I wanted to take it kinda easy on it last night, which is why I didn't really launch it. I wanted to see how well my short shifter was going to work - and it did beautifuly - the best $50 spent ever.

I thought reation time doesn't really matter. Doesn't the clock start the second you start moving? I know the 60' was horrible. I soft launched at around 4k and it bogged. Maybe my clutch is pooping out lol. Oh well. Hopefully I'll get everything fixed on Sunday and maybe make it out again next Wednesday.

Yea, reaction doesnt matter. You can wait a minute and it wont change your 1/4 mile until you move.

I don't mean on the street street, I mean like on a back road or something.

I know what you meant, but that's not what I was referring to. I meant that the surfaces are so different it's near impossible to practice track launches on the street. Street launching is waayyyyyyy "softer" than a launch at the track because of the lack of surface preparation -- a 16g powered AWD can burn all four in 1st gear on a "hard" street launch. That same launch technique used on a 1/4mi launch pad will net you a bogged motor and possibly even stall the car (don't ask me how I know).

The one thing I will say you'll get from street launching though, is you'll have already learned a good bit of clutch control, so when you get to the strip it's less of a matter of learning about the car and more a matter of how it wants to work at the strip.

So far as the surfaces go, I suppose the best way of putting it that I can think of is that a regular road is to sand paper as a track surface is to fly paper.

Also, the more power you make, the more different it will be.