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      03-11-2014, 01:38 PM   #90
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Originally Posted by kevinlevrone View Post
Just tell me, how do you go from a stop light with wheel spin - for a little fun - in a non-manual gearbox ? In an automatic, do you keep stressing the torque converter with brake boosting for tens of seconds until the light turns green ? And how do you do this with a DCT ? Do you have to engage the (sometimes nonexisting) launch control ?
I did it in my e92 M3 all the time. Very easy...just punch the gas from a stop and you can spin the hell out of the tires. No launch control or brake boosting needed.
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