Drivers/Racers - 4 Speed Driving Lesson Required

Baby steps. Keep working up the RPM range by 500 RPM’s starting at 2,000 and see where it break loose. As said before, each car is different. Doing heal/toe can be hard as the gas / brake peddle are rather far a part in most of our old Junk. I’m adjusting that this winter. Peddle box is coming out for some mods. “Line Locks” or roll control are good.

As for shifting in a drag race at a drag strip, once you launch, hold your foot to the floor, don’t lift, and has fast as you can hit the clutch and shift. Takes practice. You can do this at lower RPM’s also.

In my 72 Duater with a hot 340, 3.91’s and sticky tires, for a burnout I rev to about 3500/4000 and sidestep the clutch, floor the gas and bounce the rev limiter that’s set at 6 grand. If I’m just messing around, I’ll hold the gas mashed and speed shift as noted. As for a non spinning launch, I’m at about 2800-3000 for that then mash the gas.