Competition Street Diesel Horsepower

[fest3er]

Getting back to business, i think a solid 450hp will rule the street class, as long as your putting it on the ground.

Could well be. Running a 400-450 HP truck in W/S and consistently finishing 2nd and 3rd place can get you the championship. Gene, what HP were you running last year?

 

[Sled Puller]

I'll never tell,... ... ..... :-laf



A lean burn 600.

The trucks that got around me had roughly the same power, I believe, just different gearing, tires, wheel speed.



Or, in the case of Chris Harness, a boatload of LUCK.

 

[smokinrod]

450 ??? put down the crack pipe, 450 wouldn't of evan done it last year.

 

[Sled Puller]

Ray Gullet won a pull with 450 Texas injector HP, last year.

 

[Big MAK]

Are we talking 450 to the ground to win work stock right? And 650-800 (depending on who you ask -- or imo depending on whether it was dyno'd east of the mississippi or west of it!!!) for the street stock.

 

[Sled Puller]

Poor Tom is struggling along winning, with a measly 450 HP, and if he would have just dynoed at May Madness, he would have had 850, no doubt. :-laf

 

[Tcolesanti]

Let me clear this up, 450hp to the ground to win DHRA "STREET" class. (not Work Stock)

 

[cjohnson]

Poor Tom is struggling along winning, with a measly 450 HP, and if he would have just dynoed at May Madness, he would have had 850, no doubt. :-laf

:-laf :-laf :-laf :-laf :-laf You're killin' me here Gene!

 

[smokinrod]

sleddy posted in his ebay add that his truck in pulling trim was 600hp, but if you want or got 450 ,and you think thats enough than run it.

 

[Tcolesanti]

OK, I will, cause that's all I got! :-laf :-laf :-laf

 

[Sled Puller]

I always posted conservative HP numbers, but if are lighting an S-4, and not burning all your fuel, (like you, Tom) you are making a bit more than 450.

 

[cjohnson]

I always posted conservative HP numbers, but if are lighting an S-4, and not burning all your fuel, (like you, Tom) you are making a bit more than 450.

Hey Sled Meister, the man says he's got 450 hp, leave it at that You know California trucks don't (can't) make more than that anyway Must be raining in Penn. again today huh

 

[TCluff]

http://www.nhrda.com/Videos/SPV_05062006/pull 13.wmv check this out, it was sent to me today, dont lagh too hard, i choked on my burrito :-laf

 

[Jim Fulmer]

Wow... ... that is ugly!



On a lighter note I like that kind of sled pulling, you don't have to have 50K in mods to compete and do well..... meaning it's more like fun.



Like dynoing in the 500 hp range..... it's cheap!



Jim

 

[cjohnson]

Truthfully, I have to disagree a bit with you Jim. Now, I don't think there is anything wrong with having fun pulling or doing anything else, but hear me out for a minute. It gets kind of frustrating to constantly have to be punished as a puller in order to accomodate the guys who just want to have fun. Honestly, I don't enjoy watching the guys who do it for fun, I like to see the guys who pull like its their job. Those guys put it all on the line and it shows. I want to see Brad Ingram, or Haisly, or Chris Watson, or Kent Crowder, or any of the competitive street class trucks, or even old, washed up Sled Puller :-laf When these guys hook, we see action, and that is what is fun to me.



Stock or near stock trucks with guys doing it for fun, are well. . . . boring. Now, this doesn't mean that serious pullers don't or can't have fun, but the fact of the matter is that they are competitive, and that is what they enjoy about it. Make no mistake about it, I think there needs to be a place for guys who just want to have "fun", and I think there is at the smaller pulls. I just know that here in California, we have dealt with rule issues that were focusing on "fun" pullers, and that isn't all that fun for some of us.



Anyhow, just my opinion, so take it for what its worth.



Craig

 

[Jim Fulmer]

Oh I hear you, I just love watching the big power guys do there thing but there are only a few the the $'s to play with them..... guess that is what I was meaning.



I just remember the days when I was in the 400-500 range and the truck was up all the time and was allot of fun. Now it's a hunt, with more and more down time as newer parts are being built or waiting on funds to buy them.



Jim

 

[TCluff]

Oh I hear you, I just love watching the big power guys do there thing but there are only a few the the $'s to play with them..... guess that is what I was meaning.



I just remember the days when I was in the 400-500 range and the truck was up all the time and was allot of fun. Now it's a hunt, with more and more down time as newer parts are being built or waiting on funds to buy them.



Jim

I JUST RECENTLY ADDED ANOTHER ANOTHER KID TO THE FAMILY, AND YES IT IS HARDER TO FUND PARTS ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU DONT WANT TO DOWN YOUR RIG... HOWEVER I THINK IT IS FUN AND CHALLENGING TO PULL WITH A 600 H. P. DAILY DRIVEN WELL MANNERED STREET RIG THAT YOU DRIVE TO AND FROM THE PULL, I LIKE TO WATCH ALL OF THEM PULL.

 

[BigBadDodge]

IMO You can't pull in any mod class unless you own a diesel shop, write everything off, and have employee's to work on the rig for you. Or your independatly wealth, Or you get some really reputable help from sponsorships. its exspensive even when you not breaking to just keep it runing and then increasing power every year becuase you know the guy's right behind you are



BBD

 

[TurboTweaker]

Scott i hear you on that one... ... ... ..... parts arent cheap... ... ... ... ...



The Fat Kid

Andy

 

[TravisG]

BBD- I don't think Chris Watson and his dad own a diesel shop. I think they are into excavating or something like that. What they lack in $$$$ they make up for in friendliness. And they hook pretty good too.