Brakes during a burnout

[Otto]

When you're doing a burnout in a 2wd, when the brakes are applied, how bad is it for the rear brakes? Are they still enabled during the burnout? I accidentally drove around with my e-brake on yesterday and I noticed that when stopping and starting, there is a loud snap from the brakes but while cruising, would act like they wernt even engaged..ideas?

 

[martin]

Note to self, don't let you drive my truck. Oh! you might want to change your rear brakes as they are probably screwed by now.

 

[ForOffRoadDriving]

they either got really glazed/tempered from getting hot or some of your hardware may have popped loose. take off your drum and check it out, you might get lucky and just have to put some things back into place or even just scuff up the shoes' friction material and run some sand paper around the drum or have them cut.

 

[pillen140]

get it fixed asap though, a piece of my hardware broke about two weeks ago, anyway, a part of the adjuster broke the pin that holds the springs on and that got stuck between the backing plate and the drum, bent the backing plate.... thus me spending my day off at the junkyard.

 

[Otto]

Alright I'll check it out first thing tommorow, still every time I see a burnout, apart from the sweetness of it, all I can imagine is the brakles goin ouch lol How does the engine get the power to drive through the brakes when doing a brake stand??

 

[bbrown4.0]

Burnout

When doing a burnout in a RWD car/truck not equipped with a line lock you must ride the brakes or have some sort of device in play that holds the vehicle in place. One thing to remember is that the front breaks do the majority of you breaking not sure what the percentage is, but the front breaks do most of the stopping that is why you have disks in the front and drums in the rear. When doing a burnout you are overcoming the rear breaks. What I do is pop the clutch and then tap the breaks. I only apply enough break to hold the truck. Yes this does add extra wear to your breaks as well as you drivetrain, but you pay to play. It isn't hard for your truck to overcome the rear breaks since the truck is light in the rear and in the case of my 4.0 it has plenty of torque to shred tires at will. My best advice is if you are worried about your breaks then don't do a burnout aka "break stand." However, if you feel so inclined to impress the ladies then go for it and just remember that you will need to replace your breaks and tires that much sooner.

 

[Otto]

Oh indeed, 4.0's a great motor and suprisingly good on gas. Youre lucky to have a 5 speed too, they're pretty rare for the ext cab

btw are these your youtube videos? If so, I'm a fan lol

http://www.youtube.com/user/brandon8409

 

[tpking]

who ever is driving that yellow ranger in the video needs to grow up and quit endangering everyone else ..

 

[Jason]

who ever is driving that yellow ranger in the video needs to grow up and quit endangering everyone else ..

And come to the realization that it is not a race car. Or even fast for that matter.

 

[BigJohn76]

if you are going to do something like that, you should get line lock. it is only 110 dollars from jegs. its cheap and you can have a lot of fun.

the rear brakes in my ranger don't work so i can hit posi in a power brake which shows up the guys in the 5.0 mustangs and pisses them off.

the other truck is just a one wheel wonder, but it needs to be fixed anyway so i dont care.

 

[bbrown4.0]

No that is not my Ranger. My Ranger is a single cab and I did my burnout in a controlled enviroment at a show put on by the Automotive Society at my college. Here is my video, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2b5y9IYbTU&feature=channel_page the quality is kind of sub-par as it was taken on a cell phone. It was my first burnout and I was a little stupid for revving it so high. I don't really do that much now since I have new tires. Line lock is good, but is not recommend for abs, but I guess you could also wire up a switch to disengage the abs. I am also a member of the "one wheel peel" club for the time being. As for the Ranger not being a race car that is true, but they get out of their own way for a pickup truck. Mine has no problem beating V6 Mustangs red light to red light. I have legitimately raced my friends 4.0 2006 Tacoma and spanked him till about half way down the track when he started realing me in, but I still beat him. The 4.0's torquey motor will keep up with a lot of cars up until 60 or so before it starts to peter out. I am not a big fan of these parking lot drifting videos of this other Ranger because one bad move and there goes someone's pride and joy.

 

[Jim Oaks]

Why do people wet down the tires before they do a burnout? Anything could pull of a burnout in water. A moped can do a burn out in water.

Dual tire marks in a staright line on dry pavement in an approved area is impressive. No one-wheely-peely. Spinning the tires is cool, but can you keep them going and cover a respectable distance (Please don't go out in the street or a parking lot and try it).

I guess that's why I never like burnout contests at car shows. Sitting in one spot spinning wet tires doesn't impress me. Just makes a bunch of smoke and stinks/pollutes up the area.

Let's see a nice long burnout on a 1/4 mile track.

Anyone remember when John Force started doing those 1/2 track burnouts in his funny car and then have to back the thing back up the track?

 

[pocket-rocket]

A moped can do a burn out in water.

I don't need water to do one on my 94 Yamaha Jog. Just hold the front brake, lean the weight forward and gas it.

Anyone remember when John Force started doing those 1/2 track burnouts in his funny car and then have to back the thing back up the track?

There was a guy doing that at the local drag strip a couple years ago. Now I thought that was cool. His car looked like a huge engine and a box strapped to a tube chassis, almost nothing to it there. I think he ran about an 8 second flat run, beating the modded out Kawasaki crotch rocket that was running the fastest times of the night running 9's. That might have been the night I saw a purple Firebird gas it, pull the front tires up, let off, gas it, pull them up again, let off again, and lift them up just a little bit the third time he got back on the gas. I like the drag strip

 

[Defective]

Check your leaf springs, I've broke a couple doing burnouts in my old 2wd ranger.

 

[Toms01PSD]

I had a S10 with a 383 stroker in it. It would do burn outs about a 1/3 of the way down the track. That's why my times were so bad. Even after a good burnout it still wouldn't get traction.