Competition Anyone hear any results from Indy??

[Sled Puller]

Also, they have been known to slide out from under the seat and mash the go pedal to the floor... ... ... .

 

[JoshPeters]

That sounds like fun! Helping you hold the throttle down... . that should get you an extra 2 or 3 feet!



Josh

 

[TRUEBLUE]

Weight brackets aren't what you should worry about, it is stacks through the hood,duals on single wheel trucks,and guys running over 4500rpm. I don't want to see the street class having to run SFI certified parts and fire suits. And out of the top 25 trucks I would guess that fewer than half ever see a 1000 miles on the street a year. IMO Todd

 

[Cumminsman]

i didn't see many streetable "super street" trucks either. maybe the dhra should make the "super street" class a "pro stock" class so people can build a pulling truck that wouldn't have to compete with scheid's or haisley's. just my opinion. not worth much. lol.

 

[DRadzierez]

We put 22,000 miles on Michelles truck last year just Towwing my twin charger truck and she pulled in the street class and we have no gripes whith any other trucks in the street class. And if track conditions didnt gange so drasticaly she most likely would have done even better.

 

[Sled Puller]

I had about 10,000 on mine in 04-more if it wasn't broke down so much!!LOL

I drove to the rules meeting in October. And then parked it to avoid the salt.



Nick, you are right, the Super Street class was set up for trucks with big singles and towing twins. trucks that just don't have classes to pull in everywhere. They have virtually disappeared.



The Street class should never have gone to a 2. 8 inducer, but thats what the pullers wanted. (Not me)

I would say bump the top 20 street trucks into Super, and see whats left, and build the Street rules around them, might be a good start.

 

[moremph]

The way i see it is if you outlaw the single trucks from running duals to gain extra traction when needed, then you are going to hafta outlaw the dually trucks, then that nixes alot of guys from pulling that happen to have 3500 trucks. I can see you adding a rule that requires the tires to be covered but then that would also require guys with wide fronts to be running some kinda flare.



As far as driving versus pulling, Most of the guys that pull in the street that i know can drive thier trucks whenever they want. However i would say most of them also have a spare vehicle to serve duty as a tow rig, because who wants to drive 300 miles from home to a pull and break and then try to get home? That tow rig often times finds itself as a parts getter and daily driver when the other truck breaks, and i know for one my tow rig is alot nicer then my pulling truck (not alot of guys go hacking on thier new truck, except Dmax boys :--) ) anyways you start to drive the tow rig more.



The Green machine has had 1250 miles on it since the last test clutch was installed in late august, Most of the winter it sat in the barn , because of some other little things we were working on, and the fact that it is hard to safely drive 500 hp in the ice pulling a bobcat trailer. It has more recnetly seen alot of miles on sunday afternoon going to get a snow cone :-laf



AS far as RPM limit goes thier were a few trucks that were boarder line/or over the 4500 rpm limit, I know our green dodge was right thier (4500 rpm is the rule so you better belive it is going to run 4490rpm) Kinda reminds me of someone measuring Justin Burns (Lifted dmax) weight bracket, Somebody commented man that is close, Justin comment 59 and 7/8 . I do know that thier is ways to check RPM and that may be an option in the future, and i also know that at least one competitor was warned.



Also remember if you want to make a street class (stock charger only) it will be dominated by Dmax's those little boogers can pop off a 500hp run on the stock charger



Travis

 

[Cumminsman]

sleddy, i agree completely. after talking to several of the pullers at irp. i think that at the rules meeting this year you will find that the majority of them would like to see the class change to a pro stock class. the people who pull in that class should be the ones making the decision. a pro stock class would allow the pullers to make multiple hooks with less of a chance of tearing their trucks up. when is the rule meeting for next year? mike and i might need to be there.

 

[Redram 1]

re.

I know my Super Street Truck is still streetable. I drive it around home all the time,until about a year and a half ago I still drove it to work in the Natural gas field,then pulled it on the weekends.

 

[Sled Puller]

We haven't set the date yet, I'd like to see a better turnout, maybe we can avoid some complaining, if everyone has their say.

Maybe Friday night before the EEP charity pull, out that way somewheres. Should be a lot of pullers in the area for the weekend, and thats almost the last pull of the season.



