So if you watch a lot of car TV, you'll see it's very common to take a new acquisition and do a massive burn out before starting to restore/work on it. So my question is this. I assume they have not put line locks in on these cars because it's money spent for nothing. Are they just brake torking until the engine power over comes the rear brakes? Is that it or is there something else going on?
Pretty much. Power brake till the rear wheels start to spin. Once they're spinning, it doesn't take much to keep them going till the tires pop
Hmm, I get that but sometimes they weren't that powerful from the factory and on top of that the motors are tired. That being said I think I need to experiment. I will let you guys know what I find.
Sometimes its a peg leg brake stand burn out. A kid in my High School had a 71 T-bird. 429 motor but it was tired like you said. He did the long peg leg burnouts and come to find out later on that he disconnected the brake line at that one rear cylinder. Not sure how he capped it off. Why he didn't just back off the shoes as much as he could I don't know? Could of been he tried and still couldn't spin the tire?
It's also the car show play book- Buy project car Do donuts and burnouts Take car apart and throw take off parts on a pile Order a bunch of new parts Manufacture fake deadlines and drama Bolt said parts on car "Fab up" some stuff Unveil "restored" car and claim it was done in a weeks time
Put grease on the shoes and drums I had a ‘79 LeSabre winter beater with the wimpy 301 Pontiac, that thing would one wheel peel half a neighborhood block Come to find out the axle seal was leaking on that side, we were drunk, it was funny
Reminds me of that show "Car Fix". It's a half hour infomercial on the latest crap offered. Anyone remember the original Shadetree Mechanic with Sam Mellomo and that tall doofy looking guy? THAT was a show. They fixed real world issues on daily drivers. They got into actual repair procedures, how to test and diagnose. Knowledge you can apply to the car sitting in your driveway
Stopped watching after it morphed into a 30 minute infomercial. The tall dude was Dave something or other.
Anything can do a burnout....we proved that at the Holidome 40 years ago...even if it takes 3 people standing on the rear bumper of a FWD 4cyl Dodge Aries station wagon.
Now if you all would watch and subscribe to jeffreyriggeds youtube you would get real stuff not a commercial full of crap............:laugh:
A Datsun B 210 can do a burnout * husky guys lift the back and there you go It is smelly Alain platinum 442 4spd A/C
