Visiting the Razor s Edge Tractor Pulling Team - Turbo Methanol Iveco - by EUSM

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hello everybody we are in Holland and I had to  deliver some T-shirts to home so I just grabbed   the opportunity by the hairs we say in Germany and  stop by at Alfred Herman hi hello so Herman is a   modified puller in the Netherlands yeah we have  not covered much of the Dutch circuit yet because   uh they are on TV and they have different rights  since we can't film there yeah true but if we're   here then we might as well have a little look  what he's got to show us so as we said you're   Herman hi hi so you are how old and where are we  and yeah just tell us who you are and what you're   doing yeah I'm we are in four thousand near the  center of the Netherlands I'm 25 years old during   my normal life during the week I work as a at  a company called DMX It's only three kilometers   from here we're building engines for marine  applications most of them are car engines that we   get ready to put in boats and we also do some  developing of our own engine a V12 diesel 6 liters   and at the company I assemble engines testing  engines and also some of the time that's   standing behind the CDC machines laid Mill to  get everything yeah ready yeah you are kind   of uh famous I've gotten several messages from  other people already that there's Hammer guy he's   doing amazing stuff on the CNC badly enough you  don't have one at home you'll probably probably   do everything at home at the workshop yeah it  doesn't make sense but if we just see over here   you can already see there's lots of CNC stuff  on here super nice director come on over tell   me something about it because this is different  totally different yeah is it different yeah maybe   maybe it's a live modified tractor we call it  here in the Netherlands it's two and a half   tons so we're very confused about 5500 pounds  yep it's powered by an Italian engine uh inline   six iveco out of truck it's a refrigerator 10.  10.3 liters of displacement which is like 600   something yeah somewhere 640 cubic yeah I think  yeah in that range no still with the stock head   you got the overhead cam four miles a cylinder  we change this a bit uh why because trick pulling   and get some horses out of it as you can see  there are no injectors in it anymore we got a   ignition on it to burn methanol from the back we  got three turbos in two stages to feed the engine   the engine itself is pretty heavy why we choose  for that engine the main thing is the technical   part behind it I don't know if you can see  it but this engine is already girdled from   here just the center line of the crank and  this main part is a complete girdle that's   buttons of bolts to the bottom of the engine  and as you know a lot of people International   as John Deere they have to make Humane caps  and make a girdle beneath it and that's   already stuck on this engine yeah Italian  that's just yeah use the last I built a loss   what do we change more normally the Drive of  the camshaft is behind the engine there's a   big aluminum cover with a lot of gears in it  also for a fuel pump and compressor and all   that kind of stuff we took it off milk the  Bell driven okay on it yep also put here a   little box with gears on it to get our fuel pump  running and behind that there's oil pump running to get the engine also as far  as mounted on the front and FD   on the front to get some weight on  the nose and what do you get more   you added internals uh forged pistons  aluminum rods counted weighted crank   stuff like that another cam is in it we machine  it by ourselves get it grinded by a company   yeah most of the parts as you can as you  see are built by ourselves why that's the   only way we can afford to do the sport I  mean luckily enough we got a sponsor and a   company where I work we can use the machines  it's always nice sometimes it gave you uh   some some people say CEC will take less time it's  true but in the end you want to make it nice and   then it starts to take time and sometimes you make  insane parts or takes I don't know if it takes but   you want to make it nice and that's the main  thing about things you can make it nice but   it takes some time it's the same thing we go  back we gotta hear our uh Shield protection   yep that were two solid blocks of aluminum you  also can use a tube and slide it over each other   but I've got a friend who said a CNC mechanic  will start to make everything out of Bill and   not even think how we can make it cheaper no  that's but it ended up does look nice yes sure first thing that I would wonder is I know why  you did it but most other people probably don't   why do you have the turbochargers in the back most  people put them to the front yeah this whole idea   to get weight on the nose when we got started  with this engine we got a build we just put a   skill on the front turn it up first put a charges  in the front engines behind it there's a certain   amount of weight and then we change them and it  gives us about nearly 100 kilos more on the nose   when we build it like this then put a durable  judge in the front and in the end it's kind of   uh for maintenance like working on the cam  or stuff on the front it's easier for sure   so adjusting your clutch it's a little bit  harder that's the other part but so what do you   have to do more just on the front door adjust the  clutch usually the clutch now yeah