Burnout fail.

EightySix Four · Dec 23, 2009

That was unbelievably painful to watch...

punjabiplaya · Dec 23, 2009

money != brains

CurseTheSky · Dec 23, 2009

AMCRambler said:
It was on Jalopnik I think. Ahhh yes, here we go:

http://jalopnik.com/5319675/520-hp-mitsubishi-colt-drops-transmission-onto-highway-literally

The thing that makes that video awesome is their attitudes after the transmission blows off. Most people in the same situation would be screaming or crying; they're laughing.

This one is my favorite: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmfdVgXoDII&feature=related. You have to watch the WHOLE thing though. "Here is the new found piece of... something... (no, that's a, um, wrist pin) ...wrist pin..."

DivideBYZero · Dec 23, 2009

exdeath said:
Wow... if you can't tell the difference between the smell of burning clutch or burning tires, you shouldn't even own a car like that.

This.

BW86 · Dec 23, 2009

Iron Woode said:
how about a burnout done right?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQJO05bNOgY

This is how a real man does a burnout

Demon-Xanth · Dec 23, 2009

BW86 said:
This is how a real man does a burnout

That wasn't a burnout at all.

Burnouts start with a stationary vehicle with very non-stationary drive wheels:

and may or may not end with a roll out:

Example:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEoKfGu7koI

When taken to a thing of beauty:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMVfj_fDTnA

jlee · Dec 23, 2009

'What was it?'

'I don't know'

Oh my.

spidey07 · Dec 23, 2009

So I guess he forgot to turn traction control off? It kinda looks like it because it inches forward and then just stops, like the car is applying the brakes.

BW86 · Dec 23, 2009

Demon-Xanth said:
That wasn't a burnout at all.

Burnouts start with a stationary vehicle with very non-stationary drive wheels:

yeah...it was meant to be a joke....

Demon-Xanth · Dec 23, 2009

BW86 said:
yeah...it was meant to be a joke....

Sorry about that. I left my sarcasm meter at home this morning. I really should get it sewn on.

brblx · Dec 23, 2009

spidey07 said:
So I guess he forgot to turn traction control off? It kinda looks like it because it inches forward and then just stops, like the car is applying the brakes.

even with TC on, he would've either beat the brakes (probably unlikely on a vette) or killed the motor. not to mention that TC should modulate the brakes to get you moving- those wheels were locked.

dude was just slipping the clutch the entire time.

BW86 · Dec 23, 2009

Demon-Xanth said:
Sorry about that. I left my sarcasm meter at home this morning. I really should get it sewn on.

You need to get it welded on, more secure then just threading it on.

spidey07 · Dec 23, 2009

brblx said:
even with TC on, he would've either beat the brakes (probably unlikely on a vette) or killed the motor. not to mention that TC should modulate the brakes to get you moving- those wheels were locked.

dude was just slipping the clutch the entire time.

So the dumbass was standing on the brakes the whole time?

ayabe · Dec 23, 2009

I always wonder how so many people seem to burn up their clutches after 20,000 miles, sometimes less. Now I guess I have my answer.

I've never had a clutch last less than 100,000 miles.

spidey07 · Dec 23, 2009

ayabe said:
I always wonder how so many people seem to burn up their clutches after 20,000 miles, sometimes less. Now I guess I have my answer.

I've never had a clutch last less than 100,000 miles.

Side bar - I'm at 200K on original clutch, still working perfectly and likely has another 100K of wear at least left.

brblx · Dec 23, 2009

my trans will probably explode before my clutch goes out. good 'ol veedub.

and yeah, he was standing on the brakes. doing a burnout with a manual means heel-toe work on the brake and gas while you slowly let the clutch out. too much brake and you stall, too much clutch and you do what's in the OP. he missed the part where once the wheels are spinning, you let off the clutch and leave it alone until you want to stop burning down the tires (or shift, if you're that ballsy).

exdeath · Dec 23, 2009

spidey07 said:
So I guess he forgot to turn traction control off? It kinda looks like it because it inches forward and then just stops, like the car is applying the brakes.

Nah, traction control would have been cutting power and the car would sound like it was dying. Besides most traction control systems determine wheel spin based on ABS sensors, and no wheels were moving in this case. This guy just doesn't know how to do a burnout in a manual.

spidey07 · Dec 23, 2009

exdeath said:
Nah, traction control would have been cutting power and the car would sound like it was dying. Besides most traction control systems determine wheel spin based on ABS sensors, and no wheels were moving in this case. This guy just doesn't know how to do a burnout in a manual.

I can see that view. But with that much power being applied to the drive train the only thing TC has is the brakes. I've been reading on the vette forums and the general consensus is he had TC on, or parking brake (unlikely), or standing on the brakes.

My guess is this was staged. Nobody can be that stupid, especially the camera guy walking in front of a 500+ HP car, motor pegged, in gear.

Nobody can be that dumb.

fustercluck · Dec 23, 2009

that video was lame.

For those who missed it:

Guy tries to do some kind of trick...car starts to smoke...the end.

sjwaste · Dec 23, 2009

spidey07 said:
I can see that view. But with that much power being applied to the drive train the only thing TC has is the brakes. I've been reading on the vette forums and the general consensus is he had TC on, or parking brake (unlikely), or standing on the brakes.

My guess is this was staged. Nobody can be that stupid, especially the camera guy walking in front of a 500+ HP car, motor pegged, in gear.

Nobody can be that dumb.

Oh people sure can be that dumb. Middle aged guy buying the classic mid life crisis cruiser. He probably has never had a car capable of burning out, or at least, not since he was 18 and they didn't have electronics to stop him back then.

I mean, the balloon boy parents got sentenced to jail today. People can be that dumb.

El Guaraguao · Dec 23, 2009

what most, if not all you guys don't know, is that the guy needed to replace his clutch. so he made a video of burning his old clutch hoping to get enough views to pay for his new clutch. (see adsense)

Raduque · Dec 24, 2009

CurseTheSky said:
This one is my favorite: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmfdVgXoDII&feature=related. You have to watch the WHOLE thing though. "Here is the new found piece of... something... (no, that's a, um, wrist pin) ...wrist pin..."

I love that video - a DSM doing what it does best!

zerocool84 · Dec 24, 2009

Raduque said:
I love that video - a DSM doing what it does best!

God those cars are such POS's.

EightySix Four · Dec 24, 2009

mofoe2001 said:
what most, if not all you guys don't know, is that the guy needed to replace his clutch. so he made a video of burning his old clutch hoping to get enough views to pay for his new clutch. (see adsense)

Yep, makes me sick

He had the e-brake on.

jlee · Dec 24, 2009

spidey07 said:
I can see that view. But with that much power being applied to the drive train the only thing TC has is the brakes. I've been reading on the vette forums and the general consensus is he had TC on, or parking brake (unlikely), or standing on the brakes.

My guess is this was staged. Nobody can be that stupid, especially the camera guy walking in front of a 500+ HP car, motor pegged, in gear.

Nobody can be that dumb.

If only you knew how many people have, when told they have a headlight out, asked if it was in the front or the back.

Yes, people can be that dumb.

Burnout fail.

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