Competition Results from Reedsville?

[Bpostel]

Anyone have some results from Reedsville from Saturday? Show us some video's if you got them.

 

[Kissfan113]

I pulled 255. ?? ft dunno bout the rest

Kevin

 

[Bpostel]

Nobody has the results for the different classes? Please show us the videos :{ we want some videos :-laf

 

[DieselTweaker]

have video,,, will get some up soon from friday night super street and mod class

 

[nwpadmax]

I pulled at Reedsville and have some partial results:



Work stock

1- dodge - Matt Bucchianeri

2- Chevy - Jon McElravy

3- Chevy - Bill Marstiller

4- GMC - Jon King



Street Diesel

1- Dodge - Robert Miller

2- Dodge - Dan Painter

3- Chevy - Mat Cooper (me)

Terry Coppess was pretty close in there but was behind me. The sled was stopping pretty hard so many were within 20'.



The audio on the track was crap, so unless you walked out into the stands, you could barely hear a thing. Outside the track, it was great, so much so I couldn't get away from it while on the cell phone.



Attaboy to Gene and the entire DHRA crew, this was a well run affair and I really enjoyed it.

 

[DavidTD]

Van Haisley won Modified Saturday night. I didn't get done with the dyno until later, but went out on the track with Gene to start learning this pulling stuff in time for most of Super Street and Modified.



One thing I can tell you is that having these modifieds coming at ya at full bore and finishing about 10-15 feet from you will make the hair stand up on your arms. :-laf



I think everyone did a great job including the Reedsville folks that set this event up. Seth and Nathan Cogar and crew worked their butts off all day Friday and Saturday putting together what looked like a great surface.

 

[2broke2smoke]

Had a great time ...



and thanks to the guys running the dyno ... top notch



gave me an extra dyno run because something "didn't feel right"

on the first run (wifes blue 4 door third gen)



time for a rail pressure gauge

 

[Kissfan113]

hey Rex, I didn't see ya there man, I was lookin for ya though, lol, Sounds like i missed a lot of people.

Hopefully i will have a vid of my pull up here later

Kevin

 

[Big MAK]

273. 38 -- I finished 7th or 8th... BLECH.



Was squirrely as heck getting down the track even with mud tires on. Fun pull though; I wish the sled had weight instead of spikes so power mattered as much as speed before the spikes dropped.

 

[Kissfan113]

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoID=1016716353&n=2

there is a vid of my pull

Kevin

 

[nwpadmax]

Well everyone I apologize for the street diesel results. I was announced as 3rd and paid as 3rd but they've got me at 5th now. No idea what happened. It would appear as if Rick Smith's distance was glossed over and they took my first pull distance of 285', but that's just a wild guess.



1. Smith, Rick 291. 60

2. Miller, Robert 290. 67

3. Painter, Dan 286. 45

4. Coppess, Terry 281. 90

5. Cooper, Mat 280. 94

6. Barr, Kevin 273. 83

7. Six, Gary 273. 75

 

[Big MAK]

Well everyone I apologize for the street diesel results. I was announced as 3rd and paid as 3rd but they've got me at 5th now. No idea what happened. It would appear as if Rick Smith's distance was glossed over and they took my first pull distance of 285', but that's just a wild guess.



1. Smith, Rick 291. 60

2. Miller, Robert 290. 67

3. Painter, Dan 286. 45

4. Coppess, Terry 281. 90

5. Cooper, Mat 280. 94

6. Barr, Kevin 273. 83

7. Six, Gary 273. 75

I think that 291 pull was in Super Street not Street. Something for Gene to look into. Rick had a better pull in Super Street then Street; I talked to him about it afterwards.



I'm beginning to wonder about that sled tbh. I really don't think it pulled the same for each competitor nor was it consistent in a class.

 

[Kissfan113]

I believe the Blue Stinger sled has rippers attached to the pan that dig in as the run goes, am i correct, I have heard it is one of the worst to have to pull on the east coast, i don't know it may just be a rumor, but if anyone can enlighten me i am wondering just how accurate that is.

 

[Big MAK]

I believe the Blue Stinger sled has rippers attached to the pan that dig in as the run goes, am i correct, I have heard it is one of the worst to have to pull on the east coast, i don't know it may just be a rumor, but if anyone can enlighten me i am wondering just how accurate that is.

Yeah; rippers from what I heard. I guess your pull is +/- 20 feet depending on if it caught rock and stopped you or slid a while in the mud. If I understood correctly the sled was gearing down to create drag while you went down the track and would drop the teeth 'rippers' late in the pull.



I'm a rookie but I really hated it. You can tell when it gears down (kicked me sideways each time) and I had too much spin when the teeth dug and couldn't yank it. Seems like one of those deals it's possible to have too much power to the ground -- better off with a slow steady pull. But no way to tell since if the teeth caught hard ground (rocks) the only hope was ground speed. OTH; if they caught mud and dirt you are better off with a steady pull and low spin. I also think some spots on the track the teeth went in deep and fast and other spots on the track the teeth went in slow. I absolutely know I should have pulled that sled to the far left. I had it in the middle and everyone in the middle stopped cold.



