How to fit a large Lamborghini into a small room

                        

 Lamborghini Aventador LP700-4 assembled in a small room

There is a lot going on with the Lamborghini Aventador LP700-4. The Raging Bull’s new range topper features a 691-horsepower V12 that can propel the world’s fanciest door stop to 60 miles per hour in a scant 2.9 seconds. The Aventador looks good enough to cause whiplash injuries from rubbernecking onlookers. We could gush endlessly about Italy’s newest exotic, and at the end of the day there will always be room in our driveway for such a supercar.
But what about our living room?
The folks at Lamborghini needed to deliver an Aventador to a Lamborghini Museum exhibition called “La Forza del Toro” at Chiostro del. Unfortunately, the Great Room-sized space reserved for the exotic contained no entryway large enough to drive the Aventador through, but that’s when Italian ingenuity comes into play. Instead of knocking down a wall or lifting a ceiling, Team Lambo simply delivered an Aventador in pieces, then put them together on the spot. The end result is a fully functional Aventador for the “La Forza del Toro” exhibit.

Toyota Supra rumors continue with 400-hp hybrid power

Have we told you how badly we want a reboot of the Toyota Supra? One of the iconic cars of Gen X youth, the Supra died an untimely death in the mid-1990s along with the rest of the Japanese sports car market. This was, of course, long before most of us had managed to graduate from college and get decent enough jobs to be able to afford anything more exciting than a used Honda Civic.

So yes, we hang on every word out of Japan, and the latest comes via Motor Trend. It's reporting that a hybrid, 400-horsepower, 3.5-liter V6 powertrain is being tested for possible release in 2015. The new Supra would look a lot like the FT-HS concept that Toyota showed at the 2007 Detroit Auto Show, according to the magazine, which also says that if we really want to see this Supra successor, we'd better hope the Toyota GT 86/Scion FR-S does well.

First Test – 2010 Chevy Camaro

                         

From the base V-6 to the top of the line V-8 SS, we test Chevy’s hotly-anticipated Camaro and find out if it has was it takes to destroy Ford’s muscle car benchmark, the Mustang.

2013 Dodge Dart aims for center of compact sedan segment

Don't call it a Hornet. Dodge has released a slew of shadowy teasers for its new compact sedan, the 2013 Dodge Dart. The company is planning a slow reveal, with snippets of the four-door's exterior and interior trickling out between now and the vehicle's full unveil at the 2012 Detroit Auto Show. Specifics are still murky at the moment, though we do know Dodge will grace the 2013 Dart with a variety of engine options, including a turbocharged version of the 1.4-liter four-cylinder Multiair engine found in the Fiat 500. If the Fiat 500 Abarth is any indication, that means we're looking at somewhere around 160 horsepower.

The 2013 Dodge Dart makes use of the same bones as the beautiful Alfa Romeo Giulietta, though the chassis has been both stretched and widened to accommodate the wider britches of American buyers. Chrysler says that a full 68 percent of the vehicle's architecture is comprised of high-strength steel, which means the 2013 Dart should retain much of the rigidity that's made the Giulietta a favorite among buyers and critics alike in the EU.

We're plenty excited to get our hands on the 2013 Dodge Dart to see how it stacks up against the likes of the Chevrolet Cruze, Ford Focus, Honda Civic and Hyundai Elantra among other winners in the segment

How To Build A Rat Rod Cheap Hot Rod

So you've been in a car show, and maybe even seen the cool early Hot Rods in the streets ..... and you're bitten by the bug! What is happening?

Level of difficulty:

Moderately challenging

Instructions

What you need

Old car parts

Mechanical ability

Common sense

1.

A

First,

Be honest with yourself. Are you comfortable? You can wield a key? Yes, I said to handle!

Secondly, if you have room to work?

Finally .... What about money?

If you're low on bucks ... no problem. Yes, we can fix it.

