Competitors study horsepower and torque numbers as a computer crunches information gathered from the dyno.
Dyno
To know what each truck is packing in the power department, we have to strap them to a dynamometer and measure the torque making it to the rear wheels. To keep it simple, the winner is the one who puts the most twist down on the rollers and produces the highest torque rating. Superflow provided a portable chassis dyno along with two of its own experts to run the equipment for this event.
Jake Henry sent smoke flying at least three stories into the air with his 12-valve Cummins while making 1,094 lb-ft of torque, which put him in first place. Brian Carter and his '03 Dodge came in second place with the assistance of nitrous for a score of 1,090 lb-ft of torque. Third place went to Micheal Tomac, who used dual injection pumps and a squirt of nitrous to spin the rollers with 1,065 lb-ft of torque.
Brian Carter of Sapulpa, Oklahoma, backs his '03 Dodge Ram 3500 onto the Superflow dyno. Brian was the only competitor who came to Bowling Green solo-unless you count this truck and his Ram tow rig as family members. | 
Jake Henry's '94 Dodge Ram is not on fire in this picture. Under full load, his 12-valve twin-turbo setup uses an exhaust wastegate to release the smoky stuff when it hits a preset backpressure limit. | 
Micheal Tomac assaults the dyno drums with his '02 Chevy 2500HD that packs an ATS Aurora 5000 turbo upgrade. The turbo feeds into a 4-inch exhaust system that includes an MBRP muffler on the stack in the bed. |
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