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Climate Change’s Mechanical Injected 12-Valve Triple Turbo 6.7L Cummins Engine

Do you believe in Climate Change? Regardless of your scientific standpoint, we can all agree that this 2000 Dodge Dakota Pro Mod truck named Climate Change featuring a mechanical injected 12-valve triple turbo 6.7L Cummins engine is absolutely awesome! The guys at Warren County Diesel and Scheid Diesel are aiming to make this the fastest diesel truck on Earth.

America’s Best Engine Shops 2021 | LinCo Diesel Performance

LinCo Diesel Performance does it all, whether that be transmission work, maintenance and repair, or performance builds. Their prowess in Duramax and Cummins applications make them one of America’s Best Engine Shops!

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Engine Builder Magazine’s 2021 Diesel of the Year Winner

Engine Builder magazine has announced its annual Diesel of the Year winning engine – a sleeved and turbocharged 6.7L Cummins – built by McCoy Black of MB Diesel Performance in Gold Hill, NC. Members of MB Diesel Performance accepted the Diesel of the Year award at Engine Builder’s PRI Party, sponsored by Autolite, at Tin

Dallaire’s Compound Turbo 5.9L Cummins Engine

To show off the diesel capabilities of the shop, Dallaire’s Diesel Performance built a shop truck to serve as a rolling business card, but to also hurt some feelings on the track. Check out this compound turbo 5.9L Cummins build in this Diesel of the Week.

Vote for the 2021 Diesel of the Year

Our Diesel of the Year contest, sponsored by AMSOIL INC., is now open, and this year’s crop of diesel engines are top notch!

Triple-Turbo Billet 5.9L 12-Valve Cummins Engine

Sick and tired of increasing horsepower only to have another cast iron block blow up, Richard Mead of RPS Diesel, went looking for a solution. He helped design a billet 5.9L block that would do the trick, and built this triple turbo billet 5.9L 12-valve Cummins engine, which is one of the fastest diesels in the Northern Hemisphere.

Compound Turbo 5.9L 12-Valve Cummins Engine

Dakota Sargent has a background in diesels, mining equipment, on-highway, over-the-road trucks, and as a U.S. Air Force mechanic, but it has been the light-duty diesel work that has prevailed. He founded Full Hook Performance a little more than a year ago, and is cranking out killer builds like this compound turbo 5.9L 12-valve Cummins. Check it out!

Speed of Air Engine Technology

Speed of Air’s patented technology can easily and effectively optimize combustion to deliver a significant increase in power.

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1,000-HP 5.9L Cummins Engine

Gary Stepke of GetSome Motorsports had inherited a 1952 Studebaker pickup from a friend’s father who passed away. The truck has always had special meaning to him, but it lacked the horsepower Stepke is familiar with. He put the Studebaker on a Dodge 2500 chassis and swapped in a rebuilt 5.9L Cummins with the aim of 1,000 hp. Check it out!

700-Horsepower 6.0L Ford Powerstroke Engine

Brought to NS Diesel & Automotive as a rusted out, beat up 2004 F250 work truck with nearly 400,000 miles, got rebuilt into a 700-horsepower 6.0L Powerstroke. Find out what went into the build.

Compound Turbo Sleeved 6.7L Cummins Engine

Not even COVID-19 and a shop fire could keep Legendary Diesel Performance down and out in 2020. They kept churning out builds like this compound turbo sleeved 6.7L Cummins. Find out what went into the high-horsepower engine build.

Stock 2005 LLY Duramax Engine with Nitrous

These days, it doesn’t take much to build a custom diesel engine capable of some serious horsepower. However, it takes a bit more effort to keep a diesel engine completely stock and make it live near 1,000 horsepower. That’s what Walt Schiemann and his shop Prime Diesel & Automotive are attempting to do with a stock LLY Duramax. Check it out!

2006 F350 6.0L Powerstroke Engine

After the original 6.0L Powerstroke engine in Stroker Diesel’s 2006 F350 grenaded, shop owner Richard Whittaker decided to rebuild the engine with a focus on better towing performance. See what went into the new engine build!

Deck Plate 6.7L Cummins Engine

After building a UCC-level truck for a customer who soon after got out of drag racing, the truck came back to Wilson Patterson Diesel. Owner Ethan Patterson took it as an opportunity to upgrade his own race truck complete with a new deck plated 6.7L Cummins engine that’s both turbocharged and has nitrous. See what went into the build!

The Crayola Box – a Triple Turbo LB7 Duramax Engine

Until you yourself build an engine to compete in some of the hardest competitions, it’s hard to appreciate the blood, the sweat, the tears, the sleepless nights, and the insane amount of money that goes into accomplishing it. For Jacob Riordan, his triple turbo LB7 Duramax-powered 2002 Silverado literally represents his house, his savings account – his everything. When he couldn’t attend UCC 2021, he was crushed, but he’s not letting that stop him. Find out what went into his Duramax build known as the Crayola Box.

Diesel Transmission Upgrades

Diesel owners who add big horsepower, wheels and tires also need some driveline upgrades to keep it all together.

Turbocharged 6.7L Common Rail Cummins Engine

In 2020, Daniel Green, aka Danny Diesel, became a nomad and traveled 40,000 miles across 23 states to go drag racing. This year, he’s doing it again, but he swapped his 12-valve for a common rail Cummins rebuilt by Wagler Competition. See what makes Daniel, his truck and his engine unique.

Diesel Injector Update

With today’s diesel injectors on the performance side, with nearly 35,000 psi of injection pressure, you can achieve a lot of quantity using that kind of pressure instead of just big spray orifices.

Powerstroke Upgrades

Marketed as the ICON series, these cylinder heads are a totally new, built from the ground up, clean sheet, USA design that will replace Kill Devil Diesel’s previous aluminum heads for Powerstroke applications.

Diesel Turbocharging

If you’ve ever seen a compound-turbo setup, you can clearly see it is not a twin-turbo setup. Why do diesels utilize compounds over twin turbochargers? We first need to move back to the basics of engine design and engine airflow consumption rates.