Tractor Pulling News - Pulling-World.com: 2/1/18

Wednesday, February 28, 2018

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The new Turbo Star

The Flying Hawk Pulling Team from Porta-Westfalica, in Germany, together with the Gladiateur Pulling Team from France are currently building on a new 2.5t / 5500lbs. Light Modified Tractor with a turbocharged Continental V12 tank engine. Both Teams started with the new project in the winter of 2015 in the Flying Hawk workshop in Porta-Westfalica. The new project got a new homemade Domex wedge frame with a homemade steel rollcage, homemade wheelie bars, a hydraulic power steering and a Rockwell rearend. The new fenders of the Light Mod were built by the Rocket Science Pulling Team from Weert, in the Netherlands. The fenders are made from carbon fiber. His big brother called ,,Flying Hawk" has the same ones. The Teams purchased for the new project a set of new Northern Sheen aluminium rims from Canada with new cut Firestone Puller 2000 HP tires. The new tires of the Light Mod were cut by Steen Dam in Denmark.
The Rockwell rearend received a original Rockwell center section with a Rockwell diff, a Rockwell ring and pinion gear, billet aluminium ZF planetaries carrier housing with ZF planetaries and self built brake discs with billet aluminium brake calipers. The billet planetaries carrier housing were built by the Le Coiffeur Pulling Team from Georgsmarienhütte, in Germany. Also the Domex frame rails and the bent tubes for the rollcage were purchased by the same Team.
The newly constructed drivetrain of the Tractor gets a homemade reverser with a special manufactured driveline from Zahnradfabrik Lechleitner, a homemade 4 disc centrifugal clutch with a size of 11" inch and a homemade aluminium clutch bell housing. The new reverser has a CNC - milled aluminium housing with special made shafts and gears by Zahnradfabrik Lechleitner from Kamen, in Germany.

The new Turbo Star will have a turbocharged Continental AV-1790 V12 tank engine with 29.4l / 1790cui. displacement on methanol fuel. The engine ran on the old twin Continental powered Heavy Mod Tractor called ,,Wild Hawk" in the past. The tank power plant has a original Continental block with revised stock cylinder heads, original Continental camshafts with original valves and valve springs, original sleeves, a stock Conti crank with original rods and pistons, a new homemade intake and exhaust manifold, a 4 Schwitzer charger setup, a self built fuel system with Enderle fuel pumps and homemade injectors, a homemade fuel tank, a self built oil pan with a original oil pump and a electronic ignition with a Memotec built data logger.
Each of the 4 turbocharger feed 3 cylinder of the engine with air.
The Flying Hawk and the Gladiateur Pulling Team will compete with their new vehicle on German and French Pulling tracks this year. The maiden voyage of the new Turbo Star Light Mod is planned for the 7th of April 2018 at the German Indoor Pull in Riesa, Germany.

The Flying Hawk Pulling Team would also like to give a big thanks to their sponsors for the support on the new project !

for further information, check here: http://www.flyinghawk.de/

or , check here: https://www.facebook.com/Tractor-Pulling-Team-Flying-Hawk-234036366633900/

The new Tractor with the old turbocharger setup in 2016

PPL 2017: Pro Stocks pulling at the Vanderburgh County Fair

Tuesday, February 27, 2018

The new Navigator Light Super Stock

We have reported in 2016, the Swedish Super Stock Tractor called ,,Silvia+´´ of Reinhard Stefansson was sold to a new Team from the Netherlands. Martin de Leeuw from Genemuiden, in the Netherlands is the new owner of the Tractor and running in the Light Super Stock division. He purchased the New Holland TG285 without the engine from Sweden. The Silvia+ wedge chassis was built in 2005 by the Swedish Team himself and received a homemade steel rollcage, a custom built hydraulic power steering and a shorted Rockwell rear axle housing. The hood and fenders of the ride are original off a New Holland TG285 Tractor.
The Rockwell rearend has a original Rockwell center section with a billet aluminium diff, a Rockwell ring and pinion gear and original CAT planetaries carrier housing with CAT planetaries. The rear wheels on the vehicle are a set of old 24.5 x 32 Firestone Puller tires with Midwest aluminium rims.
The new Light Super Stock also got a Profab 3 speed transmission with a homemade driveline, a van der Waal Pulling Parts centrifugal clutch with a VSP (Veldhuizen Special Products) fly wheel and a Browell steel bell housing.

