Pinks tonight... Winfred would have loved it!

[SharkmanBMW]

BullyDog.com had a turbo diesel / nitrous Ram race truck against a modded s10.

The black smoke cloud was wild
and holy crap was that truck fast!

It was the best Pinks episode yet, heads up truck racing with nitrous and turbos

[winfred]

didn't see it but read about it bd probably nuked a motor to win, had no coolent on the last pass

it's been said they may of been running nitrous, propane and a water/methanol cooling spray on the diesel besides the built motor running twins

[winfred]

Written By: Desia Anderson, Bully Dog Technologies

When approached by Rich Christensen, host of the television show PINKS and asked if Bully Dog was willing to put up a title to a truck and race on his show, we didn't hesitate to say yes. A chance to prove that we "walk the walk," not just "talk the talk." Let's show the world our stuff! With that we built our ideal race truck and headed to Arizona.

The PINKS show is like a classic 1950's drag race. You line up two racers side by side, no green lights, and when the racing is over, there is just a winner and a loser. Racers must put up their vehicle titles to be on the show, and the best three out of five race winner takes the other vehicle home. PINKS controls the titles during the races and awards them on camera at the end of the competition. There are no set ups or re-takes. Whatever happens is what goes into the show. No money deals. No tricks. Just get up to the line and race. Anything goes.

We pulled into Speed World Arizona drag strip with our 2003 Dodge/Cummins as not only the first truck to race on PINKS, but also the first diesel truck. The Bully Dog truck was fully loaded with the Bully Dog Triple Dog Downloader, exhaust, air intake, injectors, nitrous, water methanol injection and to top it off, a dual sequential turbo kit.

At the start of the show the drivers, along with their crew, investigate their competitor's vehicle to see what they are up against. With that information the negotiators from each team battle it out to determine who has the advantage. They negotiate for vehicle lengths (basically who gets a head start). Then the vehicles line up and the host of the show drops his arms in the classic street-race style, and the first one down the quarter mile wins. Negotiating ensures after each round, and the teams have the opportunity to renegotiate lengths, use of nitrous, etc.

The first negotiation was brutal. Our competition knew of Bully Dog and what we did. They were not willing to give us any leeway. The first race started with our competition negotiating a five-truck head start and the removal of our nitrous. End result - Bully Dog lost the first race.

Back to the starting line and we were now in a better position to negotiate. We knew we could have a fair race if we could run on all our power sources. It was agreed that we could replace our nitrous, and we were given a one truck-length advantage. Now our pride and reputation were on the line. We needed to win the second race to stay in the game. We won, but we had a major setback with the truck. We acquired a hole in the radiator. If not fixed quickly, we could lose the next series of races and our truck. With little time to repair the leak, we stuffed a t-shirt in the hole. No kidding, a t-shirt.

The third race started heads up! With the series at one race each, the adrenaline was pumping. Bully Dog took race three by half a truck-length. Wow, what a close race. As the truck pulled back around to the starting line, we could see the t-shirt dragging from the radiator and the water and coolant were pouring out onto the ground. We were a bit nervous that the entire event was going to be called. We stuffed another t-shirt into the hole, wiped down the antifreeze from the tires, and hoped for the best.

We had the lead so our competitor had the negotiation advantage and our truck was now having serious radiator problems. It was settled that we would give our competitors a 3 1/4 truck-length advantage. The last couple of races had been so close that we were a bit tense on how this race was going to end. If we lost, we had one more shot, but we were unsure whether the radiator was going to hold up, and we were out of t-shirts.

Bully Dog's competition was an experienced drag racer that had won many drag races in Texas and Oklahoma. He had one final trick up his sleeve. Bully Dog pulled up to the starting line and got ready to launch. With the engine racing and literally seconds from the start, the competition suddenly claimed that his vehicle wasn't ready to go. Knowing that we had a major cooling problem, he tried unsuccessfully to overheat Bully Dog's engine in the desert heat.

In that race we really unleashed-the-dog with a "345" shot of nitrous and everything we had. We ran that quarter mile race in 11.2 seconds, crossing the finish line at 124 mph. We won the race and the competitor's truck!

The Bully Dog team pulled together to make this victory happen. We would like to thank our associate sponsors: Mount Logan Offroad, FASS System, Lund Grafx Works, Fluidampr, Suncoast Creation, Red Line Oil, Street Scene, Stupid Wear, HTS Transmissions, and BD Diesel. A special thanks to John with Fly-N-Hi Offroad and Matt with Snow Performance.