Anyone doing a 2nd gear burnout in there track pack mustang?I only have 800 miles on my 14' GT so before i beat on it too bad it would be nice to know if it's ok to do.

 

I hit 10,000 last weekend on my 2013 GT w/ the Brembo Package. Did my first burnout too. did a 2nd gear burner.

 

WOW that is some awesome restraint!!? 10,000 miles before?!? I thought I was good at 1,500 miles! :-)

 

Yeah, my 2005 GTO was on it's THIRD set of rear tires by 16,000 miles. I also live in the Washington DC bubble. It's not like there's oodles of free open country road for me to do that stuff. Usually the car is barely driven Mon-Fri as I commute to work now, otherwise before it was sitting in traffic during the week, and then we'd get out of town and go on nice trips on the weekends.

I've been wanting to get crazy, but it's not in the cards.

Heck last weekend was also the first time I tested the 1/4 mile in track apps. I botched the launch and somehow managed to botch the 1-2 shift so I aborted that run. I'm glad that it's a vert, and I can't run it at the track, I'd be way more inclined to go nuts with it.

 

Every time I warm up my drag radials at our local dragstrips, I do a 2nd gear burnout. Probably done it a few hundred times now, at least. Heck, on the street I light 'em up on the 2-3 shift fairly often when I'm out having some fun in the back country. These cars are certainly built to handle our abuse!

 

I always thought my GTO was, yet it spun a rod bearing at 17k due to oil consumption, snapped the driveshaft bolts to the trans at the track at 27k, broke the tailshaft on the T-56 due to poorly balanced driveshaft at 30k, and then I replaced the rear end at 35k due to the bad driveshaft killing the input bearings. I kept the other rear to load with 3.91s and a better diff but never got around to it.

Later I had a valvespring failure around 85k in the built motor, and cut my losses and sold it last May.

 

That's just the way it is when you are having fun with your car Danielle. Stuff breaks, you fix it, more stuff breaks, same cycle. Then you get an awesome vert and things change a little.

 

OMG, You guys spin the tires? That's abuse I would never do that... HeHeHe

 

I share your pain. DC is flat, congested, and full of LEOs (understandably).

When I lived in upstate NY there were lots of sleepy state/country roads that wound through the landscape; you'd just come across these gems randomly driving around. I can't remember the last time I came across a nice driving road anywhere near DC in MD.

Honestly, I think it's why I got bored of my last car. Without twisties to drive it on, or winter snow to play in, the WRX had all the daily-driving charm of a Civic. At least the Mustang makes V8 noises and can countenance the occasional stoplight standing start and rip through the first couple gears.

 

Bethesda? yeah, you understand, we share the Glenmont/Shady Grove Red Line. Every morning it's drive the mile to the metro, get dropped off, hit the red line to Farragut North and walk half a mile down to 18th/G, do my time, reverse the process. Unless my fiancee is up to anything from home (also works within two blocks from me in the area, but govt. employees can freely do telework) the car might see 25 miles on it at most Mon-Fri

If I want to get anywhere to be out of the bubble and to less congested roads, it'll take me at least half an hour to get to that point.

I love living/working in the DC bubble, but man it sucks for car enthusiasts.

 

Awesome!Thanks for the info guys.How about friggin wheel hop?It was raining out so i got on it in first gear around a bend a little(with t/c off) and wow!! that was the first time i experienced wheel hop.My fox never did that ha ha.

 

Haven't had wheel hop at all.

 

Do you dump the clutch or just mash it when its in gear?

 

Clutch dump of course, that's the only way to do a burnout

 

Not in a 500

 

yeah, you can also put it in reverse and dump the clutch. didn't think of that.

 

I replaced my Upper Control Arm with a Steeda Adjustable to remove a great percentage of wheel hope.
http://www.steeda.com/store/steeda-m...ntrol-arm.html

 

Help me, Steeda brackets, you're my only hope.

 

I got the roush anti-hop uca, no wheel hop.
Danielle i came from a 2005 GTO as well, not gonna lie i miss it, had it seven years.

 

Wheel hop sucks. It's my least favorite quirk about this car.