7747 spd limit first, trip timers next?

[David Cooley]

What's really a pain is having AWD and trying to spin em!
Though it was slightly damp one morning, the Explorer was running well (5.0 
V8, open exhaust... on the way to the muffler shop!) and I powerbraked it 
off the line just to see what happens...
Got 4 tires spinning and by the time I hit the other side of the 
intersection, I was at a 45 degree angle to the road...  Guy behind me in 
the Impala SS followed me to the muffler shop and wanted to know what big 
block I squeezed in to it...  Thought he was gonna die when he saw a 302 
(Factory stock!)


At 04:08 PM 12/8/1999 +0200, you wrote:
>Yeah, this is one way, another is to buy those accelerometer-based 
>"performance meters".
>
>Well, I have "Heavy VAN" -- it feels like having some weight on rear tires 
>- at least when equipped with Pirelli P300 237/75r15 very hard to get 
>wheel-spin. My "way" to launch it is to keep left leg in brake, rev-up so 
>that it feels almost like going and then WOT and left leg away from brake 
>and off-we-go. Normally some half-tire wheel spin only.
>I think that with passenger cars the weight ratio/height doesn't help rear 
>wheel slippage that much - I still agree about doing something to the 
>wheel spin to get good implementation.

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