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Ford’s First Diesel Pickup Engine

It was the 1970s and people were reeling from the shock of gas prices that had tripled in just a few short years. The effect […]

11.5 AAM Rear Axle: Best Aftermarket Products

Diesel trucks are built to handle a lot of abuse, but diesel enthusiasts like us tend to push way beyond the manufacturer’s intended performance levels. […]

West's 2008 Chevy: Orange Crush

Jeff and Sara West of Whitmore, California, pulled into Love Chevrolet in Monterey back in April of 2008 looking for a truck. It wasn’t their […]
The Dark Maple Red Metallic paint may be fading but you can still see the lovely lines that made the Cutlass Ciera Oldsmobile’s best selling car for 14 years. This one was built in March of 1983 and sold to the Verhoff family by Jack Howell Chevrolet-Oldsmobile in Ottawa, Ohio, for the princely sum of $10,818. Base price for the LS Sedan was $8,892. Add to that the 4.3L diesel ($500), four-season air conditioning ($725), body side moldings ($55), accent stripe ($42), rocker panel moldings ($56), 14-inch radial tire upgrade ($36.60) and block heater ($42). There was a credit of $56 for a radio delete.

Diesel History Retrospective: Oldsmobile's Other Diesel

Say “Oldsmobile diesel” and most people think of the trouble-prone 350-cid (5.7 liter) V-8 that plagued GM’s full-size cars in the late 1970s and early […]
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Southern Style: RPM Offroad 2014 Open House

The 2014 RPM Offroad Open House/Dyno Day got off to a soggy start with rain throughout the previous night and into the morning. Normally spring […]

Alligator Performance: Annual Event Brings Out the Northwest’s Best

There are a few certain things when it comes to diesel enthusiasts—we love our trucks and we love to have an excuse to get together, […]

Playin’ Dirty: 2014 Firepunk Dirt Drags—Bigger & Better!

We’re happy to report that diesel events continue to experience unprecedented growth. But we’re also witness to how this progress is often accompanied by growing […]
The Scheid Diesel dragster is an awesome sight and we love to shoot pictures of it flying down the track, but it’s so much better in person. If you get a chance to go to one of the major diesel events you’re likely to see it run and that alone is worth the price of admission.

2015 Diesel Event Season Is Here To Stay!

As I write, it’s late January and the Northeast is digging itself out from under the weight of Winter Storm Juno. Though we are sometimes […]

Sled Pulling: 2,700 HP Alter Ego

Without a doubt, sled pulling is the most advanced form of diesel motorsports. It commands the intersection between the industry’s latest technological innovations and its […]
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Tech Q&A Part #6

Low Fuel – Not Hello, Is there anything I can do to my ’07 NBS Chevy 6.6L 2500 so the fuel gauge does not show […]
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Bush's Polaris Custom Chase Truck: The Baja 1000

For an off-road racer, the night before the biggest race of the year—the Baja 1000—can be fraught with anxiety and trepidation, not to mention the […]
Jim Greenway took no prisoners in sled pulling, dominating the 2.6 Class with his MBRP truck. Surprisingly enough, Jim wasn't done, as he would also be competing in the 3.0 Class with another Dodge.

NHRDA World Finals: Texas Motorplex

For more than 10 years, the National Hot Rod Diesel Association (NHRDA) has hosted some of the country’s hottest diesel drag racing and sled pulling […]
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2,200-HP Common Rail Injection Engine

For years now, we’ve been hearing the same old rumor over and over: “Common rail injection engines are the next big thing; they’ll dominate diesel […]

BD TapShifter: Early Model Year Duramaxes

One of the cooler features of 2006-and-up Duramax-powered GM trucks is the shifter, which allows drivers to manually shift up and down gears, making the […]
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SpeedBrake Installation With Gale Banks

Just a few short years ago, the thought of 600 hp and 1000 lb-ft of torque in a daily driven street diesel was unimaginable. But […]
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Bennet's '89 Diesel-Powered Custom C30 Pickup

Normally, people don’t give diesel-powered ’80s Chevrolet trucks a second look, but that’s not the case with Bennet Leffler’s wild ’89 C30. You see, Bennet needed […]
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ADA Offroad’s 2015 Chevy 2500HD

It all started out when Josh White opened a business named Arkansas Direct Auto (ADA Offroad) dealership in Conway, Arkansas. The business started out selling […]
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2015 Scheid Diesel Extravaganza

The aptly named Scheid Diesel Extravaganza is hands down the biggest occasion in the diesel world: The 2015 bash marked the nineteenth year of the […]
Seth Sullivan’s Dodge may not be the quickest truck out of the hole, but it back-halved like no other to take the win.

Fleece Performance’s Diesel Showdown Gets Loud

One of the most coveted titles among racers is the Indy Champion because—if it has wheels—it’s likely that a prestigious race for it is held […]
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Industrial Injection VP Brett Williams: Duramax Drag Truck

Brett Williams is one of the VPs of Industrial Injection at Salt Lake City, Utah. If you haven’t heard of Industrial Injection, they are one […]
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