How To Do A Burnout

by Jerzeyboi85 Mon Jan 21, 2008 1:31 am

Steps

Find out if you have a front wheel drive (FWD) or a rear wheel
drive (RWD) car.
Check your hand brake, also known in slang as an E-brake, is
functioning well.

Front Wheel Drive Cars

Put the car in first gear.
Hold in the clutch.
Rev. the engine.
Pull on the handbrake. Alternatively, you can skip this
step.
Release the clutch.
Move the handbrake up and down to control the burnout.
To stop the burnout ease off the accelerator and free the
brake.

Rear Wheel Drive Cars

Do a Basic RWD Burnout.
1. Lightly hold down the brake with your left foot.
2. Push the accelerator until the car moves forward a tiny
  bit.
3. At the same time floor the gas and press the brake harder.
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Manual Rear Wheel Drive Cars

1. Depress the clutch, and rev the engine.
2. In one quick motion, "dump" the clutch and press the brake
  pedal while flooring the gas.
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Use a line locker. A line locker is a device that modifies a
car so the brake pedal only engages the front brakes. This
dangerous and usually illegal device makes burnout on RWD cars
easier and more dramatic. A line lock is a solenoid (fancy name for
a switch) that gives you some extra buttons in the drivers seat to
control your brakes. To do a burn out with a line locker installed:
1. Step on the brakes.
2. Push the line lock button.
3. Release the line lock button leaving your front brakes on and
  disengaging your back brakes, leaving those wheel free to spin,
  burn and make smoke.
4. Push line lock again to release the front brakes and move
  forward.
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Do a donut. A doughnut (donut in the USA) is a circular
burnout. To do a donut in RWD cars:
1. Find a large open area with no other cars, lampposts or other
  things you can hit. It is easy to loose control of a car with a
  donut.
2. Begin driving in slow circles.
3. Hit the gas hard so that the rear tires begin to loose
  traction.
4. You will burn around in a circle.
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Rollbacks

A rollback is just like a burnout, but performed on a hill.
They are a good way to get a burnout in an underpowered car as the
backward movement helps with traction after the burn.
1. Find a hill.
2. Put the car in first.
3. Depress the clutch.
4. Let the car roll backwards down the hill.
5. Give the car plenty of gas.
6. Pop the clutch.
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Wheel Spins

A wheel spin occurs when the driver spins the wheels on the
road before moving. This is a lesser form of burnout, because the
intention is not to cause excessive tire wear, but merely to spin
the wheels. Wheel spins are far easier and less dangerous to your
car than a burnout. To perform the wheel spin:
1. Depress the clutch with the car in gear.
2. Rev the engine high while releasing the clutch.
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Tips

If the engine stalls you haven't revved the car high enough
before popping the clutch, or your vehicle doesn't have the power
to burnout.
To test if your car has enough power nail the gas from a
stopped position and see if you can spin the tires.
An alternative to a line lock is a "Brake Clamp". Designed to
clamp off a brake line when being worked on, these can also be used
to shut off the rear brakes thus allowing only the front brakes to
function when the pedal is depressed. Note: most cars have a steel
brake line from the brake booster to the rear of the car, the area
to put the brake clamp is a short length of rubber hose that
attached to the Differential. (some cars have two separate brake
lines, one for each side, in which case two brake clamps are
required.
Try changing your tires. The worse your tires are the easier it
is to make them spin, plus they smoke easier and you will not ruin
your good tires.
Increase the amount of smoke by lubing your drive tires with
old motor oil.
It can help to give the tires a quick powerful spin before
pulling the e-brake.

Warnings

Always wear a seatbelt, and not just for safety but for
acceleration.
Give any passengers the option to get out before you do
this.
Burnouts are illegal in almost all municipalities. In Australia
you can lose your car. In the USA, especially in California, there
are a large variety of infractions that you can be cited with by an
Officer for burning your car, all included under the Exhibition
of Speed laws including:
- Dry Reckless - California Vehicle Code§ 23103
- Wet Reckless
- Off street Parking — As defined in subdivision (c) of Section
  12500.
- Unsafe Turning Movement (U-Turn Burnout or Donut)
- Unsafe staring/backing of vehicle — California Vehicle Code§
  22106
- Disorderly conduct with a vehicle — California Vehicle Code
  §23103
- Unsafe Start
- and many more. Each of these infractions is a two pointer
  moving violation with no chance of correction by traffic
  school.
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NEVER try to "Pop" the
Transmission in an Automatic car! By revving the engine in neutral
and jamming it into gear your transmission box will probably fall
out onto the ground. An automatic can't handle the jamming into
gear thing like clutch cars.
You can easily destroy or seriously damage a car by doing any
of these things.
Holding the brakes while gassing the engine is not that bad for
your brakes; it is terrible for your engine however.
Watch where you're going so you don't hit someone.
Watch how much rubber is on your tires so you don't have a
blowout.
Check your tire pressure after each burnout.