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how do you do a burnout

34K views 34 replies 23 participants last post by  WRXelent  
#1 ·
i just want to know how to do a burnout ?
 
#4 ·
take a 12 guage, put it in ur mouth, and pull trigger :p. lol this has to be the most retarted question ive seen, so ill answer it!

....buy a RWD or FWD car, press the clutch, rev this **** outta it, and drop theclutch in first gear.

ps. watch out your cool points will go up and the ladies will think ur a hooligan and go crazy for u....

u rebel! badass!
 
#6 ·
The best way to do a burnout is with an older powerful RWD car. I say older because the newer ones will have traction control which will usually prevent the complete loss of traction necessary to do a burnout. The WRX is designed specifically to not lose traction... so not only is it really hard to do much of a burnout in a WRX but it's very bad for the car.
 
#12 ·
Why on earth do you want to kill your clutch and possibly your transmission? Seriously?

If you "know" how to do a burnout in a FWD or RWD, then as already explained, you already "know" how to do a burnout in an AWD. But again, why? Are you going to the drag strip?

BTW, to those smart asses with the pony car comments, I'll challenge you to do a burn out in my no-traction-control '96 Z28 any day. ;) With ABS, it's actually a little more difficult than a non-ABS car.
 
#19 ·
Drifting? Burn-outs? A lot of these questions lately. Don't people take this into consideration before buying an AWD car? Oh wait, I just answered my own question. Next they will want to know how to "chirp" all the gears.:rolleyes: Please take the time to read your owners manual (at least the parts that are important to you). P.S. Usually the videos you see on the internet are done by people who don't care what happens to their ( I use the word "their" loosely) cars. Most are just looking for attention. IMHO.
 
#22 ·
when you pull the e brake in the STi it disconnects the center diff. Making it possible to do ebrake 180s with out messing stuff up.(back wheels locked, fronts still spinning would be bad for the center diff) For some reason when you pull the ebrake a bit the back wheels will peel out(i would think the fronts would do it but i dont know why). So dont try this in a wrx, it work work. if you have an STI, it will work but i dont know how bad it is for the car.

fyi its a ****ing awd car, dont peel out, you will just look like a toolshed
 
#23 ·
broke?

this is an awesome thread....there have been sooo many of these on here lately...how do i drift my car? how do i do burnouts? how do i do donuts? what happened to, i have a subaru and i LOVE the **** outa my car, i would hate to break it. are more and more people just going for broke out there? everytime you do a burnout in your subbie god kills a kittie.... remember that
 
#24 ·
I am getting really old. I should probably check myself in at Shady Pines.
I remember when the young people all wanted to know how to make their car go faster. Now they all want to look like some moron on YouTube. What the hell has happened to the world? "Screw performance! We want image and a broken car! That gets the chicks!" (Yeah, all of the high school sophomores! Good luck with them!)

Here is how you do a burnout in a real car.
1)Roll through water.
2)Whack the throttle to get the car up on the tire,
3)then feather it at your predetermined rpm until you have had enough fun.
Left hand on the wheel and the right hand on the brake slightly warming the rotors.
Image

If you really have an interest- my guess is you do not have a tire that will go quicker after a burnout. Most street and performance tires will lose traction and performance after a burnout.
 
#28 ·
Wow! Great catch on the other posts of this guy!
A triple plate clutch? Thanks for the info. Since I am not a real clutch guy, I guess I have to go back to school on the performance stuff. I thought I knew, but I guess I don't.
No clutch 'disc' would ever in the history of the planet be designated as a clutch 'plate.' However a clutch floater is sometimes considered a clutch plate. So does that mean he will have three floaters in his new clutch, making it a four disc clutch? If so, I tend to misunderstand what he is driving that would make the power to need a four disc clutch. Since there are door cars running 5.73 at 254mph in the quarter mile without a four disc clutch, I would be interested to see what he has.
And since he has logged on seeming himself to be a shop that can sell parts as well as install/tune- he must be far advanced over any of us in knowledge as well as talent and performance.
Please- come on and inform us all, oh master of the burnout world!
 
#31 ·
I can't believe you people. You are all so mean. The poor guy just wants to know how to do burnouts like Knight Rider or drift around the circular ramp that goes to the top floor of the parking deck at the airport so he can watch the "aero-planes". We all know there is a simple solution to this...a trick that every Subaru owner knows that is against the code to post on a thread. So instead, I submit this solution. It's so simple yet involves science. Ice. Find ice. Or better yet. Wait until ice finds you. Then, go skiing and on your way back put your AWD car (or 2000 4WD Ford Ranger) through a fence. Not just any fence, it's got to be a throughbred racing horse fence because then if you kill one, you'll be responsible for three generations of breeding potential. Dude, you should have seen me drift that Ranger though...eat my sideways driving shorts Mark Walberg's little known brother!