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Todd, you have related that story before, and it is one of my favorites that anyone has told me about my family from back in the days before I was able to be there to see things myself. Thank you for sharing it again.
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The "Scarecrow" tractor would have been Dave and Don (Duck) Engle. That tractor's name and side shield art were inspired by fellow Jackson County Indiana native John "Cougar" Mellencamp's song "Rain on the Scarecrow" from Farm Aid.
Also, that tractor was built more for 6000, or 7500 lb classes.
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I wasn't there, so I won't question your memory of who showed up, but if it was the mid 80's the Bobb brothers tractors would have been single turbo pro-stocks.
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I am biased, but my list would include my uncles.
Their 190 XT won the 7000 SS points, and was 5th in 9000 SS points in the same year.
The D-21 had an Indy Super Pull win.
Danny was the first "Stock Puller of the Year".
It would be hard to narrow it down to just 5, though, to me they were all heroes.
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The 190 XT that my Uncle won 7000 SS points (and also finished 5th in 9000 SS) in 1974 was converted back to a farm tractor and was used in front of a planter for many years by my cousins.
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I don't know that I would call it the hardest, but I definately would not call 4wd the easiest to drive.
While 4wd trucks may be the easiest to steer, there is more to driving than just steering.
For the Modified Four Wheel Drive class, light weight (6200 lbs), healthy power, and small tires mean that getting off the line is not easy.
For the Super Stock Diesel Four Wheel Drive pullers,
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QuoteJake Morgan
I'm sorry Jake, but one pull is not proof. Nor is one tractor doing well at that one pull.
That's the thing, it's not one tractor at one pull. It's Esdon in the LSS, it's Lock and Load's test pass in BG, It's Ross's run, it's Beck's run. There are multiple data points to start working from where the best diesels made passes
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I'm sorry Jake, but one pull is not proof. Nor is one tractor doing well at that one pull.
Kent Payne has never had a problem pulling with the alcohol powered tractors. You are right, there were other diesel competitors who gave him a hard way to go in the past for it.
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Quotetruck puller
I would not call machining a compressor cover to fit a larger billet wheel custom but its clearly easy to sell them as such and charge what they do.
Neither would I. Talk to the pullers that are winning (pulls and points) on the GN level in Diesel SS, see if those are the only modifications that are being made to their turbos. I've got a pretty good idea what their answe
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Quotetruck puller
I never said a superstock tractor was cheaper. I said their turbo system is cheaper. Which is a big difference. Multistage systems are a lot harder on parts than single stage systems and this is what hurts superstock classes.
Even two highly modified turbos as you would call it are far cheaper than current prostock turbos.
I think there are a lot of people even pullers th
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Your idea makes sense in the short term. The problem is, what happens when someone figures out how to make 2 of the current turbo work? Now, you have doubled the cost, and increased power by who knows how much.
Maybe that is an extreme example, but it wasn't that many years ago that no one thought you would ever see a PS tractor with a 5" turbo....
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Quotetruck puller
Rule should read single stage turbo system. Would be a lot cheaper than unlimited single.
Folks are trying to cut costs, and you suggest this.... You better take cover, because heads are about to explode.
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Quotebconner
What are the turbo limits for different variances?? That might help answer your questions.....3.4 or 3.6 for the 470 c.i. and down from there?
There are dyno classes that have a ton of info for all the combinations that you are discussing.
I might add that some are highly refined and have been beat on the dyno to death!!!!!
It has become another single turbo 466 class that has 100
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Re: D2 - 4 years ago
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If it is true which the growing agreement is that it is I have no interest watching workhorse go down the track. Will go get something to eat and use the restroom when he runs. Really a shame grew up watching him pull
I guess then you have the opposite feeling about Couch's "Cotton Pickin' Deere?
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QuoteKen
I think the worst downfall to EFI in pulling would be policing traction control. Traction control ruins pulling.