If not practical, take a class at the local university or a course of basic mechanics, welding and fabrication.

If you do not have a job, you need one.

2

If you can work on cars and have a place to work and at least some money ... we can begin.

We first need a framework. Go through the classified ads, forums and online clubs. Junkyards and also scouting for rural work. Any old frame work, but ideally you want something from 30 years or more. Straight and free as you can find rust.

If you can not find one ... supply local mills. 2x4 rectangular steel tubing perfect body as soon as possible. Buy about 16-20 feet from it. You can have them cut into two lengths of 8 or 10 meters.

Most of the cars from the 20s and 30s were about 90-110 meters in distance, so plan accordingly.

You will have the skills or welding is welding.

It should be soldered as a ladder. Perfect square and level. A member of the Cross at the front, maybe 2 or more in the middle (x is the best one) and one in the back. Width depends on the body, so plan ahead!

A uniform increase of more than two axles will be conducted as a 4x4 high .. as a "kick-up" in the back is necessary. It looks like a "Z" when the frame is placed on the page. In this way, the chassis under the body is lower than under the tree.

3

Then you need axles. Front and rear. Measure the width of your back or the width of rear bodywork. The tree can be wider than the frame (should be).

All the back of working age, but the things of the late 50's to late 70's the best. The appearance is secondary and bolt pattern of the wheel is important if you want to perform a beautiful custom rims.

A rear axle leaf spring is the best .. easier to modify. But it depends on the price.

The rear end of a spring. Coil springs, coil springs and leaf springs are easier.

Leaf springs may be transverse (left to right of the bridge) or in parallel.

At the same time be part of the low back behind the axle.

Helical coils and dampers are easier if we focus on them.

Solder cups, or more brackets next to the street (ladder), and lower brackets, cups or axle housing.

Find the axle with radius rods, torsion bars, bar scale or a wishbone split (early cars had a link called triangular bone would).

Front axle may be straight or independent.,

Direct Drive is the cheapest ... and may be from another old car or buy a new one.

Independent suspension is a better design, but requires more welding and mechanical know-how. Popular types include the Mustang II / Pinto, AMC Pacer and Corvair.

Use a straight blade shaft spring axis, parallel or transverse (s) that the pivot pin and the fork bar or 4 link triangulation system.

Most of these are available on a new .. and at least give you an exploded view of a model with old parts.

The best way is to buy a late 40's, early 50's Chevrolet or Ford pick up.

This gives you a front axle that is straight, with most of the necessary parts. The chassis cab abd an advantage, and can also be used.

At this stage .. Once welded together and designed for you ... This is a mobile platform.

4

Now is the time for the body.

Are you lucky? Do you have an organization or an online one?

If not ... fiberglass is forgiving, easy and inexpensive.

Making your own is an option ... CLEARLY ... but the cheapest Life is a choice of up truck cab.

For fun ... You can practice upper cut off for ever before!

You can cut up to pick up the body until it looks like and old bucket roadster.

Run your image using common sense .... and is almost here!

Wahhhh Hoo!

This allows you to use the open ports, line, etc.

5

It looks like a Hot Rod ... but will not move under its own

power.

Time of transmission.

The engine is the power does. Choose something.

But choose wisely.

Maybe a 396 big block Chevrolet, Ford or Chrysler 351 Hemi sounds good ... but all could blow your budget and then some.

If you already have a block and heads, or is worn out ... to sell to finance the runner.

The old 350 Chevy, Ford and Mopar 302 318, 340 and 360 are all common and cheap!

A small 4-banger to slide around a little roller compaction.

You are about to build a glorified go-karts ..... large blocks is not necessary and more ... can tear the car apart!

Go cheap and perform well.

Up (hopefully with a good trans) in front of the frame. Measure and welding in the motor assembly. Mounting the cradle works well ... or lateral supports are the best.

You need a drive shaft .... they can reduce easily (I would not recommend doing it yourself).

