Building a burnout vehicle sounds like a super simple thing to do doesn’t it? I mean all you have to be able to do is smoke the tires and spin around some right? In reality, yes, but in practice it might be a bit more difficult than you think. Here’s why.
So when you pull onto any old patch of asphalt or concrete and start to do a burnout, there is usually no rubber on the ground. And you are usually not doing said burnout for a minute or more. Here’s why these two things are important distinctions. With regards to the rubber on the ground, that rubber makes it harder and harder to keep tires spinning, no matter how hot they get. So when a burnout pit gets full of rubber all over it is harder to keep the tires spinning and under control if you don’t have enough power to be able to spin them however hard you want. Tire speed is key in burnout contests because you want maximum smoke, and blowouts if you are going all out. Only wheel speed and heat will make that happen.
The minute of tire smoking burnout is also a big deal. If you don’t use a line lock, and hand brake, to make sure only the front brakes are active, then you will cook the rear brakes and also hinder the rear tires from spinning as hard as they could. Any resistance to the rear tires spinning will cause everything else to get hotter under more load and that’s bad. You have to remember that you are going to run flat out for a minute, moving very slowly, which means that coolant temp, trans temp, and engine oil temp, will soar without proper airflow
So you have to have an engine, drivetrain, braking system, cooling system, and steering system that will allow you to throw this thing around in anger for a full minute, at wide open, without blowing any or all of the systems above.
What could possibly go wrong? Let’s see how the 187 Customs, Murder Nova Burnout Truck performs in a private test.
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Will the burnout truck live up to our expectations? Or do we need to head back to the drawing board?!
