Today I had to run some errands in town and it was such a nice day and I knew I had so much work waiting for me back at home, that I went on down to Panacea to visit my wife at work at Myway Seafood. Just killing some time and one of the young guys who works there was talking about the muscle cars he wants to buy sometime. Well when I was leaving, I noticed he was standing at the end of the building watching my Z pull around the far driveway, so I put it into Competitive Mode and eased out on to route 98. I just floated up to 25 mph and then just tromped the gas pedal to the floor. Damn second gear came FAST! First time I have done this since putting the headers on. When I hit second, I heard a slight chirp of the rear tires, and I thought it kind of strange that I didn't get more tire spin then that. Well since this was a 35 mph zone, I had to come down off of it pretty quickly, and then just cruised on home.
I more then half expected the wife to berate me for acting like a damned fool leaving the market, but all she said was "you sure were smoking those tires, weren't you boy?" She said the I left one hell of a smoke trail and it wasn't coming from the exhaust pipes. Rather then being angry she said she was jumping up and down with excitement and seeing me rocket out of there. She said it looked like just a blue streak going down the road. The boss of the place just said to my wife "That thing is pretty darned fast, isn't it?" I think they both expect me to kill myself with it one day.
Anyway, the point of this is, are the Michelin tires just prone to being nearly noiseless when they break traction? I swear, except for that chirp in second, I didn't hear a thing. Or maybe the exhaust just drowned it out? Back in the "old days" when I would burn out with my GTO, the noise sounded like someone had thrown a bushell basket full of cats under the wheels. You KNEW you were burning rubber!
And the car was straight as an arrow, where I would have expected some rear end movement torquing to the passenger side.
Silent tire smoking.....
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