Dual Personality: 2001 3500 Turned Pro Dragster

When building a go-fast drag truck, most start with the lightest platform and work from there. But Chase Lunsford is not most people. The co-owner of

CUMMINS VS DURAMAX VS POWER STROKE

Love it or hate it, smooth bore turbocharger rules are here to stay in truck pulling. Not only do they eliminate all the rule bending associated with the “gray area” map groove turbos of…

The Dawn of Diesel Time

If you want to see the first compression ignition engine built by Rudolph Diesel, you have to go to Munich, Germany. If you want to see one of the earliest surviving examples of a production…

Common-Rail Injector Tech

When high-pressure common-rail debuted on the LB7 Duramax back in 2001, it changed the way we look at diesels. Ultra-high injection pressure,…

Uncharted Waters

Big single, CP3 conversion, sizeable nozzles, and a bone-stock long-block…what could go wrong? Welcome to Colton Rhodes’ world. The 20-something Missourian is redefining what it means to push…

1,500HP— Hidden In Plain Sight

Life turned out very differently for this ’05 Dodge Ram 3500 than its original owner probably assumed it would. It…

Made in Muncie

The oil engine was the lower cost variant of the compression ignition engine. With compression ignition, Dr. Rudolf Diesel had a great idea but at around the turn of the century, the…

1965 Cockshutt 1550 Wheatland

Even if we don’t know the term, we’ve all seen badge engineering at work. Take a vehicle platform of one brand name, change it up a little, add new paint and a different badge and call it…

Cummins Powered 1951 Chevrolet 3800 Family Heirloom

You see them all the time, especially during planting and harvest season. The service trucks that show up in the field to keep equipment running are the backbone of any farming operation. When…

Project OBSessed

While some might think getting twelve separate articles out of one project might be a challenge, you’ve got to consider the starting point of that project and the final end goal. Take Project…

What Makes the 7.3L Power Stroke So Great…

It possesses the largest displacement in the diesel truck segment, the biggest bore of any V-8 diesel, and the second longest stroke of any V-8 oil-burner ever offered. It’s the 7.3L, the…

Project Obsessed

Project Obsessed has come quite a long ways since we picked it up last year and while we’ve tried to keep it looking as original as we could, that’s far from true when it comes to what’s under…