WOW!

6

It seems to be executed. It could even start!

Now is the time security. The security of your car and you.

You need cables, basic yes. You also need a radiator, brakes, lights and different languages. You need leadership in the area of ​​the joint and the steering column with steering wheel.

BEAST You need to get on and connected to the brake and gas pedals.

Safety for you ...... Well, it depends on you.

You need a seat belt. Do you understand?

7

An assessment of everything. The condition of the brakes, and if they actually work. So on and so forth throughout the vehicle.

Review all systems and take it for a test drive. The best idea is a truck and trailer. Provided, or yours.

Take the car to a large car park or in the middle of nowhere.

Try it. Take it easy and see if it overflows, if it leaks, does not stop, will not start, etc.

If it passes the maiden voyage ... 'Til Death do us part!

Good luck.

Advice

Excellent winter project.

Dear Father and the Son of the Project.

Even if you do not ... You will learn something

Working with the cars can be dangerous. Tetanus shots, stitches and emergency room visits are par for the course.

Do not die. Use your head and common sense.

Nissan Juke-R clears its throat for the first time

The end of the Nissan Juke-R build has come and gone. The vehicle is done. Only a lucky few were there when the 485-horsepower twin-turbo V6 borrowed from a Nissan GT-R cleared its throat for the first time. The thrills and high-fives, that wave of adrenaline that buoys dog-tired men, and the long minutes of standing around and grinning at your project as it burbles away is a private moment that only the builders can fully appreciate.

Respecting the space of the Juke-R build team doesn't mean we don't want to examine this evil little mutant closely. Nissan UK knows this, and has thrown us all a bone with 11 new pictures and three videos of the Juke-R, one with audio of the revving engine. The ultimate payoff will be the figures from performance testing, which we expect to see soon.

Using an online performance-stat calculator, we first plugged the stats of a normal Juke, deciding to go with the heaviest curb weight of 3,200 lbs, and the numbers it spat back, 7.6 seconds from zero to 60 mph and a 15.93-second quarter mile, dovetail pretty well with what car magazines have gotten, though the glossy print guys are a bit faster.

Taking that same 3,200 lb weight (though we don't know whether the Juke-R is lighter or heavier than a standard Juke) and going for 485 hp returns a predicted 3.6 second 0-60 run and a quarter mile that gets scorched in 11.44 seconds with a 124 mph trap speed.

Shelby GT500 Crushes Camaro SS! – Drag Race Showdown

 

When we first pitted the Camaro SS against the Mustang GT, Ford fans complained it was an unfair race given the horsepower disparity. But now Ford has tipped the scale way back in it’s advantage with the top of the line supercharged snake, the GT500. We head to the drag strip to see how the underdog Chevy stacks up.

Volkswagen ET Electric Van Is Outside The World

The author F. Scott Fitzgerald once observed that the use of an exclamation point on his joke make you laugh. In this sense, we now see the latest work concepts, Volkswagen van. The carmaker has entered into a German post office and the University of Art at the Braunschweig can create! electric van. The company says the vehicle is emission-free driving, and can be controlled with a joystick-type device on the passenger side, if necessary. We're not quite sure how this is probably the second feature to provide easier, but we are happy to help the efforts of the automobile to the practical jokers everywhere.

Perhaps most impressive is the fact that VW says the ET! can operate semi-autonomously. The vehicle can follow a person for the delivery of home or back to the driver after parking. Although no details are currently available in the vehicle powertrain, Volkswagen says the ET! is equipped with electronic door opener.

Volvo sketches out XC90 successor

 

Volvo has given the world an idea of what its next-generation XC90 might look like. Make that four ideas. The Swedish automaker has released a volley of design sketches that portray the variety of directions that the company could take with the popular crossover once it goes under the knife. The model has soldiered on with precious few changes since 2002, which means that it's high time for a makeover. Reports suggest that the next interpretation of the Swedish softroader will bow in 2014, and when it does, it will likely come riding on Volvo's so-called Scalable Platform Architecture.

