Originally Posted By: mjoekingz28
Overkill, if you are spinning while moving forward you are not unleashing the beast. Well, you are but its not being propelled.
I agree with you, however, IF you decide to do a standing still burnout right out of the gate.
Trap speed is surprisingly consistent (assuming you aren't melting your tires the entire track) whether you 60ft like a champion or spin through the first two gears. We were actually discussing this in another thread recently.
I've not only witnessed this at the track a few times but have managed to do it myself. Don't do a proper burn-out, light them up, hook up after nailing 2nd and cut the same or similar MPH to what I get with a dead-stuck 6K drop out of the gates when it hooked solid. 60ft suffers, E/T suffers, but MPH remains consistent.
That's why MPH (not ET) is a great metric for gauging actual power output, because it doesn't matter if you hook up like a boss (like the GT-R) or have to feather it to launch without a tire fire ('vette), as long as you manage to get traction at some point reasonably early in the run, the MPH will be consistent. Hence my earlier comments. Something is rotten in Denmark and its either the GT-R's power figures or the 'vettes