sometimes both   because at the engine at the time is not running  like it should be and then you make changes and   to adjust it every time because you slip it a  little bit more maybe yeah you're on a clutch   pedal yeah you do yeah it's uh clutch pedal to  build boost but this is also a fiddle clutch   it's like a car where you want to run you have  to release it okay it's a better assistant yeah   why do you choose with that one because our  starter is also in a drive line yeah true   with the central focal clutch then it would be  difficult to start the engine yeah to make you   do it here definitely I mean the engine runs you  just take it off and off we go yep to save weight   really good so I just looked at the rear so  that's very light so everything's homemade   there I guess is it most of it yes what is  it there's an sqhd or uh no it's a marital   20 on the 45 okay yeah you know it yes  I do I report it from you yeah okay yeah for this clutch 11 inch with a molinary speed up one and a half times from there  it goes to the reversion then it goes to   the meritory center section and from  there it goes to see this planetary and from there to a set of guys rims and they  are inside a set of meters powerful tires and   those have uh 56 Lux 56 yeah yeah um I don't  know the degrees you know three millimeters   of yeah but a little bit more Lux than the  Firestone yeah yeah that's the thing you can   do with the meters just say how much you want  to have but yeah and you buy them and sorry   The Cutting guy says how much you want  to have yeah no idea no idea I thought I   recommend this yeah something like that yeah  yeah see this planet here also with some uh   homemade covers it's always the nice thing about  CeCe put some aluminum in it roughly so the nice   thing is if we have to make 20 more then yeah you  know where to go yeah yeah that's the easiest way   sure is it's light most of it's home built yes  like throttle you know a lot of this little piece   of aluminum gear shifter what's the weight of  the tractor without the engine do you know that   nope I have no do you know how  much the engine weighs also not   damn it no no because this is actually a super  light tractor um which of course has to be being   5500 Parts but the engine is also super heavy I  think roughly said the engine is about uh 1000   kilograms somewhere in that area yeah I guess so  like 2200 pounds so yeah because I would think   this is the current state of the art of building a  chassis and and rear end in Europe as well then I   saw you run an MSD yeah so people will wonder how  this is for an eight cylinder how do you do that two gears on it to get it running on 75 percent  otherwise you've got too much Sparks on different   locations yeah but we don't want to have them  we need a certain amount of combustion yeah individual new distributor cap yeah we started  with the electronical ignition the msd8 Dual   ignition but during the season we had some trouble  to get the engine running well and we had ideas   well maybe it's the ignition we need a little bit  more power so then last time we mounted uh msd20   we can borrow that to get some testing but then  we put some uh bigger fuel nozzles in it to avoid   if it goes running well it will be running too  lean but then I made a little mistake so we put   a little bit too much fuel in it so in the end  we couldn't get it off the line just around the   engine with fuel so uh the mc20 will get back  to his original owner and we bought this one   the 44 you know good afternoon it will sure ignite  everything yes just timing those things isn't easy   yeah it's like impossible I like them you have  to set it to a person does to make a little Mark   on it so you can see that you yeah actually  on the right yeah with an external trigger   uh nope nope you could off the crash yeah really  it's still there because we run there yeah but I   think these these these can handle that too yeah  you can also end it yeah there are different   opinions about that so say in the low RPM there  are actually more accurate with the trigger in   an high RPM you can use the one that's uh inside  it again if you have to worry about one degree   ignition timing in a turbocharged engine being  worried about power not about destruction yeah   you're not on the right path yes we got there yeah  something you wouldn't know yeah I do know that's   funny how many stuff was in the shop I already  know so we got an ALICE in half an Allison so yeah without crankshaft yeah yeah all the together  to get some size of it uh well this engine   for not for static display you want to get it  running to make some ground runs on it so that's   the reason why there's an F-Type probably on it  yep that's where the propeller used to go yeah   and during the time I already also got a big  propeller how much for this but uh nearly four   meters quite yeah yeah it's a big one so you're  going to be one of those guys that puts these on a   little trailer and yeah moves there yeah let's  make noise we also had the idea maybe of to put   it on the track so that there's a reason standing  now here in the shop can get some measurements   but in the end we won't do that yeah you had a  V12 tractor before yeah with a trans mesh yeah   still a picture up there I have some video on  that that's very uh and where you got famous   with by splitting the complete engine in two  pieces yeah we started with that one uh in 2012   as our tracker