With proper timing, I can now spin the front wheels on dry pavement with the car still and not kill the engine. I held it like that for a good 30 secconds before I decided it was time to stop. (I can get Kumho 771 tires for $20 a piece, but that doesn't mean I wanna go through them month by month.)

Only problem is, all the smoke came from the right side of the car... The driver's side hadn't moved a bit. No rubber pellets, no black marks... Passenger side was covered in rubber pellets (Some on fire) and a nice burned mark on the ground...

I even tried turning the steering wheel to try to get the driver's side moving.

Question 1:
How do I get both wheels to spin?

Question 2:
Aside from the obvious tire wear, excess wear and strain on the drive line components, and burning up gas, what can I break by doing this that I wouldn't break by doing a two wheeled burnout...

My burnout proceedure:
Let the car roll backwards at about 5 MPH. Clutch down, shift to first and rev up to about 5 grand/ Dump clutch and Immediately yank the e-brake (U-Turn lever ) Keep it floored until you are satisfied with the cloud of smoke or until your friends notify you that your tires are on fire. If the speed and tach get high enough and you can shift fairly quickly, try slaming it into 2nd gear.

 

Limited Slip Differential.

 

YUP!! That is the only way.

Search under "LSD" and you will find a post that I wrote a while back.

 

You could take some bleach and pour it on the ground before your burnout. Roll up to the bleach, then dump the clutch and pull the E brake. Im sure both tires will spin and also you will get more smoke coming from them. Rolling backwards and dumping the clutch isnt too good on your cv joints. You could tear a boot or even break one if your to rough. But hey if nothings getting broken then, What the hell, go for it.

 

and your doing this in what? the civic or the rx7 or someone elses car?

 

why bleach? dont those fumes kill you?

 

Even with bleach you will not get both tires spinging for more then a second.

I Don't think that bleach will kill you its just gonna give you a big cloud of smoke. Although I wouldn't recomend standing there and breathing it for very long.

 

just out of curiosity, what causes only one tire to spin??? is it like traction control and the ecu gives power to one wheel?? i never understood what caused only one tire to spin.

 

LSD!

 

Go read this..

http://www.howstuffworks.com/differential.htm

This should explain everything.

 

Kuhmo's for 20 apeice eh? Wanna hook me up?

 

hhoookkk mee up with some tires man please!!!!

 

me need tires too...

GROUP BUY!

 

I don't imagine tire is too good for you either...
Hell, half the crap a car spits out will kill you.

 

we used hawaiian punch one time... worked pretty good... and didnt have the nast smell of bleah

 

get a l.s.d n hook me up with that tire deal....

 

Red_Si : This is the Honda Forum. I wouldn't expect many answers on the RX-7 here. That's what http://www.rx7forum.com and http://www.mazspeed.com are for.

GuttedEF : I love that site. I already know how a differential works. I figured it out when another one of the mechanics at my shop had his Camaro on the lift and was changing the ring and pinion gears. Unfortunately he messed up the pinion bearing and put the wrong pinion spacers in, so he had to tear it apart several times... I got real familiar with the internals of that just by hanging around.

All : I work at a shop, hence, my employee discount for parts is factored into the cost of tires. Considering that the Kumho 771's are some of the cheapest tires we have, I went with them... My only other alternative was the Uniroyal TigerPaw AS6000, and I didn't like how the sidewalls felt so flimsy.

Perhaps the driver's side wheel doesn't spin because I'm sitting over it. Maybe I should set some stuff in the passerger side... Hmmm... I'm 150 Lbs, plus 10 gallons of fuel thats offset to the driver's side... at 7 Lbs per gallon, thats a total of 220 Lbs I need in the passenger seat... Couple car batteries oughta do it...

Do they make an LSD for the 4wd Tranny? Most all the mods I've seen to this car require the dropping of the 4wd tranny...


[Modified by Pele, 8:51 AM 9/30/2002]


[Modified by Pele, 8:55 AM 9/30/2002]

 

turn the steering wheel back and forth a little when you are doing your burn out.

that should do the trick

 

this is one of the dumbest posts i have read in a while. you want to know how to get both tires spinning during a burnout? next you will be posting asking about how to hook up your new high tech windshield washer led's (hood nipples.) haha

happy tire killing.

 

my thoughts exactly...

 

I heard if you loosen up one of the sides of your sway bar upfront, it could help you do 2 wheeled burnouts... never did this, but I hear it works. Something along the lines of preload or something like that?

This was so you could heat up some slicks or drag radials at the track and get them both hot.

 

i figured it was 4wd and it would be hard to do that. shouldn't all 4 wheels be spinning with that tranny and not just one?

 

diddo.

 

Red_Si : My model has a button that engages and disengages 4wd.

wreckedhatch, dohcsideSi, and two.oh : Bite Me. Those lighted sprayers add 12 Horsepower and 18 Ft/Lbs or torque each. I'm not ricing out a 1985 Wagon. I had other reasons for asking these questions, and since tires are so cheap, I figured why not.

All : While I agree that burning tires is rather dumb, I also find it humorous that I can produce just as much smoke, if not more than someone with a Camaro that has twice as many cylinders and almost quadruple the displacement. I don't even want to think about the horsepower and torque figures.

I had underlying motives for asking such questions. Mainly I was wondering how I could get the non slipping tire to turn in any situation, not just burning them. It'd come in handy in incliment weather and mud and such.

I figured it out. Mainly it was the weight distribution, but to overcome the traction problem I can just apply the brakes a little and turn the wheels and some power will transfer to the opposite wheel.

 

"it would come in handy in mud" HAHAA!!! if a honda gets in some mud, just call a tow truck. YOU ARE DOING BURNOUTS. that is stupid. YOU ARE DOING BURNOUTS IN AN 85 CIVIC WAGON. now you look really smart. enjoy trashing the very rare all wheel drive setup you have there, i give it two weeks before you start posting looking for new diffs and axles. also, DO NOT loosen the torsion bars that run to the front control arms. you will be able to get wheel hop and do dOpe bURnoUtz yo, but your launches will be terrible, because of the same wheel hop.

stupid posts like this have no place on this site.