Odds are we can say goodbye to torque-happy inline five-cylinder engine options, too. Volvo has already made it clear that the company will only offer forced-induction four-cylinder engines (or smaller) moving forward, and Car and Driver has indicated that a hybrid version may bow in the near future as well.

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How to fit a Large LAMBORGHINI into a small room

Lamborghini Aventador LP700-4 assembled in a small room – Click above to watch the video after the jump

There is a lot going on with the Lamborghini Aventador LP700-4. The Raging Bull’s new range topper features a 691-horsepower V12 that can propel the world’s fanciest door stop to 60 miles per hour in a scant 2.9 seconds. The Aventador looks good enough to cause whiplash injuries from rubbernecking onlookers. We could gush endlessly about Italy’s newest exotic, and at the end of the day there will always be room in our driveway for such a supercar.
But what about our living room? The folks at Lamborghini needed to deliver an Aventador to a Lamborghini Museum exhibition called “La Forza del Toro” at Chiostro del. Unfortunately, the Great Room-sized space reserved for the exotic contained no entryway large enough to drive the Aventador through, but that’s when Italian ingenuity comes into play. Instead of knocking down a wall or lifting a ceiling, Team Lambo simply delivered an Aventador in pieces, then put them together on the spot. The end result is a fully functional Aventador for the “La Forza del Toro” exhibit.

D1 GP Drivers Smoking Shit

Here’s some absolutely sick footage of D1GP drivers Masayoshi Tokita and Tsuyoshi Tezuka practicing at the Minami course in Ebisu a week or two ago. Looks like the Japanese are unstoppable as always.
I wasn’t too sure on how Tezuka’s new Bee-R R34 looked when I first saw images of it, but seeing it in action finally I think it looks SICK.

LEARNING A WHEELIE

For some people the wheelie seems like an impossible trick. I have friends that still can’t wheelie after practicing for years. If you seriously want to learn this trick then read on. If you lack the passion to learn and you become discouraged easily, forget about learning the pop up wheelie.

Step #1: You will probably hit the ground. Wear protective gear. Chances are, you will loop backwards, land on your tail bone, smack the back of your skull and spin a pedal into your shin bone. 
Step #2: Practice with platform pedals. Leave the BMW Shin Burger Pedals in the tool box. A clipped in wheelie is a suicide mission.
Step #3: If your seat height is higher than your handlebars, lower your seat. Install a stem 100 mm long or less.
Finally, it’s time to practice! This trick is much easier on a mountain bike than a BMX bike. Mountain bikes are very stable on the rear wheel. The front of the bike is fairly easy to lift up and the long wheel base inspires confidence. Bikes with chain stays less than 17″ are easier to learn on.
Step #4: Try your first attempt pedaling up hill. Not up Pikes Peak, but up a gradual hill. If you begin to wheelie, you will spaz out and pedaling harder to keep the front wheel up. Pedaling up hill will add resistance. This resistance will counter your spastic pedaling forces and should help keep your front wheel up. After mastering the up hill wheelie, you can practice on flat ground. In order to wheelie on flat ground, you’ll have to slow down by modulating the rear brake. This is a tricky move, since squeezing the rear brake will force the front tire back down to the ground.
Step #5: Do not practice on a windy day. The wind will push your front wheel away from you. Even the slightest blow will affect your wheelie. It is possible to ride a wheelie in the wind, but it takes a lot of practice. I met a surfer kid in Clearwater, Florida who could wheelie his BMX bike on wet sand, fighting constant 25 mph winds, bare foot with no brakes.
Step #6: Stay seated; utilize a combination of the forks rebound, upper body strength and power on the cranks to loft the front of your bike in the air. Try using the middle chainring and the 32 tooth cog on the rear gear cluster. You need to choose a gear that will maintain the wheelie and is easy to lift the front wheel at slow speeds. You can shift gears while in a wheelie. It’s very difficult to do. I’ve seen people carry 30 mph wheelies shifting and pedaling.
Step #7: Relax. Loosen up on the handlebars and go with the flow. Let your arms stretch out, look far ahead and breath. You will need to steer the bike with body English. Keep your feet to the outside of the pedals and apply pressure to each pedal accordingly. Try to not lean your body with the bike. Leaning in the same direction as the bike will cause you and the bike to turn. This is an advanced move. Try and ride a straight line for now. Eventually, you will feel the sweet spot. Riding a wheelie is almost effortless. If you’re exerting yourself, you’re working too hard.
The wheelie is the trick you will base all other tricks on. Once you have mastered it, you can practice “coaster wheelies”. (A sit down wheelie while not pedaling, usually performed down hill). Once you learn the coaster wheelie, you should try “manuals”. Manuals are easily mistaken with coater wheelies, but they’re much harder. Basically a manual is a stand up coaster wheelie.

