Quote Originally Posted by tony
lol Nothing like it, this is my first AWD car and I'm hooked now. One question, your 1-2 shift do you have to feather the clutch a little to get it to engage smoothly? If I dont it feels like the car just bogs for a quick second.. also launching is a lot harder than I thought, I havent completely tried to figure it out but from what I have experienced its a lot more complex than just revving it up and dropping the clutch.
i kinda granny shifted it before when i was making stockish power (the rear end would go "clunk" and some boggin existed, now i can kinda grab 2nd hard and the car barks no more bogging or clunks.

awd launches take alot of practices. try this.. study where your clutch catches and have it memorized..

once you got that down.. pump the throttle, rev up and down keeping it between 5500-6500 rpm and start feathering out to the point of catch, the car should start moving right before it catches completely, as soon as the car starts moving dump completely (you should pretty much be right at catching point at that point)

hope that made sense.. i had a few brewskies

check out the bay area racing vid in the forums, in the mid of vid there is a nice example of how the revving/launching should be done in an STi.