While we all like to marvel at cool twin turbo setups on drag cars and stuff, the guys who run professional level pulling tractors have been doing insane things with turbos for decades before the drag guys got their stuff handled. Most of the really heavy duty tractors that pull in classes where diesel engines (or diesel engines converted to run on alcohol) are the rule use mind blowing compound turbo systems that have multiple turbos stacked on top of one another to make insane levels of boost to feed their engines. The reason we show you videos of tractor mills exploding and the blocks come apart is because these guys are shoving way more than 100psi of boost through them. The slightest flaw or crack in a block or head will cause it to split like a potato, as wild as that sounds.
When you hear this dude talk about the path that the incoming and outgoing air takes to move through this system your eyes will probably bug out. He does not reveal the size of the turbos, but when he refers to the two “big boys” in the front of the engine, look at how massive they are when he lays he hand on them.
We’ve said it a million times before, but lots of people want to scoff at tractor pulling and they shouldn’t. The technology and horsepower that these guys mess with is epic in scale. Hell, our friends at Racepak have told us on multiple equations that the tractor pulling guys are some of the first adopters to their most advanced data logging and management technology…and often times they are installing it on multiple engines at once!
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