The 4500 RPM rule was put in place at the meeting to avoid having the entire street class run SFI blankets. It may be time to flag a few trucks, have them put blankets on just to be safe.

I would like to avoid NASCARing the rules to death, but that seems to be the way they keep heading.



Stacks out the hood, and duallys don't really bother me. Typical Ohio truck.

 

[moremph]

oh yeah i believe Eric said he couldnt find anything that said hood stacks werent street legal,





The Mule (red/grey 4dr) has 15-20k on it with a small stack out of the hood and never had anything said, even passed emissions check (should of seen the look on the guys face when he fianlly found the tail pipe :-laf )



travis

 

[ThrottleJockey]

I have a question,



I was wondering, when Stacey grenaded on his spoolup Sunday, was the sled brought up to 40,000# and was this the end of one class and the beginning of another?



I thought Stacey ran Modified? I see what you guys mean.

 

[Sled Puller]

Communication was crossed with the sled, my mistake. Stacey was the start of the mod class, but the sled operator did not realize it. Wasn't used to seeing his truck.



Luckily for me, (bad for him)he broke, and didn't waste a hook, so changing the sled weight didn't affect where he ended up in the class.

If he would have made the hook, he would have been a test puller, and would have had the option to drop, or rehook immediately after the weight was changed.

 

[BigBadDodge]

I almost passed out sitting there in full fire suit waiting for them to change the wieghts



I had a great time fellers and thanks to thos e who gave me pointers, Nice to finally put a face to a few of the names out there. Gene not to ruin your rep here :-laf but thanks for loaning me the tires again.



I tried to get going Saturday but couldn't get the tires broke loose hence the bouncing. Sunday tried a lot less aggresive tread in the tires Sleddy lent me thinking I could get it done in a taller gear but I now feel I should have dropped of gear.



My motor mods are more in line with the super street class so I didn't have a chance in heck, I went into the mod class because I removed my rear leaf springs, I knew this back in January and set the truck up to pass teck in the mod class as I wasn't adding leaf springs.



I think I would have placed if you all counted vertical movement :-laf



My goal was to go to IRP, Pull (no matter what class) visit with family who came down from Ohio, Look at some awesome trucks, and generally have a good time. I achieved that goal





Hats off to the DHRA guy's, you busted butt all week.



BBD

 

[LPreston]

I don't think you can up and move an event like this without a hangup or two, but considering how many trucks ran, things were very smooth. I was really impressed with how well the schedule was adhered to.



Being over in the exhibition area, someone from the staff would roll over and see if we were ready for another run and get us enough time to prep and get to the line.

 

[Sled Puller]

The schedule would have been dead on if the gate hold up wouldn't have happened!!Oh well.



Scott, two problems: First you were supposed to put the bald tires on the back, and second, you were supposed to stay in the same gear you used the day before!!!

Nobody ever listens to me!!



This is whats kind funny-Scott used my little tires, 285s that won 3rd place at TiM and Scheids last year, I used my old 315s off of Shawns truck, that had two Tim wins on them, and Shawn used my new 305s that I have been using all season so far.

We all did better Sunday than Saturday after the big tire switch, but none of us won. Shawn did the best, 1 foot out of 1st in Super Street.

 

[ThrottleJockey]

Oh, okay.



Thanks Gene. I knew Stacey had more muscle than that.

 

[Cumminsman]

BBD, it was great to meet you this weekend. those d*mn east coast tracks are hell aren't they. i'm glad that nothing broke on your truck. that is a SWEET ride you have. hopefully you'll get to come back again. nick

 

[Yo Hoot]

Here are the dyno results... .

 

[TravisG]

BBD- man that was awesome. That is one sweet ride. Sorry you hopped so much. Me bein a west coaster now I really hoped you would do well. but still not to bad of a pull for 40,000. How much do the sleds weigh that you guyz pull out in Ca? You and Nick Hayes get a whole lot of credit in my book. Nicks' truck sure does sound and run a whole lot different since I saw it last in Missouri when him and his Huge buddy came out from Tennessee.



Oh well at least the MISSOURI MAD MAN Ray Gullett did pretty good.