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First good launch in the 6 speed

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I have a little over 900 miles on my 6 speed and took it for a little drive tonight. The car is bone stock except for the Dunlop tires I took off my 1st CL. I heard this guy in the truck next to me talking (cell phone?) and though he said something about racing. The light turned and he took off. Lots of engine noise and the nose rose. No doubt he was on it. Since I WASN'T racing, I was sitting there in neutral with the clutch out. When I saw him go, I hurried up and punched it myself. I have no idea what rpm I engaged the clutch at, but it couldn't have been that high. Maybe 2000-2500. I wasn't really trying to launch hard, just get it engaged quickly and smoothly and go fast. To my surprise, I wound up spinning through half of the intersection. I even backed off the throttle a little to quiet it down and still pulled hard on the guy. Its a totally different experience than losing traction with the auto and VSA. With VSA the car bucks and bogs. In the 6 speed, you feel the tires skipping but it still goe straight and fast. I remember commenting that when I put my Dunlops on the 01, I couldn't break them loose on dry pavement with WOT straight line acceleration. It was way too easy in the 6 speed. :D
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900 miles.... time to have some fun. Let er' rip.
im jealous :(
My friend has a modded out 6 speed and his car hands my other friends wrx its ass daily.
bigman said:
My friend has a modded out 6 speed and his car hands my other friends wrx its ass daily.
I've got a friend with a medium modded WRX (cobb spec), and he hands me my ass daily. We went to the track Saturday, and he was running 14.0s. It was his first time at the track with that car. Ohh, its a Wagon too.
6speed said:
900 miles.... time to have some fun. Let er' rip.
:werd:
There are a lot of asses gettin handed around here. Are we in a Roman steam room or what?:boink:
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