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1. Clorox ll (score: 1): Author: VEENET@aol.com; Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 16:06:10 EDT; OK , for us drag racing impared vintage racers, what does exactly the burn out accomplish? Heat up the tires? And what does clorox add to the equation? Lubrication?......Is wheel spin a good thing in; /html/vintage-race/2000-05/msg00181.html (7,100 bytes)
2. Re: Clorox ll (score: 1): Author: "Elton Clark" <lotus.tony@airmail.net>; Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 15:30:55 -0500; equation? Always heard the "Clorox" thing got started when gullibles saw crew using old Clorox jugs to water down the burn-out area . . . Clorox jugs were just plentiful trash.. Tony________________; /html/vintage-race/2000-05/msg00184.html (7,592 bytes)
3. Re: Clorox ll (score: 1): Author: Walt@chekov.mayfield.hp.com (Walt Boeninger); Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 13:58:16 PDT; [from "Elton Clark"] Hence the term "bleach box" -- Regards Walt Boeninger - Nor Cal SAAC 67 GT500 | 67 Shelby T-A #31 http://www.norcal-saac.org 71 Boss 351 | 97 5.0 Explorer mailto:walt_boeninger@h; /html/vintage-race/2000-05/msg00185.html (8,113 bytes)
4. Re: Clorox ll (score: 1): Author: Simon Favre <simon@mondes.com>; Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 14:30:44 -0700; The standard burnout at drag races is enhanced by getting Clorox on the tires. There's a shallow dip behind the staging area filled with it. The water makes the tires easy to break loose. The burnout; /html/vintage-race/2000-05/msg00186.html (8,646 bytes)
5. Re: Clorox ll (score: 1): Author: Jimmysmth@aol.com; Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 17:47:32 EDT; I'll bet it softens the tire temporarily giving better traction. Something like the slightly illegal but undetectable stuff you can get from some racing suppliers. Jim; /html/vintage-race/2000-05/msg00188.html (7,315 bytes)
6. Re: Clorox ll (score: 1): Author: Tombread@aol.com; Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 17:46:37 EDT; What began as a way to clean the tires became part of the starting line ritual. You can get the same smoking effect with water, which is what is used now. It is done mainly for the crowd-pleasing eff; /html/vintage-race/2000-05/msg00189.html (7,833 bytes)
7. Re: Clorox ll (score: 1): Author: Tombread@aol.com; Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 17:49:06 EDT; What began as a way to clean the tires became part of the starting line ritual. You can get the same smoking effect with water, which is what is used now. It is done mainly for the crowd-pleasing eff; /html/vintage-race/2000-05/msg00190.html (7,857 bytes)
8. Re: Clorox ll (score: 1): Author: Ccanepa50@aol.com; Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 19:26:54 EDT; i also believe in addition to all the above, after the tire warming burnout they back up perfectly over the burnout so the rubber tire to rubber-on-pavement enhances traction even more on starting la; /html/vintage-race/2000-05/msg00195.html (7,340 bytes)
9. Re: Clorox ll (score: 1): Author: Tony Drews <tmccis@revealed.net>; Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 18:56:24 -0500; I had always understood that they discovered that using bleach during the burnout would make the tires stickier than using water alone, but bleach was not legal. So... you spray a bit of bleach on th; /html/vintage-race/2000-05/msg00197.html (7,804 bytes)
10. Re: Clorox ll (score: 1): Author: "Eric Linnhoff" <eric10mm@qni.com>; Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 00:11:52 -0500; Drag tires are relatively == Yeah, and they wander all over the darn place on the big end too. Talk about tires feeling "vague". Eric Linnhoff in KC <eric10mm@qni.com> Education is neither intelligen; /html/vintage-race/2000-05/msg00206.html (7,797 bytes)
11. Re: Clorox ll (score: 1): Author: Larry Dent <lwdent@fwi.com>; Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 08:15:16 -0500; The burn out box is also sometimes called the "bleach box" cause a chlorox type bleach is used to lubricate the box. The burn out does several things. It heats the tires to get better traction and it; /html/vintage-race/2000-05/msg00209.html (8,297 bytes)
12. Re: Clorox ll (score: 1): Author: Gregory_Schulz@mil-elect-tool.com; Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 09:07:09 -0500; At Indianapolis Raceway Park the last corner of the road course enters onto the dragstrip. As you sweep to the left through that corner and drift out onto the strip you run right through the burnout; /html/vintage-race/2000-05/msg00211.html (7,563 bytes)
13. Re: Clorox ll (score: 1): Author: Simon Favre <simon@mondes.com>; Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 11:06:43 -0700; Sears Point is about the same. The front straight of the road course is the dragstrip. The only safe line in the rain is to ride right down the middle, straddling the yellow line. Because of the elev; /html/vintage-race/2000-05/msg00218.html (7,877 bytes)

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