Yea 1-2 is always going to eat some time, first is to get you from the speaker to the drive through window to pay for your lunch. Even in parking lots you have to put it in second or look like an ahole screaming at 5k going 15. Like mopar said, second is just a tad too long for launch. With the extra power I don't know how long the tranny would hold out testing the theory either. The Daily driver will wait for others to play with that fire . Lantana may chime in with the V8 experience. I can't imagine first being more than a short pump of the gas once the turbo is on the 8 nevermind now. Just have to find the sweet spot I suppose, get on it smooth, shift a tad early and get into a real gear quickly. Third will remain the sweet spot i think, if your not pulling at that point it's probably not going to happen.