Don't make fun of me, but I've never done a burnout... yet!

So I heard with RWD you need to feather the brakes. Is this true?

Explain...

-Thanks, peace out!

 

auto you can brake torque you car hold your brake in untill ur wheels start spining then you can slowly let off

manual you can dump the clutch not a some super high rpm or you will be one un happy camper

 

Any technical reason you think you'd need to?

 

Brake Torque - I hold my brake with gas and slowly let off the brake until my tires spin?

If that's what your explaining, I think I got it..

 

yeah you got it, just stop and with your foot on the brake hit the gas and the tires will start spinning, you can adjust weather your moving or standing still and how fast your wheels spin by changeing brakeing pressure and if needed changing throttle and sometime gears.

if your just doing a burnout on the street thats all you need to know, but if this is for at the track there are a lot more rules to go by, like dont go in the waterbox if you have street tires it wont help you at all. an if you are useing slicks when exiting the box try not to just let off the gas realy quick coming out or you will shock the trans when the tires hook realy quick

 

well on friday he is going to test and tune night and doesnt want to look silly in the water box...

 

then dont go in the water box. or you will just look stupid

btw what part of pa are you guys from? i just have that feeling that your talking about going to maple grove

 

for BEST results and for the regular racer, get a line lock.. no burned rear brakes and no extra load on the trans.. and like everyone else says, with street tires, dont touch the water.. if you do, you better spin the tires fast enough to get the water out of the thread grooves.. for me and my drag radials, 6k in second(about 60mph) gets the job done..

 

Street tires at the track: Stay out of the water. Reports vary on the effectiveness of burnouts with street tires - conventional wisdom on this Board says just turn them enough to clean off the tread, Tony Pedregon says "Light 'em up!" ( https://www.thirdgen.org/forums/orga...-burnouts.html )

 

Well thanks for the info about the track, but i'm all street right now... lol

-Thanks

 

Its not good to powerbrake the car. What i usuraly do is hold the brake and stomp the gas and let off the brake. Even my wornout 305 car will leave 2 sollid black marks.

 

What happens when you powerbrake the car?

 

It is hard on the transmission, rearend and rear brakes. If you have posi it will also wear out the clutches in the posi. If you have a good running motor then you should be able to stomp it and spin them prety good.

 

just for sh*ts and giggles.. no brake, manual in second gear.. let off for the speed bump aproaching FAST

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wow, that lil 385 has some got some grunt to roast them in 2nd at only a 2000rpm dump

 

Dangit, you're making me want to do a new video of mine on the street.

 

haha, i've gotta get a digital camera... Mine will burn 'em in 2nd gear (first is wayyyy too short), but I'm not sure from a complete stop... Gotta tweak the carb some.

But yea, a burnout is just punching it from a stop.
A brakestand is when you use the brakes to do it.
At the track, you'll want to do a brief brakestand, in front of the waterbox, just to clean off the tires.
A TPI 305 in decent running condition should have no problem doing that.

 

This has zero technical merit, so Mr.