New LS1 Owners - Newbie Tech - did i burn out wrong?

1. fully step on brakes
2. stomp gas pedal

thing is while burning out, i never released the brakes and then the revs got lower and the power got weaker and and the scream stopped as it got weaker, it was spinnin though.... whats up with that? and when i was done i released the gas pedal and kept my foot on the brakes... please let me know. thanks guys and merry xmas

1. hold brake until car starts spinning
2. when revs get lower let off with the foot pressure to loosen up on brakes (but not all the way if you dont wana roll). the rpms should shoot back up..but if you do it correctly you shouldnt have any rpm drop
3. let completly off the brakes when done and let tires stop themselves.

1. hold brake until car starts spinning
2. when revs get lower let off with the foot pressure to loosen up on brakes (but not all the way if you dont wana roll). the rpms should shoot back up..but if you do it correctly you shouldnt have any rpm drop
3. let completly off the brakes when done and let tires stop themselves.
:judge: Seems about right.

Yeah, you pushed down too hard on the brakes. You only need to put that much pressure on the brakes when you're about to crash into something. :jest: Light pressure = :burn:

Agreed, just give enough pressure to keep the car from moving.

"Feather" the brakes. :D

I burned out the other day. I held the brakes just enough, but damn...it felt horrible on my rear brakes. I had to stop cuz it didn't feel to good. I know a line lock would fix my problem, but I have a million other things to get first.

I usually put the brakes to the floor, bring it up on the converter and let off the brakes a bit to let it move and get them going.... Then I just hold them in enough to keep the car from moving.

It was ironic to me that the one thing I had the most trouble with in learning how to drive a race car was the burnout given the fact I had done a good million of them on the street :jest:

wouldnt doing a burn out w/ out a linelock be hard on ur rear brakes and ur clutch and ur engine???
i always think about what im doing to the car, forcing power to the rear to break the power of the brakes, and on top of that still have to turn a sticky tire???hmm sounds like alot of stress on all the parts involved. and even for u a4 guys i would think ur tranny temps would go up by doing so.IMO
dont get me wrong ive done it this way, but not often, i usaully just dump the clutch at 4k and feather it to redline, back up do it again, and pull up and stage, but i run street tires, once i get some draglites and some et streets, im get a line lock and lay some VHT down, burn em, and hope for a dead hook?

cool. thanks for the replies. really helpful. think i did bad to my car though? cause after i did this i cruised at 15 mph and heard crackling, rattling noise in the rear of the car. whats goin on with that? thanks

Without a linelock, you will roast your rear brakes a little, not a good thing to keep doing repeatedly.

Another issue is doing burn outs on street tires, usually unnecessary. I've cut the same 60 foot doing a burn out as without added to the difficulty of doing it on a 6 speed with out line lock it's just not worth it.

cool. thanks for the replies. really helpful. think i did bad to my car though? cause after i did this i cruised at 15 mph and heard crackling, rattling noise in the rear of the car. whats goin on with that? thanks

I think that would be all the rocks and such you picked up from your sticky tires and throwing them on your car :)

with an M6 its a good feeling when burning out.

blip the gas, pop the clutch, and hit the brake as your gassing.

it feels like a kick in the ass when the clutch is popped, and a punch in the face when hitting the brakes.

I manage to do burnouts like I have a line lock without one. All comes down to being able to finesse your brakes correctly. You also should not just let your wheels come to a stop - you need to drive forward out of it. Just letting the wheels come to a stop puts undue stress on your driveline.

Without a linelock, you will roast your rear brakes a little, not a good thing to keep doing repeatedly.

Another issue is doing burn outs on street tires, usually unnecessary. I've cut the same 60 foot doing a burn out as without added to the difficulty of doing it on a 6 speed with out line lock it's just not worth it.
I ONLY SPIN STREET TIRES TO GET THE DIRT AND ROCKS OFF OF THEM, I DONT SIT THERE AND WAIT FOR SMOKE, UNLESS IM TRYING TO SHOW OFF OR SOMETHING

GET A LINELOCK lol for 100 bucks or whatever it was youll save 300.00 worth of brake pads in the months and years to come!

and if you have a M6 you could do 4th gear burnouts :eek2:

http://thumbs.vidiac.com/cf3debe9-a56b-4dd5-913b-2fb59578825d.jpg (http://videos.streetfire.net/video/cf3debe9-a56b-4dd5-913b-2fb59578825d.htm)Click here to see Video (http://videos.streetfire.net/video/cf3debe9-a56b-4dd5-913b-2fb59578825d.htm)

^^^ thats one hell of a burn out you did in that video :eek2:

with an M6 its a good feeling when burning out.

blip the gas, pop the clutch, and hit the brake as your gassing.

it feels like a kick in the ass when the clutch is popped, and a punch in the face when hitting the brakes.

unless your tires find more grip then the clutch. then it goes from tire smoke to clutch smoke. and me under the car covered in clutch dust. :bang: it took two weeks for the smell to go away, and one shopping bag full of clutch dust. never again on a stock clutch.

unless your tires find more grip then the clutch. then it goes from tire smoke to clutch smoke. and me under the car covered in clutch dust. :bang: it took two weeks for the smell to go away, and one shopping bag full of clutch dust. never again on a stock clutch.

