Burn-outs
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Melting Slicks
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From: Plainfield Ill.
Burn-outs
Last night about 15 mins before I got off work, me and a friend of mine decided that we would do some burn-outs in the empty parking lot. I told him that this would only be my second time because the first one I did was from another parking lot on my other job. Anyway to make the story short- I tried a few times and I could not get the tires to spin long enough to even produce a small pile of smoke. Traction control off, my foot on the brake lightly while pressing on the gas pedal and releasing my foot off the brake. I mean the tires would spin for maybe a few seconds then it would catch traction and blast me off. THe parking we were at was asphalt but it's not black anymore more like grayish because it is old, and it has a lot of loose gravel, could that may have been a factor because the asphalt has little or no tar? Or am I doing my technique wrong?
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Melting Slicks
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From: Plainfield Ill.
Originally Posted by boatboatboat
press brake longer and harder.
Melting Slicks
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St. Jude Donor '06-'07-'08-'09
Originally Posted by lpabsolute
Watch out for paint chips with loose gravel 
He's beating the hell out of his entire drivetrain and you're warning him of paint chips 
I love it 
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He's beating the hell out of his entire drivetrain and you're warning him of paint chips I love it Corvette Stories
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From: The best times of your life have not yet been lived. MO
Week before last washing the daughters car (being a good dad), two teenage boys were doing burnouts in the water pooling outside the wash bays. Not too bright on one kid, standing to the side of the drivers pickup, holding it in place, but they were doing awesome burnouts! Little S10 pickup, Extreme series, but they would just sit there power standing, burning off the tires. Just an observation.
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St. Jude Donor '06-'10, '13
Originally Posted by boatboatboat
press brake longer and harder.
you probably also have the 273 rear-end in your car which does not help, but with enough gas can still be done
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Melting Slicks
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From: Plainfield Ill.
Originally Posted by FrankTank
you probably also have the 273 rear-end in your car which does not help, but with enough gas can still be done
and most of you have assumed, it is an A4.
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From: Witness Protection Program Somewhere, USA
Originally Posted by boatboatboat
a burnout never hurt anyone or anything. LONG LIVE THE BURNOUT....... drive that thing like it was built to be driven.