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Originally Posted by Austin48624

I can tell you that I wasn't too sure on how to properly launch. Seeing as I've only seen videos and doing burnouts on the street and launching as well was a bit easier. The grip is a whole lot better and the grip was slot more than I thought. I had wheel hop and that ALONE should have been red flags. But what did I know? I got a 13.03 second quarter mile, and I wanted to get my reaction time down to .1s not .4s (their lights are delayed so you'd have to launch on the last yellow light) But yes, I was dumbing the clutch and at higher rpms. So I got what I deserved. It just confuses me that for a while it worked just fine in a straight line but when I'd turn it would thump. What finally did it for going straight AND turning was a complete u-turn. Then it felt like it disconnected.

As far as your launch technique goes, you may want to look into pre-loading the driveline a little with the emergency brake. The basic idea is that you'll stage the car (or even just get to pre-stage) and then start holding the car with the e-brake as you very lightly load the clutch. You don't want to do it long - this isn't a torque converter, and it's easy to overheat.

You just want to create a light load against the drive-train, so that when you get the green you've already taken up all the slack in the drive-train - removing, or at least reducing the snapping acting of quickly releasing that clutch with a bunch of RPM in the car.

You can find good you-tube examples of this approach. It's not for everybody, but you may find it helps reduce that initial shock, and keep the car out of wheel-hop on the initial hit. Wheel hop will break stuff like crazy - that on-off-on-off application of force is incredibly brutal and tears stuff up in a hurry. If it hops, just get out of the throttle, it's not worth it.