1st Outdoor event in Nebraska a cold windy success!

Nebraska Diesel Show 

April 27, 2019 

  

As always when doing these early Spring shows the weather is a consideration for success. This event was no different so when I arrived at the Kearney Raceway Park on Friday it was Sunny, 70 degrees and a bit windy (10 mph) and I unloaded and met with the track about conditions and scheduling for the next day.

By Saturday morning a cold front had moved in with 35-45 mph winds and temperature was warmest in the morning at 50 degrees falling to 41 by evening. In normal conditions I would have called the event but NOT with these Nebraska diesel crowd!

Day started out rough with very high winds, we barely got 20ft popup put together with strap downs to the fence and sandbags on the legs along with rubber-banding all of the literature and decals.  

However more and more people and trucks came through the gate closer to noon when the winds dropped to 15-20 mph and the sun broke through the clouds. Diesel enthusiasts in Carhart coats and sock hats brought their many different diesel vehicles into the track for grudge racing (110 trucks teched), dyno competition, show-n-shine, burnout contest and sled pulling.

By evening the winds died down and the sun came out steady but the temperatures started to drop, still pretty pleasant for the sled pulls. Crowds were good all through the afternoon till the sun started to go down. We saw and talked to people from Colorado, South Dakota, Kansas, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri and of course Nebraska.

Despite the weather concerns we consider this show a success with lots of diesel trucks, good amount of people, constant traffic at the tent and lots of competition on both tracks!

Winners:

Sled Pull Winners:

3.0 Super Class

1^stPlace = Bryan Banghart – 1992 Dodge – 342.13 ft

2^nd– AJ Eilert – 1994 Dodge – 313.10 ft

3^rd– Russ Horns – 1996 Dodge – 305.89 ft

4^th– Matt Heideman – 2005 GMC – 256.80 ft

Hot Work Stock

1^st– Jeremy Stickney – 2005 Dodge – 266.27 ft

2^nd– Daniel Topham – 2006 Ford – 250.71 ft

3^rd– Matthew Schepler – 2013 Ford – 248.61 ft

4^th– Zack Larson – 1998 Dodge – 229.98 ft

5^th– John Topham - 2003 Ford – 224.04

Work Stock

1^st- Kaleb Henebry – 2001 Chevy – 290.22 ft

2^nd– Matthew Schepler – 2013 – 238.27 ft

3^rd– Garret Kruger – 2001 Ford – 223.99 ft

4^th– Zack Larson – 1998 Dodge – 209.67 ft

5^th– John Schmidt – 2005 Excursion – 193.69 ft

6^th– Nick Manhart – 2009 Ford – 182.84 ft

7^th– Logan Klingson – 2015 Chevy – 175.82 ft

Open Class

1^st– Bronson Gibbons – 1942 Ford – 306.60 ft

2^nd– Mark Gibbons – 1942 Chevy – 301.18 ft

3^rd– Brandon Kibbee – 1952 Big Hooker – 296.47 ft

4^th– Will Gibbons – 1975 Ford – 282.38 ft

Dyno Competition

Highest Horsepower/Chevy – Michael Duesbur

Highest HP Ford – Brook Huffman

Highest HP Dodge – Leo Kochanowicz

Where did DPFdelete originate? The rollin smoke kids?

By Larry "Gene" Mohney

Wrong! It originated in the rural areas by farmers who bought the new trucks for their farms. It didn't take long for the farmers to load it up and take it out into the fields to either unload feed, bales or equipment, then leave it running so it would be warm when they hopped back in the truck!

Guess what? The truck went into regen for the DPF while idling and in field grass it caught on fire!!!

Yep burned it to the ground with all of their feed or equipment in it. Now most farms/farmers buy 1-10 trucks at a time so you can imagine how the local dealer felt when he demanded he take all of them back and give him his old trucks back!

I know many rural dealers and or shops who secretly handle these requests in order to
KEEP selling their trucks!

Once local workers and rural users of diesels found out about the benefits of deleting the DPFs then the trend took shape and before you know it everyone was wanting it done!

Many companies formed and literally made millions of dollars offering the kits/programmers to do so for the truck market.

Then what is seen on social media/youtube (rollin coal) started up the bad image of diesel trucks, smoking the girl on the side of the road or the Prius at the stop light. As you can imagine this is not going to turn out good!

The kids doing it was less than 5% of all of the diesel users but that is what the public saw to draw the attention.

I constantly asked the big 3 OEMs to make their diesel trucks powerful, add efficient turbos and injectors, etc in order to comply to demand what people want including a cleaner burn.

Still not up to the standards of European diesels but they are better and many I know do nothing to their new trucks because of the warranty and service. The reason we are not up to par with Europe is the quality of the fuel! Studies have been done to show up to 30% less additives and chemicals are in the US version of diesel fuel so it will burn more efficient and clean.

As always Americans adapt to the environment and innovate in order to adapt to best fit their conditions or vehicles. Today's standards of fuel injection and electronic ignition is because of what was innovated in the 50/60s in order to run faster and more power in certain vehicles.

Americans have been raised to be individuals and change the rules if they don't fit what you are trying to get done in your life - adapt and improvise! Hmmm sounds like a good movie for automotive minded people!