That's racin/pullin though don't read that as a slam on the competition. Just sorting it out; maybe I can have a better strategy next time I'm up against a non-weighted sled. Everyone's pulling the same sled so live and learn!

 

[nwpadmax]

Yeah... . my first run, I went up the left (285') with a mild launch, and the second hook I launched what I thought was more aggressively, drifted over toward center, and only went 281'.



You could really see how much the track was tore up after each run, especially as the classes got more stout.



That sled was kinda odd in that the weight started behind the wheels. It was hilarious when that one hot big rig pulled and yanked the pan off the ground by about 3', looked like the sled operator took one wild ride. But at half travel, the weight is right over the wheels, so you'd think it would kinda balance there, and then it had only half its travel to put the weight directly over the pan. So maybe they have to use rippers/grousers/whatever to make the thing stop.



I dunno. I a rookie.



There was a guy there who seemed to know a lot about the sled (maybe the builder?) talking to Gene about how it worked. Maybe Sleddy can fill in the details.

 

[Big MAK]

nvm; I'm sounding too much like a whiner.



imo the sled needs to deliver the same load at the same point on the track for all trucks in a class regardless of track speed

 

[HOCummins04]

On Saturday I sat on the bank right above 300 ft. My observation was that the sled was not consistent in when the teeth came down, even within the same class. Of course, the Mountaineer plowed a few furrows for a ways He He He.



Totally a subjective observation. Seems like I am not the only one to think that.



First time at Reedsville. I would prefer that they run the non-DHRA stuff (semis, tri-axles, dump trucks, everything else) earlier, so we could have more time for the good stuff. The Mountaineer was entertaining, for sure. Kinda scarry when the Peterbuilt blew his drive shaft. Pieces landed closer to me than I would prefer.



Seemed like in Work Truck or Street, don't remember which, on Saturday that when it was decided no pulloffs - go as far as you could - after that the teeth came down sooner. Again just my observations. Seems like it should absolutely be consistent within the class. I prefer more weight, as BigMAK said, than teeth.



I love the sport, and hope my comments are received as constructive, which is what I intend. Perhaps I don't understand what I think I observed. Enlighten me

 

[Sled Puller]

The results program is eating the results. Neal is working on it. Never fear, we have 4 written copies of the results, so they will not be lost.





I must say, that is perhaps the smoothest pull I have been to. Not my fault, it was Cogars who had a good existing event, and knew how to put a pull on. I'm glad we finally got a chance to pull there, and hope we are invited back.



I especially liked, the crowd cheering as loud or louder for locals hooks, no matter what class,what place they took, as our hot stuff.

You can't buy a fan base like that.



The track was perfect, Saturday night.



Now the sled, I have pulled that sled for a few years, non DHRA. I never had a problem with it.



Now, the more ground speed you have, means the faster the weight comes up(as with most sleds). This one also as a kicker. The faster you pull, the faster it drives spikes into the ground.

It actually gives the lesser HP trucks more of a chance to catch the big dogs.

Picking your line is CRITICAL!!! Ask Van Haisley and the rest of the mod class.

Gerald Poffenberger is the builder/owner, and yes, that was who I was talking to.



That was his first time pulling all the DHRA classes, and I think he did a pretty good job. The Street class could have been a hair lighter, but there again, we were concerned with a certain 2-3 trucks running away with it.



All the sled settings were my doing, as I was telling him the HP ranges of the trucks, etc.

If we run into that sled again, I will have him lighten up on the spikes, and let you guys run with it a little more.



But, I assure you, the sled is fair from truck to truck.





I'd like to thank the pullers, fans, my crew,the sponsors, and the Cogars for making this event possible, it is definatley a must see pull!!





And did anyone notice a FORD was in 2nd place in Super Street? First time, ever.

 

[seriousdiesel]

sleddy and i both love that sled, has to be one of my favorites to pull. but a ton of yall whine bout it. seems that is the only complaints though. I appreciate everyone coming out, we had a wonderful turnout, 52 diesel trucks alone. lots of new faces and many old ones. david did an excellent job on the dyno as usual with 39 runs, many of which were well within the 400 hp or better mark. top hp was 552 buy a dodge. fridays track coulda been better, but some of the ppl guys said more water, and we warned them it was a bad idea. sat night my dad and i got it just right. i thank you all agian for coming out, we had several from pretty far away. Wish I coulda got to talk to everyone, maybe at the next pull when im not quite so busy. see everyone at scheids if not before.



Nathan

 

[nwpadmax]

Gene, help me understand what you said about the rate of the load and spikes.



If that sled is 100% mechanical, then yeah, the faster you go, the faster the spikes come out, but the distance where they start digging is the same for everyone. Some just get there quicker.



Or, are you saying that it has some variable rate mechanism in it that changes depending on how fast you pull? If so, the faster trucks would get hit with the spikes at a shorter distance. To do that would take an interesting mechanism.



I thought I came out harder on my second pull, and did end up 4' short of the first pull, but I assumed that was because I moved to a different line on the track.