Leave at idle?? Was: rice burners

From: Jon Steiger (stei0302@cs.fredonia.edu)
Date: Fri Aug 14 1998 - 21:17:07 EDT


At 12:32 PM 8/9/98 -0400, you wrote:
>In a message dated 98-08-08 12:05:06 EDT, you write:
>
><< >Any other
> >suggestions for getting a 5 spd to stick out of the hole?
>
> Replace it with an automatic!!
>
> BWAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!
> >>
>
>
>Yah, all that horsepower you lose will help the launch! He he!!! 5 speeds
>rule! Leave at an idle and roll into the throttle as hard and as soon as you
>can. I am full throttle by about five feet out, and my 60's are in the 2.0's
>now. With a stock 3.55 open diff.
>

  Hmmm, I'm going to have to try that. Doesn't your engine bog leaving
at idle like that??? I have the LSD, and I'm almost sure my truck would
bog something fierce if I did that. I'll give it a shot though; anything
in the quest for lower E/Ts! :-)

                                               -Jon-

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