The next generation of Intertechno Lambada

The Lambada Pulling Team from Zwolle, in the Netherlands have built their V8 Hemi powered Modified Tractor called ,,Intertechno Lambada´´ newly during the last winter. After 3 years with the same Chassis, they decided in the fall of 2017 to built a new improved Tractor for the 2018 season. But what´s new and improved on the next evolution of the Intertechno Lambada? From the first view around the Mod not very much, but behind the technic of the Tractor there were made a lots of improvements during the last winter. The Dutch Team built the same chassis, but they moved the crossbox a 70mm more to the back. This means the back engines are more to the rear end for a better balance. They also changed all the little brackets in the chassis for a better performance in the driveline. Also after 5 years with the silver / grey paintjob, they decided to go a new way. They switched to a orange / grey look. Orange is the colour from one of their bigger sponsors called ,,Toplenzen´´.

The new Intertechno Lambada received a new homemade Domex wedge frame with a homemade chrome-moly rollcage, a self built steering with components from a small road car, new homemade steel wheelie bars and a Ralph Banter built Rockwell rear axle housing from the USA.
The USA approved rollcage and the completely Rockwell rear axle were took over of the old Intertechno Lambada. The new Domex frame rails and all the engine brackets were laser cut and bent by their sponsor Tosec BV. from Zwolle, in the Netherlands. Tosec BV. also has laser cut the brake discs of the new ride.

The rear axle has a a billet aluminium differential with a Rockwell ring and pinion gear, a billet aluminium center section and leight weight magnesium planetaries carrier housing by Joe Eder (Eder Motorsports) with special made CAT planetaries. The billet center section and the diff were manufactured by Humpco / GMS Hi Performance Machining in Hamilton, Ohio, USA. Bennie Vreeman of Vampire Gears from Neede, in the Netherlands did the special made CAT planetaries for the rear axle.
To keep the Tractor in bounds, the rear axle received a single wheel brake system with Engler Machine & Tool brake calipers, own constructed brake discs and brake pads from the company called ,,Vekoma´´ (also a small sponsor of the Team).

The drivetrain has a Humpco reverser with a special built Vampire Gears driveline between the reverser and the crossbox and a Banter crossbox from the USA. They have two different crossboxes for the Mod. One crossbox ist built for 3 engines and the other one is built for 4 engines. Those two components are the oldest parts on the new machine. The crossboxes were built in the year of 2000 by Ralph and Dave Banter, but received some new bearings during the last winter check.
The rear fenders were made out off carbon fiber by a company in Germany. After 5 years the Team replaced the old fenders by new ones. The new ones also got a completely new design and colour sheme. The new design was made with the help of Kees Vreeman (Vampire Pulling Team) and MW Design from Schijndel in the Netherlands made the paintjob on the new fenders. Ed van der Hoek from the Cloud Nine Pulling Team made the paintjob work on the new Chassis.

For a good traction on the European Pulling tracks they purchased a set of new cut Firestone Puller 2000 HP tyres with polished Northern Sheen aluminium rims by CM Pulling tires in the USA. At the 3rd Euro Cup round in Made, the Netherlands they tested for the first time a set of new Mitas Powerpull tires on the Tractor. Both new set of tires were cut by Hans Heesakers in the Netherlands.  
The new Intertechno Lambada is powered by blown BAE V8 Hemi engines on methanol fuel. The Lambada Team driving with 3 of those BAE Hemis in the 3.5t / 7700lbs. Mod division and with 4 in the 4.2t / 9260lbs. Heavy Mod division. The power plants have a BAE billet aluminium engine block with Darton sleeves, a 4.5´´ Winberg billet steel crankshaft with MGP billet aluminium rods and Diamond billet aluminium pistons, Veney alcohol cylinder heads with Manley valves, Dan Olson Racing exhaust headers, a Com cams billet camshaft from the USA, a billet SSI 14-71 supercharger with a carbon fiber scoop, a Sassy Racing dual fuel system with a Sassy Racing fuel pump, a homemade aluminium sheet metal fuel and oil tank, a RCD oil pump and a Racepak IQ3 data logger.

The two aluminum sheet metal tanks on the front end of the tractor are for the dry sump lubrication of the front engines. With the Racepak IQ3 data logger they can measure the rpms, the intake pressure and the oil pressure of all 4 engines.
Since many years with the same engine combination, they switched over to a different cylinder bore in 2018. The engines have a bigger bore with 4.440´´ inch and they have changed the intake manifolds to get more air into the engines. The Dingerinks also changed the nozzles in the fuel system to get a higher pressure.
After all the technical insight what are the hopes of the Lambada Team after those improvements? 

