Innholdsfortegnelse for March 2023 i Diesel World

Last year’s drag racing and truck pulling season gifted the diesel world with countless innovations, each one geared toward solving a problem, improving performance, or maximizing durability. From trailblazing engines, billet-aluminum blocks and heads, emissions-friendly fuel system components and bolt-on suspension solutions to ingenious, inexpensive parts that solve widespread issues, the diesel industry is a hive of activity at the present time. From the biggest names to the smallest of shops, groundbreaking products continue to be brought to market—all of them helping to drive competition and street vehicles to new heights. Whether we were at the drag strip, in the dirt, walking through the vendor’s midway at an event, or visiting a specific company, 2022 convinced us that diesel technology is as advanced as it’s ever been. In fact, we…

The truck of our dreams is rarely built overnight. And for some of us, it unfolds over the course of years rather than months. For Bryan Woitas and his ’02 Chevrolet Silverado 2500 HD, nothing could be closer to the truth. Once a few mild power-adders woke up his daily driver, he began racing at local diesel events, even winning some of them. But after four years of abuse raining down on it (via fuel system upgrades that included a set of 60-percent over injectors), the factory LB7 spit a rod out of the block, forcing Bryan into what he knew would be a lengthy downtime. But instead of rushing the truck back onto the road, Bryan started doing research. Through word of mouth and using social media platforms, he…

It’s been about six months since we installed the Edge Juice With Attitude CTS3 package, and the CTS3 remains a joy to see turn on every time we get in the truck. We’ve seen maybe 30 extra miles per tank which equates to just over a 1mpg improvement in fuel economy. We’ve put about 10,000 miles on since the Edge equipment was added, and in all that time we’ve seen it glitch once when we cycled the ignition on and off and back on too quickly. That was remedied by pulling the OBDII plug momentarily with the truck off. The pedal delay issue on the tuned manual transmission truck suddenly became apparent after the Juice unit was added and therefore the Amp’d 2.0 throttle booster quickly was purchased to supplement…

The turbo diesel is so commonplace today that naturally aspirated diesels stand out. Go back nearly 60 years, the opposite was true. In 1961, turbocharging wasn’t yet common in the world of diesels but it was nonexistent in the realm of production farm tractors. There were many reasons for that, starting with cost. Being fairly new technology, it was expensive to implement and farmers weren’t always willing or able to absorb that extra cost. The beginning of the ‘60s was when a downsized, moderate-cost turbo diesel began to be practical. It was only a matter of time before some tractor company fielded a turbocharged diesel and Allis Chalmers (AC) was that company. Funny thing is… they introduced a turbocharger onto an old-school Buda-Lanova diesel that really wasn’t all that well…

OEM MORE HP AND TORQUE FOR GM’S 3.0L DURAMAX In other half-ton diesel news, GM has treated the 3.0L Duramax I-6 to a 10-percent increase in horsepower (it now makes 305 hp) and torque (up to 495 lb-ft) for the ’23 model year. Known as the unofficial king of mpg in the half-ton segment, the additional giddy-up is a welcomed surprise for prospective Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra 1500 owners. To keep the 3.0L Duramax durable at higher power levels, new steel pistons with revised combustion bowls have been added, along with a revised turbo compressor wheel, new fuel injectors, and enhanced temperature control features. The 3.0L Duramax will continue to be built at GM’s Flint Engine Operations in Michigan. SOURCE: HTTPS://MEDIA.CHEVROLET.COM/ REGULATIONS U.S. EPA FINALIZES PM STANDARDS FOR AIRCRAFT…

Bet you’d never guess this beautifully restored 2001 Dodge spent its past life on an Indiana farm getting the living tar kicked out of it on the daily. No, you’d probably never believe this truck was once a sorry looking rusted out, ready for the scrap heap, kind of truck. But that’s exactly where it was back in 2014 when Chris Schombert of Spiceland, IN bought it off of an old friend ready to bring it back from the dead. Fresh out of high school at that time, Schombert bought this truck in hopes of turning it into the ultimate daily driver and had just the right mixture of love, crazy, and money to turn it in to what you see stanced out in the parking lot now. Over the…

