MessVette

Hey everyone, I'm planning to do some racing for the first time in my vette tonight and had a question regarding traction modes. Please bear with me, I've only had the car for a few weeks.

From what I can tell I have the following options:

-Traction control off
-Competitive driving mode
-Traction control and active handling off
-Traction control and active handling on.

I'm not sure the difference between some of these, which one do you ideally want for drag racing? I'm thinking either competitive driving mode or traction control off?

C5 Pete

What year car?

MessVette

Sorry for the slow response, it's an 09. My best run of the night was the one where I actually forgot to turn the traction control off, it was pretty close to the others though (maybe 1/10 faster). It's an M6.

SouthBaySurfer

What kind of times were you turning? I'm guessing a stock '09 M6 should be mid-to-high 12's.

CamminC5

-Traction control off
- Not sure of the difference between this and TC off. (I'm a c5 guy)
-Competitive driving mode
- Active Handling is on, traction off.
-Traction control and active handling off
-Traction control and active handling on

Active Handling could save you if the car starts to loose control at the strip. It will detect the issue, and attempt to correct, before you could.

I stay in Competition Mode at the strip.

MessVette

My car isn't stock, I have a k&n intake, kooks 1 7/8" headers, catted x pipe and corsa extreme exhaust. My best time of the night was a 12.9X close to 13 flat, with the other very low 13's. I had a lot of wheel spin off the line, launching between 3-3.5k each run at 26psi on 305/25zr2 nitto invo's. I'm thinking I need to drop the rpms for launch next time. There was another guy running a cammed ls2, auto, on ET streets that was saying this track is pretty slick compared to others, since he normally runs 11.90s with minimal wheel spin but was consistently getting 12.4x that night.

Joe Slone

The best mode I have found for the drag strip is competitive driving mode. I went 11.82 in a 06 Z06 with nitro invo's. My only warning is be carful. These tires will snap an axle like a twig with no warning.

Dr.Ron

Use Competitive driving mode.
These cars take a lot of practice to launch. Read the threads here and you'll gain a ton of knowledge!

Ron