Where There's Smoke…

By John Coyle

Deputy Editor

Generally, the old adage about smoke and fire doesn’t hold true during burnouts, but unfortunately, in this case it did. From the intensity of this burnout, the motor underneath the hood of this little Civic must have had some grunt to it. Too bad it’s toast now…

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Posted at 1:01 am in Burnouts, Civic, Honda, John Coyle, StreetFirehp

Comments

satty12
Aug 8, 2009 at 5:31 pm

I may own a little four banger but this needs to be said leave the burnouts to the pro’s(big v8 rwd) nuff said.

LedZeppelin
Aug 6, 2009 at 7:08 pm

Funny…..I watched the Mythbusters try unsuccessfully to ignite a fire with hot rubber during a burnout. I think there were mitigating issues with the car. I think perhaps there might have been an oil leak, a spark from the electrical system under full load…perhaps a fuel pump ssiue…something else ignited the hot rubber, not just the friction…

2051150
Aug 5, 2009 at 4:41 am

what a waste of perfectly good beer!!!!!