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-in-hand, you’re going to need more than a 500hp-capable tune to keep up with the Joneses.
What do you get when you take a Hemi junky’s half-ton Ram away from him and give him a -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.
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 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.
A 6.0L Power Stroke’d Nissan, The Perfect Pairing of Two Very Different Genres
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. Do you act like that is 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 builds we’ve seen yet.
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 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? Anyways, The Jeep Cherokee XJ platform was introduced in 1984 and one year later, with a diesel. This, is the Jeep that Jeep should have kept around.