Burnout?

[C and W Racing]

Originally Posted by skj283

my car tends to go sideways if i dont get a good amout of water on both tires or if one tire is sitting in water and one isnt when you start. i zip the motor going through the water so the entire circumfence is covered in water. once i started doing that it helped my car stay straighter. just watch and make sure someone doesnt roll through the water and then another ten feet forward. if you line up in their water tracks they leave it tends to create a funky burnout. generally going sideways is from one tire taking more heat quicker than the other is what i'm getting at.

I see a lot of people do that and that is one practice I don't believe in. I will roll through the water as slow as I can so I dont push water out of the water box and then I will pull completely past where it stops. Thats where having a 2 step comes in handy because you can mat the throttle without over reving the engine and be able to get the wheel speed up. The biggest reason I don't believe in spinning the tires in the water box is because what goes up must come down. As you spin the tires the water coming off of your tires is sprayed all into your tubs or wheel wells. Well its only natural that the water is going to drip back down onto your tires at some point, usually after you have staged and up on the 2 step with the car at a nice steady vibration shaking the water back down. Just my 2 cents worth
Chuck