off for ourselves  we've been into pulling since uh   dad went as a spectator to events in  the early 80s with his brother-in-law   then came family became a team member of the  Beavers somewhere in the late 80s don't worry became a team memory somewhere about 88. I  was born in 86 so I never knew better than   Cricket pulling yeah I know how that  goes yeah she's been there done that   and that became yeah like I said team member been  there till 2003. and I always been there running   around helping what I can do then that quit I  started do some RC tractor pulling micro pulling   also became Dutch Champion with  it got a little tool drive tractor   with a little four-stroke engine on it later  Builder modified with two two short engines on it   at the same time I was a team member for a combo  diesel director and helping them out later became   uh let's let driver for the compact diesel and  that still mentions you want to got something   for yourself and then said oh I may want to  build a mini rod but yeah and he likes a V8   because he was used to V8 of the Chevys of being  Weaver then I said ah you want to do something   we have to be something else that the rest and  make something else and then was looking on the   internet and found an engine in the north of  the Netherlands and that was the Russian V12   bought it for a few bucks and then from there  we started bought the old chassis of the red   diamond that was the first uh Griffin powered  tracker that was running the two and a half tons   we took that engine uh there was also a  diesel engine we converted to methanol   with a supercharger on it from another Russian  engine because that engine was naturally aspirated   put a supercharger on it for Manchester  and that one gave us a lot of troubles a   lot of troubles because here's some mild  compressor Wheels yeah hanging the top   one is the original one that one had a hard  life with a big backfire it lost his wings that one was only 60 meters old I ruined  it in gums in Denmark uh 2040 season   because yeah the top one's original one we didn't  have a spare one we contacted some guys of a   Danish guy who can help us with it to supply our  one but they ask a lot of money for it and it was   only three weeks before the season started that's  it so we got a big problem going on then we came   in contact with Roloff Sodoma guy from the south  and uh he said oh we can do one we can make it by   ourselves so uh Roland helped us all those days  because we had three of them he was in one season   and then everything during the season where  exchanges and changing every time the thrust   bearing uh got out you know that sorry yeah  these elephants like to love to do the same thing   yeah and because there's a little story maybe  I can I know if it's interested of course   you can see true to veins there are  those little holes yep they call it uh   I call it compensation yeah pressure relief more  or less yeah because yeah you got a whole you   see a compressing air yeah and also stuck in  the air from here yeah and to afford to get a   lot of trust pressure they make those little  holes in it so we can balance in the center   but yeah probably that didn't work out as it  should be because we broke a lot of bearing during   the season and every time because we didn't have  uh new compressor Wheels we machine it down again   and in the end it was working we can make uh  multiple pools with it without changing bearings   and I have to machine the wheels and then we  have the opportunity to give a demo in Denmark   and gums they would say oh for the next easy  one too make some changes so we made a new one   with the higher things because it did  yeah that wasn't machine during the season   then he got the bumpy ride foot off the throttle  go back on it again uh bend the drawbar couldn't   make a decent run and then shot it down at I  don't know 65 meters and then there was little   smoke coming from from the engine and looked  inside the little as a result of 60 meters   of testing yeah yeah that's the life of a pool  man yep and but that was not when you blew the   engine no okay then we knew that this wasn't the  right way to go to make some horses and then we   went to the turbo charges made a new build a new  engine because that engine on the picture is the   the industrial version It's a cast iron block yeah  they have aluminum too yeah yeah and then we want   to uh improve something so we bought a license  built police engine out of it it was completely   made out of aluminum put to durable charges on  it had two two events struggling a bit to get   the fuels setting right because yeah that's  a whole different story yeah story then uses   some Georgia and then in modern 2015 we  got everything shorted well it's getting   off the line and then the Driveline had  a little issue lost connection and then   they'd make and then you made the Russian go  fast as he didn't like that yeah 5375 RPMs   and then from valve cover to sump the right  side of the engine was completely splitted   Luckily everything will stay together because  we disassembled the engine and it was correct   from the starts of the main bearing goes  up into the block everything was correct   normally you have to torque those bolts down  about five and a half hundred newton meters   and after the pool we can release it with the hand  yeah damn it because everything was stretched and and then we got uh some more  spare parts to build a new