How do you do a burnout in your car? Do you need a stick shift?

Answer 1

Hold the brake and at the same time mash out on the gas peddle until your tires start screetching and smoking, then let up off the brake FAST, while keeping your foot on the gas.

Answer 2

A stick shift is not necessary.
You do have to have a pretty powerful car, though. It is possible to do a burnout with a less than powerful car by doing what is called power-braking. You pretty much need a front wheel drive car to power-brake nowadays. You apply the parking brake, and put it in low gear, and mash the gas hard, careful not to over rev the engine, though.
I used to have a friend that had an old car, and the rear brakes weren't very good, so the front ones grabbed pretty good, and he could smoke the tires right off the car if he wanted to. He would do the longest burnouts. The only thing was, he kept popping tires. He finally figured that he would put a couple of spares, on rims, already aired up in the trunk for when he got a little carried away.
Anyways, with practice, you too can do a decent burnout with the right car.
Have fun, but stay away from the cops.... They don't like that sort of stuff.

Answer 3

To do this successfully the final drive (ring and pinion) ratio should be very low. Low 3's or 4's will be a start. If you have an automatic transmission a high stall speed torque converter will allow the engine RPM's to rev. higher before the torque converter engages the transmission.
You don't necessarily need a stick shift to do burnouts. A lot of torque and horsepower will do it every time along a "slippery" torque converter (if it's an automatic).

I had two Chevelle automatic turbo-hydo 400's with big blocks in the late 60's that would terrify people at stoplights. First of all they had by today's standards low numerical rear end gear ratios. That's where it was at those days. By standing on the brakes (disc front drum rear) and flooring the gas the rear wheels would violently spin causing white tire smoke to roll out of the fender wells and up the sides of the car. All the time the car was standing perfectly still. When the stoplight turned green they would come out of the hole like "jack the gd bear." Of course I had no brains or fear and had to replace the hard old wide oval glass belted tires often.

Answer 4

In a manual, just hold the clutch in, rev it up, and then dump the clutch. If you have an open differential, it works better. With a limited slip differential, generally the tires catch the ground a lot easier. On an automatic, like it has been said, use the e-brake and rev, then release e-brake. Burnouts are dumb though, go for better launches instead of ruining your tires. It may look cool to you and your friends, but no one else.

Answer 5

Why do you in the first place want to do a burnout in your car. Are you out to prove something or what. Besides that there is a chance you could wreck your car. Also your tires will not last that long.

Answer 6

don't know where you live but most states it is illegal to do a burn out charges called reckless driving and points taken but if you insist you don't have to have a manual trans just put it in drive and apply the brake give it gas and let it rip if it is front wheel drive just apply parking brake and give it gas but make sure no kids or people are around that includes the police and if you have not done it before try when it is raining to give the tires more slip or you can just put some Armour all on the ground to get it slippery good luck...

Answer 7

No, you don't need a stick shift. You need to hold the foot brake (a line lock is better) and rev up on the gas until the rear (rear-wheel drive vehicles) tires smoke. You probably want a rev limiter on as well so you don't toast the engine!

Answer 8

It helps. It can be done in an automatic, but you need a LOT of HP and torque to do it right. I'm talking about a rear-wheel drive vehicle.

Answer 9

You hafto be a badass and not drive a shitty Toyota or Honda. Stick doesn't matter.

Answer 10

u need a handbrake..