brian3268

Abcedefghij

LOTC

best way to lanch the LS is to step hard on your brake with the left foot and with your right foot rev to about 2-3k rpm and let go of your left foot and floor the gas pedal with your right.

LS400

It's also a great way to kill your tranny life too, so don't brake launch every single time for the tranny's sake.

Baker Bootleg

Powerbraking is when, you hold down the brake, and floor the gas peddel, and you burn out in one spot.

retrodrive

Push break pedal and rev to 5k RPM a few times in neutral. Then switch it to D or L (still holding brake pedal) and rev to 2.5k RPM then let go.

SharpLS-96

:eek: Nice way to kill your tranny really fast fellas. If your in the market for a new one and have the several grand to replace it then have fun but remember the LS wasn't designed to race off the line like that or race at all. It's a luxury crusin mobile so treat it accordingly IMO. Don't treat it like a rice rocket.

SQ-LS

I've done this and it isn't a good idea guys.

Let me put it this way, I'm saving up for a new tranny.

healerhand

LS400 was not mean to launch hard. Its a cruiser/sleeper. If you want to launch hard, you should consider doing a tranny conversion to T5 TKO tranny. Scott Hampson from Austrilia makes a custom bell housing for the 1UZ-FE to the Ford T5 (TKO).

TKO is a 5 speed manual tranny. Its one of the strongest manual trannies Ford has. I would like to do that conversion to my future SC400.

good luck and have fun


david

Kizoku

hey would a tranny cooler from www.carparts.com or somewhere like that save the life when u do quick launches? b/c isnt the extreme heatin' of the tranny fluid what shorts its life??

retrodrive

Never said it was a god idea but even if you do it, do it right...just break/accelerator pedal is not enough and a waste of tranny.

healerhand

Kizoku,

Its not the HEAT. Its the Torque and HP.