Burnouts ?

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Cerby_Mike

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129 posts

253 months

Saturday 15th November 2003
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With an auto box, if you hold the brakes with your left foot and stamp on the throttle with your right, how long before you toast the torque converter?

Cheers
Mike

LuS1fer

41,776 posts

252 months

Saturday 15th November 2003
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As long as the wheels are spinning, the torque converter should be fine. A line lock is required for best results so they spin freely without smoking the brakes. Judging by the Yank burnout contests, the tyres let go before anything else does.

Cerby_Mike

Original Poster:

129 posts

253 months

Sunday 16th November 2003
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Oh, OK. I ask because I saw an idiot do it before leaving a petrol station earlier. Thought I had heard that this will toast torque converter rather quickly.

Cheers
Mike