What's the best way to get a fast acceleration start on my stick shift car?

Question

If I'm at a stop and want to have fast acceleration, what's the best way to clutch and accelerate? Should I just sink in the gas pedal and let go of the clutch fast or what?

Answer 1

You'll usually get a better start if you rev it up and dump the clutch. But overdo this and you'll just smoke the tires.

So I recommend some practice - go to the local dragstrip on test & tune night. It only costs $10 or 20 to enter, and they will use timing equipment to make all sorts of measurements of your car's performance. In particular, concentrate on getting a good 60' time.

Answer 2

It totally 100% depends on the car. A car like the HOnda S2000 which has good horsepower but veryt little torque actually gets the best launches if you rev the engine up to 9000 rpms and sidestep the clutch, Just dump it with your foot on the floor.
If I were to use that same technique with say, a mustang GT or pontiac GTO, all you would do would be to destroy some perfectly good tires in short order. You would go nowhere and leave alot of tiresmoke doing it. With a car like that you have to hold the revs somewhere around 2000 and then feather the clutch just a little as you smoothly apply the throttle untill you are wide open. That way you minimize wheel spin and get the best launch.

Answer 3

well dumping the clutch is never a good idea. you want to keep the tires from spinning as much as possible. you should rev up the engine but not all the way. depending on your car, this could be from 3000-6000 RPMs. you don't want to redline it and you don't want to give full throttle. you want to hold it steady at a certain RPM and let the clutch out until it starts to bite like you normally do, but you let the clutch all the way out quicker than you normally do. when you let it out all the way, give it some more gas and try to keep the RPM's at the same spot until the tires stop spinning. If you do this right, you should be giving it full throttle as the tires stop spinning

Answer 4

well as u give it gas let the clutch out it all depends on the vehicale u could buy performance chips from ebay, well the more gas u give let the clutch out just try not to burn the tires cause itll dogg more now if u wanna burn the tires good slam the gas like 2 times and on the 3 time going down let the clutch go and walla

Answer 5

rev it up to about 8000 rpms & slide your foot off the side of the clutch pedal.