It seems to me that traction control is either already present, or at least thought to be. If I recall correctly, there were rule proposals this past winter to legalize it. Seems to me that competitors in some classes have decided if it can't be policed, let everyone
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QuotePULLMX
This is just a thought! Grand National Pulling Vehicles should have open limits on the engine. Region and State pulls should have Lower limits on engine than Grand National Level. Grand National pulling vehicles should NOT be allowed to pull Region or State hooks unless they run the lower limits. Here is why, High school football players don't play against College or Pro's
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The B-Series Cummins engines are the 5.9 L, and 6.7 L that are best known for powering Dodge Ram trucks.
The 8.3 L, I believe, falls in the C-Series.
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Thanks for correcting me, Charles.
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I'm pretty sure that these pictures are Larry Larsen's drag truck. Some group or another enacted a rule that "twin turbos" had to carry more weight as a handicap. Larsen basically said "hold my beer and watch this".
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I'm not Jake, or Dick... but I might be able to help a little.
I've noticed this in the past, myself. I generally only visit this board from a pc, not on my phone, or other mobile device. So, after giving a thumbs up, and having this situation happen, I click the back button. (Basically what I learned is that by giving the thumbs up, the thread was "re-opened" to reflect my action"
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Dick, I agree with you that limits do not by themselves make a class more expensive.
Limits also do not necessarily make a class cheaper.
Using SF as a example. The original rules for the class required the use of factory heads, and manifolds, with a inlet and exhaust limit on the turbo. This created a challenge to the pullers to find the "best" manifold (often something rare, and expensi
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I stand corrected. I started reading that thread, but lost interest.
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Jake.... the Deere 466, or equivalent metric block is capable of reaching the cubic inch limit. I've been told, that the "power potential" of the smaller Deere block is "unknown". What they have found, rather, is the limit of those blocks as far as staying together. They just won't live past a certain level, even though, if they could be made to, they have the potential to make more
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I've been thinking about this since the thread was started.
The NTPA's "updated sheet metal" rule, started all of this a long time ago. Brabec's took advantage with the Imposter, putting 8xxx series sheet metal on a D-21. Granted, the 8xxx series Allis Chalmers tractors were manufactured with the same 426 engine as the D-21, but the rest of the drive train was much heavier, ma
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I agree on Mitchell Coomer, Lewis. He wasn't just a driver, Mitchell was a puller, through and through. Didn't matter what class, he could drive it, and he would study it, and build something that gave him an advantage in the grey areas of the rules.
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In four wheel drive trucks, I've seen Galen Young, setup, read the track, and drive an underpowered truck right around the "big dogs" on several occasions.
My memories from growing up were always that no matter what my Uncle Danny Bobb was driving, he was going to "make it" go down the track. Never saw him drive in person, but get the same impression of John Lancaster from seeing pictu
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I'm pretty sure that the Iron Horse that Prible pulled, is Huffman's tractor, and that it was formerly Jim Dean's tractor.
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Dennis does have an excellent display around a tree in his yard. However, for the most part, those tractors are replicas.
The GN title winning 190 XT was converted back to stock and went to the fields when it's pulling days were done. I believe it is still with the family.
Not sure what happened to the D-21 from that time frame.
The 2 D-21 from the 80s, 90s, and beyond are still i
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It would be quite interesting to see 6-7 470 cui diesels pulling in KY. I can name four, three of which have been somewhat consistent competitors in the past. However don't know where the rest are coming from.
Not to mention, one got converted this winter, by Lewis himself... and that wasn't one I had on my list of 4.
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Lewis,
your Bass Pro Shop analogy doesn't fit here. That scenario relies purely on "dumb luck". Yes, it does speak to a segment of statistics, but it's not applicable.
Bryan compared the best diesel, to the best alcohol.
There are other diesels that have the same performance potential as Moores, yet they do not or have not pulled as often or as consistently, therefor they
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