Burnouts Ruining Tires

   / Burnouts Ruining Tires #51  
Besides being bad on your tires, aren't burnouts really bad on your brakes also? It seems it would wear the pads out quickly and, if long enough, boil your brake fluid ruining your master cylinder.
Who cares? It's your dad's car!

(said in high school by anyone that never borrowed their dad's car)
 
   / Burnouts Ruining Tires #52  
We had 4VW buses, a beetle, and a Karmann Ghia.

One of the 70's buses had an oddball motor in it that was larger displacement and had dual two barrels. It would spin the rear tires on dry pavement. Great snow car. Never got stuck.

If you did it just right, you could jump the front tires over a beer can.

Also, they were pretty tough. My sister, and later me, did many a stupid thing with that bus. Jumping RR tracks was pretty easy to get airborne.

This video is pretty illustrative of how easy they are to get airborne. Been there, done that. Many dozens of times. Almost daily on a local RR track. About 45-50 and up and over.

 
   / Burnouts Ruining Tires #54  
I’ve only done the one burnout with my car and it was just before putting my new tires on.
 

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   / Burnouts Ruining Tires #55  
The cars could get around the track much faster driving straight so what is the point other than entertainment?
The point is to show off and compete over who has the most skill. There's a fair bit of skill needed to maintain the drift and the more extreme the better.
Burnouts never impressed me.
Doing a 1:00 Stoppie on a 500 pound motorcycle for 100 feet and dropping the thing in an about-face does impress me. I am impressed with the sincerity of the person's death wish.
 
   / Burnouts Ruining Tires #56  
I wonder how many seconds of burn out equals the time of running my Echo Brush Cutter?
 
   / Burnouts Ruining Tires #57  
Ahhh, three things that are near and dear to my my heart. Lots of horsepower, tracks, and a competitive spirit. One of our instructors at the BMW Performance Center in Greenville SC set the current world record for longest continuous drift ( power slide ) of 232 miles on a circular pad. Johan Schwartz drifted continuously without stopping for fuel by having a second car drift beside him while transferring fuel.
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Many of the new cars today are incapable of power drifts or doing burnouts since the on board sensors detect wheel slippage and direct power to a non slipping wheel. The Nissan GTR shifts power from side to side and front to back so quickly that wheel spin, for more than a 1/10 of a second is almost impossible. Wasting tires making smoke gets really expensive, I rather wear out tires on a track and watch the G force meter head past 1.5. Best mileage I ever got was 8K miles for set of 4 and changed them when I wore thru first set of steel cords on inside of each tire.

Never too old to have fun.

A link to the record
 

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   / Burnouts Ruining Tires #58  
I enjoy spirited corners- on ramps and such and typically get a summer possibly 2 out of a set of tires and 2 winters out of a set of snow tires…

They aren’t caused by “burnouts” just having fun going around corners- I’ve never done more than a few second “burnout” but could see how it would be fun- if you’ve never driven a well balanced car at its limits it’s fun and very predictable… it also prepares you for those moments when others would panic and not know what to do.
 
   / Burnouts Ruining Tires #59  
I'm with davisjt1977. At 70 I still enjoy a good burnout. There's a wooden bridge at the North end of my farm. When wheeling we usually have a burnout contest at the end of the day on the wooden bridge with our offroad tube buggies. It's freaking awesome!!!!

Although I don't have a video of that, I have this one on the blacktop in front of my house. Good, clean, American fun.

 
   / Burnouts Ruining Tires #60  
Here's a pic of my 2004 Jeep Rubicon with Kenne Bell Supercharger doin a burnout on the same blacktop with 37" tires.

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