Thread: Preferred way to accelerate w/o wheelspin

Gents and Gals:

My 07 GT has been in the family now for about 5 months. Never have owned an S/C engined car before, I am still searching for the best way to pull away from a standstill without one wheel going up in smoke.

Mind you I drive my vehicles with kid gloves most of the time, but as we all know sometimes the need arises to move out. The 95 SHO I had 2 cars ago was good to go as long as you had a bit of a rolling start.
My 01 Dodge Durango was AWD, and weighed 5000 pounds. With its meager 230hp and AWD, wheelspin was not an issue.

Now we come to the GP and its supercharged 3.8. I was rolling away from a light the other day, and was up to 20 or so before I hammered it. Immediately, I lost left wheel traction, then it caught and the right one broke loose. I decided to keep my foot into it to see if it would settle down and hook up.

It finally did, but not with out noise and fan fair which I would have liked to avoid. Possibly the fact that I'm still running the OEM Michelin MXV4 Energy tires that seem to be long on wear and short on grip.

Thanks in advance for any input. Don

New tires? Or ease into acceleration rather than just hammer it

roll into it. if you just peg the pedal to the floor you dont know how to drive anyway. you should chirp them just a little bit. if there is no chirp, youre not launching hard enough.

like this?????

YouTube - gtp vs srt8 challenger



your differental is toast also. it should be locking up both wheels. even with mine getting bad it still locks up both going strait. which would help alot with traction.

get better tires

well i cant really say for your car seeing as how its an 07 but with my 03 gtp, if i just hammer it off the line, it will get ****ty times. i ran down the track a few times about 2 months ago and found the best way is to leave the traction control ON, and footbrake up to about 2500 rpm, then when it hits green, i ease into it slowly then almost right after the tree stand, i hammer it with just enough tire chirp, and it pulls good the rest of the way

roll into it...


tires have alot to do with it.


quick, firm, "controlled" throttle response well net good acceleration from a dig. just dont over do it.

Originally Posted by superv6

well i cant really say for your car seeing as how its an 07 but with my 03 gtp, if i just hammer it off the line, it will get ****ty times. i ran down the track a few times about 2 months ago and found the best way is to leave the traction control ON, and footbrake up to about 2500 rpm, then when it hits green, i ease into it slowly then almost right after the tree stand, i hammer it with just enough tire chirp, and it pulls good the rest of the way

traction control is holding you back.

leaving your traction on and doing launches isn't too good for your diff

What I do is hold the brake at about 2 grand, give it gas...keep it held in "1" and then give it about half throttle or until you almost feel the tires break loose...then once you are sure you have a decent amount of traction or close enough to it...shift it quickly into "D".

That's how I nabbed my 1.98 60' on street tires...oh and TCS OFF!!