Originally posted by Captain Virgil Hilts
Not really. If you have drums, most often they are left loose, and if you have discs, they are most often turned down by the bias valve. Never burned a transmission up doing burnouts. If you DO NOT spin the tires, you might burn up the converter by generating too much heat from stalling it.
Or pop a transmission-cooler line and start a helluva fire.
I used to do a little bit of Bracket racing on Friday nights' at the track. Since there weren't many cars' entering, they used to run the 11.99 and faster guys' with all of us slower street cars. This resulted in some kinda wide-spread indexes. In the second round of that nights' eliminations, a guy in a Tubbed Vette with a 9.02 dial and all the boxes' pulled up to race a dude in an old Late '60's Chysler Imperial who had a 22.50 dial. The difference in the dial times, for those who aren't familiar with Bracket racing, is what is called an 'index'. Your 'Index' is what you claim your car will run in the 1/4 mile, starting as soon as your car breaks' the staging beam when you get the green. Anyway, the Corvette staged, and set his transbrake, linelock, delay box, etc. when the Imperial did. The Imperial get's his light, and goes. During all this time, The vet was run up against his Trans-brake, Bouncing off the rev-limiter, waiting for his tree. Since 22.50 (imperial) - 9.02 (Vette) = 12.98, The Corvette was riding the Trans-brake for an AWFULLY long time. As soon as he released, he popped the lines' off of his Tranny, Starting a fire that spread from under the hood of the 'Vette to inside of the Drivers' compartment. He got it pulled over at half-track and bailed out okay, But the 'Vette was pretty badly burned up.
It was kinda funny I remembered those' indexes, but they were what was found to be the root cause of the problem.
