Burnout Techniques

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What are your experiences with burnouts?

  • An everyday thing

    Votes: 4 9.1%

  • Do it once in a while to show off

    Votes: 17 38.6%

  • My tires are too valuable

    Votes: 21 47.7%

  • I have a phobia of burning rubber

    Votes: 2 4.5%
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    44
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i just decided to make a thread and figure out what kind of techniques people on gtp use to burnout. The technique i use was taught to me by my cousin in her prelude and i still use it. It goes as follows:

For RWD:

1. Put car into first and fully compress the clutch.
2. Compress the throttle and get a nice rev going...preferably 5000-8000RPM.
3. Keeping the throttle down, release the clutch and immediately put the same foot onto the brake.
4. To come out of this "smokie" just release the brake.

For FWD:

1. Put car into first and put on the handbrake.
2. Fully compress clutch and compress throttle to get a nice rev (6000-8000RPM)
3. Keeping throtte down, release the clutch and enjoy your smokie.
4. To come out of te smokie just take downthe handbrake and ease off the throttle.

Does anyone know a good technique for an AWD car? I never really figured out how that would work. Would it be the same as for a RWD? If anyone knows please post.
 
Well, at $200 a tire, I don't do burnouts very often. Plus my car is a automatic so it's not as easy to do.

But what I do is turn off the TCS and stand on the brake, but just enough to lock the front wheels but still having the rear drive wheels able to spin. I shift into the lowest gear and start slowly applying the gas until the rear wheels start to spin.
 
AWD burnouts are pretty much non-exsistant, but if you've got bald tires and ****loads of power you should be able to pull a good stand-still in an AWD car.

I like pulling burnouts but I hate the fact that:
a) My car is too ****ty to pull burnouts
b) I can use my dads ute to pull burnouts but it chews through fuel like a V8 (it's an I4)
c) The cops don't like you pulling burnouts.

But once I'm older I'm going to have a fast cruising car (probably an old or old Holden or Ford) and a dedicated burnout/drag racer (probably a twin turbocharged V8 Commodore or Ford).

:D
 
ic. i was told by my cousin that i should take the revs up higher on a FWD car than on a RWD car. the cops here dont car too much. youll still get fined but only if your caught. where i live in vancouver hte cops are more scattered so its harder to get caught and you can just pull one on the red light and turn heads and ppl think theres a one car street race going on:p
 
Since the only time i ever do burnouts is when i'm at the dragstrip, i drive through the water box, and do a quick rolling burnout, which is plentiful enough for what i have. Contrary to popular belief, a long & smoky one ain't too good for traction.
 
To me, a burnout should be a sign of high horsepower. It's like saying "Look..my car's got so much power that my tires just have no hope of keeping traction" If you need to use your ebrake or some crazy technique to do it, I don't see the point. It's like putting a 'Type R' sticker on a stock civic.
I drive a 130hp Accord..it would be pretty ridiculous for me to waste my tires trying to do burnouts in my car.

If you want to burn up some tires..at least do it sliding sideways. :D


-Mark
 
Originally posted by Rumple Foreskin
Where there is smoke there is heat, when the tires are heated do they not pull harder?

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It depends on the tire compound. Street tires get worse traction after a burnout. That's why I laugh when I see the dumbass streetracers doing them prior to a run.
 
u have to brake boost the car if u have an automatic..., stock civics are hard to burn out if u have an auto tranny, i dunno what the deal is if its a manual...
 
My car doesn't do 'em. I reved it up to 6000rpms, and dumped the clutch. All I heard was "Chiirrp, vrooooooooooooooooooom". Damn AWD and a rear LSD. :D

PS. It was a one time deal. The above will never, ever, ever happen again.
 
I did the whole bleach thing a couple of times in the stang, but it isnt all that it's cracked up to be. At the track, unless youre running on tyres that are slick-like, all you need to do is spin them a couple of times to get crap off. You dont need to do a full-fledged burnout.
 