:jest: ive seen that happen a few times

unless your tires find more grip then the clutch. then it goes from tire smoke to clutch smoke. and me under the car covered in clutch dust. :bang: it took two weeks for the smell to go away, and one shopping bag full of clutch dust. never again on a stock clutch.


lol lesson learned. i have a centerforce and its holding up.

that vid of the 4th gear burnout, the guy was shifting like he doesnt have one. wouldnt you be able to shift like your driving (off gas,clutch in, shift, clutch out, back on gas) where the car wouldnt bounce around.

GET A LINELOCK lol for 100 bucks or whatever it was youll save 300.00 worth of brake pads in the months and years to come!

and if you have a M6 you could do 4th gear burnouts :eek2:

http://thumbs.vidiac.com/cf3debe9-a56b-4dd5-913b-2fb59578825d.jpg (http://videos.streetfire.net/video/cf3debe9-a56b-4dd5-913b-2fb59578825d.htm)Click here to see Video (http://videos.streetfire.net/video/cf3debe9-a56b-4dd5-913b-2fb59578825d.htm)
thats one hell of a burnout!!!!!

lol lesson learned. i have a centerforce and its holding up.

that vid of the 4th gear burnout, the guy was shifting like he doesnt have one. wouldnt you be able to shift like your driving (off gas,clutch in, shift, clutch out, back on gas) where the car wouldnt bounce around.

no, the wheels always instantly stop.

Well he never said if he was at the track or on the streets. I have an m6 and a line lock so I do em both ways. The line lock is cheating, but a real good idea and always used at the track.
On the streets I get the revs going a little bit then I let out the clutch. I dont dump it, just let it out and nail the gas. The tire are spinning instantly and the car isnt moving anywhere really. Keep the rpms high enough to not get traction and thats that. I pulsate it a few times and ride it out until it grabs. Usually with the rpms around 6k. OR if I wanna get really wild I bang second and keep them going. This can be a littel tricky sometimes as they really spin fast and if you dont keep the ass end in line it gets sideways in a hurry. If I used the line lock I could run thru the gears no problem.

i will never burn out in a a4 i have a 1994 and like 2days ago my gear box whent know imma swap a new lt1 and t5 or t56 in it

Yup, thank god for linelocks :)

That was an insane burnout. GOOD JOB 98TADriver!

1. hold brake until car starts spinning
2. when revs get lower let off with the foot pressure to loosen up on brakes (but not all the way if you dont wana roll). the rpms should shoot back up..but if you do it correctly you shouldnt have any rpm drop
3. let completly off the brakes when done and let tires stop themselves.

Sounds like what i do everytime.....

GET A LINELOCK lol for 100 bucks or whatever it was youll save 300.00 worth of brake pads in the months and years to come!

and if you have a M6 you could do 4th gear burnouts :eek2:

http://thumbs.vidiac.com/cf3debe9-a56b-4dd5-913b-2fb59578825d.jpg (http://videos.streetfire.net/video/cf3debe9-a56b-4dd5-913b-2fb59578825d.htm)Click here to see Video (http://videos.streetfire.net/video/cf3debe9-a56b-4dd5-913b-2fb59578825d.htm)

Badass Burnout!!!!

^^^ thats one hell of a burn out you did in that video :eek2:

Agreed :devil:

I've got an A4 and i usually

1. hold the brakes just enough to stop the car from rolling forward
2. start the burnout about 3/4 throttle
3. hold throttle and brakes for a second or two
4. release brakes and floor it
5. lift off throttle when needed

I've had no noticeable drivetrain/brake damage from doing this

I use my line lock in either car these days. Also, doing burnouts can cause unecessary wear and tear.

Get a hurst roll control or the slp line lock that will help u out alot! :smokin: There only about $130 :)

I don't do burnouts on street tires. Pointless and a waste of money. Only time I'd do it is for a camera when I am getting the last bit of tread off them before I get a new set. Just haze them really quick to clean them off. Spin = not going down the road fast enough.

