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What gear to start a burnout????

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Jackie Chan

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Silly34 said:
All the street tires I've tried it on just spin and spin, they never hook. But I guess its all based on the compound of the tire, doesn't hurt to try (except maybe your e.t.).

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if you want to tell everyone how its done you better have the times to back it up is all i'm saying.
 

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awwyea said:
You can kiss your brakes goodbye if you do too many burnouts without a linelock kit.


Nothing blows more than flying down the track and hitting the brakes and nobody's home...I saw it at the track a few years ago. A kid did too many burnouts w/o linelock in his 97 GT and ended up in the sand pit at the end of the track.
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another one?????? please buddy, i have a couple hundred passes on my car and still have plenty of pad left on my brakes.
 

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Ok, sure. Slap on some Drag Radials, rev it up, drop the clutch, hit the brakes.

Good enough?

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Silly34 said:
Ok, sure. Slap on some Drag Radials, rev it up, drop the clutch, hit the brakes.

Good enough?

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wtf are you talking about?
 

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awwyea said:
You can kiss your brakes goodbye if you do too many burnouts without a linelock kit.


Nothing blows more than flying down the track and hitting the brakes and nobody's home...I saw it at the track a few years ago. A kid did too many burnouts w/o linelock in his 97 GT and ended up in the sand pit at the end of the track.
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This doesn't make sense. Unless he busted a line and leaked fluid. The worst I could imagine would be brake fade but I doubt this too.

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Jackie Chan said:
wtf are you talking about?
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Hell if I know, I was just saying I've never had any luck w/ street tires.

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Silly34 said:
Hell if I know, I was just saying I've never had any luck w/ street tires.

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its definately a tricky thing. i am just now getting the hang of them and still a little inconsistent
 

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Would be cool to get a street tire thats good for auto-x and drag racing

WHOO HOOO!!

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Ya'll would do well to listen to Jackie Chan when it comes to cutting good 60 fts on street tires. He cuts CONSISTENT (interpretation: nearly EVERY time) 1.9's on street tires (no drag radials).
 

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Jackie Chan said:
I know a few guys with stock gatorbacks that have pulled 1.9s(justsomeguy is one). I have pulled 1.9s on sumitomos and michelin pilots. I havent done it on khumos yet, but tarzan has pulled high 1.8s to low 1.9s on his he said.
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tarzan post here?
kuhmo 712's... ugh
 
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A line lock is prefered and just plain easier and safer to do a burnout. All you may do to your brakes is glaze the rear pads and put a lot of heat into the rears which could cause them to fade which isn't really all that bad but I like to keep stress of the parts when it's not really necessary.

As far as losing traction with a burnout...as I stated earlier OVERHEATING the tire will cause a loss in traction as the tires are operating well out of their range, it's physics and proven. A small burnout to put some heat into them and to clean them off WILL help traction. I know that when I burn mine for a few secs that they get sticky enough that they feel like fly paper, if I were to over do it then the compound would lose it's adhesion to itself and come apart causing a loss in taction. Stay out of the water too. . .
 

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Jackie Chan said:
i heard i cut 1.9 60' on street tires doing burnouts
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I heard you were doing your burnouts in REVERSE to get those times
http://forums.stangnet.com/showthread.php?t=394506&highlight=reverse+burnout
 

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I heard you were doing your burnouts in REVERSE to get those times
http://forums.stangnet.com/showthread.php?t=394506&highlight=reverse+burnout
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evil rumors....plus i did that burnout(single) on slicks
 

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I really started a war here, didn't I. It seems that everyone has thier own interpretation on how to get thier best 60' times. As a fact, I drag race professionally and posted this to see if I could get any input or opinions from guys that raced the same car as I just bought 3 months ago.. I only made 5 passes with my car, so I will figure the temperature that the tires need to get to get the best traction off the line. I did run the car with 1st gear burnouts with barely any smoke. Spun like crazy with a 2.376 60'. Then I tried the 2nd gear burnout and brought it down to a 2.108 60'. I seriously think that is close to the best those Kumho 712's are going to take me.
 

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I really started a war here, didn't I. It seems that everyone has thier own interpretation on how to get thier best 60' times. As a fact, I drag race professionally and posted this to see if I could get any input or opinions from guys that raced the same car as I just bought 3 months ago.. I only made 5 passes with my car, so I will figure the temperature that the tires need to get to get the best traction off the line. I did run the car with 1st gear burnouts with barely any smoke. Spun like crazy with a 2.376 60'. Then I tried the 2nd gear burnout and brought it down to a 2.108 60'. I seriously think that is close to the best those Kumho 712's are going to take me.
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Then I tried the 2nd gear burnout and brought it down to a 2.108 60'. I seriously think that is close to the best those Kumho 712's are going to take me.
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i doubt it. when you start believing you can only cut 60's as good as most front wheel drive cars then you should give up. i already posted that there is a guy on here that pulls low 1.9s and he is in an auto bolt on vert on those tires. on a poorly prepped track i was pulling low 2.0s the first day i got them
 

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Well I am only .108 away from 2.000.. I do believe I'll get there, or better in my next couple of passes..
 
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