Anybody have success in stopping all of the wheel hop? I have had, since day one, pretty severe wheel hop anytime I get on the throttle hard - unless sliding sideways that is. Hoping that new springs and sways will help to subdue but wanted to hear from those that had already done this to see? '08 6MT - only performance mods are straight pipes.

 

you can practice how to let the clutch go. It definetely helps and also you can use 40A urethan to handle the situation better.

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I've tried launches with the tach as low as 2500 and still massive amounts of wheel hop... 40A Urethane? Are you meaning to replace the stock sway bar bushings with poly-urethane?
Thanks for the reply!

 

Eibach's don't help.

 

I used to try to figure this out.

I can tell you one thing, if you just want to do a nice tire spinning burout launch and are not actually looking for the "perfect launch", then just dump the clutch at around 4500-5000 rpms...it will spin hop free

 

Throttle control...

thats about it...

 

Sorry to hijack your thread, but I have some ignorant questions:

Is wheel hop possible with VDC on? Or only with it off? Can our A/T equipped cars wheel hop, or only the M/T after a rev/dump?

I've read that wheel hop can do a lot of damage.

Thanks!

 

wheel hop definitely isn't good and it can happen in both automatic and manual cars. i wouldn't worry about it unless you're hopping it once a day. i get on my car on most sundays when it's not raining and it's inevitable that there will be some wheel hop. i'm not sure about the vdc question but i would imagine the tires would just spin and create smoke rather than hop.

 

Tires? I've noticed different tires respond differently. If you have that much wheel hop you are probably doing to many burn outs anyway, you'll need a new set soon...

 

i launch at 4800-5000 and get no wheel hop or tire screeching. i feather the clutch until i KNOW i have traction and usually give it about anywhere from 60%-80% throttle while doing so. i pulled a 2.143 60' with crappy oem tires with less than 35% tread left which i think is pretty good

 

ive never gotten wheel hop. if you're getting wheel hop you're probably either in need of some new tires, or need to work on throttle control as mentioned above.

 

Easier on the clutch, or easier on the throttle.

Even the auto will break traction no problem, if you just mash the throttle from a stop. You don't even have to brake torque.

 

easier on clutch and throttle will either make the wheel hop worse or just lose acceleration. Higher rpm launch should solve that problem so the tires spin more freely instead of make the chassis do the work.

 

dont slip the clutch! that will cause other problems...

if the wheels start spinning they will start hopping, so ease off the throttle a little bit...
you will find that if in a slide and the wheels are spinning you wont get that wheel hop though...

expect something like this to happen to you if you let the wheel hop go to long... (I know from personally messing around experiance)...

 

wow, first time seeing the differential giving up on our cars. U must have really experimented.