Is this possible in a burnout? Anyone? Flaming pavement??

 

I dunno, Its possible. Friction=heat and everything eventualy melts. Ive left a few trails of smoldering tire marks before but I dont think any of them were actually on fire (no visible flame anyway).

 

Maybe if you had a gas leak and did a burnout in it

 

Lol, that would definatley leave a fire , your car included in it ,lol :P

 

Easy enough with a blow torch But seriously you'd have to get the tire rubber VERY hot to do this, in most cases your tire would blow out first. Be a lot of fun tryin' though

 

For the non believers lol
http://www.happy-gods.com/73nova/bur...01_geordi.html

This was at one of last year's shows. Mentally doesn't even describe it

The second last photo shows the flames on the ground....even thopugh at this point, most of the fire was put out.

 

I think HOLY SHYT says it all...

 

GofasterFirebird,

Did you think I was kidding in my earlier post about "lighting them up" with a 305/2.77? https://www.thirdgen.org/techbb2/sho...threadid=91818


Are you a believer now? Actually, tire fires aren't that uncommon.

 

believe it or not but i have done it with my T/A.


:rockon: :rockon:

 

a freind of mine had a 78 malibu classic that had the open rear and he powerbraked some tire and not actually the tire, but the rubber it shot on the rear quarter was on fire.....didnt go out till we hit about 60mph. man I miss those H.S. days

 

Vader,

I didn't think you were kidding. I just saw no mention of you stating you caught your tires on fire or anyone actually achieving ignition temperature. All you stated was that idea and I wanted to know more so I posted a topic. I was a believer before I posted this b/c I believe to have caught freshly recoated asphault on fire myself. The oil in the asphault must have been the culprit.

 

Supposedly doing your buisness in a puddle of tranny fluid will get the job done.

 

Man, I love to tell war stories so here goes:

Summer of '85 and I have my pretty little '77 Camaro LT with 2bbl. 305. It sports a 2.73 open rear end as well. So, the folks are gone, my brother is in the house watching TV, and I'm just finishing up the washing of my car. I back the car with still-wet tires into the attached garage, and get a wild hair. So, I shift into drive, and stand on the gas and the brakes at the same time. The engine revs to 4500 RPM and I just hold it there, watching with glee as the speedometer hits 100. I let off the gas, shut it down, and walk into the house to tell my little brother about my exciting little powerbrake. At I hit the kitchen, my brother yells "HOLY ****!" and points outside, where a rectangular, garage door-sized plume of white smoke is billowing out of our garage.

We both run to the garage door, and open it to find ourselves enveloped in burning rubber smoke. I grab the fire extinguisher, and proceed to try to read how to use it . By the time I figure out that you have to pull the pin to trigger it, the smoke already has begun to disperse. There, against the wall and floor of the garage is the hottest, messiest, stinkiest pile of blackened rubber I have ever seen.

Mike and I both marvel at the mess. However, the cleanup has only begun: As we walk back into the house (him to watch more TV, and me to get a bucket and brush), the mess only got worse: The gummyblackened tarlike rubber has stuck to our shoes, and we both have spread it across the new linoleum floor. Dang, it's like baby poop! I couldnt clean it off the floor with anything short of paint thinner!

Luckily the folks were gone for the reat of the day, because it took me that long to fix the mess I'd made.

Yeah, rubber catches on fire.

 

ws6TransAm,

That is fricking funny! I was rolling, sounds like something I would have done back in the day!

 

I've seen a Mopar drop bleach on his tires before a brakestand and the bleach caught fire and burned the paint off some of his car.

 

I have a video clip of a Nova that does a 2 min. burn and catches his slicks on fire. It is too big to attach, so if anyone knows how I can share it, let me know.

 

>btw, yeah the will flame up. Think if you can rub two wooden sticks to gether and make fire you sure can spin a tire on the ground at 50MPH and make flames.

 

Yes, it can be done. Takes about 3 minutes of continuous burnout to do it with typical street radials. I watched a guy in a little Nissan pickup do it. Usually the tires disintegrates and blows before any fire happens, but not always. Seen it with my own two peepers.

 

this site doesnt work but keep it in mind

http://www.rx-7.net/Miva/dl/download.mv?type=textonly

 

uh..Damon...check my link in my above post. only 45 seconds my friend