Burnouts with a 3.7 Automatic?
07-29-2010, 09:29 PM
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Burnouts with a 3.7 Automatic?
So yeah, i'm planning on buying a new 2011 mustang V6 within a month from now. The deal is, I'm concidering the automatic tranny instead of the shift-your-own since I will encounter a lot of traffic and city driving on a daily basis. My work requiring that I go fix stuff in different buildings and all. Now my main, and possibly dumb question is: Assuming I turn traction control off, will burnouts with the automatic transmission still be as easy or nearly as easy as with the manual one?
And are they really goverened at about 112 mph?
Thank you.
And are they really goverened at about 112 mph?
Thank you.
08-04-2010, 03:26 AM
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No and Yes.
I'm not sure why people think that burnouts will be as easy with the auto as they are with the manual. It's never as easy to do a burnout with the auto in my opinion (no high rev-drop the clutch action).
Also, depending on your gearing, tires, and wheels it might not be easy to do a burnout at all. I was surprised when I got my 2010 GT auto w/ 19" wheels that I couldn't do a proper burnout easily. After learning how to completely disable the stability and traction control I was indeed able to burnout but not to the tire shredding wheel-hop levels that I could in my 2008 GT with a 5 spd and 17" wheels. It takes more to spin up those big wheels...and it IS harder to burn out with an automatic.
That being said, burning out isn't always a great thing for track times. Even though I can't put on as good of a show in the 2010 I can pull a 0-60 around 4.7-4.8 seconds if I only have myself as a passenger and only a quarter tank of gas to keep the weight down ;-)
Do yourself a favor and get the automatic. You'll enjoy the luxury of not having to manually shift in stop and go freeway or downtown traffic and with a shift kit it'll out perform the manual for drag racing...in my opinion of course!
I'm not sure why people think that burnouts will be as easy with the auto as they are with the manual. It's never as easy to do a burnout with the auto in my opinion (no high rev-drop the clutch action).
Also, depending on your gearing, tires, and wheels it might not be easy to do a burnout at all. I was surprised when I got my 2010 GT auto w/ 19" wheels that I couldn't do a proper burnout easily. After learning how to completely disable the stability and traction control I was indeed able to burnout but not to the tire shredding wheel-hop levels that I could in my 2008 GT with a 5 spd and 17" wheels. It takes more to spin up those big wheels...and it IS harder to burn out with an automatic.
That being said, burning out isn't always a great thing for track times. Even though I can't put on as good of a show in the 2010 I can pull a 0-60 around 4.7-4.8 seconds if I only have myself as a passenger and only a quarter tank of gas to keep the weight down ;-)
Do yourself a favor and get the automatic. You'll enjoy the luxury of not having to manually shift in stop and go freeway or downtown traffic and with a shift kit it'll out perform the manual for drag racing...in my opinion of course!
Errr....by "shift kit" I mean "tune" for those that I'm sure will be soon to correct me
