Okie, somebody tell me what's wrong with my pro!
I take it out to the highway and it's empty. I'm curious to see my 0 - 60 time, so I come to a complete stop. I pick a song on my deck that starts right away so i can use it as a timer. I start to brake torque (my car's an auto ), and start up the song. BOOM! I'm off! I go through first, and as soon as I hit redline in second (which is exactly 100kph for me), I check the deck, and it's reading 12 SEC!!!! Please don't tell me that my car is that slow! I was told that the auto's were capable of doin a lot better than that. Is it just me? Did i do sumthing wrong? Somebody?

 

That's what I got too on the P5 auto with no brake torque.

 

Now I want to go try it

 

you was on a empty Highway?!?!?

 

Ok, I went out and tried it using your scientific CD-display recording method.

First run just over 9 seconds
Second run just over 9 seconds
Third run just under 9 seconds (my guess 8.7~8.8 seconds)

I have a 5-speed

 

WTF?! 3 whole f'kin seconds?! That's not even f'kin funny! 3 whole seconds?! You know how far behind i would be if i ran on you?! More the 3 car lengths! How's that possible?! I hate the auto tranny! I wish i had manual!!!!

 

WTF is brake torque?

 

That's what they call it when you put one foot on the brake and rev the engine with the other foot. You can build up RPMs without moving. That way, when you let go of the brake and floor the gas, you get a faster start.

Needless to say, this is only done in automatics. With a manual transmission, you'd put one foot on the clutch and one on the gas, then pop the clutch.

 

won't that brake torque technique **** up my brakes or transmission?

 

Being hard on a car can always lead to something messing up.

 

that's what I thought

 

the stall rpm in an AT is 2500rpm. so if you hold the brake all the way down and hold the gas all the way down, the highest it will rev to is 2500rpm. it's not very good to hold it as the tranny is in gear but the wheels are stopped. the best thing to do is to hold the brake, and to quickly rev it to 2500rpm and let go. as opposed to holding it at 2500rpm for more than a few seconds.

 

sounds risky...

 

No matter what, in an automatic transmission car it always feels like something would get broken if you want to play around. Why did you guys buy automatics again?

Brake-stands (as they are called) are the way to burn out in a rear-wheel automatic transmission car. Why you'd be trying to burn out in an auto FWD 108hp car is beyond me...

 

Spoko be brato

Noone wants to burn out. I just asked what "brake torque" means.