I saw a Mustang in line at a stoplight a while back do a rather extensive burnout, but he didn’t go anywhere. I’ve seen others do this too, but not so up-close. How do they do this? Are the brakes on the drive wheels disconnected?
On a front wheel drive car that would be pretty stupid, because rear brakes are comparatively non existant.
Why don’t girls do burnouts? Sissies? 
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When you say ‘burnout’, what exactly is that?
Whatever it is, the reason girls don’t do it is evolutionary… with most animal species, males display and females choose their mate from all those on parade. Thus, women don’t feel the need to show off their strength and loudness (or that of their cars), while for men there’s a deep-seated biological thrill in roaring and scraping the ground.
Burnout = spin the drive tires so they smoke and make lotsa noise. Very sexy. Guys do it on motorcycles, too.
As far as I know, you need a rear-wheel drive car with a manual transmission to do it right.
I believe they do it by punching the gas and dropping the clutch. The front breaks aren’t that important–if the drive wheels are spinning then they’re not getting traction, which means they aren’t pushing the car forward.
You see teenage men do this because they like to spend the money from their McJob on clutches and tires. 
Aah, okay. Thought it was something like that. Yeah, I never thought it was sexy, because it just reminds me of rams butting horns or peacocks trying to find out whose tail fan is bigger. Girls who watch Discovery Channel are hard to please.
Well, the tires are releasing energy in the form of squeals and heat and smoke and the tread left on the pavement… there is definitely friction occuring, which means the wheels are pushing against the pavement… which means there MUST be something opposing acceleration, like brakes. Can the inertia of the vehicle be THAT great, to keep it from moving at all without brakes?
ObDisclaimer: I’m no automotive expert; speculation follows. Would love to hear from someone who is
It’s not just inertia, it’s also all the friction, rolling resistence, etc. in the front half of the car. Ever tried to push a car, even in neutral? The few times I’ve had to, it took a good grunt to actually get the thing rolling–it’s not a matter of the rear wheels providing no forward force, it’s a matter of them providing little forward force.
And, to set aside the physics, how would you apply the brakes while reving the engine and dropping the clutch? Seems like you’d need 3 feet to do it (I think that the emergency break only applies to the rear wheels).
A Line-Loc is helpful: http://www.modernmusclemotorsports.com/tcisslinrolc.html
But a powerful engine, a manual transmission, a good clutch and a low gear ratio will do the job too. A puddle of water is also helpful to get the tires spinning. Check your weekend TV listings for NHRA or IHRA events next spring.
There is a legitimate purpose for burnouts in drag racing. They heat up and scrub the tires clean for maximum traction at launch. They’re not just crowd pleasers. 男生为什么喜欢放屁眼里,未发育成熟的学生在线视频,成人片免费无码播放,暖暖 免费 视频 在线
How to do a streetlight burnout (a dragstrip burnout is different, in form and function) ;
Auto Trans - Hit the gas with your right foot while slowly feathering off the brakes with your left foot. The front brakes are stronger than the rear and will hold harder with less pressure on the pedal so the rear tire(s) will start spinning against the resistance of the front brakes. Down here it’s called “powerbraking”.
Manual Trans - Put the heal of your right foot on the brake pedal and the toe on the gas. Hit the gas with your toe while feathering out on the clutch with your left foot and slowly releasing pressure on the brakes with your right heel.
Results for both versions?..Acrid smoke and mega noise.
These methods will make just about any car or truck burnout, no matter the power in the engine. But, if you have enough power in your vehicle, just hitting the gas will make your tires spin but, alas, you generally try to avoid this.
Well, having done one or two burnouts in my mis-spent youth I can say that I never held the brake.
What happens is the spinning tires eventually overcome the stationary mass of the car.
Putting water on the ground helps because the tires start hydroplaning - specifically they start “reverted rubber hydroplaning”. The rubber of the tires is heated to a point where it reverts to it’s denatured state. At the same time the heat generated causes a thin film of steam to form which holds the tires above the road. Traction is reduced to almost nil.
Once the burnout is over the tires are MUCH hotter and have much better traction. This is why drag racers do a burnout and why NASCAR racers continually swerve on caution laps. In the cost-is-no-object world of Formula 1 they have electric tire heaters to keep tires warm in the pits.
Thus your recipe for a great burnout: manual transmission, cold tires and a little water.
I’ve done a burnout or two as well. My brother had a Mustang LX 5.0 with an automatic, so it was hard to resist. But I can say that I am one who did use the brakes. Works exactly like zabrain said. 
IIRC, the rear brakes on the Mustang were drum brakes which were easy to overpower, while the fronts were disc and held the car in place.
Aha! Partial braking sounds like the answer.
And the clue was right there in front of me, in the statement I made about the relative weakness of the rear brakes. :smack:
We used to do as zabrain said for drag racing, but we called it a “powerstand”. Close 'nuff.
Thanks, motorheads.