I get the car moving at idle. You engage the clutch and when you feel it start to pull your car, give it some gas and smoothly (and quickly) get off the clutch. No need to rev up to 1500 or 2000 rpm. The flywheel is heavy enough not to need that.
You people revving up to 2000 rpm before you take off need to pay more attention to your car (unless you have lightweight flywheel, then I understand). 2000 rpm is a launch on street tires!

 

800-900rpm

 

yeah, just practice releasing clutch up to engagement point quickly, and gas + release the clutch smoothly through it like a seesaw motion. Don't have to look at RPM, can be 500-1xxx, varies on each attempt anyways.

I used to rev to 1300-1500 then release clutch, but i found it slower doing it this way. I find moving clutch up to engagement point first is faster.

 

I do 2000 rpms sometimes. 2000 isn't a launch if you slip the clutch more instead of dumping. I've had the rpms at 3000. All about clutch control.

 

basically ease off the clutch until you feel the car grab, then ease on the gas and as it moves more ease off the clutch fully and lay on the gas with control.

depending on how slow or fast you go you can either feel or hear the cars shifting pattern. lil practice makes perfect.

 

How to change your clutch engagement point, makes launching the car SO much easier:

https://my350z.com/forum/engine-driv...ent-point.html

 

7k rpm's so i can to a wheelie

 

Explain to me how you "to a wheelie"

 

floor it and dump it

 

haha...my fav is to let it roll backwards and drop it hard..you get a nice peel out with that to!

 

was that you with the wheely bar on the back?
hey man are you one of them stormtrooper's on XBox Live?

 

Yeah. When you`re first LEARNING how to drive you may have been taught to put the RPM at 1,200 or something like that, really I just let off the clutch and catch it with a bit of gas...with some experience you won`t have to give it any RPM before letting off the clutch.

But I hope you`re not learning to drive on a Z...the Z`s clutch is retarded compared to other cars. Gears are very long-legged so it almost feels like you always have to ride the clutch from 1st - 2nd when you`re driving at a slow normal pace.

 

To learn the clutch of your car, don't use the gas pedal. Find some empty road, and shift from 1st through 6th with NO GAS. The idle will slowly get you up to speed, you'll probably be going about 20MPH in 6th. You'll learn where the clutch engages though, and better understand your car.

 

Yea umm, i learned to drive a M/T on a my Z. I almost didn't even want to test drive the car. The dealer was really cool though and let me take it to a Parking lot and learn. Now when i drive other peoples m/t its a frieken breeze compared to the Z.

 

Clutch wear is the concern, not control. Engine spinning faster than tranny = short clutch life.

 

True. Good thing my car is leased!

 

He almost the whole wheelie!

 

that made my day lmaooo!

 

i tend to rev to about 1500 rpm, then slowly ease off the clutch till the car starts moving.

but honestly, its like that the other guys say, its all about feeling it, up till this day i still haven't understand my clutch yet haha

 

Another thought to throw in this thread is the fact that the Z has an adjustable clutch pedal for different types of drivers.