Innholdsfortegnelse for December 2022 i Diesel World

Engine swaps are all the rage these days and we’ve seen builds from every end of the spectrum. From the no expenses spared, top of the line performance builds for competition use to the low budget, do whatever it takes for as little money possible to get it on the street kind of conversions. But this one, this old Ford F100 build falls somewhere in the middle, tipping a little heavy to the ‘not cutting any corners’ side of the scale. For Clay of Riffraff Diesel in Eagle Point, OR this build was more than just putting together a cool conversion project you could show off to your buddies. This project was about learning something new, applying knowledge you already had, while brining that nostalgic feeling from years gone by…

What do you get when you take a Hemi junky’s half-ton Ram away from him and give him a ¾-ton Cummins? If you’re Mark Rojee, you turn your new workhorse into a 1,500hp daily driver that’s just as much of a terror on the street as it is at the track. Five years after purchasing his brand-new ’18 Ram 2500, an Enforcer series 6.7L Cummins dwells under the hood, a 48RE sits in place of the 68RFE, and the full interior crew cab runs 6.40s in the eighth-mile. But by far the best part about Mark’s fourth-gen is its retention of the factory 20-inch wheels, the presence of the half-worn all-terrains, and the stock tailpipe. Trust us, it doesn’t get any more inconspicuous than this. As the owner of Village…

After decades of super cheap gasoline, people in the ‘70s and ’80s began suffering the slings and arrows of outrageous fuel prices. Wait a minute… why does that sound familiar? Anyway, gasoline quickly went from $0.35 a gallon to $1.12, and then even higher. Diesel jumped from about $0.23 per gallon to nearly a buck and then higher. It started with a Middle East oil embargo in the early ‘70s, when we were still mostly buying Detroit road barges that just barely broke into double digit miles per gallon. Talk about being caught with your pants down! Prices marched upward as the ‘70s passed into the ‘80s. Detroit scrambled to design more fuel efficient vehicles and the import auto manufacturers got a surge of business. The fuel economy crisis was…

NEWS CF THE MONTH TRAGIC CRASH AT RTDS 9 It’s been a Rough year for motorsports across the board, but perhaps the most tragic news of 2022 occurred at Rocky Top Diesel Shootout recently. For reasons yet to be officially determined, YouTube sensation, U.C.C. competitor, and privateer drag racer Turba Tom Borrell went off the end of the track and lost his life. For fellow racers, spectators, and fans ofTom’s around the world, the news of his passing hit the diesel world like aton of bricks. As a result of the tragedy, Crossville Dragway and Outlaw Diesel Super Series officials canceled the remainder of the event. SOURCE: HTTPS://WWW.OUTLAWDIESELSS.COM/ HIGHLIGHTS TURBA TOM’S LEGACY Turba Tom’s presence in the diesel industry might've been brief, but over the course of the past five…

DIESEL WORLD MAGAZINE Yeah, it’s a 6.0L Power Stroke powering a Nissan GT-R up Pikes Peak in hopes of setting a new diesel record up the mountain. You act like that something you’ve never seen or heard of before? Truth be told, it’s something we’d never seen or heard of before either and to be quite honest, we think it may just be one of the coolest diesel build we’ve seen yet. We can definitely say it’s the most unique, there is no doubting that fact. When good friends Clay (owner of Riffraff Diesel) and Cole (owner of LYFE Motorsport) decided to team up to build something the industry had never seen, I don’t think they even imagined it coming out quite like this. LYFE Motorsport is a shop diesel…

As a tractor brand name, Oliver was just about lost to history when they started building their most powerful rear-drive tractor, the 2150, in April of 1968. Oliver had been purchased by White Motor Company in October of 1960 and White soon snapped up Cockshutt in Canada and Minneapolis-Moline. The brand names were retained initially but by 1968, White had consolidated production to the point that tractors within those brands were often the same units with different paint and nameplates. Oliver was generally the most advanced of the three brands, so most of the surviving original DNA came from them. In just a few short years, all three of the original names would end and the tractor line homogenized under the White brand. WE NEED MORE POWER! Though 1967, the…

DIESEL WORLD MAGAZINE When you’re a three-time Pro Street champion with multiple record-setting passes under your belt, the next step in your racing career is pretty logical—you go even faster. For Stainless Diesel’s Johnny Gilbert, that meant bumping up to the Pro Mod category and building the quickest door-slammer he and his team possibly could. After scoring a proven 3-second performer—a ’63 split-window Corvette—as a roller in 2020, Johnny and his team mulled things over for several months before finalizing a game plan. The final decision? The second-generation ‘vette would receive diesel propulsion by way of a Cummins and eventually run 3’s. The engine would be built by Wagler Competition Products, S&S would supply the fuel, MoTeC would control everything, the chassis would receive updates at Hammertech Racecars, and Rossler…

As the 5.9L third-gens continue to age, more and more folks with tighter performance budgets are buying them. But in an era where the words ‘big horsepower’ and ‘daily driver’ go hand-inhand, you’re going to need more than a 500hp-capable tune to keep up with the Joneses. We’ve seen a boatload of ways to get 700 hp out of the ’03-‘07 Cummins platform over the years, and like many horsepower recipes there is always more than one way to skin a cat. However, the proper path to 650-700 hp is one that keeps your rods in the block, your coolant from boiling, EGT in check, and your transmission from failing. Going off on as few tangents as possible, we’ll show you the best path(s) to building a 650 to 700…