engine   and then a guy showed up said hey I got a  vehicle engine shop just take it because it's   standing for my foot you see here in the nails  yeah and see if you can do something with it   and then yes we thought we could make a little  bit more power and maybe I don't want to eat here   but in the spare part situation is a lot better  I've heard that a lot of the guys that run the   transmission at the moment have a horrible time  getting parts because they're getting all getting   fried in Ukraine at the moment yeah it was the  same time and they we're running into the career   yeah it was in the same area we blew up the engine  yeah and so then we thought maybe it's easier to   go another way yeah and this engine is maintains  way easier you know that if you want to take yeah   312 just or even they're just buying parts just a  simple things like I don't know a crankshaft some   bearings and some very few bucks you can order  it tonight and you get them tomorrow yep exactly   this uh the main thing about it yep  and in the end we don't regret it yeah I mean it's nice to run with these old  v12s but they're not making them anymore or at   least the ones that are still make they're still  blowing up at the moment but uh yeah I mean this   is also nice it's also something different and  as long as you can be competitive with it why not you don't have the money to be in it you can be  honest about that yeah but in the end we like   the sport we had the possibility of me parts by  herself and then make a tractor look nice run it   and just compete in the sport exactly it's our  our main goal yep we are at Hammer's company now   we just found this tell me what is it it's a fuel  pump for a common real system you build it also   here there are some truck pullers you use it use  a comma wheel system and in the early days they   run the original pumps but yeah they need a little  bit more fuel and need some nice parts and then we   machine ability fuel pump okay this  is for a six cylinder we also have   an eight cylinder running he's using a Scania  engine and they can supply how much fuel for   the horsepower you think numbers I don't  know the numbers by my head okay but it's   the main thing this has come a real  pump and that's the advantage of a   common wheel pump instead of a mechanical  pump you only only need to fit the rail injectors but you still have to have a  certain flow that it has been able to deliver   well it takes a lot of stress out  of the components and we this one   has been on this bench and it takes uh  more what's like more than of less than   half the power of you need to run  a mechanical pump okay that's nice   because in the big pumps that's actually already  takes a lot of stress I could guess that's getting   into 100 200 horsepower if not even more yeah  the the test bench it was a meter and it takes   100 amps normally to drive a mechanical fuel  pump and this one takes only 40 or so nice cool this is where they where Hammond works we got another lathe here this is a  really big one oh Big Friend it's nice when you got a big drink  yeah a big machine sometimes yeah   that helps so then we here got one of  the Angels they built here D-Max B12 yep it's all something more about it it's  a V12 C3 six inches of displacement   available in several horsepower ranges  started at 600 you can go up to 900.   uh based of using the BMW heads the  new type of the n47 when I'm right   hmm the block himself is our own product  of course the block so you get the block   caster and then yeah all manifolds so we  kind of made a V12 BMW diesel yeah nice the three liters I think the American Car magazine  I'm not sure which one called it the tire shredder   laughs of course they got so much trouble  that's nice yeah and more engines yeah this   is also in development Rover engines okay yeah  standing over there this one's already equipped   the waterproof manifold hard to see because  nowadays yeah I would say this is a brand on it   yeah dmax water cooled cute I'm not  cute but there's some of his Bros cool first started out with a village lock  machine out of the soft feet of aluminum   but there were so many people want to have that  market he found out it wasn't the right way to   go no it takes a lot of too much time as soon  as you get into the numbers then casting is   the way to go yeah definitely how many you  make of these or build of these in a year they're still developing quite a bit so what's what is the demand for  this engines so high because they take less   fuel or what's what's the point lightweight  compact normally where you have a boat engine   or a green engine that works at six or seven  on a horse you came into uh truck engines they   are yeah right yeah yeah the lower pair and stuff  right yeah also there's four or five thousand RPM   possible nice small package real light it's  only 350 kilos so yeah and it's a V12 it says   different song sounds a little bit better than a  truck engine yeah so that people are interested   in them oh cool small package lightweight horses  yeah nice oh great thanks for showing us that yeah   okay I think that's a nice little look behind the  scenes here it's not that much to see it's just   one character but whatever a little story some  here and there that's nice well thank you yeah   and yeah I will let you know when it's going  online and yeah see you then bye-bye thank you

2022-11-07

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