Originally Posted By: OVERK1LL
Originally Posted By: ls1mike
Jesus,
I see the 10 HP car owning folks have entered the room!
I have a Mcleod Twin Disk clutch holding back just over 400 RWHP and 420 ft/lbs of torque going through a T-56 to a pile o'[censored] F-body 10 bolt and can do a burnout all day.
That is what they are made for, to beat on. That is the whole spirit of those 3 cars.
Stick to your 10 HP Toyotas and Hondas, make sure they never ever see any abuse and never EVERE see red line, because they won't take that beating.
That sir, is ROFLCOPTER worthy
I agree! Dumping the clutch on STREET TIRES won't hurt a thing. Those are some soft, safe revlimiters, sounds like a lot of drive by wire action going on instead of the traditinal rev limiter dropping cylinders.
The abuse I've put cars through, I've never really hurt anything messing around like this. It's only when you're pulling 1.4 60' times at the track you stand the chance of hurting something.
Owning the TL and learning more about imports, you see tons of problems when you start doing clutch drops, especially on FWD cars. All it takes on many of them is a set of drag radials and a 1.9 60' to start puking axles and transmissions. This is usually with much lower power levels too. Pretty sad but who really races a FWD car lol. That's why my TL goes to the roadcourse but will never come within 20 miles of a drag strip. Domestics seem to be really overbuilt in this regard. They are known for taking 50-100% more hp and putting it down relatively well and reliably. Even the local Lambos and Ferraris seem to have trouble holding up to drag racing abuse. Porsche seems to be the exception.
I actually did think all 3 cars would burn out longer but I would almost think in this situation, the car with the tallest first gear and highest rev limiter would hold the advantage.
Off topic but I have no one to tell this to but bitog lol. I entered a burnout contest at a local car show. Mostly imports sitting in place with the e-brake holding the car still, a few domestics powerbraking the [censored] out of them. So since we had a very large burnout area I decided to be different. I had the car on some old but wide street tires which had no chance at hooking even at 100mph. I roll up to the line at about 25mph, right at the point I could barely downshift to first to spool the turbo. Instead of stopping at the line, I roll past it on the brakes building a little boost and then let off the brakes and floored it doing a 25mph rolling burnout into second gear, pretty much instantly into third and into fourth after a couple seconds. Speedo was pegged at 85mph lol and I think it was reading around 65mph when I finally ran out of room and let off. Interestingly, the tires continued to leave lines for another 100' or so until they cooled. I really just did it to tweak the import crowd and put things in perspective which I think I did.
My favorite burnout car growing up was the 5.0 Fox. I could shift quicker than my friends. One in particular had a 347 with an ATI blower and some crazy 4.xx gears (which I think hurt it more than helped it after the blower). I would dump the clutch in first, instantly shift to second and if I was lucky and the tires were hot enough in second, it would go straight to the rev limiter in third. The short wheelbase Fox platform was always a handful but fun to slide.
