Ranger's DVD is coming. It's in production and scheduled for release via this site later in 2007.
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My forthcoming DVD on max acceleration techniques is intended to help owners get the most straight-line performance from their traction-limited stick-shift cars both on the street and the drag strip The DVD distills into a digestible form the driving lessons I've accumulated making 570 passes at the drag strip and setting quarter-mile records in three daily-driven Corvettes.

The DVD should provide owners of many different fast cars a practical, efficient way to quickly learn the techniques for max acceleration. Key ingredients to that process are video, audio, and narrative instruction on all the discrete driving elements. The sights and sounds, including in-car video during drag strip passes, fill in crucial dimensions missing from written postings on the web.


The DVD will give easy, convenient access to reliable, proven technique information to compress the learning curve and supplement seat-time. It will lay a solid foundation for practice, practice, and more practice, using time-tested approaches and methods. And it will be available for continuing review as an owner works through inevitable performance plateaus.

These topics will be covered in detail:

Preparing the car for acceleration runs
• Eight things to do before the first run
• Traction-control settings
• Tire pressures
• Engine coolant temperature

Making the proper three-element launch
• Launch rpm
• Clutch release
• Throttle squeeze
• Coordinating the movements

Fast shifting
• Executing strong shifts without misses
• Calculating optimal shift points

At the drag strip
• Assembling the kit for the track
• Staging the car correctly at the starting line
• Finding the racing groove
• Avoiding wheel-hop & driving errors that break driveline parts
• Understanding the effect of weather and surface preparation on acceleration
• Evaluating and improving drag strip passes
• Doing a burnout to heat the tires

Other key topics
• Advanced tips for shedding a few more tenths
• Driver improvement drills for the garage and the street
• Drag radial tires
• Taking care of the clutch
• Performance data logging on the street and the track
• Strategies for managing engine temperature

Understanding the techniques covered in the DVD will help make you a faster driver and reduce your risk of driveline breakage.

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