Pushing the limits of the rules versus breaking them

I hate to say it, but pulling is a backwoods sport, and with all the bullshizzle on turbos, why does it surprise anyone that darn near all of the rules are being pushed and broken regularly. Half of the rules are worded so badly that you can spin them however you want anyways.

It's not a professional sport and I don't think there's any hope of getting better any time soon. Teching is sparse and not handled consistently. And the big shops continue to pull strings.

It's kinda like the government....at some point the only way to fix it is to throw out all the incumbents and start over.
 
thats why i went to drag racing. run this time or as close to it anyway you can! Got so sick of the rule changing every single year and the last year I truck pulled they changed turbo rules twice through out the year!
 
Rules are locked 3 years at a time with cotpc. That makes it nice but I agree. Their is next to no teching and rules are worded like chit. In no way should non competing vendors, turbo builders or anyone that sells parts to pullers be involved in any rules meeting IMO. Them padding their pocket is part often problem. Im all for true bore non protrusion with bushings. Regardless I bend the rules as much as I can. Been called illegal more than once this year but as the rules read I was legit word for word. no reason to bich about it, just fix and go on or quit pulling.
 
ComnRailPwr said:
Rules are locked 3 years at a time with cotpc. That makes it nice but I agree. Their is next to no teching and rules are worded like chit. In no way should non competing vendors, turbo builders or anyone that sells parts to pullers be involved in any rules meeting IMO. Them padding their pocket is part often problem. Im all for true bore non protrusion with bushings. Regardless I bend the rules as much as I can. Been called illegal more than once this year but as the rules read I was legit word for word. no reason to bich about it, just fix and go on or quit pulling.
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Well said Jake. I agree 100%
 
I really don't see a need to tech fuel in our class. I can see it in superfarm, where they are air limited. We have enough fuel and air to spare that we don't need additives to try to get every last horsepower.
Right now we use just enough hexadecane to help with cold start/low compression issues and either stanadyne lubricity formula or a combination of a couple of other lubricants.
Our biggest issue is that the new ulsd is very dry and even with a little extra lubricant the Ntpa legal fuel is causing us to have quite a bit of injector issues. The needles gaul and stick in the nozzle every couple passes or so with the legal fuel whereas with "hot" fuel (extra lubrication) we don't have any issues.
Where the techs run into trouble is that they don't properly clean and recalibrate the machine between every test. We have run into the exact same issue while racing when the test the alcohol. One guy rolls through with spiked fuel and the next few guys will fail with legal fuel.
 
JerrodGlover said:
Well look at that PPL sucks at writing rules even more then I thought. They have it in for 3.0 but not the 2.6. Hell why stop at 36's break out the 44's
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The only thing i have come up with on this is its a " street class"
 
SuperSonic said:
I really don't see a need to tech fuel in our class. I can see it in superfarm, where they are air limited. We have enough fuel and air to spare that we don't need additives to try to get every last horsepower.
Right now we use just enough hexadecane to help with cold start/low compression issues and either stanadyne lubricity formula or a combination of a couple of other lubricants.
Our biggest issue is that the new ulsd is very dry and even with a little extra lubricant the Ntpa legal fuel is causing us to have quite a bit of injector issues. The needles gaul and stick in the nozzle every couple passes or so with the legal fuel whereas with "hot" fuel (extra lubrication) we don't have any issues.
Where the techs run into trouble is that they don't properly clean and recalibrate the machine between every test. We have run into the exact same issue while racing when the test the alcohol. One guy rolls through with spiked fuel and the next few guys will fail with legal fuel.
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I hear ya Chris, but that's all gonna be cool until someone shows up with a non-top-5 truck and runs some fuel that makes enough power to put him in the top 5, then the top 5 guys will be yanking their beards. Then what?

For you guys it would make some level of sense to have you running the SAME fuel (regardless of what the stupid meter says) because there aren't that many of you.

Or are you guys just as secret squirrel/voodoo/spy-vs-spy on the fuel as with the lower classes?
 
its pulling someones allways gona be pushing the grays areas happens in all motor sports chris is right though ntpa needs to get there act together about there fuel testing
 
I've witnessed first hand many of pullers that live by the, "well the rules didn't say I can't" and therefore they end up really stretching the cheating borderline
 
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