Anyone know the best way to pull away from standstill as fast as possible without getting clutch slip and without damaging anything. Getting fed up with getting bogged down but dont know if I want to risk dropping the clutch at 7500 rpm like some of our overseas friends. Had a blast against an Elise and it was quiker until I got going in second and then I pulled away.

 

I find that if I keep the car at about 4,500 rpm and drop the clutch and then floor it, it picks up quite quickly, but due to the cars set up it will normally only come into its own 2nd gear onwards. Not a bad thing because most cars think they have you beat and realise you are going to take them and keep going past them.

 

Well I'd expect the Elise to be quicker out of the blocks but once you're rolling and into VTEC and all those horse start getting out of the box, you should be all over him like a bad rash!

For the minute difference that high rev launches are going to make, I just wouldn't do it to my car!

 

I never to high rev clutch drops as I am too scared of damaging something, no real need for my type of driving really.
I let V-Tech do all the work

 

Remember a program where they were trying the following on cars for "normal drivers"

- High revs drop clutch
- Minimal revs (1000 rpm) with clutch fully released
- 2000 rpm, controlled clutch release, then floor it

Minimal revs gave slowest take off and there was little difference between other, save for protecting your drivetrain!

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by gus
[B]I find that if I keep the car at about 4,500 rpm and drop the clutch and then floor it, it picks up quite quickly, but due to the cars set up it will normally only come into its own 2nd gear onwards.

 

I tried a "controlled" high rev standing start just after I had the car. Got a huge stink of burning clutch in the cockpit for about 20 mins. Smelt expensive and scared me witless. Haven't tried anything like it again since

Too scared just to do a wham bam release !

Pete

 

After reading about high rev clutch dumps on the US forums I tried it on the demonstrator Honda gave me for the weekend (purely in the interests of research you understand)....

It was a cool morning and the road was damp but not wet. Revs at 6k, sidestepped the clutch, much spinning of tyres, a little fishtailing and a smell of burnunig rubber initially then clutch for about 10 minutes. I wouldn't have said this was a particularly effective way of getting off the line, the controlled release is much more effective (though less spectacular) and I suspect much easier on the components.

I don't really think the S2000 is about screaming off the line in a cloud of tyre smoke - I'll leave that to the purple Corsa with body-kit brigade, confident in the knowledge that 3 seconds later they'll be looking at the back of a rapidly disappearing vtec-zone S2000.

 

Mark - Honda UK have just read your post and your delivery date has now slipped back to September 2002

 

Lucky for him as by then they should have reverted back to a full size rear window, non HE-MAN clutch, titanium alloy in full gearknob and non-clock radio. Keep the tweeters though.

IMHO.

I'll have to reserve full disgust on glass slit until I see it.