Ferruccio Lamborghini

Ferruccio Lamborghini was born in Italy in 1916. He was fascinated with engines from an early age. During World War II he joined the army and was stationed on the island of Rhodes. Fortunately there was little going on there during the war.  The island was essentially isolated from the rest of the world. Any cars, trucks or motorcycles that broke down had to be repaired on the spot with reused parts.  Lamborghini became known as a wizard at mechanical improvisation and became very much in demand at fixing engines.
After the war he returned to his home near Modena in northern Italy and setup a small car and motorcycle repair shop.  He soon realized that there was a desperate need for tractors in the agricultural area in which he lived. He found he could build about one tractor a month from derelict military vehicles. As Italy’s economy grew demand for his high quality tractors started to grow. He began building his own tractor engines. His tractor business became very successful reaching a rate of over 400 a month in 1960. He soon looked at expanding the business and in 1960 began manufacturing heaters and air conditioning units for buildings as well as maintaining the tractor business. This too became very successful.
About this time Lamborghini started to get interested in developing a high performance car. He had owned Oscas, Maseratis and Ferraris but was always disappointed with them.  Particularly their engines. There is a now famous story about how he was frustrated with problems he had with a clutch in a Ferrari (a Ferrari 250 GT), and went to visit Enzo Ferrari who’s factory was nearby. Enzo had no time for a tractor manufacture and simply dismissed him. Lamborghini decided there was nothing Ferrari was doing he could not do better. He decided too build his own car with a V12 engine.  For the design he found a very talented engineer named Giampaolo Dallara who had previously worked on a Ferrari V12 engine.
The new engine had 4 cams, a short stroke and 4 big bore valves per cylinder.  It developed a surprising 350 HP. It was an all aluminum engine with a crankshaft supported by seven main bearings. These crankshafts were machined from SAE 9840 steel.  The connecting rods (12) were of SAE 4340 steel. The pistons were of forged aluminum. Each pair of camshafts were driven by their own half engine speed sprocket and silent chain.  This engine was really the prototype for all future Lamborghini engines. A body designed by Scaglione-Touring was used to house the engine.The Lamborghini “350 GTV” prototype was shown to the public on the Turin Auto Show of 1963. Sales started the following year. The car was called the 350 GT. It was a complete success.  Over 130 were sold.The future of Automobili Lamborghini looked very bright during the sixties. The 350 GT was succeeded by the 400 GT and then the  400 GT 2+2.  The 350 GT and 400 GT 2+2 made the Lamborghini name known throughout the world. With the funds coming in from these cars and his successful tractor business Ferruccio allowed his engineers to design and construction a new car – the Lamborghini Miura. The Miura made the Lamborghini name legendary. It was a car truly ahead of its time. It shocked even companies like Ferrari and Maserati.
The Miura was first shown on November 1965 at the Turin Auto Show by Ferruccio Lamborghini himself. Only the chassis was shown at the show, the engine was transversely mid-mounted, something up to then only seen in real F1 race cars. The design of the body was executed by Marcello Gandini in less than a year, and on the March 1966 Geneva Show it was completed and on display. It looked even better than in Turin. The car was very aggressively styled, and an appropriate name was chosen for it, the Miura, a name taken from the ferocious Spanish fighting bulls.  Again the car was a complete success.
