The folks from SPEED’s “Stunt Busters” television show wanted to see just how long a set of tires could withstand the heat and extreme wear-and-tear of an extended burnout before they would completely disintegrated and blow out. To find out, they decided to test the tires durability by performing a not-so-scientific test on a set of stock 5th Gen Camaro SS tires. Their testing method is simply to get in the car, mash the gas and do donuts until the rear tires pop.

After about two minutes of beating on the rear tires, Stunt Busters reports that the surface temperature of the tires is about 259 degrees, which would be easily hot enough to ignite gasoline. However, it’s not quite hot enough yet to blow the tires just yet. In fact, it takes 2 minutes and 45 seconds of bouncing the Camaro off the rev limiter and tossing it around to finally get one of the rear tires to let go. The Camaro’s stock tires are meant to give years of service while likely being subjected to some minor abuse. The fact that they lasted that long is actually pretty impressive considering how hard Stunt Busters was beating on them.

For the second part of their test, Stunt Busters bolted up a set of wheels wrapped in some less-than perfect tires, with only about half of their tread left, to see just how long they could stand up to the same kind of abuse. This time, the older tires were only able to stand up to 1 minute and 2 seconds of the LS3’s abuse, only about 1/3 of the time the new tires lasted.