I wasn't sure exactly sure where to post this, but car talk seems to by the best place for this.

My friend wants to take a burnout video and picture and send the picture into Sport Compact Car for the burnout of the month spot. Someone at my school said that if you pour bleach (probably mixed with water) all over the road, it will make tons of white smoke and look like you are spinning the tires way more then you actually are. I was just wondering if anyone has ever tried this, because bleach is pretty strong, and I was thinking that it might not be good for the tires, and my fiend doesn't want to buy new tires.

By the way, he drives a 91 MR2 Turbo running 15 pounds of boost.

 

I heard it's good to wash your car with the bleach\water solution too.

 

bleach will work, but 've never used it with my own car. As for buying new tires - why does he think doing a massive smoky burnout without bleach isn't going to take huge amounts of rubber off his tires?

Have your friend buy the cheapest tires he can find that will fit - cheap tires = huge smoky burnouts. Use junkyard steel wheels to mount them. More expensive performance tires have rubber compounds that are resistant to heat, so they make poor burnout tires. Doing long smoky burnouts results in big chunks of rubber coming off the tires - there will be a pile of tire rubber behind his tires (and stuck to his fender) when he is done. Doing this with quality performance tires is just dumb, unless they are ready to be replaced anyway. Even then, cheap tires work best.

 

^ , and put some masking tape under the wheel well and on the rear quarterpanel behind the rear wheels, it'll make the cleaning process alot easier.

 

doesn't bleach get onto your paint if you do burnouts?

 

I'd imagine it also gets into your nose and kills brain cells.

 

Which contributes to more bleach and burnouts in the middle of the road.

 

What's really cool is Kuhmo tires made a tire that produces red smoke. They're going to market it for drifting compeitions.

 

if he wants to win.. he need to buy new tires after he's done... otherwise it's a waste

 

Personally I think burnout competitions are dumb. It's a waste of tires, and just about any car can be made to burn out if handled correctly.

To me, it's a tired, obsolete display.