Drag racing / burnout
02-05-2006, 09:01 PM
#4
4th Gear Member
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Nashville Tn
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RE: Drag racing / burnout
Turn off the TCS, roll into the bleach box and floor it. Keep it going straight and hold on!
As far as a line lock, they are pretty much universal as long as you know where to install it into the brake plumbing. Has to go after the anti-lock system.
As far as a line lock, they are pretty much universal as long as you know where to install it into the brake plumbing. Has to go after the anti-lock system.
02-07-2006, 12:37 PM
#7
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Join Date: May 2005
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RE: Drag racing / burnout
Why do you feel you need to upgrade brakes to do a burnout?
Those really long smoky burnouts some guys do does nothing
but melt away tread and thrash your expensive tires.
Pull into the burnout box, bring up the revs a bit, let clutch out.
You'll burn out enough to heat the tires up just fine and not
sit there wasting away your tires.
Also prolonged burnouts in many cases HURTS your 1/4 time (especially
in turbocharged cars).
Why?
Heat....it's the enemy of power. Sitting there doing long expensive burnouts heats
up your engine in a big way. That's robbing you of power right before your about
to run down the track.
I also laugh inside when I watch guys with turbo/super charged cars doing long
burnouts. The heat soak from their intercoolers and turbo/superchargers is
a MAJOR source of slower times.
Just heat up the tires by spinning for a couple seconds, then get to the staging
lights.
Those really long smoky burnouts some guys do does nothing
but melt away tread and thrash your expensive tires.
Pull into the burnout box, bring up the revs a bit, let clutch out.
You'll burn out enough to heat the tires up just fine and not
sit there wasting away your tires.
Also prolonged burnouts in many cases HURTS your 1/4 time (especially
in turbocharged cars).
Why?
Heat....it's the enemy of power. Sitting there doing long expensive burnouts heats
up your engine in a big way. That's robbing you of power right before your about
to run down the track.
I also laugh inside when I watch guys with turbo/super charged cars doing long
burnouts. The heat soak from their intercoolers and turbo/superchargers is
a MAJOR source of slower times.
Just heat up the tires by spinning for a couple seconds, then get to the staging
lights.
02-07-2006, 01:04 PM
#8
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Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Texas
Posts: 3,225
RE: Drag racing / burnout
Anyone besides me find something strange about someone making the statement "I plan to race" and "what kind of brake do I need to hold the car in place to do burnouts" in the same post??
I would almost hope that if he planned on racing he would at least have a bit of racing knowledge. At least enough to know what line locks were. But then again, that is just me. Chances are I will never line up beside him so I don't have to worry about it.
I would almost hope that if he planned on racing he would at least have a bit of racing knowledge. At least enough to know what line locks were. But then again, that is just me. Chances are I will never line up beside him so I don't have to worry about it.
