How many of you out there are able to chirp from first gear to second gear??? I've down it downshifting a couple of times. Only once i did it from 1st to second.

 

even a 6000+rpm upshift and quickly letting out the clutch? c'mon man! it's gotta chirp! Hell even my Conto can do it! SOMETIMES, it'll do a 2-3 chirp...Never has done a 3-4 chirp

 

I can usually do it at will. notta problem here.

 

why would you want to?

 

It sounds cool, hmmm guess im not use to those rubbering things that my foot gets stuck too, the prelude was easier

 

Mine chirps from 1st to 2nd when you shift fast enough and at the redline.

 

You fellas getting all these chirps...what tires are you running?

My car is still on stock rubber (with only 2,7xx miles) and I have a strip on the way to work where I almost always take 1st gear up to 8500-9000rpm before shifting very quickly. Today I did it on 2nd and 3rd gear as well. I've done this many many times and I've never heard the tires chirp. I was under the impression chirping was something you got from tires that have a harder rubber compound (and that our S-02s probably wouldn't be making much if any noise).

Making your tires chirp, while sometimes kinda cool, really means your tires are loosing grip which usually isn't a good thing (if you're trying to go fast).

 

4igs2000,

I had some loud chirps when I was running Yokohama Parada's in the rear (harder rubber).

Now, with my Toyo Proxes T1-S...I just feel alot of wheel spin when I 1st to 2nd. It chirps sometimes depending on the temperature of the tread and the road surface I guess. I got a 3rd to 4th gear chirp though when I was racing a M3.

I went back to my stock wheels the other night...and same thing...I would get some wheel spin from 1st to 2nd...but no chirp.

 

stock S02's, about 8K miles - no tread now, so its obvious how I can chrip at will. <g>

 

3500km on my car and tyres ... so running totally stock standard (ie. 225/50/16 S02s).