Wheel Hop

m4a1mustang

I'm talking about drag racing. What you want to do is put load on the drivetrain while you are staged so you don't "shock" it when you launch. This is more about keeping stuff from breaking, but as smooth a launch as possible will help with the prevention of wheel hop. It's a little difficult without a line-lock, but I've found the best way to do it is to deep stage and hold the clutch out just to the point where it barely begins to engage.

You just want to avoid rolling up to the staging box and then waiting there. If you've got slack in the drivetrain when you launch, it's going to take up very quickly, shock the rear end, axles, etc, and likely get the rear tires spinning right away. Can kill a launch, or worse it can kill the rear end.

Takes a bit of practice but it should help some. I would send jnaut a PM and see if you could get him to describe to you how he launches his car. He runs RE-11s and has put down the quickest bolt-on 6MT times in the 370 so far.

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