lol, not all of us are even lucky enough to think about a 455(yes, that means me at the moment), but the 231 still hauls the boat from a dead stop up to speed pretty good for 105 horses:laugh:
if you have a fairly well built 455... well or at least a healthy one... a simple mashing the gas will smoke some tires pretty good ... my friends are always impressed when i brake em loose at 15mph and she gets a little sideways hehe... weeeee
Same for me Kyle, I still get a laugh when I scare the wife when I stand on it with out warning, The problem is the way it runs now it scares me sometimes !!! I only have 275 60 15 street tires, and they are fleetfarm widetrack so no soft compound, so forget about nailing it from a dead stop, on some of the more slippery roads even rolling at about 20mph in second and mashing it I still end up all over the road. 3800 stall and 4.10 gears and hard back tires with enough power to go 11:30s is not a good combination. I don't think I could stay with a 13 second car on the street from a dead stop. As far as burnouts, I can just stop and hit the linelock and dig holes in the road if I want but makes a mess out of the quarter panels lol. I can't hardly think what a 10 second street car would be like!! I have a great burnout picture from the races but I am not good enough with computers to know how to post it on here, every time I try to post a picture it says its to big. Tom
Words to live or die by! Don't forget to clean the quarters, wheel wells, the back side fo the bumper, the tail pipes.. it all gets a lil messy down there!
Got a slug? Hey, for some real fun start out with the drive wheel rolled up onto a banana peel. This works, even if you drive a Yugo.
You could try tray sliding as well if you have a front wheel drive. (Get trays under the rear tires, e-brake on, turn wheel to lock, floor it.) I've got a video of this, it's pretty funny.
positraction The sad thing is some kid with a classic buick is going to try one of these step by step procedures and total his car and another due to positraction. Happened to a friend of my brothers... their went a 69 charger and a 67 camaro. PRACTICE IN PARKING LOT:Smarty:
Thanks for all the replies guys! I tried it a few times in the silverado and I only got it to work once, and left my first 3 foot patch of black pavement!, YAY!, lol, it was only with one wheel though, I'll post a picture of it when I get to the place I did it at. I was suprised that a Silverado (1500) RWD can barely sqeel the tires, even on a slight plane, its probably the rev limiter or sumthing. How do you do a line lock? Slawek
A line lock is a seperate thing (to buy) that locks the front brakes (wheels) when you press the button. The one wheel burnout will happen if you don't have a positraction device (which sadly, alot of trucks and cars don't have unless they're "performance oriented"). You could always take a jug of water and get the road and the tire wet. The water will help you lose the traction and will burn off when it starts heating up.
woohoo This Thread is kinda old, but today I officially did my first burnout, twice.(in the buick) :3gears: They weren't long, but I know I could of gone forever. I had to do a brake torque, because I was in a parking lot with a bunch of highschool kids leaving. One part I liked was a kid that thinks that his Celica could beat my buick saw it.I can't wait what he's gona say on monday. Before I changed my carb,the car was weak and I couldn't do much, Its fun now! I NEED A POSI! Slawek
my god..... I've never read this thread until now. When I was 8, I was practicing clutch dumps in my moms Fiat. not running of course. :spank: :spank: Burnouts are probably the one thing that cmae natural to me. Reminds me of the time I snaked the old mans '83 Delta 88 when I was 15. I remeber my thought " V8, rear wheel drive, this oughta be fun!!!" long story short, the 307 let me down... :ball: :ball: :ball: :3gears:
After reading all of this, I don't think my kids will EVER drive ANYTHING I own!!! When I started driving, I had my own car and my own insurance policy. I never wrecked like most of my friends were BUT I did break my car quite a bit. Just to let you know before you break your dads new Silverado, here are a couple of the things I broke when I was young! 1971 VW beetle, blew the spider gears out once and broke the wishbone part of the rear frame once. Chevy Chevette, blew the spider gears out. 1970 Ford Maverick, +500" lift solid cammed 289 with a top loader 4 speed, Absoluted destroyed the rear axle as in broke BOTH carrier bearing straps and threw the internals into the housing so hard it looked like jiffy-pop about to pop! 1981 Chevy stepside, 350 th350 with shift kit, bent the driveshaft once and completely threw it out of the truck another time when it hit second gear. NOW, all of the above were owned by me except the Chevette and they had a problem with soft washers behind the diff spider gears..........not that I didn't beat it a little bit!!! My advise to keep the peace at how is to ONLY beat on what you own!!! Ken
same here, got my second car at 16 it was a 70 buick skylark 4-door straight 6, 3 on the tree, well was driving by my self one day came to a hill nobody around..............hmmm still in first gear, push the clutch in, drift back, throw it two revs then bring the r's up and let the clutch out, hammer down (pedal to the floor) hehehe, that was pretty fun, okay lets try something else, do the same thing, but as brought the r's up and let the clutch out, i quickly took my foot from the clutch to the brake>>>>look out were getting the smoke rollin now, then i think i did it a couple more times infront of a crowd to show off
oh almost forgot, then after mastering all that, i started flat shifting (pedal to the metal, shift from 1st to 2nd, let the clutch fly) that's cool too, but i couldn't get anything from 2nd to 3rd but with the buick im buildin now i should be able to get all four gears :3gears: <<<<< :eek2: plus one
I think the best one I ever did was in my GS 350. The car was in pre-bodywork condition and I finally let out of it when the interior was full of smoke. Seems the smoke was filling the trunk and coming through the empty speaker holes in the back deck :TU: The best I has seen was a friend of mine on the last day of highschool. Had a four speed 69 Chevelle and did it right in front of the school doors! He was going to FILL the lobby with smoke but got half way there and the battery that wasn't held down fell into the fan and the car quit!! He got it pushed into a parking space and never did get in trouble for it. Wasn't that good a burnout but the story behind it is just funny! Man I miss the old days! Ken
I don't do it in the silverado, that car is weak! I only tried it once. Same think happend here. It might sound like I'm a crazy kid, but I don't fool around that much in my Buick. I don't do anything on turns because I would probably lose control because I don't have enough driving experience, occasionaly i'll peel out (on strightaway's).
haha i remember this thread! ive since gotten a skylark, did a HUGE burnout with it, and sold it... heres the coolest pic. Oh yeah, stock TIRED 350-2 with a 2:56 peg leg rear in it!
I was never able to do a burnout untill I was 24 (I owned an 84 Merc Topaz till then). I bought a 91 Crown Vic Interceptor off of the Post Office in Pgh. Real nice car. It had plush cloth interior and was loaded, except no power locks? Otherwise optioned like a Police car but driven by the postal inspectors. It had 58,000 miles on the 351W 2bbl and a 2.73 posi. My most memorable burnout was one winter outside of Clarion, PA (very rural) my cousin and me got the bright idea of doing a burnout on the new concrete bridge on a backroad (cause that's what we do in the country, besides drink and shoot things). I had my studded winter tires on. I first started doing a burnout with my cousin in the car and heard this cool sound. So my cousin jumped out while I was in progress. He yelled faster, so I pinned it. The speedo was reading 70 or close to it, as I held in 2nd gear. He said he saw that the sparks were curling around up into the wheel wells thru the smoke. He jumped in so I could see, but couldn't replicate it. I was bummed about that.
I'm thinking of leaving some marks in front of my driveway. :bglasses: :3gears: We have no cops here because we live in the unincorporated area. I've lived here for 2 years and have only seen 1 cop. Can you do donuts in our old buick's?. ( don't worry, I'm not going to try, unless its wet :grin: ) Woudn't it be dangerous to do it with a stock suspension?