GET A LINELOCK lol for 100 bucks or whatever it was youll save 300.00 worth of brake pads in the months and years to come!

and if you have a M6 you could do 4th gear burnouts :eek2:

http://thumbs.vidiac.com/cf3debe9-a56b-4dd5-913b-2fb59578825d.jpg (http://videos.streetfire.net/video/cf3debe9-a56b-4dd5-913b-2fb59578825d.htm)Click here to see Video (http://videos.streetfire.net/video/cf3debe9-a56b-4dd5-913b-2fb59578825d.htm)

Dude that is a ridiculously good burnout...right through 4th gear...holy shit :hail:

when i saw the title of this i thought it was gonna be something like "i have a manual and i tried to do a burnout, i saw smoke so i kept going buy i noticed it wasnt coming from my tires.. uh oh bye bye clutch"

btw 98tadriver... holy shit man nice burnout

I use my line lock in either car these days. Also, doing burnouts can cause unecessary wear and tear.
excatly my point, why put all the stress on ur tranny and clutch, just get a line lock and save ur car the unnecessary wear and tear, IMO

with an M6 its a good feeling when burning out.

blip the gas, pop the clutch, and hit the brake as your gassing.

it feels like a kick in the ass when the clutch is popped, and a punch in the face when hitting the brakes.


lol that might be the best analogy i have heard in a while i think its going to go in the sig

with an M6 its a good feeling when burning out.

blip the gas, pop the clutch, and hit the brake as your gassing.

it feels like a kick in the ass when the clutch is popped, and a punch in the face when hitting the brakes.
And a knee to the crotch when the rear end goes boom :jest:

hahaha i just saw this thread from several months back! thanks for the comments fellas! lol. and by the way, Revelation Z28, the reason the rear of my car was bouncing around was due to the different suspension setup that i tried for a little while. any time i would get on the gas, the suspension would plant the rear and since the pavement has no give, it feeds back and the body lifts up some. look on streetfire.net and search 98tadriver, youll see some more videos of that. since then i installed a 12 bolt with the regular f-body suspension. and it doesnt do that anymore
and no, you wouldnt be able to shift normally, because the tires would grab.

[QUOTE=98TADRIVER;6123255]GET A LINELOCK lol for 100 bucks or whatever it was youll save 300.00 worth of brake pads in the months and years to come!

and if you have a M6 you could do 4th gear burnouts :eek2:

Good! Must be my imagination, but I swear I could smell the rubber burning.:chug:

As has been said several times already, invest in a line-lock kit. You're gonna fry your rear brakes doing it the way you are. I really don't like doing burnouts because they are really hard on everything. Tranny (A4), brakes and tires all take a beating

With the added torque and hp of a cam, needing a linelock for my car has become less of a concern, I've been able to to hold a burn out from the water box to the staging lights for roughly 15 seconds starting DRY!

That was with Nitto 315 wide tires...

during that time I can tap the brakes ever so lightly if I want to decrease distance, or I can start it wet and get it going for as long as 25 seconds... once I get gears in, I'll be doing 2nd gear burn outs instead to get more speed out of the tires. These days it's become more of a challenge NOT to spin the tires off the line.

Does anyone know the feeling you get after you do a burnout or race somebody. I get this weird feeling every time i'm hard on my car, it's hard to explain....maybe someone else has felt it. LoL. Maybe i'm just weird.

You're just weird:D

Does anyone know the feeling you get after you do a burnout or race somebody. I get this weird feeling every time i'm hard on my car, it's hard to explain....maybe someone else has felt it. LoL. Maybe i'm just weird.

I wish i didn't care about my damn car so much, i could sleep next to it. And i wish i would win the lottery every dollar would go into it. Hehe, ok maybe only 50,000.

im JK bro, i used to be that way. but i guess the thrill of whooping some ass, or doing a burnout just over comes it. besides if something breaks, fuck it, UPGRADE. LOL:nod:

LoL, it sucks that it's winter. I have been reading so much on this site, i'm just overwhelmed with everything i don't even know what to do with myself. I just want everything and want it now. Haha. Next year i'm doing the LS6 intake headers off road Y, and a true dual setup and throttle body. That should really wake up this beast.....

oh yeah, i also need to lower it and get the SS hood and spoiler... i'm looking at about 2500$ worth of stuff.

Linelock FTMFW!

that was the sickest burnout ive ever seen.

man, I thought i got some nice smoke on mine the time i was being hard on it but crap it looked like a factory's chimney was under the bridge.

Ice baby ice

Does anyone know the feeling you get after you do a burnout or race somebody. I get this weird feeling every time i'm hard on my car, it's hard to explain....maybe someone else has felt it. LoL. Maybe i'm just weird.

AKA - Adrenaline rush.

Happens at first, the more you get use to 100+ MPH speeds, racing, and burning out, it doesn't provide the same feeling, but still fun.

When I first got my LT1 a long time ago after a race my hands or feet would be shaking from the adrenaline. Happened slightly when I first got my LS1 because its quite a bit faster, but now it all is just procedure. The only time I get any feeling anymore is if its REALLY close and I win or lose by a fender or door or something.

Its cool, all normal feelings.