I'm going to miss her...

[Toohey]

Illuminati, I thought that a line lock was the act of locking the front wheels while the back wheels were spinning and keeping the car as stationary as possible, exactly what you were saying except that a line lock is not the button or the mechanical system that makes it possible it is the type of burnout itself. You can get line locker kits fitted by most break specialist, I have a friend who used to have a RX3 with a 13B turbo that had it fitted, a fun little toy.

The Summernats are on down here in Canberra this weekend, I can't wait to check out the burnout comp.

[Blade Hunter]

that heal toe bs will work but will shread your brakes.

How will it, your car is not moving, that will do no damage to the brakes, your stressing your clutch on the launch, your revving the crap out of the motor and your killiing your tires but no damage to the brakes, there is not enough brakeing ratio on the back to even consider that it will do damage.

And yes, on drag car's there may well be a button but all its going to do is lock the front brakes. When someone said "I did a line locker" they are usually refering to the heal and toe method.

In such a case, the best vehicle I ever found for doing that was a toyota liteace, the motor is tough and has the torque to pull it off easily and the thing is so light in the back end that there is no probs getting it happening :).

[illuminati]

look: line lock here

quote"How it works-- The line-lock is nothing but a solenoid valve in the front brake lines which is energized (closes) on pressing the switch near the shifter."

that is a line lock. not some heal toe bs. and with the heal toe u do shread ur rear brakes. how can u not be if u are applying brakes and spinning the wheels at a very quik speed. if u ever done it and then tried to drive ur car at the limit you would know.

obviously you got no idea if u think the BEST car for this is a 1.8ltr van(http://www.nassco-barbados.com/html/liteace.cfm).

[Blade Hunter]

"look: line lock here

quote"How it works-- The line-lock is nothing but a solenoid valve in the front brake lines which is energized (closes) on pressing the switch near the shifter.""

So it locks your front brakes as I said in my previous post

"that is a line lock. not some heal toe bs. and with the heal toe u do shread ur rear brakes. how can u not be if u are applying brakes and spinning the wheels at a very quik speed. if u ever done it and then tried to drive ur car at the limit you would know."

The line lock is simply sitting in the spot spinning the back wheels, the method is irrespective. now as I also said before, you do not have a high enough bias towards your rear brakes to do an real damage and you certainly would not "Shred" them.

"obviously you got no idea if u think the BEST car for this is a 1.8ltr van(http://www.nassco-barbados.com/html/liteace.cfm). "

Once again, please read my prior post, I said the best car "I" found, ie the best car I did it in ie if I had done it in some uber powerful beast v8 with a locker diff (For those not in the know, a locker diff will spin both rear wheels instead of an LSD differential which will slip only one wheel) I would probably think that was better.

That van took 5 years of torture from my brother and I BOTH being idiots and doing things like "Line lockers" in it and revving the guts out of it and it didnt even blow smoke by the time we handed it back.

You will note in my prior post that I have referenced your post where I am not 100% certain and said "Maybe it is a button in a drag car" please do me the same courtasy as your post is coming off extremely arrogantly with an attitude of "Im right so no one else has a clue" im not a fan of having that attitude directed towards myself, im not some inexperienced driver trying to gain browny points by pretending I know something I dont, im talking from the experience of my youth when I did stupid things like that and I think 5 years of punishment on a vehicle and NEVER having to replace the rear brakes speaks for itself they were in no way "shredded".

Respectfully.

Dan

[illuminati]

yeh, im just blowing some steam cos f*cking work ****** me off!.

home now and chilled. :D

but a line lock is a button connected to a mechanism, it locks the line to ur front brakes which applies the front brakes fully.

the rear spin freely.

thats where the term 'line lock' comes from.

good to hear u dont seriously thing a van is the best car ever for doing burnouts.

heal toe wont shread ur brakes unless your doing burnouts at a high wheel speed(ie out of first gear in a street car) like all dragsters, whcih is what i was refering to. there is no point doing burnouts in a street car(unless its not urs :D )

also a LSD will allow both wheels to spin at the same time, thats why they are good and cost sooooo much. it stands for Limited slip differential. as in itll allow a bit of slip then lock them together. a locker diff is good for drags/burnouts but once u bring corners into it they suck. when u turn the inner wheel turns quiker then the outer wheel. if they are locked your car will handle like **** unless u doing drift :D

btw to do a cheap-0-job of locking the diff, just weld it together! hehe :P

just letting u kno.

[Blade Hunter]

Hehehe the old weld job was what we did to a mates VB V8 Commodore, it was good for a couple of days then the weld went wrong and we got little bits clunking in the diff, it sounded horrific :P

[xTiGeRx]

ah....so that's what a line lock is. :o

I'll pass thanx. :)