Bully Dog Running BD TWINS!!!!!!!! PINKS - Lose The Race, Lose Your Ride - Tune In April 12 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 BD Twin 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. These two shows will air Wednesday, April 12th at 8:00 pm EST and April 13th at 12:00 am EST.
Cant wait to see.......I kind of wish I hadnt just read all of that, but itll still be good to watch a Cummins win on National TV geared towards an audience full of gas lovin fools.
I believe it was a S-10 that was done up really well with a very experienced driver and half he weight. rotfl rotfl
The show said the truck had ATS turbos. I think they ran the truck with no coolant on the last run, could that explain the knocking?
I had mixed feelings about the Bully Dog rig. My first question would be....why would anyone want to risk losing a highly modified late model Ram for a Chevy S-10 with slicks and a V8?opcorn: Second is I wasn't impressed with the super flashy short bed regular cab truck. I was hoping for a nice clean looking smooth stock appearing sleeper....oh well.:doah: Next would be ruining the motor. It sounded like it to me that the motor was done for at the end, and the main guy said they might blow it with no coolant if they hit the bottle....and he was hitting it... It will take every penny they get resaling that POS S10 just to buy a new long block for the Ram..... What cracked me up was the driver of the other truck. He said the Ram had three power adders, he was counting the turbo. There is no question it's a power adder on a gas engine, or even an N/A diesel that has been converted, but should it be assumed as a full on "performance" power adder on a factory turbo diesel that won't even run without one? I don't really think so....
It had twins on it, not a stock turbo, twins are a power adder. As far as the apperance, it's a rolling ad for Bully Dog, it's supposed to look like that, it got them alot of advertising last night. Dave said that they tried unsuccessfuly to overheat the engine at the starting line but I don't know if it overheated on the run or not... Sounded more like a rod knock to me or a realllllly bad injector which may explain the smoke.
My Comments I personally liked the Bully Dogs rig, I like the reg-cab's they look sportier plus shaving off the extra lbs is always nice, it made a statement in my opinion. Not to disagree with you again RJF again just my 2 cents but the residual exposure and advertising you pick up from that far outweighs the cost of that Cummins block, I have been on 5 Forums this morning and people are discussing it, that what’s gets your name out there, only wish it was a full blown BD truck:doah: plus adding the S-10 to your showroom for bragging rights, priceless As far as the turbos, yes they did say ATS at the begging of the show but they were definitely BD’S, still looking into that one :doah: I agree with what he said about it being a diesel running at 3000RPM needs a turbo but twins running at 60+ PSI are not just a power adder but a necessity to run 700HP! With out the twins that truck could have blown up much earlier than it did... and yes it did blow, I would have like to seen the coolant temp on that baby!
But what blew up? Like I said it sounded like a rod bearing but could be alot of things with that noise.
Not exactly sure what the failure was, sounded like rod bearings to me too... will post when I find out... Happy Easter to all waytogo
Yep, it's all about exposure imp: Would have been cool to see TowRig.com painted down the side. waytogo
Either way the Cummins got in the winners circle and it was honestly the best race I have ever seen on the show.Way to go Bully Dog
its on tonight again. read it was a coolent leak which caused the head gasket to go and coolant to get into the motor and causing mischief or something like that in the last race. im sure it didnt drive onto the trailer.
