One of the main reasons we went to the local race was to get Lil Debbie on the dyno. We found out beforehand that it was going to be the same dyno as the one we used the previous year so we were excited to have an accurate comparison. Unfortunately, though the dyno was not at the event because of some ridiculous insurance compliance issues with the NHRA sanctioned track. We decided that we would just call the Dyno company ourselves and try to setup our own event. The guy operating the dyno immediately remembered Lil Debbie and agreed to do an event for us. Thanks to a local friend letting us use his hay barn we were able to round up about 15 local trucks and made a good day of it. Lil Debbie performed very well on the dyno and put down 458hp.
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We then found out that Roadkill was having some zip-tie drag events on the east coast so we figured we’d try our best to enter into their $3000 Hooptie challenge. We made our way out to Memphis via our 12v Cummins dually and about 130 gal of waste oil with wind sail Lil Debbie in tow. On a side note we did get 13 mpg on waste oil on the way out keeping speeds below 65 mph however on the way home was another story. We foolishly decided to head home sat night and realizing we were not going to make it back until sunrise the next day we loaded up on caffeine and put the hammer down. This resulted in keeping 70mph+ but tanking the fuel mileage to 9mpg. We did make it all the way there and back without stopping for fuel though.
The $3000 hooptie challenge was a huge success. Since Lil Debbie was a huge hit with the crowd Freiberger and Finnegan allowed us to compete. We advanced all the way to the semifinals where we lost to the overall winner of the race and taking a technical 3rd place. Lil Debbie performed awesome and ran 9 passes total with 5 passes in the upper 14s and with a best of 14.68 @89mph. We had such a great time we decided we would put on a Lil Debbie smoke show after the event. After consistently running in the 14s with no issues we are now in the process of getting some more fuel to it to see if we can get it deeper into the 14s and eventually to our ultimate goal of 13s and as close to 600hp as possible with as little high dollar parts as possible.