Super Diesel Shootout! Sled Pull, Dyno, & Drag Racing Diesel Trucks! HOT ROD Unlimited Ep. 45

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This week on HOT ROD Unlimited

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00:00 So this week on Unlimited we're at Tulsa Raceway Park for the War Truck Review 8 lug Super

00:16 Diesel Shootout sponsored by Shell Rotella Oil.

00:31 For a long time everyone just thought of diesel trucks as a work vehicle or something that

00:34 you took and maybe pulled a sled with every once in a while but 10 to 15 years ago something

00:38 crazy happened.

00:40 Manufacturers started selling so many of these trucks that a whole aftermarket sprung up

00:43 around them and now it's not uncommon for a guy to take his stock pickup truck and with

00:47 bolt-ons like fuel injectors and turbos and upgraded fuel pumps be able to make crazy

00:52 horsepower.

00:53 Diesel engines are great in the fact that you start out with basically a bomb-proof

00:57 bottom end in these things.

00:58 The crankshafts are all forged steel, they've got forged connecting rods, they're built

01:01 really strong to start with right out of the factory so they respond to bolt-ons and upgrades

01:05 unlike any other gas motor you've met.

01:08 This is a great event as it takes and really showcases the diversity of diesel trucks.

01:12 These guys make crazy horsepower and they display it on the dyno, they've got a sled

01:15 pull and they've also got a drag race.

01:17 All three of those events are going to be combined and we're going to score them as

01:20 part of a deal we call the Shop Truck Challenge.

01:22 We've got guys from all over the country here that are ringing their diesel trucks

01:25 out at all three of those events to prove who has got the baddest diesel truck in the

01:28 land.

01:29 When diesel truck enthusiasts talk about making big torque it puts big block Chevy engines

01:33 to shame.

01:34 There was a guy yesterday in the dyno that made 2500 foot pounds out of an engine that

01:38 has a stock block.

01:39 Everything else is new but the base of that motor is a stock piece of iron that he churned

01:43 out 2500 foot pounds of torque at the tires with.

01:55 When you see him throwing 1700, 1800 horsepower to the dyno it's great to see that and I'm

02:01 glad to see him at this event.

02:03 The truck is just a blast to watch.

02:07 It jumps straight up, jumps to the left, jumps to the right and how he gets it down the racetrack

02:12 I do not really know.

02:33 Speaking of that very machine, the truck and all 2500 foot pounds of torque that it

02:36 makes headed over to the drag strip.

02:38 Piloted by Dimitri Millar, this Chevrolet is a four wheel drive stomper.

02:41 It ran the quickest and fastest lap of the weekend at Tulsa which was 995 at 145 miles

02:47 an hour.

02:48 It's great when you come to an event like this where you have both tow rigs and normal

02:51 pickup trucks running on the racetrack as well as wildly modified pickups like overkill.

03:10 Anybody who thinks these trucks aren't hot rods is really out of their mind.

03:25 These guys are starting with stock trucks that make a couple hundred horsepower.

03:27 In some cases the modern trucks make 300 plus but they're making 6700 horsepower with bolt

03:32 on parts.

03:33 It's the same as somebody taking a small block Chevy going to their garage and bolting headers

03:36 and a cam and all the deal into it.

03:38 These guys are doing essentially the same stuff.

03:40 So hot rodding in the diesel world is totally the same as hot rodding in the gas side of

03:44 things.

03:45 Granted their vehicles are three times as heavy as most of the stuff you'd find on

03:47 a drag strip normally but it runs just as hard.

03:52 One of the most interesting vehicles on the grounds at Tulsa was the drag strip Greg Hoag.

03:56 For many years Hoag raced at NHRA as an index sportsman racer in their gas classes.

04:01 He then fell in love with diesel engines and began headlong into diesel performance.

04:05 I went over, I started out with Cummins and since then I've gone over, I've always been

04:10 a Chevy, Chevy guy.

04:12 Run Chevy V6's, ran Chevy inline 6's, ran Chevy small blocks and the Duramax engine

04:17 has really intrigued me.

04:18 It's a V8.

04:20 I've kind of built it, I've kind of worked with the motor just like we would with a competition

04:24 eliminator motor.

04:25 It's got aluminum rods and we've taken 57 pounds of rotating weight out of the bottom

04:31 end of this motor.

04:32 It has a reactor aluminum flywheel and a fluid dampener aluminum harmonic balancer.

04:40 And my motor builder is a guy named Dave Mosier who I grew up with the comp eliminator team

04:45 and he built the motor for me and it's built like a comp eliminator.

04:48 Chris Franks at Frankenstein Racing Heads did the cylinder heads and then Greg Young

04:52 at ZZ Custom Fab, he did the intake manifold and headers and most of the fab work on it.

04:57 We use a top fuel style wrist pin, we'll call it the Coletta pin.

05:02 We use the shell Rotella and the shell synthetic diesel oils.

05:07 I feel it works with the bearings really well.

05:09 The car is a Charlie Stewart Racecraft Dragster.

05:14 It was built for a combination of running diesel engine and running B-Dragster automatic

05:18 with a pro stock motor.

05:20 Just going to have a good time with this car.

05:21 Hogue plans to use the Dragster to develop NHRA sportsman talent into seasoned veterans

05:26 ready for their professional ranks.

05:27 Probably the most interesting, grueling and downright tough event of the weekend was the

05:48 truck pull.

05:49 The sled was punishing every truck that pulled in front of it and leaving a trail of broken

05:53 ones in its wake.

06:14 As the sun set on the horizon, the final battle of the shop trucks was in full swing.

06:29 Some trucks were able to drag the sled over 300 feet.

06:31 Others, well others didn't even make it a full six before they broke.

06:47 Well what a wild day and night we've had here in Tulsa.

06:50 The first ever Super Diesel Shootout has finally come to an end.

06:53 It's Dylan Carter, the 16 year old kid in a Fummins, and if you don't speak diesel,

06:57 that's a Cummins powered Ford, is your winner in the first ever shop truck shootout.

07:01 He did very well in the drag race and on the dyno and then he did a fantastic job on the

07:05 sled pull to take the overall win.

07:07 Been a great first event here.

07:09 Rotella Oil was fantastic to be the sponsor of this deal.

07:12 Looks like it's going to be a great event for years to come.

07:13 We're signing off from Tulsa.

07:38 Bye.

07:48 you

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