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Engine Builder Magazine’s 2022 Diesel of the Year Winner

Out of the more than 50 diesel engines profiled in 2022, it was a compound turbo 6.7L Cummins engine built by Frank Davis of Sin City Diesel & Off-Road that took home the Diesel of the Year 2022 honors.

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Engine Builder magazine has announced its annual Diesel of the Year winning engine for 2022 – a compound turbo 6.7L Cummins – built by Frank Davis of Sin City Diesel & Off-Road in Las Vegas. Members of Sin City Diesel accepted the Diesel of the Year award at Engine Builder’s PRI Party, sponsored by Autolite, at Tin Roof in Indianapolis on December 7.

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Left to right: Len Groom of AMSOIL, Greg Jones of Engine Builder, Frank Davis of Sin City Diesel & Off-Road, and Shawn Swavely of AMSOIL

The 2022 Diesel of the Year contest, stems from Engine Builder’s Diesel of the Week series, sponsored by AMSOIL INC. This series began in 2019 as a way to showcase the increasing number of diesel performance engines being built. Diesel of the Week profiles engine builders, their shops and a specific diesel engine build in detail.

Out of the more than 50 diesel engines profiled in 2022, Engine Builder’s readers and social media audience selected a Top 10 diesel engines worthy of being crowned Diesel of the Year. The 2022 Top 10 diesels were:

Those Top 10 diesels were pitted against one another in a two-week voting contest on Engine Builder’s website, Facebook, Instagram and Twitter channels. After counting the votes, Sin City Diesel & Off-Road’s compound turbocharged 6.7L Cummins engine claimed the Diesel of the Year crown for 2022, which includes bragging rights and a custom trophy built by Cold Hard Art.

For more details on the winning diesel, click here. If you’re interested in being part of the 2023 Diesel of the Week series, please email brand manager and content director Greg Jones at [email protected].

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