Just a quick note, everyone knows that one of the best ways to extend the life of your transmission is to keep it cooler. You can now extend the life of your transmission by shopping for your Diesel Performance products on our website in the Mag Hytec section. Mag Hytec differential and transmission pans allow you to hold several quarts of tranny fluid over stock pans and include a lifetime warranty.
Parley’s Diesel Performance is in the process of widening the product lines available on our website. One of the product lines that we have added lately that we are most excited about is the Industrial Injection line. Industrial Injection is a legend in the industry and is most known for their phat shaft turbos and dual cp3 kits. Here is a little bit more about them from their about us page:
“We have supplied the diesel performance industry with the best high performance fuel injection components and turbochargers on the market for years. “We are the source you’ve been looking for”. Our combine experience is matched by none. Utilizing our experience in conjunction with advanced technology and a strong desire to lead diesel innovation, Industrial Injection will continue to deliver the best products for years to come.”
Welcome industrial and we look forward to helping our clients get the fuel and boost they are craving to their engines.
It’s that time of year again when Las Vegas Turns into a Diesel Performance Mecca of sorts and all the other guys in the shop get to take off for the annual SEMA show and the web department gets to stay and make sure things are running right. Do I sound Bitter? It hurts even more to live and work on I-15 which is the main thoroughfare that connects Northern Utah (Home of Edge Products) and Idaho (Home of Bully dog Diesel) to Las Vegas. A couple days ago I saw the Bullydog guys getting back onto the highway after a pitstop at the local Flying J and I was half tempted to sneak aboard their rig and turn off my cell phone and just sort of disappear for the next week. We will see though, I might just make it to SEMA yet.
Whats the best way to make a Duramax faster? Put it in a car instead of a truck of course! If you want all the dirty details on how this guy was able to squeeze a Duramax in this Grand National you will want to check out this months issue of Diesel Power. For us we had to see it to believe it, when we saw it on the internet a couple months ago we thought it was a joke but sure enough its legit, and one of the cleanest conversions around. We tip our hats to David Morad for taking Duramax Performance to a whole new level.
A lot of our clients have been asking about how hard it is to install and uninstall the Diesel Programmers and Diesel Tuners that they are looking at. The other day I put together this video of me uninstalling the Diablo Predator tuner prior to taking it into the dealership for some recall work, the best part was they were doing some reflashing of the computer etc.. and they had no idea that it had even been on there. For those of you wondering about the install process we will be adding another video on how to install shortly but the steps are close to the same and just as simple.
With the Van aaken C5 going into mass production in the not to distant future and custom tuning software following shortly thereafter the question on a lot of peoples minds is, “Is this just going to leave the Powerstroke even further in the dust?” As much as you blue oval drivers out there would like to deny it, a custom tuned Cummins is going to be one more nail in the Powerstroke coffin when it comes to head to head competition. If you have any input/rebuttals let me know.
So in this months issue of Diesel Power magazine they featured coverage of the Diesel Power Challenge 2007, and for the third Challenge in a row a Duramax drove away victorious. Coincidence? I think not. I must admit that even though I drive a Cummins now I am pretty stoked that Chevy has finally been able to stake their claim in the diesel performance market. After years of trying to convince myself and others that there was such a thing as bow tied Diesel Performance as I drove my 1996 6.5L GMC in high school I gave up and went the Cummins performance route.
It was just my luck that shortly after going to the “Dark Side” that GM decided to actually enter and begin dominating the diesel performance market. Duramax Performance has become quite the hot topic as of late but even if you are into powerstroke performance or cummins performance it’s hard to deny the sting left after that shiny red Duramax took its second straight challenge by storm.
Now I don’t want to get into the fact of whether or not the the Diesel Power challenge is an better test of who’s truck is actually the best or who’s truck is alright in three different areas. Most of the people into Sled Pulling or Drag racing only that I have talked to would like to take on some of the trucks who have won or placed high in the challenge in their specific event and see who came out on top.
I will leave it at that but I do want to talk about what some of the tools are that are making all these wins for the Duramax possible and what tools might be on the horizon for the Cummins to help them compete even better with the Duramax.
The Trucks that have been winning most consistently in the diesel power challenge are running a nice little program called EFI Live For those of you who drive a Duramax and dont know about EFI Live you are missing out. Have you ever wondered what it would be like to have COMPLETE control over your tunes. Or have the ability to log everything your engine is doing and then build custom tunes around what you see. That is why, in my opinion at least, the Duramax has been so dominant in events like the Diesel Power Challenge because you can have a completely custom tune for each event….Easily.
So does this mean that the rest of the big three are out of luck? Well if you drive a CR Cummins Christmas is just around the corner. We have been talking to some of the Beta testers who have been testing not only the new C5 module from van aaken but the custom software that will soon be released with it as well. From what they are saying this is going to be the closest thing to EFI Live the Cummins might ever see. Now we can’t tell you much more but when the new software drops expect big things including an almost non existent red line and COMPLETE control over your Cummins.
