2011 5.0 Burnout !?!?

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04-06-2010, 03:56 PM

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Napoleon85

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Originally Posted by sdsguy

motortrend blames the width of the tires, but after reading everything it might possibly be a combination of all the things listed above.

is there a "how to" for burnouts while we're on the topic? i've never done them, hard to do burnouts in the old 6

Actually, yes.
http://roushtv.roushperformance.com/video.aspx?id=65

04-06-2010, 04:59 PM

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GrayGhost01GT

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Im thinking it might be the compound of the tires also! And I forgot about that man, the reading rainbow HA HA GOOD TIMES!!

04-06-2010, 05:51 PM

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d.mehrl

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traction control button ?

Whats up with holding the traction control button in for 5 seconds ? I have a 2010, and all it takes is a touch of the button to activate. Had there been a change ?

04-06-2010, 06:34 PM

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scapegoat

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Originally Posted by d.mehrl

Whats up with holding the traction control button in for 5 seconds ? I have a 2010, and all it takes is a touch of the button to activate. Had there been a change ?

just hitting it won't disable it fully

04-06-2010, 06:47 PM

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Originally Posted by d.mehrl

Whats up with holding the traction control button in for 5 seconds ? I have a 2010, and all it takes is a touch of the button to activate. Had there been a change ?

Simply tapping the button simply places it in a less restrictive mode but does not disable it fully.

04-06-2010, 09:28 PM

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GrayGhost01GT

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Yea taping the TC button only puts the car in what Ford calls Sport Mode, holding down for 5 seconds turns off the TC off all the way.

04-06-2010, 11:58 PM

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Originally Posted by bgmikejr2009

The reason the Mustang does weak burnouts is cause it is much lighter than the others, the Camaro and the Challenger are 100's of pounds heavier which makes there burnouts much better. Plus the Mustang doesn't have the HP the others do but is lighter like I stated earlier which will make it a faster of the three.'

Interesting theory re hp. The SRT8 425 RT 376
Camaro 426
Mustang 412

I can't see the lack of hp being a reason, just sayin

04-07-2010, 07:47 AM

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Flying5.0

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Originally Posted by GrayGhost01GT

Yea taping the TC button only puts the car in what Ford calls Sport Mode, holding down for 5 seconds turns off the TC off all the way.

Wow... that is some very important info right there!!! I did not know this as it stats on my dash "Traction Control Off".....

04-07-2010, 09:48 AM

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GrayGhost01GT

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Being Smart are we flying 5.0? it also states that its off with just a tap of the button too pal!

04-07-2010, 10:19 AM

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Originally Posted by GrayGhost01GT

Being Smart are we flying 5.0? it also states that its off with just a tap of the button too pal!

Not at all, Didn't mean to come off as beeing smart at all. I actually did not know this info and was very happy to find this out.

I always just tapped the button and thaught it was off. Glad I found this out now and didn't fry any brakes or what ever it is to keep traction under control. Maybe I should go do some reading up in my owners manual. Seems this car has so much stuff on it that I really know nothing about.

Got so use to driving my 98 GT for so long and never had anything this new before. Again, I appologize if I came off that way.

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