White smoke from bleach..........but, if you want to smoke your tires (or a joke on a friend).......spray WD40 on the tires and the lubes them up good. Chris Nelson Kansas
Didnt bleech make the tires softer by actually breaking down the rubber a little bit? I thought gas burnouts were the most trad.
I've done more that my share of burnouts and bleach/water are the same. Save your $$$ on bleach for tires. P.S. Don't be a ***** about it, there's nothing better than your speedo saying 120 while your setting still.
Yep, other than that, no difference. No effect on the tires, no effect on the smoke. They went to water only, from the track's supply because everybody was brewing up their own secret sauce, and the water box and starting line became a big, slimy mess. It was simply a way to control it.
We used bleach a couple of times until we got a sponsorship from VHT. I know a lot of guys "monkeyed" around with fornulas back then. Fire burnouts were done with gasoline. On some cars, the header flames ignited the fumes. On others, a crew guy lit a match behind the car. Way cool to see but pretty dangerous. Mike
Several years ago I knew a guy that put a container in the trunk with bleach, and had some kind of pump wth spray nozzles directed at the rear tires. He could spray the tires and smokem at will.
Funny story, well now it is, at the time I felt like a real dumb *** ,but my kid thought it was the coolest thing in the world and he will always have that memory of him and his dad doing cool stuff with a hotrod. Anyway, I had a 31 roadster with a built nailhead and could do nice smokey burnouts without any water or bleach. Of course if would have made it easier on the drive train as I was about to find out We were at a huge cruise night in a town north of us. We got to the center of town and people were watering down the right lane and people were driving through and doing burnouts. I was in the left lane next to a late model Firebird doing a lame *** burnout in the water no less. Well I look at my kid and say "**** we don't need no water do we" I proceed to wind up the nail head and dump the clutch and BAM! the car didn't move an inch but sure got a lot of peoples attention. The front U-joint had taken enough abuse. Of course I'm feeling like a real idiot and had to push the car through a crowd of bystanders, some laughing and some cheering a few came over and helped me push it into a parking lot. All this time my kid is thinking this is the coolest thing in the world, I didn't quite see it that way at the time but looking back and knowing what a ******** hotrodder the kid turned into I guess I was worth the embarresment and h***le to get the car home from 50 miles away at 2 in the morning. SO, is there a moral to this story, not really, just reminded me of the time I SHOULD have used bleach or water and it wouldn't made a difference
Lighting conditions make it hard to decide which is mo' better. Clorox sure does look ploomy-er and whitey-er. Look at the little rivulets of smoke coming out where the fender meets the body, nice.... You gotta mean it when you do a fire burnout. I met a woman at a motel in Tombstone, AZ that told me she used to take photos in the early 70's of drag racing action. She said she's responsible for the famous shot of Big Daddy D.G.'s fire burnout. I thought that was pretty cool as I totally remember that. Anybody have that pic so as to post it here?
I guess it might have alittle to do with the amount of tread you will wear off The first pic is the tire that the BIG OLDS was using when she did the Water burn out. The second Pic is when she did the Bleach burnout Way more smoke and tread loss with he bleach. IT was worth the photos though
Great shots Rudy................. Sorry ...... In my opinion, from memory, the bleach one was thicker, whiter smoke but what do I know I'm just a girl.
I do know that bleach has a very high film strength. That is, it can maintain an unbroken film over a surface under high loads. So I suspect the difference in smoke is somehow related to the difference in lubricating properties of the two.
I understand the burnouts... cause if this was mine i'd grow a *****en mullet, but a tachometer the size of Flava Flav's clock on the dash, and just make my entire driving experience one big burly burnout everywhere. i'm not cheap shotting you either bro... im serious-- this car is meant to do major hesher burnouts. -scott noteboom
I don't know, is it?! In my pea brain, I thought it was from the left side of the car and straight up day time. Oh well, the woman's name was Ginger something err other.... Cool shot, that's for sure. See the fiery chunks of carbon (maybe burning rubber)? Hot, hot, hot.
ANTIFREEZE!!!! Back in my high school days we tried it all. Bleach, diesel fuel, water, etc. But we found that antifreeze worked the best. We would dump a gallon down in the morning and do burnouts then come out for lunch do some more burnouts and then after school we would still be doin burnouts. Antifreeze doesn't evaporate and is slicker than snot and cleanup is a breeze with just water. There were some days when the humidity was just right and we could still use it the next day. Of co**** maybe thats why my dad started measuring the tread depth on my tires and made some milage vs depth rules or the car was parked. Come to think of it he did log chain one of my cars up to a tree in the front yard for a month because the state wouldn't yank my license.
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