JHM Launch Assist - B6/7 S4/RS4 Tune

[B6JoeS4]

Well yeah do that until you get used to it. I usually just do a little gas and slip the clutch for a split second at 1100 to get going, then carry on my way. You usually can’t go into 2nd if you’re under 5mph or so because you get a nasty flywheel chatter meaning you are chugging the motor.

I hate when you’re rolling at 3mph or so, and you have to blip the throttle to 1100 to get a smooth transition into 1st. I always over or under-blip and end up bucking. So if you have to go below 5mph and then accelerate again, you may as well just stop completely because trying for 1st never works out.

Or just throw it in second and finagle the clutch like I do.

[boravr6]

Or just throw it in second and finagle the clutch like I do.

^^^

This.

[Maddog]

This might help.

When at a stop or a light, put it in first and just slowly let off the clutch, this will get the car rolling (even up hill this car has enough torque to take it) and once the clutch is ALL the way out feather on the gas.
Thats how i do it on day to day driving.

Never go back to first gear unless your going to FULLY stop, once your rolling second should be as low as you go… that will reduce 90% of your bucking. Turning a corner, speed bumps ect… all in second gear.

x2. Especially with the throttle response & rush of air with the blower, it’s almost the only way to do it and how I instruct other people to do when they’re driving my car for the first time.

Well yeah do that until you get used to it. I usually just do a little gas and slip the clutch for a split second at 1100 to get going, then carry on my way. You usually can’t go into 2nd if you’re under 5mph or so because you get a nasty flywheel chatter meaning you are chugging the motor.

I hate when you’re rolling at 3mph or so, and you have to blip the throttle to 1100 to get a smooth transition into 1st. I always over or under-blip and end up bucking. So if you have to go below 5mph and then accelerate again, you may as well just stop completely because trying for 1st never works out.

Or just throw it in second and finagle the clutch like I do.

Yea I know what ya mean, but I manage to pull off the 2nd gear decently well anytime I’m not at a full stop. I dunno if the headers help that or something, but I know what you mean. I try not to slip it too much though (as I doubt any of us do).

[Apat]

I hate when you’re rolling at 3mph or so, and you have to blip the throttle to 1100 to get a smooth transition into 1st. I always over or under-blip and end up bucking. So if you have to go below 5mph and then accelerate again, you may as well just stop completely because trying for 1st never works out.

This drives me nuts. I have this eery feeling that a Youtube video of me douchebag jerking through an intersection is going to show up one day :-[

Honestly, I like the fact that the car is a little harder to drive. It makes me feel more connected to the car. Like only I can drive it. I love the throttle response now and wouldn’t change it for anything.

Its also fun knowing that if I let a buddy drive it he’s going to look like an a-hole and everyone can mock him for it…lol

[nicotino15]

lol, when I first got my tune I remember pulling up to a stoplight with a friend from out of town in the car. We just got done eating dinner and he had a to-go drink he was sipping on, on our way home.

We are bs’ing and the light was red which I was slowly approaching and when I was barely moving maybe a mph or 2 the light changed green and I shifted into first to accelerate and here I am the douchebag jerking around trying to accelerate like a normal person vrooooooooooom vroom vroooooooom vroom:-[.

Friend spilled his drink all over his shirt it was so bad, haha, luckily it all ended up on him and not my car, but I felt like a huge asshole anyway.

But yes, I would probably never let anybody drive my car unless they also had a JHM tuned S4.

[Apat]

^^^LMFAO

Douchebag jerking is my new favorite slang term

[sakimano]

why on earth would you ever downshift into 1st? Especially in an S4. Hell, I’ve started my B7 S4 in 4th gear from a dead stop before…you definitely don’t need to downshift to 1st at 3mph. 2nd is fine.

[nicotino15]

Well yeah, I have since learned that lesson, of course the first day I got the tune I was like “oh, I’ll just start from a stop in 2nd gear no problem” and killed it at a busy intersection, lol. I have a pretty good feel for it now and at least i can admit that is the one and only time I have killed my car since I bought it, it’s just in thickly padded shoes it still gives me trouble sometimes.

[sakimano]

I hate when you’re rolling at 3mph or so, and you have to blip the throttle to 1100 to get a smooth transition into 1st. I always over or under-blip and end up bucking. So if you have to go below 5mph and then accelerate again, you may as well just stop completely because trying for 1st never works out.

This drives me nuts. I have this eery feeling that a Youtube video of me douchebag jerking through an intersection is going to show up one day :-[

who taught you guys to drive standard? First gear is for when you’re dead stopped. No other time. Gearing down and trying to rev match into first gear while rolling??? This should never ever happen.

[richib86]

+1 guess thats why its called douche jerking :

I hate when you’re rolling at 3mph or so, and you have to blip the throttle to 1100 to get a smooth transition into 1st. I always over or under-blip and end up bucking. So if you have to go below 5mph and then accelerate again, you may as well just stop completely because trying for 1st never works out.

This drives me nuts. I have this eery feeling that a Youtube video of me douchebag jerking through an intersection is going to show up one day :-[

who taught you guys to drive standard? First gear is for when you’re dead stopped. No other time. Gearing down and trying to rev match into first gear while rolling??? This should never ever happen.

[bangoman]

^^ esp with the gobs of torque we have and that we can pull out in second

[sakimano]

hahahaha I’m just messing with them. Mostly Joe. I was going to say that sounds like some high school driving but joe is like 20 months out of high school so it makes sense…bitch.

[Maddog]

hahahaha I’m just messing with them. Mostly Joe. I was going to say that sounds like some high school driving but joe is like 20 months out of high school so it makes sense…bitch.

Don’t rag on Joe too much, not all of us were around when cars were first coming out.

[sakimano]

^^^if you want to live to see the next S4 you should button it!

[B6JoeS4]

Ok first off I taught myself how to drive manual. The day I picked up the car. Second, it’s not called standard like you old farts like calling it. I bet you call your sofa a davenport. Is your hair the same color as your car?

And I’m 21 months out of high school

Win

[sakimano]

I call my ‘sofa’ a chesterfield, thank you.

[beemercer]

its a couch

[ChrisK]

Ok first off I taught myself how to drive manual. The day I picked up the car. Second, it’s not called standard like you old farts like calling it. I bet you call your sofa a davenport. Is your hair the same color as your car?

And I’m 21 months out of high school

Win

hey my grandmother called her coutch a davenport anyone know why. I can’t ask her as she isn’t alive anymore and Now that you mentioned it im wondering why they called it that. wooo are we off topic

[Maddog]

^^^if you want to live to see the next S4 you should button it!

Based on the bickering and tuning wars of the current one. . . I’m not too sure I even care. However, I would like CV to tune up one of the new S6’s for me before I say my final peace.

[sakimano]

^^^if you want to live to see the next S4 you should button it!

Based on the bickering and tuning wars of the current one. . . I’m not too sure I even care. However, I would like CV to tune up one of the new S6’s for me before I say my final peace.

CV tuned new S6 + de-cat and exhaust would be awesome. But a bit bulky for me I think.