When it’s time to add some power to your truck, where do you start? Do you start replacing hard parts under the hood or do you opt for a modified tune to begin with? Most of us will start with the latter—often choosing to wait until a truck’s warranty is up instead of voiding something we paid extra money for. But when this low-mileage, last-generation 6-speed manual Cummins truck came into our lives, we didn’t exactly want to wait. There was a lot of its 100,000-mile warranty left, but there was also 140lb ft less torque in the last generation of manual transmission Ram trucks (than their auto counterparts)—an excellent justification of why we needed to add a little extra pickup to our pickup! There are two basic ways to…

SPECIAL THANKS TO KENT BATES, GREG BLASQUEZ, ALAN BURNS, CATERPILLAR INC., LEE FOSBURGH, RON NASH AND ACMOC. The Caterpillar Tractor Company wasn’t the first American engine maker to offer a diesel but their engines set an industry mark for power, economy and practicality. Caterpillar was the first in America to apply diesel power to a production tractor in the form of the legendary 1931 Cat 60. It’s not a stretch to say Cat’s D9900 diesel quickly powered Caterpillar to a leading position in engine manufacturing and the Cat 60 did the same thing for their crawler line. Before those first D9900s were broken-in, the father of Cat’s diesels, Art Rosen, had the design teams working on new diesels for an expanded line of crawler tractors. That new line eventually included…

When Ford launched the Super Duty line in 1998, it changed the heavy-duty truck game forever. Back then, a maximum towing capacity upward of 14,000-pounds, a diesel engine option that turned out 500 lb-ft of torque, and on-the-fly 4x4 were huge selling points for the Super Duty. Soon, you’ll be able to order a Super Duty capable of towing more than 37,000 pounds and have access to a high output 6.7L Power Stroke that produces in excess of 475 hp and 1,050 lb-ft of torque. That’s right, the ‘23 Super Duty’s—said to be available in the first quarter of 2023—are just about here. In predictable fashion, Ford focused its styling changes on subtle enhancement of its existing product(s) rather than reinvent the wheel. With Super Duty sales at the top…

Greg Noble has a classic car, John Deere tractor, and motorcycle collection that would be the envy of any collector that accumulates either of those things, so why build a cab-over GMC with a 12-valve Cummins in it? Turns out, when you own multiple farms, bear an affinity for old GM’s, and have a bunch of wild ideas running through your head, you can easily justify the need for a one-of-a-kind vehicle. And after enlisting the help of friend Cale Kern, one of the premiere hot-rod builders in the Midwest, there was no stopping the Orleans, Indiana resident’s plans to build a one-of-one ’47 GMC COE. KANSAS GEM To say that Greg was fired up to get the project underway was an understatement. He even secured four different COE makes…

This manual transmission Cummins truck had more usable power with the Juice module, but because this is a late-model 6-speed truck it created a unique situation: This fourth-generation Ram has a throttle response delay built in from the factory that, when combined with a manual transmission where the boost drops off when off the throttle between shifts, creates a lot of lag rowing through the gears. On the highway when towing in 5th or 6th gear, it isn’t an issue. When accelerating and shifting, though, it makes for a bit of an erratic driving experience as the power goes from low boost, low power to jumping back into the Juice-supplemented powerband. Of course, the Juice unit has an adjustable low boost parameter, but the fact was that the pedal delay…

Red Oak Victory was one of 543 Victory ships built for World War II, 142 of them built at Kaiser’s Permanente Metals Corporation shipyard in Richmond, California, just a stone’s throw from where she lives today as a museum ship. The hull was laid down as a VC2-S-AP2 design on September 9, 1944, launched on November 7 and commissioned into the U.S. Navy as USS Red Oak Victory, AK-235, on December 5. She served as an ammunition ship in the Pacific Theater to the end of the war and was decommissioned as a Navy ship in 1946. Still owned by the U.S. Maritime Commission, she started a new life in 1947 as the SS Red Oak Victory, leased to various shipping companies though much of the 1950s, before being laid…