$50,000 Purse for a Diesel Race!!

Just wanted to say... and don't get me wrong, I think this is gonna be one cool race but, for it to be about racers like myself IMO:

  • 7000lbs min. would be required ( most street trucks are that and more )
  • completely stock 66mm
  • only support from vendors/top names would be entrance fee and maybe parts
  • and the rest of the rules already mentioned

this is just my opinion, I know the rules are set and would love to have competed but, my truck was ruled out from get go. I'd have to drive around with only a frame if even then to get close to 6K
 
WOW! Let's race

This race is a good reason to put the rule bar back into my truck! 6K on the nose with me in it and a full tank of fuel. Anybody want to help out a poor, broke as a joke racer??? I love that area, been there many times racing. Jeff
 
ok I check on the rule on courtesy staging . and it’s not a requirement , but a understanding.

The Tech guy told me that the last time if happen in a pro category, and was not a accident , was between Erica Enders and WJ . She did it on purpose to shake him up, in that she didn’t have a chance otherwise.
If she had not been a girl, there would have been an ass whipping on the return road. WJ sit at an idle waiting for about 45 seconds , while she burned down, and then bumped in and won the round . She toasted a few pistons on that pass.

Just make it a rule and you will have less problems ,


Wade when you get a lics you can call yourself a racer
 
Pro Tree is a very important detail here. I would say the BEST RACER with a top 25 consistant truck that will not melt from lack of air / spray is going to win this event! If the top qualifiers end up 11.5 a 12 second truck can beat him on the reaction time with a Pro Tree.
 
triton said:
Just wanted to say... and don't get me wrong, I think this is gonna be one cool race but, for it to be about racers like myself IMO:

  • 7000lbs min. would be required ( most street trucks are that and more )
  • completely stock 66mm
  • only support from vendors/top names would be entrance fee and maybe parts
  • and the rest of the rules already mentioned

this is just my opinion, I know the rules are set and would love to have competed but, my truck was ruled out from get go. I'd have to drive around with only a frame if even then to get close to 6K
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why can't you compete Ty? It's a 6k minimum, you can still enter cause your heavier than 6k.
 
Regarding the 7k street truck idea I don't agree. Many standard cab 2nd gens are no where near 7k. Add in the fact that we're "handy capped" by inferior air flow and injection when looking at the rpm window a s366 would limit us to and I see no need to limit the weight to over 7k. 6500 maybe but not 7k.
 
In real (as in non-diesel) drag racing, people play all sorts of horrible games at the light to try and throw one another off. If 25K was on the line I know I would. I saw one guy even turn off his engine before after a guy double bulbed him, and let him sit for a while.
 
TMONEYDIESEL said:
why can't you compete Ty? It's a 6k minimum, you can still enter cause your heavier than 6k.
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Technically, yes he can. Logically, that's just throwing money away.

NickTF said:
Regarding the 7k street truck idea I don't agree. Many standard cab 2nd gens are no where near 7k. Add in the fact that we're "handy capped" by inferior air flow and injection when looking at the rpm window a s366 would limit us to and I see no need to limit the weight to over 7k. 6500 maybe but not 7k.
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You can weight up easier then the bigger trucks can cut weight, just like sled pulling. you have the advantage to put the weight exactly where you could use it best....

As for the injection comment. That's a hell of a can of worms. :)
 
COMP461 said:
ok I check on the rule on courtesy staging . and it’s not a requirement , but a understanding.



Wade when you get a lics you can call yourself a racer
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Greg, not sure you want to go there.......i've won more diesel events than you've entered!:hehe:
 
After all of the inducer controversy in Sled Pulling, I cannot understand why anyone would use that rule @ a Drag Racing event, let alone one with this large of a field, and this amount of prize money. Every puller knows to be competitive in the 2.6" class takes atleast a 3.0" wheel, and the same thing will happen here. You could take a $50 intake restrictor and mandate it as the inducer limit, simple, and easy to tech. Like I said before, I like the idea of this, but it has to go smoothly otherwise you might not get a second chance.
 
JasonCzerak said:
You can weight up easier then the bigger trucks can cut weight, just like sled pulling. you have the advantage to put the weight exactly where you could use it best....

As for the injection comment. That's a hell of a can of worms. :)
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Yeah, I suppose. Hey, you guys can't light up turbos faster/easier just because common rails are cool lol:stab:
 
Smokem said:
After all of the inducer controversy in Sled Pulling, I cannot understand why anyone would use that rule @ a Drag Racing event, let alone one with this large of a field, and this amount of prize money. Every puller knows to be competitive in the 2.6" class takes atleast a 3.0" wheel, and the same thing will happen here. You could take a $50 intake restrictor and mandate it as the inducer limit, simple, and easy to tech.
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exactly what i said in another thread,

so you pay $500 to enter
Pay for travel and entry fee's
Pay for hotel and food.

Then you have to pay $1500-2000 for a new turbo, well i see that bushing down would save quite a few some much needed cash.

Great idea, i just thing some revision would need to take place. if not turbo manufactures are gona be slamed busy this winter.
 
Mind you I'm not talking about a bushing, rather a orifice plate that is clamped in the air stream before the inlet of the turbocharger. A bushing allows the MWE to divert the inducer limit, a plate would not.
 
Smokem said:
Mind you I'm not talking about a bushing, rather a orifice plate that is clamped in the air stream before the inlet of the turbocharger. A bushing allows the MWE to divert the inducer limit, a plate would not.
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Sounds like a better idea.
 
Another quick question, rules say 3 qualifying passes, and then the top 16 advance. Is it the combined times from the three passes or the quickest pass? Big difference.
 
Geeze they have already said Scheid rules, why is it still being discussed?
 
TMONEYDIESEL said:
why can't you compete Ty? It's a 6k minimum, you can still enter cause your heavier than 6k.
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competing isn't the problem... being competitive enough to even enter is. My 8200lbs probably wouldn't make the top 70 although it would give it hell tryin' :-)
 
what a mess , isnt any one willing to go race for good times anymore instead of not even showing unless you guaranteed a win ? and what's with every one getting mad because the class isnt directly designed around there truck or build ? grow up guys , either come race with the rules listed or dont very simple IMOP , and to limit the class to one turbo model / manufacture / frame is silly .
 
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