Bradentan Motorsports Park Drag Racing

[Audioseduction]

Yes, I have electronic line lock. I disable Fords AdvanceTrac (Advance Traction Control System) with a switch and also switch the car to track mode.

AdvanceTrac® with RSC® is Ford's premium electronic stability system that improves vehicle control on all driving surfaces, including snow, ice, gravel, rain-covered roads, and dry pavement. ... Ford AdvanceTrac® with Roll Stability Control (RSC®)

 

[a.wayne]

Just about all vehicles allow this up to a point. Has nothing to due with faulty electronics or an unsafe vehicle. Also, not sure which Mustangs have it and which don't, but some of them come with a line lock (IOW, allows you to lock up the front brakes and keep the rear ones free to do a burnout). Which also means you're holding the brake pedal and throttle at the same time.

Then it overrides the safety protocol when in line lock mode then , as all ETC protocols allows an automatic safety shut down if ETC is wideopen and Brakes on , its even worse now after toyota issues a few years back, theirs was really due to overstacks by the inadequate ecu...

I will make an educated guess and say its part of the launch control schema and allows ETC operation on the brakes based on Wheel speed data ..




Regards

 

[a.wayne]

Yes, I have electronic line lock. I disable Fords AdvanceTrac (Advance Traction Control System) with a switch and also switch the car to track mode.

AdvanceTrac® with RSC® is Ford's premium electronic stability system that improves vehicle control on all driving surfaces, including snow, ice, gravel, rain-covered roads, and dry pavement. ... Ford AdvanceTrac® with Roll Stability Control (RSC®)

ok ....its part of their track launch Control function ...

 

[Mikado463]

but some of them come with a line lock (IOW, allows you to lock up the front brakes and keep the rear ones free to do a burnout). Which also means you're holding the brake pedal and throttle at the same time.

Charles, close but not quite .........line lock is activated by first depressing the brake pedal, then the line lock button at which time you release the brake pedal. By doing this and the line lock button still pressed only the front brakes remain applied. Do your burnout, release line lock button and glide out of the water box.

 

[chops]

Double post...

 

[chops]

Ever hear of someone "power braking" their car? That means they're holding the brake and throttle at the same time. That's how the majority of cars do burnouts. The ones that don't either don't have enough horsepower to do it, or like my 370Z, is programmed NOT to do it. Although, with the current tuner I have on my car, that feature is deactivated in one of the maps IF I want it. And thanks to said tuner, I now also have variable launch control and variable torque control.

Then it overrides the safety protocol when in line lock mode then , as all ETC protocols allows an automatic safety shut down if ETC is wideopen and Brakes on , its even worse now after toyota issues a few years back, theirs was really due to overstacks by the inadequate ecu...

I will make an educated guess and say its part of the launch control schema and allows ETC operation on the brakes based on Wheel speed data ..


Regards

I'm not sure how it works in the Mustang. I just know that it has it. In the RX-7 drag car I used to work on and drive, it had both a line lock and trans brake, both controlled by buttons on the steering wheel.

Charles, close but not quite .........line lock is activated by first depressing the brake pedal, then the line lock button at which time you release the brake pedal. By doing this and the line lock button still pressed only the front brakes remain applied. Do your burnout, release line lock button and glide out of the water box.

 

[Mikado463]

Ever hear of someone "power braking" their car? That means they're holding the brake and throttle at the same time. That's how the majority of cars do burnouts.

............ and that's why 'real' drag racers use a line lock

I'm not sure how it works in the Mustang. I just know that it has it. In the RX-7 drag car I used to work on and drive, it had both a line lock and trans brake, both controlled by buttons on the steering wheel.

no Charles, I was merely trying to point out 'how' line lock worked, regardless of the vehicle. Seeing that you had raced one equipped with it I assume you knew that. As for the trans brake that's a whole different class than footbrake cars, set the t-brake, mash the gas and let the button go on the third yellow !