well my aunt had a ...what i want to say a mustang...a long time ago and she use to put it in reverse and mash the gas and as soon as the tires would start to grab she would drop it in drive and just sit there and spin em (how exactley she would do it properly i dont know)....this is what my dad said and that the whole car wold be filled with white smoke...how much truth there is to this i dont know because i wasnt born yet but from what i understand she was a huge ford motor head and love to beat the crap out of he vehicles to watch the tires burn...they just dont make woman like that any more

 

I gotcha.

I just had to hijack for a minute and point out the fact that there is no need to do a burnout on street tires. Many people don't realize, or believe this fact.

Carry on...

 

lol thats a great story, 'countermaker' but you can find some country gals like that i suppose

 

can you please point me in the direction of them please?? lol

 

what is neutral dropping....is it where you just rev it up in neutral and drop it in drive...yeah that cant be good for the tranny!!!

 

Neutral dropping, we call it neutral slamming. You put the gear shift in neutral, rev up the engine and then slam the gear shift down into drive and the vehicle jerks and shakes as the wheels spin and the tranny pops..

And for all the haters out there, who cares about power brakin’

So what if some kid wants to smoke the wheels and burn a little rubber, maybe you should do it once in a while and feel the sensation of the cork shooting out of your ***

 

[QUOTE=booker250]Just so <i>you</i> know, unless you're on drag slicks, a burnout at the track will do nothing for you, and may even produce negative results.

I have to disagree. Heating up the Toyos before going up to the lights definitely helped traction off the line.

 

i had a buddy with a 72 or 73 4 door nova that wouldnt burn out..lol so he just neutral dropped the heck outta that car, i live in NC now so im not sure how many trannys hes replaced yet!

 

So that's what you kids are into these days, shooting corks out of your rear-ends?!! Or maybe that's just you!

No wonder you're getting laughed at!!

 

Hey! I take offense to that!

 

When I bought my 1970 F100, I had to get new tires for it as it had set for about a year and they hadn't been in great condition I was told before that. The right rear was almost completely bald and the tire place said it was most likely from power braking. I thought the PO just wasted his tires. I then drove my truck on the 700 mile journey to its new home (after having the normal safety and power train checks done by an excellent well qualified mechanic- 4 days and lots of stuff done). About 3/4 of the way home while travelling on I-5 I felt the steering get wild and the rear end swinging. I managed to get out of traffic and land in a big grassy median after dragging a long stream of sparks for quite a distance. I was so glad I had seat belts that day. Anyway, I got out and found the right rear wheel gone. The axel had broken off in a strange way that I thought was weird, I had assumed that the tire shop had not tightened the lug nuts properly. This was not the case. When the state police retrieved the wheel from where it had crossed into the opposing lanes of traffic and rammed into the front of a brand new light truck causing extensive damage and thank god no serious injury, the lug nuts were still all attached and tightly holding all of the related pieces. After the shop where I had my truck hauled in on a flat bed along with the retrieved errant wheel it was determined by the insurance investigator that it was very likely that power braking has fatigued the rear end and axel assembly. At this point I hadn't even mentioned to anyone about the tire shops comment as I had forgotten about it in all the excitement. From this experience I have formed the opinion that power braking is STUPID and dangerous, and not just to the one doing it.

 

is this clip what you would call powerbraking?http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-d169ueKDeM

 

No. I call that "Watch An Idiot Drive"!!

 

I think this is impressive

http://img34.photobucket.com/albums/...ga_burnout.jpg

 

That's what we call a dumbfsck 'round these parts. The driver deserves to be shot.

Imagine what the EGTs were on that little run?

Although the girl in the black/white top didn't look half bad.