This was followed in 1973 at the Geneva Auto Show when Lamborghini shocked the world again with his revolutionary LP400 Countach. Only a prototype was shown. Today it is difficult to realize the impact that car had on everybody at that time. Even now the car is a show stopper! The car at the show was painted in a bright red and with a black suede interior. It showed for the first time, the by now, famous, Lamborghini signature swing up doors. It also displayed unique vertically mounted rear air intakes to go with its powerful 4 Liter engine.
In 1974 disaster struck.  The Lamborghini tractor business received a major setback. A massive order for tractors to a south American country was cancelled. Lamborghini anticipating the demand, had previously upgraded the tractor factory to be able to build the numbers of tractors required. The company lost a lot of money over it. Compounding things also at this time was a series of labor problems at the factory. While his personal fortune was still considerable he decided to sell part of his share in the factory. Eventually the factory was taken over by Fiat.
During the seventies the company survived on sales of Miura’s. The car business started to be self sufficient and make money.  However Lamborghini eventually sold all his remaining stock in the company to a Swiss investor.  The company to this day still retains his name however.  Ferruccio Lamborghini died in February 1993 at the age of almost 76
The oil crisis of the 70′s started to made sales of high performance cars difficult.  Production art the factory was plagued with budget and parts supply problems.  People gave up waiting for cars with two year back orders. A wealthy Canadian, Walter Wolf,  played a major role is supporting Lamborghini and developing the Countach during these difficult times.
In 1978 the company declared bankruptcy. An Italian court was appointed to find a buyer.  A Swiss based group called the Mimran brother’s were able to save the factory. Patrick Mimran (one of the brothers),  in 1980 started to turn the company around. The Countach was developed further under him from the LP500 S right up to the impressive QuattroValvole. .
Just as things were going well, the Mimran brothers sold the company to Chrysler Corporation.  This was a big surprise at the time.  Chrysler support however was just what the company needed at that time. They were working on a Countach successor –  the Diablo. Chrysler kept the winning team together in Italy. While the cultures of the two companies were different and things got stressful between the management groups, they did succeed in bringing the vast resources of Chrysler to bear on the  design, pollution controls, and new manufacturing techniques etc. for the new car.
Again the result was an outstanding success. The new Lamborghini Diablo got rave reviews everywhere it went.  However in another twist of faith, in 1994 Chrysler fell upon hard times and had to sell the company. It was bought by an Indonesian investment group headed by Tommy Suharto of the well known Suharto family.  Unfortunately in the late 90′s an economical crisis started to hit the Indonesian owners hard and the much needed money for research on a successor to the Diablo started to dry up.
Fortunately the German company Audi had an interest in Lamborghini. On August 4 1998, in a complex series of transactions Audi AG became the sole owner of Automobili Lamborghini. As in the case of the Chrysler buyout, this could not have been a better time for Lamborghini. Audi took an active role in designing the Murcielago and brought to the table again the vast resources of a major automobile company to develop and produce another exotic car.
Lets hope this is the last chapter of ownership changes in this unique little Italian car company.  It is to the credit of the people there that they have hung in to all the changes of ownership they have experienced over the years and yet produced such exciting cars.

