Ben Shaddy’s 6.4L Cummins Dodge Ram 1500

While diesel drag racing got its start with street trucks, we’re starting to see more and more purpose-built race vehicles. One of the meanest

Justin Rainwater’s Dream Dodge Diesel

The great thing about the custom truck scene is that we all have different customizing tastes and styles. Each show truck exhibits its own personality through the exterior and interior…

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…

2,700 HP Worth Of Sled-Smashing Fury

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 fiercest…

This ’15 GMC Went from Okay to Oh Wow in One Day

Javier Gomez owns a shop in Fontana, California, called Gomez Custom Wheels & Tires—and he’s pretty obsessed with driving cool trucks. Over the years, he’s owned a few nice ones,…

NEW PRODUCTS

New from US Diesel is its line of performance injectors. According to US Diesel, they are the most efficient universal performance injector on the market with a clean, smooth idle. Great for…

The Camel Trophy: Land Rover History

In a world where daily-driven diesel pickups can turn 12-second quarter-miles one day and move houses the next, it’s easy to forget that the diesel engine also has a long history in…

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 driven indoors by rough winter conditions, the…