What happens when you powerbrake by throwing your Dodge into reverse?

[WinkOsmosis]

Originally posted by: Paulson
what's hanging down from the front of it?

Looks like the chin spoiler, and the bumper is hanging a bit.. I suppose the transmission blew up and took out the bumper?

 

[NetWareHead]

Your bright friend is actually lucky if all that broke was the drive shaft Buddy of mine built up a camaro that ran low 11s...didnt bother to put in a driveshaft safety loop, stock driveshaft. Needless to say, the combo of slicks, power-shifting, and nitrous shredded the shaft and his floorpan and nearly stood the car up on its nose. It took soooo much work to ge that car back to normal....your friend should be lucky he is alive and didn't mess his truckup more.

 

[b0mbrman]

Originally posted by: Jellomancer
This happens. A friend of my friend's sister reportedly did this.

Edit: Link fixed. Yes it is https.

Nope...This

 

[CraigRT]

Originally posted by: vi_edit

Originally posted by: Jellomancer
Arghhh!! It's my site. I don't know why it doesn't work. The sharing restrictions are set properly. Anyway, he apparently threw his Ram 1500 (one of the new gen) into reverse at high speed in order to powerbrake.

I'd tell him to call in a tow truck, haul down to dealer, and tell them that he's too stupid to own it.

Agreed.. total abuse.. nothing is meant to stand up to being thrown into reverse at any decent speed.. that's BAD!

not cool, what a waste...

 

[BMdoobieW]

Link that might work

 

[Paulson]

damn though, such a beauty of a truck too

 

[Evadman]

The piece that is off on the front is a small plastic spoiler. I broke mine off 4 wheeling. It does help at high speeds suprisingly.

The truck is sitting lower in the front because it is a truck Some are designed to sit lower in the front (dodge) on the assumption that you will have a few hundered pounds in the back, so it will then sit level.

 

[FrustratedUser]

WTF!

That should not even be possible to do.

 

[Zenmervolt]

Your friend's sister's friend is new to the concept of "power-braking", isn't he.

ZV

 

[bolido2000]

I did that once to my dad's 94 Camry. I was cruising at 30 when I accidentally threw the car into reverse (it was an auto). The car just stopped there in the middle of the road. Luckily the car didn't stall and there were no cars behind me. I just shifted back to "D" and drove home. I was so scared when my dad took the car to the dealer for a tune up (I never told him about it). It's being 4 years already since that day and the car has never had any problems. God bless Toyota

 

[thedarkwolf]

Thats not powerbraking anyway

Powerbraking is when you are setting still and put the car in gear with one foot on the brake and the other on the gas to bring the rpms up wihout moving.

What he did is just stupid .

 

[LS20]

dude, a fellow longhorn

 

[Kaervak]

Next time you see this guy, hit him with numerous amounts of large heavy damaging objects. Damn moron.

 

[bolido2000]

Originally posted by: thedarkwolf
Thats not powerbraking anyway

Powerbraking is when you are setting still and put the car in gear with one foot on the brake and the other on the gas to bring the rpms up wihout moving.

What he did is just stupid .

hmmm isn't that torque braking? I guess is the same thing...

 

[FrustratedUser]

Originally posted by: bolido2000
I did that once to my dad's 94 Camry. I was cruising at 30 when I accidentally threw the car into reverse (it was an auto). The car just stopped there in the middle of the road. Luckily the car didn't stall and there were no cars behind me. I just shifted back to "D" and drove home. I was so scared when my dad took the car to the dealer for a tune up (I never told him about it). It's being 4 years already since that day and the car has never had any problems. God bless Toyota

And this is the way I find out what you're up to!!!!

 

[jteef]

The piece that is off on the front is a small plastic spoiler. I broke mine off 4 wheeling. It does help at high speeds suprisingly.

so uh, did this truck endo enough to smash the spoiler on the ground and break the mounting hardware?

i bet it would have been entertaining to watch

jt

 

[LS20]

Originally posted by: bolido2000

Originally posted by: thedarkwolf
Thats not powerbraking anyway

Powerbraking is when you are setting still and put the car in gear with one foot on the brake and the other on the gas to bring the rpms up wihout moving.

What he did is just stupid .

hmmm isn't that torque braking? I guess is the same thing...

alot of people use those 2 terms interchangably

 

[SHoddyCOmp]

ouch. wtf was the driver thinking!?

 

[Lithium381]

what a moron!!! i've always wondered what would happen, but never done it, and wouldn't have tried it, not with a new car anyways...

what if you throw it into 1st gear while hauling it?????

 

[bolido2000]

Originally posted by: Lithium381
what a moron!!! i've always wondered what would happen, but never done it, and wouldn't have tried it, not with a new car anyways...

what if you throw it into 1st gear while hauling it?????

That is going way beyond the redline. I think you would bend a valve or something.

 

[Evadman]

Originally posted by: Lithium381
what a moron!!! i've always wondered what would happen, but never done it, and wouldn't have tried it, not with a new car anyways...

what if you throw it into 1st gear while hauling it?????

If it is a non-broken automatic, it will stay in higher gear until the road speed has dropeed to an engine safe level. Now stick, that's another story.

 

[WinkOsmosis]

Originally posted by: Kaervak
Next time you see this guy, hit him with numerous amounts of large heavy damaging objects. Damn moron.

I've never seen him and never will.

 

[Lithium381]

Originally posted by: Evadman

Originally posted by: Lithium381
what a moron!!! i've always wondered what would happen, but never done it, and wouldn't have tried it, not with a new car anyways...

what if you throw it into 1st gear while hauling it?????

If it is a non-broken automatic, it will stay in higher gear until the road speed has dropeed to an engine safe level. Now stick, that's another story.

i'm thinking stick

 

[WinkOsmosis]

Originally posted by: Lithium381

Originally posted by: Evadman

Originally posted by: Lithium381
what a moron!!! i've always wondered what would happen, but never done it, and wouldn't have tried it, not with a new car anyways...

what if you throw it into 1st gear while hauling it?????

If it is a non-broken automatic, it will stay in higher gear until the road speed has dropeed to an engine safe level. Now stick, that's another story.

i'm thinking stick

I dunno about you but my first gear has no synchro so I can't put it in first unless I stop.

 

[WinkOsmosis]

The bumper is broken because he drove into a ditch the day before.