Fiat Bugster

Most cars designed to protect the environment look, at best, well-meaning, at worst, plain dull, but as might be expected when a group of Brazilians and Italians got together to produce a car under the “Environment and Fun” banner they came up with the Fiat Bugster – an off-road car designed to make saving the planet outrageous fun.
For a start, the Fiat Bugster is all-electric and capable being charged at home. But, for a technical first, the Bugster is not so much mid-engined, as mid-batteried. The 93 Lithium-Ion batteries, being the heaviest part of the drivetrain, have been mounted in the middle of the car to provide optimum weight distribution to achieve the best level of handling and roadholding – issues that usually don’t trouble the minds of people designing hybrids and electric cars.

To make the most of its 59 kW and 220 Nm of torque, the electric engine is mated to the same Dualogic sequential manual gearbox as used in the Fiat Punto, so as to provide a sporty response and yet more fun.
Beyond the engine and the bright green paint there are many more ingenious ideas – the tools in the tool kit are made from recycled plastic reinforced with natural sisal fibres; the seats are made from foam produced with 30 per cent recycled soya bean oil and body panels use clay that had been modified by nanotechnology to make it suit able for car bodywork use.

Entirely built by Fiat’s Brazilian division, the Bugster makes its world debut this week (30 October 2008) at the Sao Paulo Motor Show and is the latest in Fiat’s long history of environmental advanced cars. Fiat, for example, produce for the Latin American market the first car to be able to run on four different fuels, the Fiat Siena Tetrafuel, which uses pure ethanol, a petrol/ethanol blend, pure petrol or compressed natural gas. Not only is this unique car capable of running on each of the four fuels, it automatically switches to whichever energy source is most suitable for the driving demands being placed on it

How To do A Burnout

Burnouts with cars are where the wheels spin, often causing a large amount of smoke, but the car does not move until the driver “pops” the car into motion. Burnouts are also known as brake burns, roll-backs and wheel-spins, depending on the technique. Heat caused by the inability of the tires to gain traction with the road, and instead suffer extreme friction causes a lot of squealing, smoke and burnt rubber.
Burnouts began in drag racing where there was a real reason for them: Drag racing tires must be heated before a race and a burnout is the best way to accomplish this goal. Burnouts also help clean drag racing tires, which is where the two strips of rubber on the pavement come from. Today, burning out has become an art in itself and competitions are held worldwide.
Burning out a regular car is a whole other matter, and cannot be done well in any old car (especially four cylinders) as they typically do not have the power/weight and torque dynamics, and obviously have the wrong kind of tires. Doing a burnout on street tires makes a lot of smoke, removes layers of expensive rubber, and accomplishes nothing of dynamic significance besides enjoyment. It can be done though,

Steps

1. Find out if you have a front wheel drive (FWD) or a rear wheel drive (RWD) car.
2. Check your hand brake, also known in slang as an E-brake, is functioning well.

Front Wheel Drive Cars

1. Put the car in first gear.
2. Hold in the clutch.
3. Rev. the engine.
4. Pull on the handbrake. Alternatively, you can skip this step.
5. Release the clutch.
6. Move the handbrake up and down to control the burnout.
7. To stop the burnout ease off the accelerator and free the brake.

Rear Wheel Drive Cars

1. Do a Basic RWD Burnout.
   1. Lightly hold down the brake with your left foot.
   2. Push the accelerator until the car moves forward a tiny bit.
   3. At the same time floor the gas and press the brake harder.

Manual Rear Wheel Drive Cars

1. 1. Depress the clutch, and rev the engine.
   2. In one quick motion, “dump” the clutch and press the brake pedal while flooring the gas.

1. Use a line locker. A line locker is a device that modifies a car so the brake pedal only engages the front brakes. This dangerous and usually illegal device makes burnout on RWD cars easier and more dramatic. A line lock is a solenoid (fancy name for a switch) that gives you some extra buttons in the drivers seat to control your brakes. To do a burn out with a line locker installed:
   1. Step on the brakes.
   2. Push the line lock button.
   3. Release the brake pedal leaving your front brakes on and disengaging your back brakes, leaving those wheel free to spin, burn and make smoke.
   4. Release the line lock button to release the front brakes and move forward.
2. Do a donut. A doughnut (donut in the USA) is a circular burnout. To do a donut in RWD cars:
   1. Find a large open area with no other cars, lampposts or other things you can hit. It is easy to lose control of a car with a donut.
   2. Begin driving in slow circles.
   3. Hit the gas hard so that the rear tires begin to lose traction.
   4. You will burn around in a circle.

