Camaro Ripped Open Like a Tin Can by a Tire Explosion

bigbad4runner
Feb 22, 2010 at 7:41 am

if it wasnt a one wheel peel he might REALLY be fucked lol

Clovr21
Feb 21, 2010 at 11:16 pm

WOW. Anyone else see the guy walk up w/ the beer and make the dumb comment? Haha

s-10MONSTER
Feb 21, 2010 at 9:28 pm

all I got to say is…that was pretty stupid! and you know it was when you look at the owner of the car, he looked/felt pretty damn stupid!!

SouthernGuy8503
Feb 20, 2010 at 2:41 pm

ya i know, the car is strong because you see how fast it took all that smoke to form, if it was Posi it would have been the same amoutn of smoke just divided in half. my truck is limited slip with the auto locker in it, its the G80 axle that GM has. so its usually limited slip but then it will lock into posi, it doesn’t take long to lock in posi either and you don’t feel it. like i said in the other post i used to do burnouts all the time, sometimes it would start off in limited slip then in the middle of power braking it would lock in posi and both would start smoking and other times i’d lock it in posi so both wheels smoked the whole time. all you do is back up a little then i drive forward a little, then its locked. also correct me if im wrong i think GM is the only manufactorer that has AUTO locking diffs, i know yoya has the electronic sh*t that you have to do it yourself, i’d rather it be auto because the switch or wiring can get messed up and then you don’t have posi when you need it, the auto lockers in a G80 rear end locks instantly when it feels slipping

GTwildfire
Feb 20, 2010 at 1:38 pm

The problem with the one-legger is simple (and this is my gripe)… The car was strong, you could just hear it wasn’t a POS. When you have a lot of horsepower and the objective is speed, your car is only as good as its ability to take that power and transfer it into motion. To make the most of the horsepower, you need TWO wheels pushing back there.

WickedS13
Feb 20, 2010 at 11:00 am

And a limited slip differential in the 2.0 way flavor is the same as posi for all you muscle heads out there.

WickedS13
Feb 20, 2010 at 10:57 am

Souther guy is right, its a one wheel wonder becaus eit has an open deferential. And your right Gt wildfire, in the sense that people who dont know anything about there car would go out and expect an open dif car to spin both wheels, but it has nothing to do with driver skill, just a mechanical limitation.

EricShoHo
Feb 20, 2010 at 7:44 am

WOW pushed the wheel well through the fender…what devistation…old tire?and what kind of tire was that any way…I could only make out 4000 in the lettering.

XTZTwinTurbo
Feb 19, 2010 at 10:51 pm

How fitting. People in the crowd yell, getterdun’

2digits
Feb 19, 2010 at 9:13 pm

A great example of GM’s engineering prowess. One tire fire

Retox
Feb 19, 2010 at 5:04 pm

suck………… shit!
hahahahaa

KustomKiely
Feb 19, 2010 at 12:47 pm

Good thing it was a one wheel wonder otherwise he may be replacing the whole car.

Wolf360
Feb 19, 2010 at 9:56 am

OMG

SouthernGuy8503
Feb 18, 2010 at 11:29 pm

well different contest use different things, maybe some contests don’t use anything so people have to power brake it
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and ya it sucks to do a one wheel peel but the car has power, ya i was wrong about the totaling thing so i admit i was wrong but thats only because i didn’t read any of the description. but it does have power because look at what the car made 1 tire to, and thats a 3rd gen camaro and those body parts ain’t exactly weak, so ya the camaro has power, if it didn’t have power then guess what the tire wouldn’t have been going the speed to even cause that much damage to a car body thats no weak body. so im still wondering why you think just because it did a 1 wheel peel because of a limited slip diff that it has no power, the type of differential rather its limtied slip or posi has nothing to do with the HP of the car, just depends on rather its 1 wheel or 2 that gets the power. also some axles like the one in my truck is limited slip but then locks into posi, most likely the axle just didn’t lock into posi before the tire blew. and trust me i know because i used to do burnouts all the time, sometimes i’d lock it before the burnout and both tires would smoke and other times i wouldn’t lock it so it would start off doing a 1 wheel peel then it would lock in posi so both would start smoking. and by the way having to lock up the front wheels would mean it might have too much power to jsut power brake it, ever think of that?

brad_jolly
Feb 18, 2010 at 10:36 pm

and by the way, why even participate in a burnout comp is you are only able to do a one wheel burnout when that causes a less dramatic burnout??

brad_jolly
Feb 18, 2010 at 10:35 pm

yea i understand that is “what they do” but ive been to a few burnout contest where the cars with more power dont have to use chalks or cement walls to initiate the burnout. and the description says the he totaled the car.

GTwildfire
Feb 18, 2010 at 3:45 pm

Oooooh my god. That was pretty devastating, mainly cause the tire hung on ans slapped the rear quarter and back window, but it really did a number on the sheet metal.
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I hate one-leggers. The only excuse for them is that clueless drivers who spin the rear at least won’t end up spinning out but they are really really NOT for me… and I’d be too embarrassed to enter a burnout contest until that was fixed.
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Maybe the tire was 6 years old or more? Supposedly they’re more vulnerable to tread separation and catastrophic failure, even if they never been mounted.

SouthernGuy8503
Feb 18, 2010 at 12:44 pm

brad – hope you realize thats at a burnout contest, thats what they all do. they put chalks at the front wheels (he didn’t lock them up) and water down the surface (just like in a burnout pit at a drag strip) and let it go. and it didn’t total the car, it just messed up the fender and rear window it looks like. also it was a one wheel burnout because its a little thing called a limited slip differential. so really all your “fails” is your fail, sorry lol

brad_jolly
Feb 18, 2010 at 11:45 am

lock up the front wheels b/c you dont have enough power = fail
water down the rear wheels = fail
one wheel burnout = fail
total your car from tire explosion = fail

this has fail written all over it