Ok my friend and I are having some disputes about burnouts. Weather the car is FWD, or RWD it doesn’t matter. But we both agree that a burnout is abusing your car, and it puts wear and tear on the parts. He says that after the first burnout you will break the car some how. I say that after 1 minute solid not in motion burnout you will probably chip some teeth on the flywheel, overheat the tranny... (Other than that you are cool) if you are power-sliding, driving, and burning out it wont matter b/c the tranny is still in motion. Example: http://fattyslims.com/mirrors/videos/MISC/burnout.avi
A high performance car however can take such abuse and I think he’s not seeing this. If you do one burnout for under a minute like 20 seconds or 30 or 40 it puts abuse on the car yes but it won’t necessarily break it, he thinks it will. He’s not seeing the fact that cars can do burnouts.

FWD burnout….
http://fattyslims.com/mirrors/videos/MISC/Integraburnoutcompressed.wmv

Yes, burnouts are hell on any car. It will overheat a automatic transmission in no time. If the driveline is strong enough for the motor, then you wont break anything like a driveshaft or u-joints. You will fry tires quickly. If you think about it, A Burnout is a stupid and horrible thing to do to your car. But then again so is drag racing or racing period. But it sure is fun for some people, And thats why we do it.
P.S. did you see the 1977 vette burnout and doing doughnuts, I posted in the other thread? Thats alot cooler than that integra!

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I spose now's a good time to bring up an interesting issue. I can't do burnouts. i shift it into first, push the brake in a bit, and floor the pedal...and the rear wheels aren't spinning fast enough to do a burnout...I think the max that hit like that is 1500-2000 RPM, not sure why. it worked once before, the same way I'm doing it now. also, I'm running my 0-60 in about 9.4 seconds...out of the factory for the 77 vette was 6.8 seconds. not sure if I'm just doing something wrong or my engine's running less horsepower...but I can't think what'd be wrong with it, other than borehole being slightly plugged so that the full amount of oil isn't getting to that lifter.

Food for thought............
Just the fact that a car exists is wear and tear, if it just sits, seals, gaskets dry out. Fuel goes bad, tires get flat spots or start cracking.
If you drive it normally, you still inflict different types of wear requiring some level of maintenance.
If you do burnouts, expect accelerated wear on tires and driveline components, as long as you are aware of this and prepared to pay for the fun, why not roast 'em once in a while?
We buy and build performance cars, let them perform, or just go get a YUGO that WONTGO!!!!!!!!!!!!

That is what the
http://fattyslims.com/mirrors/videos/MISC/burnout.avi
video is, the one of that guy in the post u made Tummar. However i said it was hell for any car, old cars can take it, but you should know your car before you do anything like that.

Yes absolutly! I cant get your link to work for me so I didnt know that was it. LoL! The problem is my computer I think, it does that to me alot. Call me Tom. BTW

|UPDATED|11/10/2004 4:35:05 PM (AZT)|/UPDATED|

Tom, any ideas as to why I can't get the wheels spinning fast enough for a burnout? or why I'm running my 0-60 in 9.4 instead of the 6.8 it's sposed to be? or was 6.8 the L82 engine.

Have you ever done a compression check on your motor? Sounds like serious power loss. You motor might be just worn out or you have a poorly adjusted or worn out carb or ignition. With my old motor, I could hardly get the tires to squeak. It was stock with alot of miles and had a 3.08 and a clogged exhaust system.

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I've got 3.08s...like I said, there's that borehole that's not letting the full amount of oil through...so it makes that clicking sound...but I wouldn't think it'd result in that much loss of power. it doesn't start too easily, gotta hold the ignition in for a few seconds and pump the pedal once or twice sometimes, there's been some shorts in the electrical system...but it doesn't seem like it should do what it's doing. lesse...timeline...got the vette, fixed up the exhaust and harmonic balancer and starter, put roller rockers in it...had it straightpiped. friend and I went to a parking lot and videotaped some nice burnouts. short in the system, didn't start or even turn over, next day it was fine. I try to do a burnout for a picture for the 05 calendar, can't do it. few weeks later, exhaust plug blows off when I was tryin to do a 0-60, manually shifting, see what my time was. rapidfire superclicks each time I pushed the pedal in, there's prolly a post on here about it. we found the problem, bought a plug, screwed it back in, that problem solved. electrical system shorts again, vette won't start or even turn over again, I get it towed into the shop while the wire is still shorting, we fix it. few days later, try to do a burnout for fun...again, still can't get the tires spinning fast enough. not sure what my 0-60 time is..prolly a little less, I took the spare tire and the casing that holds it up off of the back...but I'm guessing it's still above 9 seconds, which is over 2 seconds off...and the fact that I can't do burnouts. any ideas?

Back in 1970 I ran a flathead dragster with a couple of friends and the hot thing to do at the time was bleach burnouts!To heat the tires.
Clorox is real slippery
If you want to impress your friends than pour down a couple of puddles of bleach and burn through them!
Rember that the half shafts don't break when the tires are spinning,they break when the tires hook up.
Steve