Rollbacks

1. A rollback is just like a burnout, but performed on a hill. They are a good way to get a burnout in an underpowered car as the backward movement helps with traction after the burn.
   1. Find a hill.
   2. Put the car in first.
   3. Depress the clutch.
   4. Let the car roll backwards down the hill.
   5. Give the car plenty of gas.
   6. Pop the clutch.

Peel-Out

1. A Peel-Out is when the driver spins the wheels on the road before moving. This is a lesser form of burnout, because the intention is not to cause excessive tire wear, but merely to spin the wheels and create a little squeal. Peel-Outs are far easier and less dangerous to your car than a burnout. To perform the Peel-Out:
   1. Depress the clutch with the car in gear.
   2. Rev the engine high while releasing the clutch.
   3. Peeling-Out is often accomplished simply by flooring the gas pedal. This will not work in cars with small engines.

   
   
   

Tips

• If the engine stalls you haven’t revved the car high enough before popping the clutch, or your vehicle doesn’t have the power to burnout.
• To test if your car has enough power nail the gas from a stopped position and see if you can spin the tires.
• An alternative to a line lock is a “Brake Clamp”. Designed to clamp off a brake line when being worked on, these can also be used to shut off the rear brakes thus allowing only the front brakes to function when the pedal is depressed. Note: most cars have a steel brake line from the brake booster to the rear of the car, the area to put the brake clamp is a short length of rubber hose that attached to the Differential. (some cars have two separate brake lines, one for each side, in which case two brake clamps are required.
• Try changing your tires. The worse your tires are the easier it is to make them spin, plus they smoke easier and you will not ruin your good tires.
• Increase the amount of smoke by lubing your drive tires with old motor oil.
• It can help to give the tires a quick powerful spin before pulling the e-brake (front wheel drive only).
• Pouring bleach on the area where you plan to burnout will help create more smoke.

Warnings

• Always wear a seatbelt, and not just for safety but for acceleration.
• Give any passengers the option to get out before you do this.
• Burnouts are illegal in almost all municipalities. In Australia you can lose your car. In the USA, especially in California, there are a large variety of infractions that you can be cited with by an officer for burning your car, all included under the Exhibition of Speed laws including:
  • Dry Reckless – California Vehicle Code§ 23103
  • Wet Reckless
  • Off street Parking — As defined in subdivision (c) of Section 12500.
  • Unsafe Turning Movement (U-Turn Burnout or Donut)
  • Unsafe starting/backing of vehicle — California Vehicle Code§ 22106
  • Disorderly conduct with a vehicle — California Vehicle Code §23103
  • Unsafe Start
  • And many more. Each of these infractions is a two-pointer moving violation with no chance of correction by traffic school.
• Never!!! try to “Pop” the transmission in an automatic car! By revving the engine in neutral and jamming it into gear your transmission box.
• You can easily destroy or seriously damage a car by doing any of these things.
• Holding the brakes while gassing the engine is not that bad for your brakes; it is terrible for your engine, however.
• Watch where you’re going so you don’t hit someone.
• Watch how much rubber is on your tires so you don’t have a blowout.
• Check your tire pressure after each burnout.
• You may cause an axle to break if you try a burnout.
• You may destroy your clutch if done incorrectly.

Things You’ll Need

• A car with enough power and appropriate gearing to overcome the traction from the driving wheels.
• Driving skill.
• Good tires you don’t mind destroying.
• A tarmac surface, not sand, gravel or grass.