Street Truck Pulls??

RSWORDS said:
I hear that... Granted I trailer my truck to the pulls but that is because they are over an hour away... I have to take me, the wife, the dog, and usually a friend with me. Also I don't trust my truck to not break. It could be easily driven but why when I have a trailer at my disposal... The truck is driven on the street all the time. Besides I like to un-hook the trailer and park the tow rig againt the track.
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We towed to just about every pull we went to the past couple years, unhooked the trailer and pulled both trucks (and hoped we didn't break both of them so one of us could tow home). Paris, KY was a good example - the last pull of the night our buddy broke his driveshaft at 2 in the morning and over 2 hours from home. Nice to have the trailer then.

From the pulls I've seen in OH/IN/KY, there are so many county fair pulls that you can enter that you can be competitive in with a few cheap mods to the truck - weight bracket that you can take on and off, ladder bars, and blocks (along with the power most of you guys are making of course). Put these on and you will finish respectably at almost any brush pull in the area, and there are a ton of them. Plus all the above mods come off easily after the pull. We took two trucks to Connersville, IN last weekend. Got 3rd and 4th out of 20 some trucks with two stock turbo Dmaxs.

I'm not knocking your idea, I just think you would do better than you think.

As far as WS rules and no hanging weights, I hate that rule!:bang Just makes it a wheelbase/dually class.
 
Well if everything goes as planned than next year I will have my own league. Would any of you guys be interested in pullin with us. Most pulls, I hope to stay around here. Southwest Ohio-Southeast IN- Northern KY.
 
I'm posting as a puller, not an organizer.

This thread is pathetic.

The title should be:
"Can someone make a wimp class that will pay us?"

Get off the bleachers, and hook your truck in Work Stock, if that class isn't at the pull you are at, hook it in the next closest thing.

Its embarrassing to see fellow Diesel pullers carry on like this. It is a wonder Diesel pulling ever grew at all with these attitudes. I hope the gasser guys don't see it.

FIVE CLASSES in NADM, and its still too tough, WTF??????:bang:bang:bang:bang:bang

Done ranting!!!!
 
Sledpuller said:
I'm posting as a puller, not an organizer.

This thread is pathetic.

The title should be:
"Can someone make a wimp class that will pay us?"

Get off the bleachers, and hook your truck in Work Stock, if that class isn't at the pull you are at, hook it in the next closest thing.

Its embarrassing to see fellow Diesel pullers carry on like this. It is a wonder Diesel pulling ever grew at all with these attitudes. I hope the gasser guys don't see it.

FIVE CLASSES in NADM, and its still too tough, WTF??????:bang:bang:bang:bang:bang

Done ranting!!!!
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HERE HERE! There can never be a "true street class" there will always be someone that will take the class to its limits. Come one Phil grow a set and hook that girly truck.
 
Just show-up, sign-up and pull!
That's what I do.
WS should be a just-for-fun class. But, If they take it too serious in your area...screew'em...just hook and have some fun.
 
Yeah it's funny, even when people try to start these "daily driver" classes, it's all well and good until one of the guys buys bigger injectors or a bigger box or something and starts beating the other guys....then the rest of 'em get mad and turn on each other.

Escalation is going to happen in motorsports no matter what. Fact of life.

Y'know, at the pulls we go to, guys just off the street really don't get laughed at or anything (as long as you don't do something really stupid) and everyone deserves a shot at the sled. So like the other guys said, shut up and hook it!

Look at it this way, if you're not making much power, you won't break anything!
 
i agree..... show up and pull!! but who wants to show up and pull when you got guys running their mouth telling you you're no good and "don't stand a chance against us". i was in deleon in june 7th for my very first pull. walked up to a guy driving a green 02 dodge dually and started asking him some questions like what gear i should pull in, trying to ask some advice, ect. he starts giving me the run around and then later comes up to me and says "you know you don't stand a chance against us". well later that night he fries his clutch. karma. :hehe: so it's pretty dissapointing when you got guys trying to discourage you from pulling. i thought we were trying to grow as a sport. needless to say , i will make it my mission to beat that dude at the next pull he's in. i already beat him that night but i will beat him or break trying. :soap:
 
at Hillsboro we have a BONE stock class at 6500lbs, gas and diesel, i know the big trucks cant get into it but the 8,000 stock was too hard to police, and if the truck smokes excessively or the truck turns too many rpms or just dosent sound "right" idling (hard to explain but we are fair in the stock class), they are out.....
 
I have only been pulling for 3 years, all of it in workstock classes.

We had an event recently here with about 14 workstock diesel pullers. Half were dodges and half were dmaxes. The first three places were trucks with stock turbos and engines. The modified turbo trucks were far back.

Even the modified trubo class was won by a street truck with no hanging weight.

This is not that unusual around here. The win often goes to the truck that gets setup best the track, not the truck with the most money in it.

But the main thing is to have fun doing it, win or lose. Participation is more important modifications. You can win without mods but you can't win without participating.
 
wideopen said:
I hear what your saying, And I don't blame you...but whn you trailer your truck you will hang it out a little more vs. driving it in the gate..

Honestly I don't want anyone to make a class like I'm talking about, I just wanted to see the interest in a "Pure Street" style class?
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:hehe: The reason I started trailering to events is because I was always teh guy standing there with the broken truck wondering how the hell I was going to get home. :hehe:

But I do agree.... Most people will hold a little back if the have to drive it home.
 
Heres what we are doing.

LOGANSTANFORTH said:
in florida we got stock turbo class and everything else class......nothing in between, so i either got to keep my factory HX35 or step up to a 3.0 charger or twins.....
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This will be changing for 2009. It will be closer to what we do at the ALL DIESEL PULL 1) stock turbo, no hanging weights 2) looking at a 2.6 max, hanging 3) run what you brung, anything goes.
 
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Wait a minute some of you are digging way to deep into this thread. I'm not calling for any orginisation to add anything, I was just guaging interest. I know making a Stock class is out there and not going to happen with any orginization. But you guys that run orginizations should always have an eye open to see where interest is for new classes, thats what this thread is about.
 
Speaking of stock turbos...I'd love to see a group of dealerships have the balls to enter equally equipped bone stock trucks at a street pull. CTD, DMAX, PS - all automatics - all single rear wheel 2500's - close as you can get to same rear end ratio - all the same bed & cab combo. Pull on Friday or Saturday, sell on Monday!
 
Shep said:
Speaking of stock turbos...I'd love to see a group of dealerships have the balls to enter equally equipped bone stock trucks at a street pull. CTD, DMAX, PS - all automatics - all single rear wheel 2500's - close as you can get to same rear end ratio - all the same bed & cab combo. Pull on Friday or Saturday, sell on Monday!
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Not toyotas or nissans??? :kick:
 
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