New 4×4 Duramax ¼-Mile Record!

SICK Week. Wyatt Stengel. Big Things. On only Day 2 of the SICK Week festivities, Wyatt sent his ‘70 GMC K15 through the 1320 in 7.87 seconds at 171 mph—a new quarter-mile high mark for a 4×4 Duramax. The record-setting pass came on the heels of an 8.28 at 171 mph on Day 1, with a 1.54-second 60-foot time he no doubt improved upon the next day. Fittingly, the 7.87 went down at South Georgia Motorsports Park, where the owner-built Duramax darn near went 4’s through the eighth-mile (5.063 at 141.70 mph). We think Exergy Performance’s Jordan Harkema summed the feat up best: “Everyone should take a moment to appreciate the fact this is a garage built, wet block, single CP3 fueled, single S485, streetable LB7.” We’ll add that Wyatt did it on a 4L80 transmission, too!

A 6.0L For Every Occasion

You could say Austin Denny has a busy year ahead of him. It’s his hope that a fleet of 6.0L Power Strokes will make him competitive in the ODSS series, a 2,000+ hp contender on the dyno, and put up a valiant effort in the $70,000 to win, Seventy 2 Fast race this June. Austin’s familiar ’06 F-250, a compound turbo’d truck that’s become substantially lighter in recent years, will compete in the ODSS Pro Truck category, as will his 6.0L-powered ’03 F-150 Lightning (albeit campaigned in the Top Diesel class). A third 6.0L is currently under the knife, being transformed into a 6,000-pound candidate for Seventy 2 Fast. Soon, Austin will lug at least one of these HEUI-fired animals to FP Truck Fest 5.0 and put up a big number on the rollers…

$100,000 Race Prep

Dante Delaney is also gearing up for the Seventy 2 Fast race at UCC, and the Maryland Duramax guru has a great plan for getting his hands on that $70,000 pot. To compete toe-to-toe with the Cummins crowd—the power plant that air-limited racing classes like this one tend to favor—Dante is not only going with a lightweight, ’04 standard cab Silverado, but he’s also swapping an L5P in place under the hood. His reasoning? Not only can the latest generation Duramax withstand more than 1,500 hp in stock form, but its cylinder heads are the highest-flowing units ever offered. A stand-alone L5P harness will help simplify the swap, and a 14mm CP3 from Dan’s Diesel Performance will combine with Exergy 200-percent over injectors to bring the VS Racing 72mm charger to life.

Jelibuilt’s Featherweight Ford

In honor of reaching 20,000 Facebook followers, our friends over at Jelibuilt Performance held a swag pack giveaway last week for the follower that could guess the exact weight of the company’s race truck. We were blown away by the exact weight of Jelibuilt‘s Next-Level 7.3L: 3,721 pounds (without driver). According to that weight (and our favorite online horsepower calculator), the Pro Mod caliber Super Duty only needs to apply roughly 1,300 hp to the track in order to reset the world’s fastest 4×4 7.3L record in the eighth-mile. With a CGI block 7.3L on the way from Kill Devil Diesel, expect Jelibuilt to hit that number without breaking a sweat.

Industry News

Celebrating 100,000 Disaster Prevention Kits Sold At S&S

According to S&S Diesel Motorsport, 100,000 6.7L Power Stroke owners (and counting) are protected against catastrophic fuel system failure thanks to installing one of the company’s newest CP4 disaster prevention kits. S&S announced last week that sales of its Gen 2.1 Disaster Prevention Kit had surpassed 100,000, and followed it with the ultimate appreciation package. One lucky order was randomly chosen to receive a Disaster Prevention Kit with a one-off Cerakoted filter head, a signed Thank You letter from the employees that build them, $400 cash, and the box being signed by the entire S&S team. Given the company’s release date of April, 2022 for version 2.1 of its disaster prevention kit, the 100,000 units sold figure not only represents huge market demand for its products, but also that the public has tremendous trust in the S&S name.

Written by Mike McGlothlin