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Atmore Company Improves Monster Truck Performance
March 24, 2012
Bigfoot, a legend in the monster truck world, paid a visit to sponsor Alto Products in Atmore on Thursday.
Today, the in second part of our series, we are taking a closer look at the dozen-year relationship between the Atmore company and the monster truck industry. (For part one of this series, click here.)
According to Robbie Ferguson, vice present of the High Performance Division at Alto:
- Bigfoot has been using Alto Red Eagle clutches for 12 years.
- Bigfoot was the first monster truck to start using Alto Red Eagle clutches.
- When the relationship began, Bigfoot was using a competitor’s clutch plates and they could not make it through one weekend of racing without burning up the clutch plates in their transmissions.
- After Alto developed several new products specifically for Bigfoot, their Ford C6 transmissions started lasting six to eight weekends before needing attention.
- After Ford dropped all of their sponsorships at the beginning of 2009, Bigfoot changed to GM 2-speed transmissions and with Alto Red Eagle clutch plates installed their transmissions now last upwards of 6 months.
- Alto now supplies their Red Eagle racing clutches to over a dozen monster truck teams including Gravedigger, Black Stallion and Big Dawg.
- The Bigfoot trucks average about 1,500 horsepower and the “freestyle” portion of their shows are what cause the most damage to their trucks.
- This is the second time that Bigfoot has visited Alto – they did an appearance at a company picnic in Century back in 2002.
Pictured top: Monster truck Bigfoot at Alto Products in Atmore. Pictured below: Alto Products COO Bill Bush is dwarfed by Bigfoot as he points to the Alto logo sponsorship sticker. Photos for NorthEscambia.com, click to enlarge.
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6 Responses to “Atmore Company Improves Monster Truck Performance”
A GM 2-speed tranny ?
Is that a Powerglide?
A tranny that GM built in the 1960’s and early 70’s for passanger cars?
It is a legendary tranny in drag racing.
That is some stout engineering on a tranny built to handle maybe 300 hp.
Of course the ones they race with today are pretty much 100% aftermarket made with more improvements GM never dreamed of.
man tht truck is TOTALY awsum!!! wish it was mine…man alive wat i WLDNT do with it….lol..;)…yaaaaa buddy!!!!!!!
well its built ford tough with chevy stuff what can you say you can’t go wrong with chevy
That chevy tranny is why it holds together.
Thanking God for my employer
A Chevy transmission in the Legendary FORD Bigfoot, how sad.