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Is a burnout bad for the car?



heres some pics from 2 years ago when i first got my car and knew nothing about FWD 3.8's. this was a non HD diff

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Yea! burnouts shesh, not only do you have to buy more tires, but you can blow your tranny in the process. Is it worth it? And what would impress that little hottie standing on the corner that your showing off for anyway, sitting there roasting your tires off and filling her face full of smoke or taking off hard at the line and just plain out smoking the compitition.
 
yeah, yeah, yeah... they are dumb, waste tires and hard on your tranny, but damn they are croud pleasers!

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to me whats the difference between doing a burnout and accelerating quickly its both putting alot of stress on the axles at first but after the initial burst they are fine no damage can be done
 
do em but not alot id say haha =] gotta have fun in life some how i really love when new pavement is wet omg its a blast haha i did a complete 360 haha
 
I like finding new concrete bridges. Nice dark black marks show up good on the new bright grayish white color of the concrete.
 


Curtis said:
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If I drive hard enough for about 30 mins the STFT I assume get me more power and I can squeal a bit, but nothing more...I do live above 6,000 ft. so I'm guessing that is why. I've heard that N/A cars loose 11% power every 2,000 ft., Not sure how that affects a boosted motor, but I also read that the GTP is supposed to be a 6.6 sec. 0-60 mph car, and best I get is 8 flat. I'm moving home in two weeks which is 300ft. above sea level, so maybe I'll have my answer then.
 
elevation kills FI cars. and i can spin tires most of the way threw first if i slam the gas from a stop. now if the roads are hot and my tires are warm from riding around im luck to get half of first. if i just dont slam it but roll into it pretty fast when my tires are hot and all it will only spin about 5 feet and not even leave marks. works good for getting out of hole :)
 
I hardly ever do a burnout. Almost never. If I do, it is just a quick blip of the throttle to get them to spin half a second, then I am done. I don't want to toast the trans. And so far, all is well.

And I agree, while big smoky burnouts may be crowd pleaser, why would any crowd want to see my high mileage daily driver smoke my cheap cooper tires? I will save the real burnouts for those with real power in fast cars.
 
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