Re: Is This Guy Cheating
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Posted by TERRY DIXON on May 16, 1998 at 21:45:34:
In Reply to: Is This Guy Cheating posted by John Healey on May 16, 1998 at 18:32:46:
: The tractor club I belong to is getting organized this year to include tractor pulling at some of our summer get togethers. The organizers have decided that only unmodified tractors will be allowed to pull at club events. I visited a friend on Friday at the machine shop where he works . While there he showed me the engine of a fellow club member's McCormick-Deering tractor that was being worked on . When I asked the extent of the work I was told that it was being bored , and the head was being shaved by .050 inches . When I asked if the head was out that much my friend said no, that it was being done so it will pull better. I watched as the head was set up and the initial cuts were made . The head cleaned up at about .010 inches but an additional .040 inches was removed. To those that know something about pulling , could you still consider the engine to be stock? Or, is this guy cheating ? If he is doing that much more than necessary to rebuild an engine I would say he is cheating for running a straight stock class, but depending on what weight class he is planning to run the extra hp won't do him any good. If he pulls in too low of weight class he will more than likely spin out due to the extra hp., if he goes into a higher weight class he will be pulling aginst tractors with more hp so he will only end up even anyways. last year at a pull I saw an H outpull a M at 5400lb but the M won at 6400lb where he got more traction, so I guess it all depends at how you look at it. As far as I am concerned stock should mean stock, but I have seen lots of guys who would rather win than play by the rules. TERRY
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