OEM NEWS

RAM GOES BIG IN TEXAS

Ram made its presence known at the 134th annual State Fair of Texas. With a ’19 Ram 3500 on display front and center, the best-in-class 1,000 lb-ft torque rating from the all-new 6.7L Cummins was highlighted along with the truck’s 35,100-pound tow rating and 7,680-pound payload capacity. Ram’s fifth-generation interior is also being praised for setting the benchmark in ride comfort, luxury materials, innovation, and technology that goes way beyond what competing brands are offering.

RACING

DURAMAX CARNAGE

How hard can you push a stock internal LBZ Duramax? Short answer: until it fails. Long answer: quite a while with the right parts and driving style. In campaigning the first and fastest stock engine LBZ in the 9s (including a best of 9.80 at 141 mph), Direct Injection Engineering’s Jesse Klennon finally found the limit of playing with fire. After a short-shift scenario inevitably caused a torque spike and all hell to break loose, the block was windowed in more than one spot. The factory long-block Duramax was sporting 300-percent over injectors, dual CP3s, and a 68/71 VGT from Danville Performance when it let go. Along Jesse’s 9-second, stock bottom end journey he proved that a 300,000-mile engine could survive more than 50 passes in the 900hp range.