tavish_g

I can get one spinning pretty good right now, and i have stock gears, when i lock my axles i plan on putting in 4.56 gears. Will this be enough to do a nice posi burnout or will I have to wait till after the stroker? I know it sounds dumb, but i miss my camaro's ability to do a hellish burnout with two nice black marks.

MallCrawlXJ

it will prob not burn out once it is locked. (4.7 stroker, yes) your little 1310 u-joints really wont like it when you try either.


here is a little story.

i was sitting a a stop light in my last full width xj (on 37's) and a teenage kid pulled up next to me in a pretty nice xj on 35's. he started to rev his engine like we were gonna race. it sounded like he had a v8 under the hood.

little did he know, i have grown out of that crap.

when the light turned green i saw a huge plume of smoke start to roll off his tires. he got half way thru the intersection, i was just now starting to roll forward, shifted into second gear, and heard a huge pow! then all of the sudden, his tire, with the entire axle came shooting out of his axle housing and kept on rolling right past him as his jeep slammed to the ground and stopped instantly. (29 spline chryco 8.25)

i rolled right on past him, laughing my **** off. i pulled over right after i passed him to help retrieve his axle and tire. i got to talking to him, and he had just built a 4.7 stroker and thought he would race another jeep to see how it did. well, engine sounded great right until the big snap.


jeeps arnt made to do burn outs. leave that to the muscle cars and ricers unless you like broken parts.

tavish_g

but don't you need that kind of ability in order to climb rocks?

jmm0122

No, burnouts on rocks are exactly how you axles get snapped like twigs. As hudfabxj said, let the muscle cars handle the burnouts. Thats something a jeep was not meant to do. On a side note 35's cost a lot of money so why waste them on doing burnouts?

96_xj

for rocks you need a good crawl ratio so you can modulate the power as needed

tavish_g

ahh ok, my mistake. I guess once the jeeps mostly finished i will start on a v8 s10 or just build another f-body. Thanx!

razor02097

IMO brake stand burnouts with anything other than a drag racing slick is pointless. If I could afford 35's I sure as heck wouldn't waste them doing a burnout looking like a tool.

hal93

My shiddd spins like a mug and I have 3.07 gears in my stock 8.25. I also have a 5speed. And a limited slip. Lolzz don't waste ur tires on burnout though save tem fir mud.

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hal93

Not really in fact if u have a good radial it works quite well.

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razor02097

See that's the thing... I put line lock in my Camaro specifically for burnouts in the burnout box. Turns out even with a drag radial if you heat it up using a tire blanket then just do a brief spin to clean it out you launch just as well as if you did a good smokey burnout. Plus the tires last 100 times longer.

In hindsight I think that line lock would have been better served hooked to the clutch than the front wheels...

hal93

Eah. U don't even need a line lock or a trans break. Lolz. Just a good radial and some stick track.

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razor02097

I don't need a trans brake because it's a manual

hal93

I know but if it was an auto I meant.

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motox168

My xj welded front and rear with the ford factory 3.54's (right after 8 lug swap I wanted To wheel and gears hadnt come it yet) turned the 35s real nice on the rocks semi stock motor, 35s and and a 60 I let the smoke roll on the rocks and never worrky about breaking a shaft

razor02097

Typically just spinning the tire on a rock isn't going to break an axle... It just means you have power to the tire that exceeds the available traction. Unless it either binds the drive line or starts hopping. The binding is like trying to turn a stuck bolt with a large breaker bar... It might snap but if you are skilled enough to recognize when enough is enough you can back off and try something else. But the constant loading and unloading of the drive line during wheel hopping is like hitting said stuck bolt with an impact... The chances of it breaking go way way up.