The Team hopes and they have seen that already this year, that they had a better balance especially in the Unlimited class with those changes. With all the new small plates and brackets, the driveline stays perfect in place and the new Mod can put all the horsepower to the ground.
With the bigger bore in the engines, the crew hopes to have more horsepower than last year.Things that the team didn´t know, but what they know now are the big engine failures in 2018. The big damages also were sometimes bad luck.
Füchtorf, Germany was the start of the Euro Cup season. They made nice passes in the Mod class, but in end of Heavy Modified class a rod broke in the front right engine. Back in the Lambada workshop, they found out, the problems were the bigger pistons with more compression and the wet sump oil lubrication system wasn´t good enough anymore for the front motors. The Dutch guys worked 3 weeks to rebuilt both front engines on dry sump lubrication system.

At the next event the other front engine blew up, after only 20m. Later they found in the workshop, there was missing a o ring in the suction part in one of the a new oil pumps. This was the result for another broken power plant. After those lubrication problems, the Tractor ran pretty good during the mid of the season. But in the end of the season in Great Ecclestone, England they junked again one of the expensive engines, but this time the crankshaft broke. They found out the crank was more than 100 runs old. Before the EC the spare parts stock was pretty empty in the workshop, their biggest sponsor Bertus Boer (Intertechno) helped them for the EC with engine parts and from Egbert Dros (Simply Irresistible Pulling Team) they got an older BAE spare engine block. With those support Willem Dingerink won on his 72nd birthday the 2018 European Championship title in the 3.5t / 7700lbs Modified division. But a few hours later in the Heavy Modified class, another engine went broke and again a broken crankshaft. After the EC in Alphen, the Netherlands, the Team found the problem why the crankshafts after 100 runs broke. With the new bigger pistons and the higher compression, the crankshafts were claimed much higher than they believed, that´s why the cranks broke so early. Because of those troubles, all 4 BAE Hemis will get a completely new crankshaft for the 2019 season.
The Lambada Pulling Team will compete in the Dutch Grand National Championship (Modifieds and Unlimited division) and in the Euro Cup (Heavy Modified) next year.

for further information, check here: http://www.teamlambada.nl/

or, check here: https://www.facebook.com/tracktorpullingteamlambada/

Open Modified Mini Tractors Benson June 2018

Wim Dingerink, have a day!

I got into the vault yesterday as part of a Facebook challenge to upload 100 videos in 30 days.  Just two days in and I am at 13 videos uploaded.  The only stipulation is that they must be 3 minutes long and have Ads.  Yes, we are still not bankrolled, so we must run Ads.  There are 7,000 miles and lots of fuel that has to be paid for and Sheetz gas stations still don't take passion as a form of payment!

Benson North Carolina United States is way back off the beaten path.  But you drive into a world-class motorsports park and you feel right at home.  There are bathhouses that compliment the dirty business of pulling, plenty of good food vendors, and plenty of gear.  And if you get a chance to check out the Shell Rotella experience, I strongly suggest it.

To the action.  There were several resets for this class.  Thank you for being patient with me on that.  But we do want good distance for the whole class and nobody wants to see the business end of every tractor that pulls past 330 feet.  So they got it right I think.  Larry Koester went 330 thereabouts for the final reset.  Then came the new ride of Kevin Teague and Test Point.  Kevin went 288 and some change.  Next was Ken Veney and his wonderful sidekick.  Ken was guided to a perfect spot on the track and piloted his ride to 310.380.  Jerry Thompson came next and went 313.400 on Hell Raiser.  Joe Eder came back and went 307.555 after a tough start his first time down the track.  Adam Koester and Beast of Burden came next and went 302.210.

Wim came next 4100 miles to get to this event.  Wim traveled all the way from Zwolle Netherlands to the States, and work his way back through the sticks to this event.  I would have to say it was well worth it for this run.  Wim went 322.875 and led 10 pullers.  We were glad to see Wim come over and I will gladly return the favor and go film him in his country soon ...