The Navigator is powered by a 6 cylinder Powerstar engine with 7.6l capacity on alcohol fuel.
Martin purchased the complete engine from the Blue Thunder Pulling Team from Tonden, in the Netherlands. The power plant has a New Holland Power Star engine block with a modified NH Powerstar cylinder head, a camshaft from Jan Burggraf (New Generation Pulling Team), titanium valves, a billet crankshaft with billet aluminium rods and pistons, a custom built intake and exhaust manifold, a billet Holset HX82 turbocharger, a VSP alcohol fuel system with a VSP fuel pump, a 2 stage oil pump, a MSD 8 ignition and a Racepak data logger.
The new Team around Martin de Leeuw got a lots of help from Bram Kools (Interaction Pulling Team) during building time and the first passes. The Dutch Team had a great season with no major damage. Sometimes they had the idea that they have made progress, but after a run it turned out, they had to start all over. The Navigator Pulling Team learned a lot about the track and the machine itself. They have made the right changes to the setup halfway through the season. After the last changes to the setup, before the Indoor Pull in Zwolle, they had the idea and made the right decision. This was the best run of the New Holland so far. Martin and his Team are looking very positive at the current season and hope to compete in the top 3 of the Dutch Championship.

further information, check here: https://www.facebook.com/NavigatorTractorpullingTeam/

Monday, February 26, 2018

Tractor Pulling European Superpull Ahoy (NL) 1997 by Jens Nieting

Friday, February 23, 2018

Q & A with Mattias Nilsson

Mattias Nilsson, 44 years old from Höllviken, in Sweden. Mattias is the owner and driver of the V8 Hemi powered Light Modified Tractor called ,,XL´´. Before he made with his Team the switch to the Light Mod division, the Swedish Team drove many years in the TWD class.

pullingworld.com: What are you doing in your normal life?
Mattias Nilsson: In my normal life, I have been a self-employed farmer and truck driver for 20 years. And now I have just been employed by a large company as a constructor and spider in the network. As regards the structure and equipment of Trucks and Trailers. From baying, building to selling them.

pullingworld.com: What do you like to do in your free time, except Tractor Pulling?
Mattias Nilsson: At my and Family's leisure time. We would like to go to USA in the winter and in summer we would like to go out with the boat.

pullingworld.com: What do you like about Tractor Pulling?
Mattias Nilsson: I like everything about building, constructing and improving.

pullingworld.com: What was your first Tractor Pulling event?
Mattias Nilsson: 1982 in Ystad, Sweden. It was a show run by a number of Dutch Teams.

pullingworld.com: What is your favourite Event / Pulling track?
Mattias Nilsson: Bernay, France.

pullingworld.com: When and where do you have driven a Pulling Tractor for the first time?
Mattias Nilsson: 1988 in St. Olof, Sweden.

pullingworld.com: What was your biggest success?
Mattias Nilsson: Building of our current Light Mod Tractor.

pullingworld.com: Which Pulling classes do you like too?
Mattias Nilsson: TWD of course.

pullingworld.com: What was your biggest disappointment?
Mattias Nilsson: 2017 EC Stroe, in the Netherlands. I was disqualified, because I crossed the white line.

pullingworld.com: Which things must be changed in the future of the Tractor Pulling sport?
Mattias Nilsson: Hard question, but I could imagine more divisions. Like a "A" and "B" division.

pullingworld.com: What are your plans for the future in Tractor Pulling?
Mattias Nilsson: Better results in the Euro Cup series.

pullingworld.com: What was for you the most important moment in the sport?
Mattias Nilsson: The first time as we were invited to the European Superpull in Ahoy (NL).

pullingworld.com: What was your favourite Pulling Tractor project in the workshop during a winter?
Mattias Nilsson: The building of the new XL Light Mod.

pullingworld.com: Something you want to say?
Mattias Nilsson: I want to thank my Team. Without them I had not been where we are today.

pullingworld.com: Thank you for your time and good luck for the future!

Thursday, February 22, 2018

DTTO Puller of the year 2017

The Final Destination Pulling Team around Karl Helmbrecht and Hans Herrnberger from Bogen in South Germany, were awarded as DTTO Puller of the year 2017 !

Congratulations to the Final Destination Team !