Before everyone says, don't be a f'in idiot, you didn't buy a porsche to peel out, I tried to do it twice this last weekend with the traction control off. All I got was a very stinky clutch and a slow take off, with very slight tire spin. Are these cars hard to spin the tires from a start bc of the engine weight in the back?

Definitely not doing it again as I smelled 500 dollars of clutch in my nightmares that night, but would like to hear some opinions as what I did wrong, or if it's at all possible.

Thanks,

 

The car doesn't make a ton of torque. It has large, meaty tires. 63% of the weight is over the rear wheels.

Attempting burnouts is just going to put strain on powertrain components. Doing them at all is simply "doing it wrong."

 

I would agree, don't do it! A burnout is not what Porsche designs the car for. Try sitting it in your Garage...it is a better garage queen then burn out monster

 

the only ways to get the rear to break loose...

1.) in the rain
2.) hard acceleration from a stand still (clutch already engaged) and turn sharply in either direction...


any other way will kill you car in a hurry... and a clutch job is around $3000-4000

not to mention half shafts or any number of other things that can go boom!

 

When done right it looks like this:
Launch BURNOUT

 

Trundle, still very minimal wheel spin and I heard the clutch burn a little. Bottom line, everyone's responses seem to confirm my belief that it's not easy and not recommended. How much damage do you think I did by doing that twice?

 

But look on the bright side, at least you could lighten your flywheel when you are in there fixing things. That mod hasn't been talked about to death on this forum

 

Buy a supercharger, light them up all day

 

How will that make a difference?

 

oh god

dude seriously.... your kidding right?

 

I had a 993 , 3.6 engined race car .. I did to 3.8, did lots of mods, including lightened flywheel. The flywheel mod was the only one I hated, I kept stalling on take off unless I had my foot buried deep in the throttle. Felt like I had an on off switch.. Perhaps will all the other mods my engine was to finicky.

 

I think he means how will it make a difference in not damaging the drivetrain. Answer: I will toast everything that much faster (not only tires, but half-shafts and clutch as well). And...you'll have the added benefit of paying out-of-pocket too - no chance of warranty coverage for the broken parts.

 

What I meant is: if the reason Carreras are not designed to spin the tires is because of the wide tires AND the weight distribution being mostly on the rear, then adding more power would not alleviate either of those 2 issues. I guess if you have enough power it would compensate those 2 issues.

 

No burnouts for me but I found thiis 996tt video which has the car going sideways .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvWXU...elated&search=

 

That car had no problem breaking traction even though it is 4 wheel drive. Maybe I'm too big of a wuss and didn't rev high enough or drop the clutch hard enough. In any event, not gonna try it again...