Camaro SS Does Burnout Until the Brakes Catch on Fire
Everyone loves burnouts, but this Camaro SS owner shows us all the importance of using a line lock, versus doing a brake stand.
Hey, you know what’s awesome? Burnouts. While not as good as full-on drifting, burnouts are a very satisfying automotive experience. The simple and pure joy of incinerating your tires as rubber bits go flying is hard to match, like this Instagram video, from user 5thgearandup, shows.
However, there can be downsides to doing gnarly burnouts. Specifically, if you’re doing a brake stand, versus using a line lock. If you’re unsure of the differences, it’s rather simple. A brake stand is exactly what it sounds like: you stand on the brakes and apply throttle at the same time. Eventually, the car will overpower the weaker rear brakes, and get those tires spinning. A line lock a system is devised for drag racing wherein you can individually “lock” brake lines, usually to the front wheels, only, to allow a nice, toasty burnout.
Both are effective, but doing brake stands is, unsurprisingly, really hard on your brakes, like this sixth-gen Camaro SS owner finds out the hard way. At first, everything is going great. We can see through those fifth-gen Z/28 wheels that this Camaro SS is doing a fine job of punishing it’s tires. Eventually, however, it also punishes it’s brakes, a little too hard, causing them to catch fire. Fortunately, it’s a small fire, likely because of some hot, burnt rubber making contact with some hot, burnt up brakes, but still, this could have gotten ugly, and fast.
Still, for now, enjoy this hectic burnout, and remember everyone, burn rubber safely.
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