Adam Koester came up again with Walk the Line and went 314.345.  One of those 10 bullets Wim would dodge.  Tim Cutshall came next and went 280.115.  Not Tim's usual performance, but it went in the books that way.  Frankie Steed came next and went 256.530 on Money Pig.  Chase Richardson came next and went 288.255 on a horse to be named later. 

Bobcat Jr driven by Phillip Fairbanks came next and went 312.350.  It was looking like Wim was going to take this home, especially after Adam Bauer took Iron Toy to a final distance of 315.020.  But if at first, you don't succeed, drive your second Mini Rod to the top spot.  Adam took Cowboy Up to a spot of 323.295 for a big win on Friday night. 

So, Wim didn't win Friday and second place at a Grand National event.  But he did win the class the second night.  To finish second and first with just one pass down the track on one of the biggest stages in the world of pulling is truly amazing.  Congrats to Wim on an awesome trip to the States.

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Light Super Stock Tractors Pulling at Colby, WI - July 21st, 2018

New MF Farm Stock in Sweden

From Visbyslätt, in Sweden, the ASA Pulling Team around Erik Franzen and Fillip Nillson have built a new 4.5t / 9260lbs. Massey Ferguson Farm Stock Tractor. After 2 years of building, the machine made its maiden run at the 2018 Lidköping City Pull in Sweden. The ASA Pulling Team is not an old Team in the Swedish Tractor Pulling Sport. The Team was founded by Erik, Fillip and the mechanic Olle in 2015. But, Erik Franzen started with Pulling much earlier. In 2011, he purchased a old Volvo BM600 from 1997. He named it ,,Oden´´ after the nordic mythology, a god that was considered the oldest, biggest and wisest. It had a TD70 engine, he drove it for 3 years and sold it in 2016.
In the fall of 2015 he, Fillip and Ole started to built a new tractor, a Volvo BM800 for the 3.6t / 7930lbs. Farm Stock class. They called the Tractor ,,Fenrisulven´´, also after the nordic mythology.  They were ready with the Volvo for a local Swedish Championship round in Lövsta at the last minute. It wasn´t just they who made it possible to run, some of the friends helped them the last days. It was long nights and many hours in the workshop.The first pull went well, without any testing before. After one season in the 3.6t / 7930lbs. Farm Stock division with the Volvo BM800 there came the plans to built a new Tractor. In January 2017, the Swedish Team purchased the old Massey Ferguson V8 Pro Stock Tractor called ,,Red Attraction´´ without the engine and the rear wheels from the Netherlands.

Their first plans were to building a new V8 Perkins engine for the Massey and then compete in the Pro Stock class in Sweden. But those thoughts were shattered because of weight problems. After more thoughts they decided to convert the old Red Attraction Pro Stock into a 4.5t / 7930lbs. Farm Stock. The Team built a new homemade steel wedge frame with new engine brackets for the MF. The frame were made out of 3mm sheet metal. The rest like the rearend, the rollcage, the hydraulic power steering, the sheet metal fenders and the Massey Ferguson hood were took over.
The hood of the Farm Stock is a Massey Ferguson 7499 from the 2010 version. The rear axle is a machined MF 1155 axle with a MF 1155 diff and has a original 1155 ring and pinion gear. Also the rest of the parts in the rear axle like the planetaries carrier housing, planetaries and the shafts come from a MF 1155. The original MF 1155 transmission case is machined and received some better Fuller transmission gears. The clutch bell housing is also machined. The MF bell housing was spindled out and a steel liner was fitted in. With this change, the Tractor can run without the shatter blankets around the bell housing. The clutch of the vehicle is a 10´´inch centrifugal clutch with a steel fly wheel and 4 discs. The clutch was manufactured by the company called ,,Hallagårdsmek´´ from Sweden. To find the optimum grip on the Swedish Pulling tracks, they bought a set of used Midwest aluminium rims with cut Firestone All Traction puller tires.

