Poster Answer above is totally wrong. Jeremy has the actual reason. Plain and simple. Pulling doesn't dictate Fair schedules. Neither do concerts, or demo derbies or anything else. The availability of the carnivals do. That gets hammered out at fair conventions usually in January in the midwest. That really is all there is to it.
Now, whether the sport should escape the county fair
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I agree on that point. As used, not as molded is where it matters. Announce it at the driver's meeting that class X is to be at 10 PSI at the scales and you will be jacked and measured. Simple. Efficient. Everyone sees it.
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Yes. Mark Dubie has had a winning one here in MI for years and it is for sale.
Dubie Welding 989-731-0822
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100% agree.
At risk of having to move this post to the Off-Topic Forum, how did twitter come to define our country? I, and many more, are not participants there and may leave the 3 places I do participate in.
That aside, the diesel drag race world could astonish everyone when it comes to emissions. AFRs in the 30:1 range. No one else is doing that, but because you can see smoke at spool
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I do not agree with your liability argument one bit. Go to any dragstrip all the way up to an NHRA National and NO ONE pays for a pit pass. Only place you cannot go is on the track or in the staging lanes. Stuff is moving everywhere. In the sportsman pits racecars move under their own power. Happens everywhere all the time. It's a financial clawback to charge for it and a transparent o
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100% agree Jake. Anyone restricting pit access is doing it for one reason only, raising money. Liability has NOTHING to do with it. If liability is a concern, then those concerned about it should never set foot on a dragstrip's property. Even at an NHRA National a General Admission ticket puts me anywhere on the property I care to go except 3 places: 1. a seat in the reserved grandstands
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Gordyville as an event, never stopped. We just have another venue and another name. Hope to see you all in January at MEC in Shipshewana, IN.
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Can't believe someone gave that a thumbs down. How we doing on this?
This is important. None of us make anything off of it. There are contributors to this site that I will not call out who have had prayers answered by this hospital.
Please make a difference and possibly score yourself a bad light class tractor.
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Swank On Sports.
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I wouldn't read too much into it. That clip was created from footage at The Pullers Championship and Hillsboro, WI and none of the 3 you mentioned attended. Not deliberate. When making them, we have to be careful to use film we have the rights to use. We don't want to step on any toes in that regard.
BTW, I agree with you.
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This a HUGE deal for the sport of pulling. For what is it 7? 8 years? The group behind this has been turning people into pullers by raffling off the tractor and in all that time, every penny has gone to St. Jude's Children's Hospital. This is a place where miracles are performed at no expense to the families. I've been at Tunica when these have been given away. On the weekend
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Yes. There were 2 teams to do the blown SS thing in Europe. 1 was a CIH using I think maybe the Cummins V8, the other was a MF Perkins V8.
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Fricke's IH.
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The half Allison. Had 6 turbos. I'd have loved to see it succeed.
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Here is one version.
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And that the head was reverse-flow with dual cams and the bottom charger was crank driven way before Prochargers were a thing.
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Thank you Ray.
You can find my contacts easily enough. Feel free to reach out. I promise I don't bite.
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I apologize. I did over-react and that was not and is not my style. I behaved like someone having their kids picked on by anonymous parties. Pretty embarrassing. I could have been more clear about what I meant and been the better communicator of it. Brent and Paul have been the professionals I ought to have been here.
We've been compared to Norwalk as new events. We will be back. T
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The class was announced as MFWD. Not RWYB. Not SMFWD. My choice of phrasing applies within that context of PPL vs NTPA. You read what you wanted to read. I'm sorry that doesn't suit you, but I didn't misrepresent what was being offered. Nowhere does MFWD have blowers, nitrous, diesel, stretch wheelbase... "All can play" meant, means, and will mean Modified Four Wheel Drive.
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SF has color? Besides Mastens, it's a Christmas tree like a lot of other classes.
I'm not picking on SF. I have a lot friends that run that class. But brand variety? No.
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No. CT MFWD is the rules we will use.
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Yes. PPL rules so all can play. The top 650 guys don't seem to be scared and it makes it easier on us.
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No. Cooler smooth bore at 9300 and no cooler slotted at 9500. If I have that wrong, someone from the team will correct me.
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DSS Power ranking show come Thursday is going to be fun.
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I am unsure if it is a true component or not, but it doesn't have outboard planetaries if it is. Red Line Fever, Diggin' Fever and those running the Doc rearend have inboard planetaries as well. I do agree with OH1979er that I have seen numerous outboard planetaries blow and the tire stays on.
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Brown County Fair happening over this present 4 day stretch is probably the top.
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True. All of the diesel truck classes and PPL Unlimited SS allow diesels to be CR.
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Anyone want Scheid to bring back the 12 plunger pumps? lol
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Possibly. I'm not saying there are no 410 trucks in the region, it just seems to me most are 485s. That would have seemed to fit better.
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You still haven't told me where these RN2 410 trucks are.
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