HEADLINES: Is This The Highest Horsepower G56-Shifted Cummins In The Land?
Drag racing in the desert, a rain-out at Rudy’s, 2,100 horsepower squeezed through a G56 manual, and Summit’s bold stand against counterfeit parts.
Some of the highest horsepower trucks in the country make appearances on Firepunk Diesel’s chassis dyno in an effort to top their in-house leader board. Recently, Maxed Out Machining’s Brady Prows slid into the top spot in dramatic fashion. His third-gen Cummins, which benefits from Flux Diesel Injection and AirDog 5G fueling as well as Firepunk tuning, lit up the dyno cell with a 2,139 hp effort on the rollers. Behind that wild horsepower number is a bone-stock G56 transmission fitted with a LazarSmith girdle, LazarSmith’s shock-load-reducing Gorilla Juice fluid, and a street triple disc clutch from Kenny’s Pulling Parts & Machine. With the kill file uploaded, the truck’s 100-psi boost gauge on the A-pillar is useless, and Brady estimates that pressure checks in somewhere around 130-psi. Fun fun!
Drag Racing
Rain-out At Rudy’s
The forecast was clear, race day arrived with little reason to suspect precipitation, and then it happened. The skies over Rockingham Raceway opened up, dumped a torrential volume of rainfall on the Rudy’s Spring Truck Jam, and ultimately forced the first (and hopefully, last) rain-out of the 2024 ODSS season. Regardless of Mother Nature’s propensity to frequent this event, Rudy’s remains the yearly affair many enthusiasts look forward to the most—and on the salvageable side of things, the show ‘n shine did commence, and awards were handed out. This image, which illustrates how bad the flooding was in the pits, comes courtesy of Sidetracked Powered By DHD owner and the voice of ODSS, Charles Poosch. Next stop: Outlaw Diesel Revenge and Ultimate Callout Challenge in Indianapolis.
NHRDA Season Opener
2,100 miles west of Rudy’s, the dry air of Chandler, Arizona welcomed drag racers to the inaugural NHRDA event of the year, the Desert Diesel Nationals. Unfortunately for drivers in the Super Street category, Rick Fletes and his Duramax-powered Chevelle were on the grounds at Firebird Motorsport Park—and he proceeded to dominate the field, take the win, and drive 800 miles back home to California when all was said and done. In the Sportsman class, and after cutting a .083 reaction time to Lane Wright’s .179 in the finals, Robin Ridgway’s 7.3L Super Duty went 10.22 on a 10.20 dial to bring the hardware back to Indiana. Next stop: Texas Diesel Nationals in Lufkin, Texas.
Crushing The Dyno
Randy Reyes Joins The 3,000 HP Club
Remember Red Delicious, the 7,700-pound dually that once ran a 9.2-second quarter-mile? So do we, and now it’s back and rowdier than it’s ever been. Over the weekend, and while attending the NHRDA Desert Diesel Nationals, Randy Reyes’ 2006 Dodge made 3,031 hp aboard the Northwest Dyno Series’ SuperFlow. With plans to compete in this year’s Ultimate Callout Challenge, look for Randy, Red Delicious, and a select few from the team at Randy’s Transmissions to push the truck even higher up the horsepower ladder—along with blasting through the eighth-mile and yanking the sled 300-feet through the dirt.
Industry News
S&S Diesel Motorsport Adds Even More Firepower To Its Team
From high-quality product lines to unmatched aftermarket support to topflight staffing, S&S Diesel Motorsport continues to show exponential growth in our industry—and its recent acquisition may be yet another game-changer. Former ODSS Pro Mod champion and Done Right Diesel owner, Ben Shadday (right), is now part of the S&S team and—thanks to his longtime experience with S&S products and his knowledge of MoTeC controls—will be serving a calibration and electronics support role for the company. Ben’s right-hand man, Brandon Grimmett, is also onboard, and will fill a technical sales/media position. Without a doubt, these two will add even more value to one of the diesel industry’s most renowned names.
A Bold Move By Summit Racing
It’s no secret that Chinese-manufactured knock-off parts are everywhere these days, and these counterfeit products rarely (if ever) perform as well as the component they copy. Such was the case with Broader Performance’s C4 Pro Tree Transbrake valve body, which was not only being produced overseas, but also with the company’s name machined into the piece. Long story short, Broader Performance was called for technical support on a valve body purchased through Summit Racing that wasn’t performing as advertised, relayed to the customer that their valve bodies aren’t sold to Summit Racing, and Summit Racing—once informed of the issue—responded. Their response? All similar products were pulled from the retail giant’s inventory and promptly destroyed. Not only was Summit’s quick, decisive action a great PR move, but it was also a step in the right direction in fighting back against counterfeit and inferior parts in the automotive and racing industry.
Written by Mike McGlothlin
