Competition eastcoast pulling furthur (WHY?)

[jwilliams3]

EEP speaks... :-laf

 

[Green Machine]

Any one frome the Left coast have a pic or two of our sled/mud bogger bash?

We had last year at Sumas WA?

No kidding when I hooked up the G/M it was 4 inches of solid clay/mud on the track.

I think I only made it about 60 feet or so and my little skinny street tires were plugged full of gumbo. I think the truck that won ran some Baha claws or something like that?

Shooten mudd about 80' behind him. It was really cool to see.

Ron R.

 

[dan shss]

So I guess the main factor is traction?? Maybe some day when i pull I will get some traction and pull 300'.

 

[nascar mark]

Ron,

Here's a pic of my truck at Sumas track but on a dry day. Unlike the east coast sleds, our sleds are not a drop pan style as we start with the pan on the ground from the get go which makes it harder to build some speed, specially with a wet sloppy track.

 

[JDailey]

Mark-I don't know where you are getting your info, but "drop pan" sleds still start with the pan on the ground. We have plenty of old boat anchors around here that we still pull. So I guess that excuse is dead. Then there was track conditions. The poor guys out west have crappy tracks... . that's all we hear. Guess what... . not every track in the midwest is a good hard power track. We pull on soft,loose,muddy,sandy,etc. tracks, too. Gotta know how to read the track and adapt to it. Another excuse dead. Oh yea, Green machine... METRIC system?? WTF are you talking about?? 262'?? Last time I checked, FP is still 300' except for some indoor tracks. Although we sometimes take it 400'+. 20K sleds?? Oh you must be talking about the mini rod sleds! Could it be that people in this part of the country just have pulling figured out? I mean it originated here. I've been around pulling all my life. I've been pulling something since I was big enough to sit on the seat. People around here eat,sleep, and **** pulling. We know how to make power, put it down, setup a truck,tractor, whatever. Did you ever think of that? There's alot more to pulling than just buying parts off of the internet.



BTW Mark... that is a very nice truck you got there.

 

[nascar mark]

JDailey,

Thanks.

A east coast puller mentioned to me on the phone a ways back, that they don't use the old dinosaurs anymore. My bad then. As far as tracks go, I was just making a point, that people shouldn't compare Scott's pull on a track and soil he has never seen before. He knows what he did wrong and will learn from it next time.



I don't think anyone here on the west coast thinks they can compete with EEP, Scheid or Haisley trucks. I for one know they are the masters of big power and set ups. Sleddy's a different story. LOL

Ron is just messing around. Don't take it to heart.

 

[BigBadDodge]

Yep, I know what I did wrong, to aggresive of a tire on Saturday, Sleddy being the nice guy that he is, (you will probably never hear that again) loaned me some balder MTX's but then I got greedy and tried a gear I use on the West Coast loose tracks, I should have dropped a gear, leason learned looking forward to doing better next year. There is no doubt that the track at IRP was the tightest track I have ever pulled on, and it take some getting used to for sure if you don't have the oportunity to pull on a good track like that regularly.



I by no means have any were near the power the rest of the folks have in that mod class, again the raeson I was in that class was because I removed the leaf springs, plain and simple. I was just happy to be there and be able to pull, if that is what you call what I did



To get back on track, IMO its POWER, TRACTION on a good track, and EXSPIERENCE that I believe are the benifits on the East Coast.



BBD

 

[justinp20012500]

The East cast has steped up to the metric system so there "FULL PULL" in only 262 feet.

There also usen the metric sled. Its really like 20,000lb in stead of the 35 and 60's we have hear.

:-laf



So thats there secret!!!

 

[Turbo Thom]

Scott, stop the self flagulation. You're going to start bleeding soon. Put the chain down. For the first time there, I didn't see that much wrong. Any way, it was a long drive for ya and the heat was enough to make anybody make mental mistakes. Friday night I even called my wife , in my sleep, by another name. That didn't work either. :{



. . Preston. .

 

[biggy238]

LMAO



Heat like that will even make the tires bite funny I hear... ...

 

[BigBadDodge]

It makes us fat people sweat more also.



BBD

 

[biggy238]

402lbs here. . I know about heat.



Football Coach was making fun of me at practice one evening about sweating... I told him I could break a sweat taking A ****... I'm just used to it.



What PSI did you keep in your rear bags when driving Scott? I was tinkering with an S-10 and the topic came up about ride height VS. ride quality and I thought about asking you since I'm basing mine on yours. (Hope that's not a problem)