Thursday, October 22, 2009

How to do Burnouts for dummies

Well I'm back folks, it's about time I post something here on the blogspot. Today I would like to shed some useful tips for those who likes to do burnouts.
But as a precaution please consider this useful tips as a warning:

1] Always wear a seat belt not just for safety but for acceleration
2] Give option to passenger to get out when you try to attempt this stunt
3] Only do burnouts on a drag strip or on a control environment such as tracks
3] Burnouts are Illegal in some countries and it may cause you to loose your driving license
4] Accident may happen
5] Do this at your own risk!

Enough with the precaution and warnings. Lets us go to the fun part.

First thing first, what are burnout?

Burnouts are where the wheels spin often causing thick smoke but the car doesn't move until the driver ''dumps'' or ''pops'' the car into motion. Burnouts are also known as wheels spin, brake burns, roll-backs and so forth depending on the technique.
Burnouts produces massive smoke screen and the smell of burnt rubber which are awful and may be harmful to the ecosystem. Another agenda that will make the green peace sleepless.

So what are the uses of burnouts? Ain't it useless or so?

Burnouts are first introduce during a drag session. It's not useless since drag cars need traction and what better ways do to it, burn rubber of course. Drag tires needed to be heated to a certain temperature for it to have max traction. Burnouts also helps to clean the tires from small pebbles.

Okay now here's the tip that you are waiting for:

Obviously you need a vehicle to do a burnout, a car either FWD or RWD even 4WD.
Firstly check your hand brake or E brake is functioning well.

Here's for Front wheel drive vehicle manual transmission (FWD):-

1] Put the car in first gear
2] Hold the clutch in i.e press the clutch
3] Rev the engine but not to stay at the high rpm. 4000-5500 rpm is nice.
4] Pull on the E brake, alternatively you can skip this if you are a pro
5] Dump the clutch i.e release the clutch at the same time keep the rpm on constant
6] You can play the E brake to control the burnout
7] To stop you just ease of the accelerator and free the brakes and shift to neutral






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