[EagleAutosports]

John Force style burnouts are best done by... John Force and 8000 hp. Doing burnouts must be done properly or you'll get pathetic tire life and/or no traction.

Boiling the tires does ZERO for traction. Overheating the tires brings the oils and resins in the rubber to the tread surface, making them slippery rather than sticky. A proper burnout is meant to clean the racing surface and put a little heat in them... not sit there a 1:30 and killing your tires. Unless he was just wanting to put on a burnout contest, he's someone who knows NOTHING about real racing.

Oh yeah, while we're talking street tires... dropping tire pressure on radials also kills your traction. Radials are meant to perform at the prescribed pressure (32-35 psi). Dropping pressure on radials causes the middle of the tread to rise off the surface, thereby causing you to have two thin rubber strips rather than the full tread surface. This is with street radials, they're not bias ply tires that expand when the pressure is lowered. In other words, DON'T lower tire pressure on street radials.

Drag radials are constructed to act like bias ply while giving the strength of steel belted radials.

[steelers1377]

reg...whats with everyone calling you out..this is like the second time in a week now...


but anyways...one thing i did disagree with is...

i actually noticed a huge difference when i did a burn-out in my street tires.. they are nittos 455s...which are street tires... they hooked 10x better when i did a burn-out. but maybe that was just in my case.

[RLG34750]

Originally Posted by steelers1377

reg...whats with everyone calling you out..this is like the second time in a week now...


but anyways...one thing i did disagree with is...

i actually noticed a huge difference when i did a burn-out in my street tires.. they are nittos 455s...which are street tires... they hooked 10x better when i did a burn-out. but maybe that was just in my case.

with regard to calling me out

forgive give them for they know not what they do.....

nitto's IMO are strange that way.......

i say if it works do it just don't drive though the water box.....

Clean them ......

get some heat in them

stage

hit the loud pedal......

but with "most" street compounds the john force burnouts are just not needed.....

[EagleAutosports]

Nope, John Force style isn't needed. The length of time street tires need? Just long enough to have them smoke over, that's all. No dry hops either, your best launch will be right after the burnout... don't waste it hopping to the line.

[goatgetta]

Originally Posted by saber1971

What is everybody laughing at the guy for doing a burnout. ive been bracketracing in street class for years and damn near everyone in street class does burnouts on street tires. you drive through the pits and pick up debris on your tires then you go through the water.

rlg is right on this one. (and many others)

[dtuna42]

Maybe he just wants to feel like a pro for a couple minutes! I really don't care when people waste their tires - I am much more bothered when people take cars down the track that you know are barely able to keep the fluids in on a regular drive and they race it anyway and wet the track all the way down.....