How to Make the Perfect Donut

Posted on June 2, 2022 by resourcefulman

There is nothing dumber and cooler than making a donut in a car. Burning tires and destroying the engine to get a ton of smelly smoke and leave behind a circle of rubber on the pavement is typical American .

Important Donut Warning

You should not. Aggressive driving in public places is almost certainly illegal where you live. Making donuts is dangerous: you can flip your car over or lose control and crash. It’s bad for your tires and bad for your engine. Toxic tire smoke is harmful to the lungs and the environment. It is not safe. This sends a bad signal to America’s youth. Other than being completely cool, there’s no good reason to make donuts at all. What are you trying to prove, dude? What are you actually rebelling against?

Advance Donut Cooking Guide

Before you start your drifting adventure, you will need the following:

Automobile. Preferably rear-wheel drive, manual transmission.
Lots of open space on private property and permission from the property owner to do stupid things with your car. It can be asphalt, dirt or grass (but a donut will obviously tear the lawn).
Some water: Some donut lovers wet the ground (or their tires) first to reduce traction.
Setting. The donuts are tough enough for a car that is in good condition. Tuning can partially reduce wear.
Traffic cone (optional but recommended).
A friend to take a video and dial 911 when you crash.

How to make donuts on a rear-wheel drive, manual car

The most classic and satisfying donut requires a car with a shifter and rear wheel drive. There are two methods for making donuts with this setup: the simpler “push the clutch” method and the more advanced “donuts from motion” method.

A step by step guide to the easiest donut

Place the cone a few feet from the headlight on the driver’s side. So you can see it. This will be your focal point – the center of your circle.
Turn off your vehicle’s traction/stability control system (this is vital).
Put the car in first gear.
Turn the wheel to the left. Far away, but don’t lock it all the way.
Loosen the throttle! You need 3500 to 4000 rpm.
Reset clutch.
You should now be in your donut and the back of the car is rocking. Do not panic; counter-steer instead.
Use your traffic cone to guide you and use the throttle and rudder to make a perfect circle. Don’t make an oval. Ovals are for losers .
Steering: The wheels will mostly follow the momentum of the car, but you still have to nudge the steering wheel to keep it tight.
Throttle: Steering is secondary to throttle when it comes to donut control. More gas makes the circle wider. The smaller, the tighter. The steering is mainly for fine-tuning the orbit.
Shout “wow!”
Stop when you get tired of making a donut or hitting a tree. Hit the brake or take your foot off the gas.

How to make an advanced rear wheel drive donut

Put down your cone.
Slowly drive around the cone, turning the handlebars almost all the way to the left (but not all the way).
Gradually increase your speed until you feel the tires begin to slip.
Take your foot off the accelerator pedal. This will shift the weight of the car forward, making the rear light and smooth.
When you feel the weight shift, press the pedal to the floor.
Allow the steering wheel to turn fully in the opposite direction.
Reduce the gas to about half.
You should now be spinning and you can use the throttle and rudder to fine-tune your circle.
Don’t be discouraged if this doesn’t work properly. Even very stupid things take practice.

This guide from car traffic.com goes into more detail and contains diagrams and troubleshooting tips, but if you do it right, it should look something like the cars in this donut porn video .

How to make donuts in a front wheel drive car

If your car is front-wheel drive, automatic (because it’s your mom’s car), then it’s supposedly still possible to make donuts, but it’s really not worth it: it’s somehow lame, but it’s apparently harder on front-wheel drive cars, and your mom will be furious, if you mess up her Toyota.

But if you insist on making donuts, you have two options (and I really can’t tell how well any of them will work, so try both or neither). First work on cars with automatic transmission and manual transmission; the second is only possible in cars with a clutch.

Forward front wheel drive donuts

Wait until the road is wet or turn the hose on it.
Turn off the traction/stability control system. This is vital.
Don’t put the car in (D) traffic. Engage 1st or mountain gear.
Move forward slowly
Turn the steering wheel left or right almost to the stop.
accelerate sharply; the car should start spinning.
Engage the handbrake.
You can control your lap by controlling the throttle and handbrake.

Reverse Front Drive Donuts

If you put a front-wheel drive car in reverse, it’s essentially a rear-wheel drive car – or so the theory goes. Of course, cars are not meant to be driven very fast or very long in reverse. Your car’s engine and weight distribution is designed to move forward, so it’s likely to be very hard on your poor car. But if you need:

Turn the steering wheel in the direction you want the rear of your car to move.
Switch to reverse.
Engage the clutch.
Stomp the gas with your foot on the floor
Release the clutch and the front wheels should spin and begin to slide around the rear wheels.
Pull the steering wheel in the opposite direction.
Seriously, don’t do this. You will ruin your car.

Further inspiration for donut lovers

You can probably lose traction, but still keep control of most vehicles if you’re resourceful and persistent enough. For example, these nerds manage to get the Smart electric car to shed some rubber (with lubricated tires). Here is a mail truck making donuts in the snow. And this guy put cartwheels on his car and made donuts . But just in case, here are some donut crash videos .

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