Full bore standing start

[SkinnyP]

What’s the chance of my manual Cayman stting itself if I try this? It’s something I’ve seldom done but I'd like to hear of peoples experiences before experimenting on my own car

These cluthes are stiffly sprung so it should have ample clamping force.

PDK cars use almost 6,000rpm but they slip the clutch if I’m not mistaken. I'd wager at least 5,000rpm if its dry or 4,000rpm if its wet, side step the clutch then nail the throttle?

PSM would need to be off of course, but would it suffice to leave it on if the Sport button was pressed?

Chairs!!

[Klippie]

Why would you want to do this it may ruin your clutch and flywheel...all very costly.

[SkinnyP]

To keep up with the C2S next to me at the traffic lights

On a serious note, because it’s fun? I always get the car rolling before nailing it but like I said it would be nice to how these cars respond without experimenting with my own.

[Pope]

Lots of tramping and mechanical thumping; check out the spyder launch by the stig at 6m28:



Porsche Boxster Spyder review - BBC: http://youtu.be/-0VcNPFq0O4

[SkinnyP]

Pope said:

Lots of tramping and mechanical thumping; check out the spyder launch by the stig at 6m28:



Porsche Boxster Spyder review - BBC: http://youtu.be/-0VcNPFq0O4

Jesus that exhaust movement looks brutual.

Anything you can do to reduce it? I poly bushed the front end and gear box mounts of my focus st and it elimated wheel hop, which was nice because it wheel spun like a mother trucker.

When i had a 981 demo car launching it in the wet with active engine mounts resulted in no axle tramp, which is awesome.

[thegoose]

The 986 Boxster race car I raced for Hartech had a standard clutch and standard suspension bushes. When running on Pilot Sport Cups (i.e. road tyres) a sidestep type launch would have the clutch spinning up, so we found it was quicker to use fairly low revs, get it moving and then nail the throttle as soon as your foot was off the clutch altogether. Whatever we did we never got tramping at all.

[SkinnyP]

thegoose said:

The 986 Boxster race car I raced for Hartech had a standard clutch and standard suspension bushes. When running on Pilot Sport Cups (i.e. road tyres) a sidestep type launch would have the clutch spinning up, so we found it was quicker to use fairly low revs, get it moving and then nail the throttle as soon as your foot was off the clutch altogether. Whatever we did we never got tramping at all.

Where is the fun in that.

If a car has a stern clutch pedal you really ought to get the benefits.

I'll try it and report back

[Trev450]

Sits back and waits for the post along the lines of "my clutch is making strange noises. Any ideas?"

[SkinnyP]

Why should PDK cars get all the launch fun! Maybe they are making up for a lack of involvement

Anyway have you seen this? 50 launches back to back!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5DRCTW-Q7o