track grooming machine (1 Viewer)

[big guy]

Does anybody know what the machine with slicks and a chevy motor to put rubber on the track is called?

 

[yoda]

pretty sure the the word "zamboni" is in the answer....

 

[elvis]

Slicks and a Chevy motor? Sounds like a rear engine dragster.

 

[Tim5636sc]

Does anybody know what the machine with slicks and a chevy motor to put rubber on the track is called?

Super Comp... Also been known as the asphalt or concrete zamboni. It has been evolved through the years. I believe larry crispe at bandimere came up with the rolling slicks version that is used at many tracks.

 

[big guy]

The Zamboni is a vacuum cleaner and scrubber.The rolling slick macgine is what I am looking for.What is it called , who makes it?

 

[Butch]

It's called a Dragboni.

 

[big guy]

ty,but I fail to find dragboni anywhere on the net.

 

[BaldyLochs]

"The Equalizer" ?? That thing has to be custom-engineered & fabricated by somebody. I bet Compton & Light have a showroom somewhere, full of these shiny new machines....

 

[Butch]

Chris, Do they start out using a Bentley?

 

[none]

Slicks and a Chevy motor? Sounds like a rear engine dragster.

A slow rear engine dragster!!

 

[none]

I know the machine that you're talking about. I don't know that it has a name. I believe it was designed and the engineering was done by GM Racing, and it was built by Penhall Corp. I could be wrong. If you don't have an answer by the time I get to Atlanta, I will find out for sure.

Alan

 

[sdwarf36]

This thingie.

 

[Bob]

I believe larry crispe at bandimere came up with the rolling slicks version that is used at many tracks.

As far as I know, that machine is one of a kind. I haven't seen anything like it anywhere else. Other tracks use strips of old slicks dragged behind a tractor and pressed down on the racing surface. ...then there was Scribner. They tied a big old tractor tire to the back of a pickup truck and drug it up and down the track.

 

[none]

According to Foster it is known as "The Tire Machine" I have never heard it called anything else so maybe that's the only name it's got.

Alan

 

[Rooster]

Best machine I've ever seen lay down rubber for the 'Fuel Cars' was called a "Pro Mod"

 

[freddy]

I don't know who first thought up the idea behind this machine, but I was approached by Roger Stull several years ago about it. I believe that Roger & the folks at Penhall did all (most?) of the design & engineering. The part that GM Racing had was to furnish a GM Performance Parts small block crate motor to provide the power, which we did.

Fred Simmonds

 

[fifty50]

The Zamboni is a vacuum cleaner and scrubber.The rolling slick macgine is what I am looking for.What is it called , who makes it?

Actually,a Zamboni is an ice resurfacing machine used in arenas. The guy's name who invented it was Zamboni. true story.

 

[clwill]

Actually,a Zamboni is an ice resurfacing machine used in arenas. The guy's name who invented it was Zamboni. true story.

Exactly. See Welcome to Zamboni®. Frank Zamboni invented it in the 40's. It was such a miracle machine that people now refer to any self-propelled machine that maintains a flat surface as a "Zamboni". But there's only one Zamboni, and it's for ice.

I believe the scrubber-sweepers NHRA uses are from Tennant, but I could be wrong.

 

[Super Mod]

Exactly. See Welcome to Zamboni®. Frank Zamboni invented it in the 40's. It was such a miracle machine that people now refer to any self-propelled machine that maintains a flat surface as a "Zamboni". But there's only one Zamboni, and it's for ice.

I believe the scrubber-sweepers NHRA uses are from Tennant, but I could be wrong.

Kleenex, Xerox,Coke,now Zamboni?

 

[clwill]

Kleenex, Xerox,Coke,now Zamboni?

Precisely.