In a burnout, your car's wheels will spin at a high frequency, causing a lot of smoke. The car will remain static until you release the clutch, allowing the car to jump forward in motion. Burnout begins in drag racing, where tires must be heated to obtain optimal traction on the racing surface. Plus it looks cool. Unfortunately, you can't burn out an old car, but if you want to get rid of that expensive layer of rubber to achieve satisfaction without any dynamic meaning, it can be done. See Step 1 for more information.
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Method 1 of 2: Performing a Basic Burnout
Step 1. Make sure you have the right type of car
To burnout, you need a car with a lot of horsepower, usually more than a 4 cylinder engine, and a manual transmission. For best effect, road tires are also desirable, which have a smoother surface that will produce more smoke.
You can't burnout, peel-out, or donut with an automatic transmission car. If you don't drive a manual car and try to burn out, you will destroy the transmission and kill your car
Step 2. Put the car into first gear
Fully depress the clutch and start to tighten the engine. You shouldn't start moving, as long as you keep the clutch on. Bring your RPM up so the tires will get hot when you start to release them.
Step 3. Lock the handbrake
Once you release the clutch, your wheels will spin very fast, so you can release the clutch to accelerate and do a peel-out or you can keep the handbrake or parking brake locked to spin your wheel and blow smoke, burnout.
Step 4. Remove the clutch
When you fully release the clutch, the wheels should start turning very fast, producing burnout smoke. To stop burnout release the accelerator and release the brakes.
Method 2 of 2: Trying Style
Step 1. Try a peel-out
Peel-out is the better brother of burnout, and occurs when the driver turns the wheel on the road before moving. Peel-outs are much easier and less harmful to your car than burnouts, and even happen accidentally at a red light when you step on the gas too hard. To perform a peel-out:
Press the clutch with the car gear in place. Fasten the engine high and release the clutch suddenly to perform a peel-out
Step 2. Do the donuts
Donuts are circular burnouts. To do the donuts, find a large open area with no other cars, lamp posts or other objects that you can hit. It will be easy to lose control of the car when doing donuts. Start riding in small circles and then hit the accelerator so hard that the rear wheels start to lose traction, keeping the wheels in the same position as the donut spins.
Step 3. Try a burnout rollback
Rollback is the same as burnout, but done on a hill. This is a good way to get burnout on an underpowered car because the backward movement helps with traction after combustion.
Find the hill and put first gear on the car. Press the clutch. Let the car move backwards slightly down the hill, then start giving the car a lot of gas. Finally, "release" the clutch to jump to first and take off
Step 4. Use a line locker
A line locker is a device that modifies a car so that the brake pedal only applies the front brake. The line lock is a solenoid (a fancy name for the button) that gives you some extra buttons in the driver's seat to control your brakes. To perform a burnout by installing a line locker:
- To use the line locker, step on the brake and press the line lock button. When you release the brake pedal, you will leave your front brake on but release your rear brake, leaving the wheel free to spin, burn and smoke. Release the line lock button to release the front brake and move forward.
- Like burnout, these tools are almost always illegal and quite dangerous.
Tips
- See where you're headed so you don't bump into someone or something.
- If the engine doesn't start you haven't tightened the car high enough before releasing the clutch, or your vehicle doesn't have the energy to burn out.
- Check how much footprint your tires have beforehand, so you don't explode as the burnout will actually burn a fair amount of rubber from your tires.
- An alternative to line lock is "Brake clamp". Designed to clamp the brake line while in operation, it can also be used to turn off the rear brake thereby allowing only the front brake to operate when the pedal is depressed. Note: most cars have metal brakes from the brake plunger to the rear of the car, the area to place the brake clamp is the short rubber hose attached to the Differential. (Some cars have two separate brake lines, one for each side, for which two brake clamps are required.
- Try changing your tires. The uglier your tires are, the easier it is to make them spin, plus tires make smoke easier and you won't damage your good tires.
- You may cause one of your drive shafts or axles to be damaged if you attempt a burnout.
- Increase the amount of smoke by smearing your tires with old motor oil.
- Oil can help give tires a quick, powerful spin before pulling the emergency brake (front-wheel vehicles only).
- Holding the brakes while accelerating is not bad for your brakes, it's bad for your engine.
Warning
- Again, burnout is illegal and you'll get traffic violations or worse penalties almost everywhere.
- never ever try to remove the transmission in an automatic car by starting the engine in neutral and holding it into gear. This can easily damage your gearbox or drive shaft causing very expensive repair costs.