The new Farm Stock called ,,Narfe´´ is powered by a V8 Perkins 510 with 8.3l displacement on diesel fuel.
The V8 diesel power plant has a stock Perkins engine block with Darton sleeves, a Perkins 510 crankshaft with modified stock rods and pistons, revised Perkins 510 cylinder heads with bigger valves and regrinded Perkins camshafts, better and harder valve springs, a homemade intake and exhaust manifold, a modified Schwitzer S500SX turbocharger, a self built water colled Intercooler, a homemade stainless steel fuel tank, a Bosch P3000 diesel fuel injection pump with 13mm elements, a Perkins oil pump and a own designed data logger with a 36 channel in 8PC sensor.
The first season for the Team with the new Massey Ferguson was very succsesful, they won the Swedish Championship in the 4.5t / 9260lbs. Farm Stock division.
For the upcoming winter they have planned to make a lots of small changes on the V8 Perkins powered Massey Ferguson Tractor to be sure to get on the podium next season.
The ASA Pulling Team also have planned to compete outside of Sweden on European Pulling tracks with their toy in 2019. 

further information, check here: https://www.facebook.com/Team-ASA-Traktorpulling-1870944499879808/

Last Chance

Yesterday, I have got a message from the tractorpullingshop because of the 2019 pullingworld.com calendar. The most of the calendars are sold now and only 13 calendars are still in stock.
If you have not one, that´s the last chance to secure one !

further details about the 2019 calendar, check here: https://www.tractorpullingshop.de/medien/kalender/265/pullingworld-kalender-2019

2018 Tractor Pulling event pics by Kevin Part 3/4

Euro Cup Brande (DK) 2018 Sunday
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Euro Cup Brande (DK) 2018 Saturday 
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Edewecht (D) 2018
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Krumbach-Breitenthal (D) 2018 Sunday
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Krumbach-Breitenthal (D) 2018 Saturday
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Grimmen (D) 2018 
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Q & A with Bill Leischner

Bill Leischner, 67 years old from Weldon, Illinois in the USA. Bill is the owner and driver of the V8 Hemi powered Modified Tractor called ,,Dirtslinger´´. In 2017, he won the Lucas Oil Pro Pulling League Championship in the Super Modified Tractors division. Bill is now more than 40 years active and a real veteran in the US Pulling sport.

pullingworld.com: What are you doing in your normal life?
Bill Leischner: I am a grain farmer in east central Illinois. 1800 acres of corn and soybeans.

pullingworld.com: What do you like to do in your free time, except Tractor Pulling?
Bill Leischner: For my free time other then tractor pulling I spend time with my family and my fiancé.  I also spend time on my computer and working around the farm. Tractor pulling and farming take up most of my time.

pullingworld.com: What do you like about Tractor Pulling?
Bill Leischner: I enjoy the competition Tractor Pulling, the fans, and figuring out how to make the tractor better.

pullingworld.com: What was your first Tractor Pulling event?
Bill Leischner: I started pulling a farm tractor at the local pull as a teenager. Rex King let me drive his upside down F30 with 2 Chevy engines back about 1980.

pullingworld.com: What is your favourite Event / Pulling track?
Bill Leischner: My favorite PPL pull is Hillsboro, Wisconsin. My favorite NTPA pull is Tomah, Wisconsin. The Farm Machinery Show pull in Louisville, Kentucky rates right up there.

pullingworld.com: When and where do you have driven a Pulling Tractor for the first time?
Bill Leischner: My first time driving was Rex’s F30 at Farmer City Illinois. 

pullingworld.com: What was your biggest success?
Bill Leischner: I won numerous Illinois Tractor Pulling Championships in the 80’s and 90’s. My first National Champioship was the USHRA 7200 mod 1987.

pullingworld.com: Which Pulling classes do you like too?
Bill Leischner: I like to compete in the Modified, Unlimited and Mini Rod class.

pullingworld.com: What was your biggest disappointment?
Bill Leischner: My biggest disappointment was the new Dirtslinger tractor wheel breaking off on the first pass at NFMS 2014.

pullingworld.com: Which things must be changed in the future of the Tractor Pulling sport?
Bill Leischner: I think the different sanctioning bodies need to learn to coexist better.

pullingworld.com: What are your plans for the future in Tractor Pulling?

Bill Leischner: My plans are for my family to take over Dirtslinger Pulling Team.

pullingworld.com: What was for you the most important moment in the sport?
Bill Leischner: I think tractor and Truck Pulling being on national TV is very important and beneficial for our sport of Truck and Tractor Pulling.

pullingworld.com: What was your favourite Pulling Tractor project in the workshop during a winter?
Bill Leischner: I think my most important project was building the 4 engine Dirtslinger in the year 2000. Rex King and I building the 1981 Dirtslinger and then buying the Walsh Irish Challnger in 1987 going to Arias engines was also a favorite winter project.

pullingworld.com: Something you want to say?
Bill Leischner: I think Tractor pulling is the best motorsport for family participation!  2nd to none. 

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