I always wonder this too...why would you ever try to shift during a burnout. Have you ever seen a video of someone doing this? The tires stop spinning immediately once you depress the clutch. Just start in 4th...if you really want to do a burnout of that magnitude and destruction!!
a 4th gear burnout is excessive IMO. i just start in a second. 1st never does get tires hot. with the low gear i can get enough tire speed top burn rubber. 4th is just wasting tire IMO. i've always had to burn my tires really hard on the first pass of the day to get the dried out rubber off and get them hot. with a nice day, good tires and a well prepped track hardly any burnout is required to hook. except for maybe the first burnout of the day which i take a little longer to knock the dry surface off and then the rest of the day i dont have to burn them as hard. but for showing off and making a smoke show 4th gear is where its at.
Do the heal/toe routine and with practice you can feather the brakes enough to pull off one of these: http://videos.streetfire.net/video/2e685e28-cd53-4f80-841f-508a32c26c36.htm That was 2nd gear and about 20 feet of third. I would've got really crazy but the street was like a tar and gravel surface...really super rough and i was afraid i'd blow a tire and they had to get me to the tire shop..lol. That's how i do it. It's not a literal HEAL/TOE, more of an arch area on the brake and rolling my toe to the gas. As i let off the brake i just roll my toe over more as needed to keep the RPMs up.
You mean start in 4th gear? Start buying clutches... If you mean row through and get to 4th, yea, no problem at all. I regret it to this day due to the rubber that got on everything and the damaged trim from the blowout, but I banged through all 5 gears with less power than that. I do have line lock however, but I don't think it would be an issue with a little heel-toe action
I usually have trouble getting them to spin in second gear on warm days. Cold days i can burn em' off in first all day long without even using the brake. Gone sideways a couple times in the rain, hit some gravel last week and did a 180 pulling out of a parking lot. At the track though, I do hold the brake and push the gas both with my right foot, but thats gonna take some practice without burning up my clutch...
I can manage the brake and gas with my right foot and clutch with the left if the road/conditions are right. Other times I have to switch pedals. That's with the 2.3L '93 though on 245-50's.
I always let the car roll backwards some then pop it and hold the brakes?.?.? Then I was told I did not need to do a large burn out with street tires.. So now I will just burn them slightly and pull to the line........
I heel toe it. I know its rough on the rear brakes, but who cares. I haven't had any problems doing that. I have been doing it that way for 4 or 5 years. I need to get some line lock.
My 1993 2.3 had the same tires on 16" ponys and that car with a heel/toe would stand still all day long and destroy the one tire spinning. I heel/toe my 5.0 as well and that one can sit all day long on the 285s spinning both tires. Been doing it at the track and street for 5 years or so. No easier way once you get the idea down!
Well i just went out in the driveway and tried the heel toe, ITS EASY got it right the first time lol left a nice cloud of smoke for the neighbors (they hate me)
hahah i never did burnouts by my house! Hell...i try to slip into the driveway as quietly as i can. I dont think there is anything worse than making people who know your name, where you live, and what you drive being mad at you. Take that **** to an empty parking lot...or even better the track!
I bet you still have stock gears in that car, don't you? First gear with the 2.73s in the rain is a BEAR, and second gear can put you in the 80 MPH range with that rear end. I bet most of the people here who say to do the burnout in 2nd have 3.55s or higher. with the stock 2.73s you can get some decent smoke going just in first, though second would be more of a challenge.
