In the world of sports cars, there’s one car that has reigned supreme over nearly everything for decades, and that’s the BMW M3. Really, it’s long been the benchmark for what a good car is and what isn’t. It combines the best of handling, power, looks, braking, and price. Part of making an amazing car … Read more
If you didn’t already, diesel engines have little to no engine braking because they don’t use an intake throttle body like a gas engine does. Instead, diesel engines use fueling as a way to control power output. Depending on the application, some diesel engines have more engine braking than others due to things in the … Read more
About a week ago, we put out an article going over commercial trucks, semi-trucks, whatever you want to call them, and why they all use inline-six engines. The basics of that revolve around torque, ease of rebuilding, and lack of size limitations. The size limitations part makes sense because commercial trucks in the US are … Read more
As many of you may know, Caterpillar, better known as just CAT, is one of the powerhouse engine builders in the world of commercial trucks, mining equipment, construction equipment, forestry, oil and gas, marine, and much more. Basically, if you have something big and it needs an engine to power it, chances are that CAT … Read more
Nascar. It’s the sport we all love to hate. On the surface, it’s arguably the most boring form of popularized motorsports, which you can see by its rapidly declining viewership. Of course, Nascar, just like any sport, is a business and a form of entertainment. With that in mind, it’s obviously Nascar’s job to make … Read more
If you ask your average diesel bro what is his favorite truck is, you’re going to get a mixed bag of Cummins, Duramax, and Powerstroke answers, with two of those engine platforms being a V8 and one of them as an inline-six. But, if you ask a similar question to someone in the world of … Read more
When we produced our Duramax articles a few weeks, we briefly looked at the Detroit Diesel 6.2L and 6.5L V8 engines that GM used prior to their Duramax line. And that got me thinking, how far back does Detroit Diesel go? Where did start, where did they go, and what are they doing now. While … Read more
The diesel world has a lot of different designs and ways of doing things compared to the world of gas and trucks. We’ve been making a ton of articles covering some of these different things and something I noticed while making those articles is that newer Duramax trucks have a funny-looking exhaust tip. More specifically, … Read more
About two or three weeks ago, we put an article talking about Duramax engines and we went through every engine from the LB7 up to the L5P. We even covered some of the history before that with the 6.2L and 6.5L Detroit Diesel engines, but, we didn’t cover the new small Duramax engines. So for … Read more
You know, I thought by now we might be done talking about Powerstroke engines, but once again here we are talking about them. This time around though want to change things up, and instead of looking at the Powerstroke engines that are known to be problematic like the 6.0L and 6.4L, I want to do … Read more