a light knowing your goen to walk away from the car next to ya and you spin off of 1st and fishtail thru 2nd!!
wonder if i should just ride on my dr's all the time?!? LOL!!!

 

Which DRs do you have? I ride on mine all the time.

 

I would have told them to **** off and demanded they put it back in for free... then told them to **** off again as i bured two trails of melted rubber out their parking lot. That caused you a **** load of problems.