Attention: TDR Forum Junkies What an education I got on the desert this weekend.
TRACK- The promised World of Outlaws sprint car red clay track, was kiboshed about 2 weeks before the event. #@$%!
No problem, I hear from our inside man, we have another source of good clay.
When I get there, Im looking at white concrete that took a D-8 ripper to bust it up. When it did break up, it turned to baby powder.
How can I ever get enough water mixed into this, to make a track?
Answer: Make a puff of dust, enter the Dust Po-Po. You keep making dust, fellas, you are looking at a $10,000 fine.
Ok, now we have two water trucks blasting the dirt as we move it, and still have dust. In 33 bottom dump semi loads, we literally sprayed thousands and thousands of gallons of water.
Now we have the slickest, slimiest mud, non-dust track in North America. The equipment cant even get on it. Luckily, the left side of the track,(notice the videos, extreme left, way dry. ) was moved as powder, not mud. I offset the grader and started folding the powder into the mud. After several hours of this, we finally could get up on top of it. Roger Lowry was there by that time, and helped out.
By 7:00 pm Friday night, we had a track that could be pulled on. Now the key was to keep it that way through the heat of the day, until pull time, 3:00 pm.
I have never seen a material, that had such a small winder of too dry, to mud.
Saturdays track was alittle damper than Sundays, Colesantis video was the third from last truck of the day, and thats the worst dust cloud we had for none Mod trucks.
Fulmer was quick to point out, that it looked rocky. (Let me know next pull you will make, Jim, and I'l put you on rock picking detail. )
Well, he is right. In fact, our locaL contact said to me, and I quote, :" I tried to get a CRUSHER,
but they were all rented. "
You mean a screen?
No, a crusher.
Back home, we normally dont crush clay for pulling tracks.
Most rocks I have ever seen in clay. We got most of the big ones out, just little round ones left.
So any way, we ended up with a better track than I ever dreamed, and good enough to make history.
Clint Cannon of ATS won the first DHRA Nationals west of the Rockies. What class? Super Street, in a CHEVY. 
No compettion you say? How about a Scheid pumped Cummins? Or a Ford PSD that was only 3 feet behind Brad Ingram last year?
Clint has finally got his truck to live for 300+ feet, and hes coming to Indy, Super Streeters, you best bring your A-game.
Colesanti will do better when he listens to someone about tires who knows better.
TRACK- The promised World of Outlaws sprint car red clay track, was kiboshed about 2 weeks before the event. #@$%!
No problem, I hear from our inside man, we have another source of good clay.
When I get there, Im looking at white concrete that took a D-8 ripper to bust it up. When it did break up, it turned to baby powder.
How can I ever get enough water mixed into this, to make a track?
Answer: Make a puff of dust, enter the Dust Po-Po. You keep making dust, fellas, you are looking at a $10,000 fine.
Ok, now we have two water trucks blasting the dirt as we move it, and still have dust. In 33 bottom dump semi loads, we literally sprayed thousands and thousands of gallons of water.
Now we have the slickest, slimiest mud, non-dust track in North America. The equipment cant even get on it. Luckily, the left side of the track,(notice the videos, extreme left, way dry. ) was moved as powder, not mud. I offset the grader and started folding the powder into the mud. After several hours of this, we finally could get up on top of it. Roger Lowry was there by that time, and helped out.
By 7:00 pm Friday night, we had a track that could be pulled on. Now the key was to keep it that way through the heat of the day, until pull time, 3:00 pm.
I have never seen a material, that had such a small winder of too dry, to mud.
Saturdays track was alittle damper than Sundays, Colesantis video was the third from last truck of the day, and thats the worst dust cloud we had for none Mod trucks.
Fulmer was quick to point out, that it looked rocky. (Let me know next pull you will make, Jim, and I'l put you on rock picking detail. )
Well, he is right. In fact, our locaL contact said to me, and I quote, :" I tried to get a CRUSHER,
but they were all rented. "You mean a screen?
No, a crusher.
Back home, we normally dont crush clay for pulling tracks.
Most rocks I have ever seen in clay. We got most of the big ones out, just little round ones left.
So any way, we ended up with a better track than I ever dreamed, and good enough to make history.
Clint Cannon of ATS won the first DHRA Nationals west of the Rockies. What class? Super Street, in a CHEVY.
No compettion you say? How about a Scheid pumped Cummins? Or a Ford PSD that was only 3 feet behind Brad Ingram last year?
Clint has finally got his truck to live for 300+ feet, and hes coming to Indy, Super Streeters, you best bring your A-game.
Colesanti will do better when he listens to someone about tires who knows better.
Do some research on the stuff, maybe you can figure out a way to work the stuff better next time... There will be a next time, correct? Scott, nice looking truck, well for a ford anyways,:-laf was going to talk to you a bit , but you were busy getting it ready to go up and run, chase you down next time also! Same thing with Dave's big monster! And Craig, that truck of yours definitely was surprising too.
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