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Originally Posted by greencactus3
wait really? thats curious. i thought zero wheel spin would be best. can you explain in more detail about that 16%? 16% of what? and when? throughout the whole run? and 16% of the tire's tangential velocity is lost before the ground pushes back? or 16% of the whole run (1/4mile?) is done with the tires slipping? (including chirping in each gear?)
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It is, but since people aren't psychically connected to the axel, if you shoot for zero, you go really slow and don't put down much power and your engine can bog off the line. Too much, and, well, your tires don't last too long and it's slow. A little above lets you keep putting down plenty of power without losing too mcuh too wheelspin. I think the 16% means either it is at 116% of it's torque holding capacity, or it's rotating 116% as fast as is needed to to go the speed it's going. I heard the number from a friend that does a lot of drag racing, but I didn't ask for clarification, since I wasn't interested due to the fact that he races trucks (a blue S10 with a V8 swap) which I don't really care about.