Why you do a burnout

"Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire" (arch-duke-maxyenko) 04/21/2014 at 13:22 • Filed to: burnouts

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A lot of people a curious about the !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! Yes it locks your front breaks which allows you to do wicked sweet burnouts at the local Dairy Queen/Cars & Coffee. But why do drag racers do them?

In the video above, you see the incredible John Force doing one of his world famous burnouts. And as you can tell, his "Mustang" doesn't stay stationary, but rather it goes down the track a significant distance. What he is doing is using his 10,000 horse power to spin the tires until they melt. This, like all burnouts, heats up and cleans debris off the tires. But, unlike your stationary burnout, by going down the track, Mr. Force is putting down a layer of rubber on the surface. This greatly increases the coefficient of friction of the track. When you increase the coefficient of friction, you increase the amount of grip. Rubber on tarmac is grippy, but rubber on rubber is even more so. This gives him an advantage off the line, lowering his time by allowing him to accelerate more rapidly.

mpa-burner > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire 04/21/2014 at 13:39

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A fun part of the burnout is the rollout. Usually the only time you see someone stay stationary is because they don't know what they're doing, or they just care about tire smoke.

In the video below, you see the infamous MPA doing one of his world famous 3-pedal shuffle burnouts. Because his friend said if he didn't, he's a pussy.

Jayhawk Jake > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire 04/21/2014 at 13:40

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Interesting.

Of course none of that matters. The majority of people who will use the line lock system will just do it to impress girls.

Chuck 2(O=[][]=O)2 > mpa-burner 04/21/2014 at 13:50

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Oh, now I know you are not a pussy.

Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire > Jayhawk Jake 04/21/2014 at 13:51

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None of whom will care.

Jayhawk Jake > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire 04/21/2014 at 13:55

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Regular Cars summed it up pretty well in the infamous Miata video: the only people a car like the Mustang will attract are other car guys.

Jayhawk Jake > mpa-burner 04/21/2014 at 13:56

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Is that the stock exhaust, or no?

Sounds glorious!

mpa-burner > Jayhawk Jake 04/21/2014 at 14:01

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It has a SLP Loud Mouth II cat back. the 1 is louder

Ntovorni > mpa-burner 04/21/2014 at 15:02

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mmmm My old 02 camaro z28 had the SLP loudmouth 1, and long tube headers. the sounds were glorious

tromoly > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire 04/21/2014 at 16:36

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The problem is most people see the line lock and think it's for burnouts, when in reality it's actually so that when drag racing the driver can use their hands to hold the line lock instead of holding the brake pedal with their feet, leaving them free to operate the throttle and clutch for maximum launch control.

That is, unless Ford designed it to use the brake pedal to activate the line lock (couldn't quite tell from the article), then it's just stupid.

Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire > tromoly 04/21/2014 at 16:39

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They said nothing as to how to use it.

TheD0k_2many toys 2little time > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire 04/21/2014 at 21:55

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In drag racing line locks are used to lock the front wheels until the rears start spinning then either the driver releases it or it slowly releases the pressure to continue in the rolling burnout

Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire > TheD0k_2many toys 2little time 04/21/2014 at 21:59

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Yes, as I stated, but a lot of people will only use the Mustang's line lock for show off burnouts.

TheD0k_2many toys 2little time > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire 04/21/2014 at 22:00

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Yes unfortunately. But it does save all that wear on your rear brakes when you do wanna roast the tires :)

Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire > TheD0k_2many toys 2little time 04/21/2014 at 22:01

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Then you lay stripes like a man and don't use the line lock.