what do people mean by slipping the clutch. Someone told me to slip the car around 5.5k RPM, can you guys explain this to me

 

rev your car up to 5.5 k and slowly let it out until your wheels grab on to the strip. Dont hold it too long because your clutch will start smelling bad and its also bad for it.

 

slipping the clutch means not letting it out all the way, just enough that some power gets to the wheels. Drag racers put the engine at a good RPM, 5500 is a common number for a Type R (on the brink of VTEC), and then use the clutch to regulate how much power goes to the wheels, instead of the gas pedal. Unless you have a clutch designed for this kind of abuse, DO NOT DO THIS. It's a quick & stupid way to ruin some expensive parts. You can run some mighty fine times using the clutch like you should: start agressively, let it all the way out, and use the gas if you need to reduce the power some (our cars don't have that much torque, so i found that a 4500 launch was fine for drag racing). I ran a 14.6 with a 2.2 60ft. time on street tires without any clutch abuse at all: Straight launch, proper clutch-in-off-gas shifts, and no power shifting (shifting with the gas to the floor) or speed shifting (shifting without using the clutch). If drag racing is really your thing, upgrade the clutch (or better yet, buy a drag car like a camaro )

Lemme sum up: Slipping the clutch is what bad drivers do when they're waiting at a light on a hill and they're too impatient to use the brakes and just chill out. Be nice to your clutch, and it will be nice to you. A clutch should be in our out, and only in-between when you're off the power or in first gear starting off (what's it's designed for)

 

Am I the only one that does a semi-slip of the clutch in 2nd gear to make sure it engages as smoothly as possible?

 

I know what you mean CPR, you have to let it out sorta slowly if you want a seamless upshit into second. Not sure if I'd go so far as to call it slipping though, just more of a slow release of the clutch.

 

I don't think slipping the clutch is all that nessecary as long as you know how to modulate the throttle. My 14.0,14.1,14.200 passes were all done by doing drop clutch launches and working the throttle to control wheelspin.

 

Bugga eh,

I'm still trying to get used to manuals and with my practise car at the moment (old laser) when i'm waiting at the lights on a hill i just leave the clutch at friction point without using the handbrake... I know it's wrong, but for now i do it sometimes cause it takes me so bloody long still to do hill starts.