does anyone know how to do awesome driving tricks, such as like doing burnouts, doughnuts, and 180 turns, etc. in either automatic or manual transmissions, please be specific when giving instructions or tips, thank you.
Several easy burnouts. Put car in neutral, floor gas, put into drive (very bad for transmission, don’t do it). If the car has enough power, just floor it. Or hold down the brake, put gas to floor and let go of brake. This is different for every car, if you have front wheel drive, you have to experiment with how fast you let off the brake, but it might not work at all. If it’s rear wheel drive, then the tires will be spinning before you let of the brake. OR (again with rear wheel) find a wet area (or pour some bleach in the road) and have a friend pull up on your rear bumper and then hit the gas, when your friend let’s go you can screech away. As a side note on the last one, I have a friend who has a picture of himself doing a burnout, but the funny thing is, the camera guy held the bumper and once the tires were spinning, he ran 20 feet away to take the picture and the car was still sitting in the same place with the wheels spinning.
J-turns are pretty easy. As you’re driving along (but not too fast - I wouldn’t try this at anything greater than 40 MPH or so, and that’s in a small car with a low center of gravity), put it in neutral, turn the wheel 90 degrees as you yank on the emergency brake. As you’re spinning, release the brake, shift back into drive, and when you’re facing in the direction from which you came, start accelerating again. I recommend practicing in snowy, empty parking lot.
Some people say these activities are best performed in a front-wheel drive car. Most oldtimers insist that they are best done in a rear-wheel drive car. I recommend a rental car.
I thumbed through The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook in a bookstore the other day, and they did have advice for some of what you ask about. The table of contents lists “how to ram a car”, “how to jump from a moving car”, and “how to perform a fast 180 degree turn in a car”, among other things.
The book has a website with some of the book’s scenarios (which is being temperamental at the moment), and they’re also making a TV series based on the book. Sounds pretty cool, pretty much wall to wall stunts, judging by the ads.
Very impressive when done in a limo.
Remember that the objective is to conserve some of your rearward (and then forward) momentum. You have to be quick to get it to look right.
Joey P: Why bleach?
Telemark: Good advice. Ever seen the Camp Kill Yourself movies? They had a bit too much fun with their rental vehicles.
I don’t know, I just remember my dad telling me a very long time ago how to do a “bleach burnout.” I think bleach does something strange to car tires. In fact, my friend was telling me a story about her dad when he was a kid involving bleach and tires. They somehow found out that if a car is stuck in the snow (in a parking spot), ie plowed in. You can pour bleach on the tires and the car seems to be able to get enough traction to get out. One day when they (her dad and his friends) were in high school and it had just snowed, they went and bought a bottle of bleach and charged people $5 to get their cars out. All they did was take the $5 pour bleach on the driving tires and tell the person to hit the gas. I guess they made about $100 that day. Don’t know why it works, never tried it myself, but I guess it works.
CKY ha ha ha! AM/Fm stereo my ass!
Another fun one is for front wheel drive cars. Put the emergency/parking brake on. Then smash the gas. If you have enough torque, the rear wheels wil stay locked with the brake, and the fronts will burn until you pop them.
Uhh, isn’t that what a burnout is anyway? Maybe it’s a translation thing.
Manual stuff here, I’ve no idea whether these would work in an automatic.
Handbrake turn - drive forwards at about 20-30 mph (too quick and you’ll roll it), put a bit of lock on, pull up handbrake (Emergency brake?), and round you go! for best effects, as you’re spinning whack the car in second and nail the accelerator as you pull up the brake (muchos smoke!)
Doughnut - get a powerful rear-wheel drice car, put full lock on when almost stationary, and floor the axccelerator (make sure there’s quite a few revs on before you bring the clutch up)
You can get flames from the tires.
Maybe that was it, now that I think about it, I was told, that you pour bleach on the road, have your friend hold up the rear end, and then punch the gas and hold it until theres a big cloud of smoke, then let go. (I can’t imagine it’s good for your body to sit in the middle of a cloud of burning bleach smoke though)
One that a college roommate taught me was for a front-wheel drive car: acquire 2 plastic trays like the kind they serve food on at McDonalds (and do it in a legal manner of course), then find a nice smooth, flat parking lot. Put one tray on the ground, face up, behind each of the rear wheels. Back the car up so the rear wheels are sitting on the trays. Lock the emergency brake and drive around in the parking lot.
You end up with the back end of the car sliding around like crazy, and eventually (actually, pretty quickly) you wear through the trays. You get better duration with a car that has a light rear end, like a VW rabbit, and if the ground is wet. Also, you can stack 2 or 3 trays under each wheel to make it last longer. The type of asphalt you do it on makes a big difference too.
All bleach does is clean the tires, nothing more. For years it was used for burnouts in drag racing till it was discovered that in all the smoke was large amounts of chlorine. Chlorine can do nasty stuff to your respetory system. Now days a combination of 95% water and 5% VHT traction compound is used for burnouts.
“How to Drive Fast on Drugs, While Getting Your Wing-Wang Squeezed and Not Spill Your Drink” P.J O’Rourke
I still have MY copy!! It is the definitive guide to how to drive fast on drugs while getting your wing-wang squeezed…etc, etc.