Tony Harrington

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What is the best way to accelerate & gain speed.

Is it to whack right foot to the floor or gradually increase power?

What are people's thoughts & experience & why?

sonic93

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straight to the floor dont even lift to change gear

jd5217

then grab the handbrake?

tony de wonderful

Drive off beachy head?

Busterbulldog

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throw out any passengers

KAS35RSTI

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Ditch the pedal & pull the cable!

speedking

I don't think its like the old days when you could sort of flood the cylinders by whacking the throttle to the floor. With fuel injection, air flow monitoring, emissions feedback loops etc. I don't think it makes much odds. The car will accelerate in its own good time when it decides that all the input parameters are within tolerance, irrespective of what you do with your right foot.

the hamster

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are we talking standing start or midrange/overtaking?

zayd

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Has anyone tried rev matching when down shifting. I find it very hard to get it right, without over revving the engine. Maybe, you can't do it on STI's.

Paulo P

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Weird thread!

To accelerate floor the throttle and change gear as quickly as possible and put the foot to floor between changes, the only way a turbo car produces full power is at full boost so that requires full throttle.

sovietspybob

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Keep practicing, once you get the knack its dead easy, i've been doing it for years in all my cars. I did find it a bit harder to judge initially coming from a high revving N/A but you can get it lovely and smooth after not much time trying it.

Tony Harrington

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All 3

Tony Harrington

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Can you explain what this is exactly

magictree

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Plant your foot to the floor till you hit exactly 80mph fly through the lightning and all the way to 1985 where you'll find the doctor...

RICHARD J

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The technique is to blip the throttle between gears while down shifting under hard braking. Whilst I can do this in my Scooby, I find it totally unnecessary.
On my Fireblade however it is a useful technique as it prevents the rear locking up going into slower corners under heavy brakeing.

allsop83

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It's just your standard heel and toeing.

Rev matching on downshifting is a piece of p*ss if you are slowly decellerating.....it's when you are fully on the brakes, judging what gear you need for the corner and trying to rev match for your exit that ties it all together nicely- making sure you have the turbo spinning for instant boost once you are confident enough to plant it again.

jobbie

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i get what OP means by this, sometimes in my mapped bugeye it feels better to go 3/4 before WOT

maybe it better to ask one of mappers as they know what is happening with air intake at certain speeds and whether fuel is injected correctly etc
maybe with fly by wire cars its different again?

icbm

It was 88mph (not 80!)

stonefish

Have a read though some of this, it might help
http://www.iwsti.com/forums/driving-...-interest.html
http://www.iwsti.com/forums/driving-...ndersteer.html

Tony Harrington

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Helpful & very informative but my head hurts now!

toneh

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Launch control , best thing since sliced bread
Foot down , boost up , clutch up , don't even get time to think
Before you know it your through the gears and another clutch.

Dave-W-

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+1

KrisBuc

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Wow can't believe this ha ha