if you wanna race your a4 the best way to do it is from a 30mph start. thats wut i normally do cause there are plenty of cars that would kill me in a dead stop. from 30mph it makes it a much closer race. my friends slaab 93 that is worked like hell kills me from a dead stop cause he has FWD, but when we get on the parkways he has a really hard time gaining any distance on me. our cars are very tourquey they just have a hard time getting started thats all.

 

why would a fwd car take your awd car from a stop? unless you mean your lacking hp due too quattro loss?

 

yeah pretty much..he just has those two wheels to spin so he gets his power to the ground quicker, plus he can just dump the clutch at like 6k rpms and launch like hell while im still feathering outta first haha.

 

thats 100% clutch and 0% heatsheild

 

5spd > 6spd hands down for racing

 

lol... a chipped a4 is about as fast as a chevy malibu, and not the new ones either. lol.

 

The more powerful a car, the more low end torque the less gears you want. Theres a reason why top fuel dragsters are 2 speeds. A 5 speed is fine for most cars. Theres a reason why most people who are in the 9s with their evos have 5 speeds. NOt all 6 speeds are equal either. On miatas the 6th gear isn't meant as an over drive but rather to keep the engine on the boil at all times. There is a diffrence of 1 or 2 hundred RPM at 80 with the 6spd. On a Viper the 6th gear puts the car at some rediculous RPm like 1400 or 1500 at 85 RPM as a super over drive. YOu will never shift past 4th no matter how fast in the quarter unless you got some rediculous mods.They made the STI with a taller 5th gear so you DON'T shift in to 6th in the quarter if you have work done. The only thing good about a 6spd in a drag race from a roll on a low hp car is that it can be brought on the boil quickly and held there longer. This is particularly useful on the racetrack that has turns in it. The more HP and torque you have and the broader the power band the less gears you have the better for drag racing,the extra ones are just a hinderance.

 

^^ true what good would a 3/4/5/6/7/8 speed gearbox do on a quarter miler lol

 

It'd beat a Ferrari Modena if the driver sucks, or it wouldn't beat an Escort wagon if you can't drive. It's as much the driver as the car.

 

Yea, these cars are slow in the city, but I love mine on the highways! I had a EVO trying to race me on the interstate one day; he was able to keep up but then he hit his govenor (at about 130) so he wasn't able to keep up with me at 150