[Beach Cruiser]

I've been autoxing my TA for a couple of years now, I have a full Strano Setup on it now. Here's the issue, I'm having a hard time with "throttle management" seems that I can smoke the rear tires at will and I can't get the car to hook up. One of my buddies suggested that I try and run in 3rd gear instead of 2nd. Anybody ever tried this? Our courses are typically 60-70 mph max. It's not unheard of to bump into the reve limiter in 2nd gear depending on the course layout. Any thoughts? The car has factory 3:42's and a 120K mile torsion with 315 A6's

[trackbird]

Run it both ways one day and see what's faster. I ran a course once where we decided we'd be faster in first, even lifting early for corners (which allowed me to not overdrive the corners and get setup properly for the entrance)...we took almost 2 seconds off our time. It sure seemed like we'd be faster hammering for the highest straight line speeds between corners, but we were far faster (than anyone else in our class) once we just left it in first. We didn't start out that way, we just tried it. Same course, same day.

I suspect that's the best way for you to test too. Make a good run the normal/current way, then go try 3rd.

That's my best advice.