When I want to peel out in my 323, I just floor it from a stop, and hope for the best. Most often, all I get is a "erp" then I rocket away, and sometimes will also get an "erp" into 2nd gear since the automatic shifts hard.
When it's wet out, I can get it to nearly shift into 3rd while getting going, but I'm sure a shif into 3rd, then getting traction, and a flat out downshift back to 2nd, would pretty much hurt the trans. The worst thing I could do would be to floor it in 1st, go up to the redline, then it begins to shift, I let off then hammer it again, resulting in an emmensly hard shift that jerks the crap out of the 323. I've never done that, but my dad did it once by accident.
Some silly teens also will put thier automatic into nuetral, rev to the redline, and shift to drive, resulting(if the car is FWD) in the front lifting up like 6 inches and peeling all the way down the street...one my my bro's friends several years ago did that with a Corsica V6 infront of my house "yiyyiyiy *shift* BANG ERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR". I will never do that either.
I think if I had the chance to do a burnout(I had the chance several weeks ago while driving in the rain with a friend, we were, and did, going to make some funny videos of us peeling out and drifting in a parking lot), I'd just put it in 1st with the parking brake on. I donno if I'd beable to do it, it would probably just drag the rear wheels...
 
You can get the bleach water thing to work really good if you mod your trunk to have two tanks for each tire and have something to pump or dump them over the back tires. Some guy with a thunderbird or cougar did it with his, i used to have a video. Ill try to find it later.
 
at £250 a tire i've never tried doing a burnout but in the wet from a standing start and just flooring the cerb i get wheel spin in 1st, 2nd and 3rd gear. which is worrying when its pissing it down
 
Originally posted by Josh
It depends on the tire compound. Street tires get worse traction after a burnout. That's why I laugh when I see the dumbass streetracers doing them prior to a run.
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Not all street tires are at optimum traction when just heated by driving.......... on some street tires it is better for traction purposes to do a little wheel spinning. Over doing the burnout can lose traction on any tire... even drag slicks can lose traction from being overheated.

And please....... all of those who try to do burnouts in automatics.... please..... dont.... unless you have a tranny built for it you are just absolutely killing the poor thing.
 
haha...this thread turned out pretty popular eh. Ive heard of someone doing the bleach thing. Poor guy ran out of bleach and ended up using crisco instead. NOw...cooking oil doesnt come off of rubber very easily so it took him a good 2 weeks of hard driving to burn that **** off. the tires im running are 300CDN a piece and yeah, for that price burnouts will dent your wallet inside out. I only do it fer fun sometimes like if im showing off ot some girls or if im real pissed and attention hungry:cool:
 
200hp in a beetle, thats awesome!

My 300z can burnout quite easily but i would never do it unless
1. I had new tires ready to be put on after the act
2. The situation absolutely demanded a burnout...prettymuch when my friend talks bad about japanese cars( hes a domestics nazi but don't even start w/ that arguement:) )*and it's raining*
 
Originally posted by VG30DETT
Hahaha, yeah. In my old Hyundai it was like, "Oh no! Snow! :(". Now its, "God I want snow."
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:lol: the skyline has a snow mode that makes it more stable when the white stuff is arround. However seeing that I live in arizona, I don't think I'll need it.
 
haha. There's a guy that goes ot school with me with a 350Z. My camaro will own it anyday but it makes no difference, its a nice car. Wouldnt mind owning one of those.
 
given the fact that i'm a struggling college student i dont do many burnouts. i got curious one day and took the crx out for a drive. i've found that bringing my revs up to 5-6k rpm then dumping the clutch will keep my tires spinning for quite a while till i ease off the throttle. i didn't have the e-brake up and it was wierd that i didn't pull forward even a little bit, i was at a stand still.. then when i got home the answer slapped me in the face, i'm running on cheap ass walmart tires :lol: :dunce:
 
...Or your CRX has a stuck parking brake cable that's causing the parking brake to be on even with the lever down. Happens all the time. Sometimes, if you leave a car with the parking brake on for months, it'll fuse/rust on. Happened on my 323 several years ago, my dad backed up down the drive way pushing the back wheels(in reverse...). Got onto the street, then drove forward, still locked up, then it went "pop" and losened up. Also several weeks ago, the parking brake lever wouldn't stay all the way down. Put it on the lift at the shop, and the driver's side rear wouldn't spin that well, the mechanism in the brake drum was all corroded and crapped. But now it spins great, so it's not slowing the 323 down at all. :)
 
Well i have never done a true burnout in any car. I would like to some day though. I sometimes just peel out a little tos how off to some friends or something, since a lot of them have no idea how to drive a Manual Transmission Car. But I like to be nice to my clutch. My ass would be grass if I even burned out my clutch.
 
nah i'm pretty sure its the cheap ass tires and not a stuck brake cable... i commute through hilly areas everyday and at stops i still roll back when i ease off the brake
 
lols...whats really odd sometimes is these guys with these brand spanking new tuned imports driving up and down the street doing like 100 in a 50 zone (kph) and when you ask them to do a burnout they freeze up cuz they dont know how to!!
 

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