Burnout fail

I need to find a nice secluded place to practice the line lock setting.

Went through the water box and tried, but it failed and gave an error. I then tried manual burn outs and the car died on 3 attempts. Said screw it and ran on cold, new, slicks.

What kind of potential do you see if I can get the 60 into normal ranges?

60 = 2.30
330 = 5.45
1/8 = 7.88
1/8 MPH = 99.25

Was super bummed and only got that one pass. Waited in the staging lanes for 2 hours for it and wasn't going to do that again.

Make sure you turn off Advanced TC by holding up for 5 seconds on the TC switch. Are you doing the burnout in 1st or 2nd?

isedawishy said:

I need to find a nice secluded place to practice the line lock setting.

Went through the water box and tried, but it failed and gave an error. I then tried manual burn outs and the car died on 3 attempts. Said screw it and ran on cold, new, slicks.

What kind of potential do you see if I can get the 60 into normal ranges?

60 = 2.30
330 = 5.45
1/8 = 7.88
1/8 MPH = 99.25

Was super bummed and only got that one pass. Waited in the staging lanes for 2 hours for it and wasn't going to do that again.

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Drive around the water box and back into it, don't drive through it. Disable traction control and Advance Trac before activating the line lock. Do the burnout in 2nd gear, because wheel speed is key to getting the tires hot.

Once you do all that, your car is capable of some low, low 7 second passes with your mph. Hell, I've ran 6.80s at 96 mph before (that was with a 1.40 60ft in a fox body...not really an apples to apples comparison).

If you can get 60 ft times in the low 1.6 range, you might break into the 6's on a good pass... the mph is there.

Yes, everything was completely disabled.

With the line lock I think I didn't hold the brake long enough so it errored out. I honestly don't know what happened with the manual burn outs.

I first tried 2nd gear, then tried 1st and 1st again. I've had manuals before and been down the track, so it's just odd.

my linelock is a pain in the ass to use at the track so I just hold the brake lightly In second gear and do a burnout.
I've never gotten linelock to work at the track.

09jsw said:

my linelock is a pain in the ass to use at the track so I just hold the brake lightly In second gear. I've never gotten it to work at the track.

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It's interesting you mention lightly as I was hammering down on them pretty hard when I tried manual burnouts. I wonder if the Brembos were overpowering the spin, causing the car to die?

isedawishy said:

It's interesting you mention lightly as I was hammering down on them pretty hard when I tried manual burnouts. I wonder if the Brembos were overpowering the spin, causing the car to die?

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Well nobody but the gt350 or people with aftermarket rears have rear brembo.
Just gotta learn to modulate the brakes. Doing a burnout using brakes only is incredibly easy so maybe you had tcs on.

I put my car 16 Auto GT into Track mode and tried to powerbrake a burnout and traction control took over. Weird because when you put it into Track mode it says Traction control is OFF. I just put in first and powerbraked a quick burnout.....no DRs just street tires. I didnt even bother with the line lock since I had street tires.

I normally have it at the apply brake pressure stage when I am two cars behind at the track. It doesn't seem to timeout from that step and it will save you a little headache

isedawishy said:

It's interesting you mention lightly as I was hammering down on them pretty hard when I tried manual burnouts. I wonder if the Brembos were overpowering the spin, causing the car to die?

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You only have Brembos up front regular gt brakes on the rear.

I have the same problem at the track with mine. Weird. I can do it on the street no problem.

I have tried many times at the track to get that line lock to work ... works on the street , works on the return road at the track ...But when I try it in the burn out box it just gives me a error message .. I gave up a long time ago and just foot brake the burn out ..