how do you make your tires spin and kick up smoke?

Question

i was wondering, i thought you hold in the brake and press the gas, but thats not working

Answer 1

Doing what you are doing is wreaking havoc on your brakes not to mention everything in your drive train... you are acting like a kid. I will tell you how to smoke your tires but understand that smoking the tires is just screaming to everybody that you have no traction. If you go to the drag races, the drivers smoke their tires at the starting line to heat the rubber to gain traction. The only way they get these tires to slip is from wetting the track surface! Check it out, you will see a big wet spot where they do this. No driver wants to smoke their tires at the start of the race... when they do, they lose. Simple as that.

You don't say if you are doing this with a front wheel drive car or a rear wheel so let's talk about both...

Front wheel drive: This one's easy... make sure your parking brake works well and lock up the rear tires with the parking brake. Dump the clutch or slam it into drive while hitting the throttle and ONE wheel will spin.

Rear wheel drive: Buy a kit that allows you to lock up the front tires only. Then do the same thing as described for front wheel drive to spin ONE tire.

http://www.motorsportsdigest.com/tech/install2.htm

I say one tire because, unless you have positraction or a limited slip differential, the tire that loses traction first will be the only one smoking.

Another trick is to turn the car so the weight shifts to one side which lightens the other side and let's it break traction easier.

My bet is that you will break down and your ride will leave you walking... that's what I am hoping for. If it doesn't then someday, you will smoke that tire but for some reason it will grab something and throw you forward out of control where you will undoubtedly crash or hurt someone, yourself or both.

Act responsibly and do this kind of stuff at the track. It's actually pretty cheap as spectators love watching people destroy daily drivers!

Answer 2

Drag racers used to call the burnout area "The Bleach Box" because many racers used a mixture of 50/50 bleach and water to heat up their tires before a drag race. The bleach also "conditioned the hard compound drag slicks of the era. The practice was done away with after the development of better drag tires with softer tread compounds. But ... back in the day ... bleach burnouts were awesome.... the bleach water would heat up and make a huge gray/white smoke cloud. Try pouring a puddle of bleach water on the pavement and spin your tires in it.

Answer 3

My 6.0 Liter 421 rear wheel horse power will burn the tires down to the rims but I don't. Drifting is such a waste of tires too. Sure takes skill and car control to drift. But what I am into is fast lap times at my local track in a street legal car. 2006 Pontiac GTO sixspeed

Answer 4

My car only has a 1.3 litre engine, its a ford KA and i can make it wheel spin! Keep the handbrake on and pump the accelerator a bit and then floor it as you release the handbrake! That normally works for me! They don't smoke though as they don't spin enough due to the small engine!

Answer 5

My asinine neighbour used to have his friends hold the rear end of his car up above the pavement while he floored the engine, then drop the car. The tires sure smoked doing that! Maybe your group of friends is just as stupid?

Answer 6

Try some water and bleach and a parking brake. If the vehicle is rear wheel drive, then try some water and bleach and some engine upgrades.

Answer 7

Get more power out of you engine. Just nail it and the tires will amke all the smoke you want. Thank you for your business

Answer 8

Then you got to take off real fast. But be carefull. Better to be safe then sorry. God Bless!

Answer 9

you need to have a car with enough horsepower, i dont think mommy,s station wagon gonna do it

Answer 10

If that doesn't work, your engine isn't powerful enough to do it.