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Dakar 2009 - Five Miles Over Baja
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Posted January 9 2009 11:19 AM by David Kennedy - Editor
You'll no doubt get this after I've landed, but what the heck...We're currently 29,000 Feet over Baja, I can't tell, but that might be San Felipe? (See photo)
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Dakar 2009 trip report updates
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Posted January 9 2009 11:01 AM by David Kennedy - Editor
After last year's cancelled Dakar race, Volkswagen has invited me back
for the second half of this year's Dakar in Chile, South America.
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We Got our First Entry!
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Posted August 6 2008 09:28 AM by David Kennedy - Editor
In may of 2009 we will be holding the fifth Diesel Power Challenge event, and I’m happy to report we’ve already received our first entry form.
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Diesel Power Project Jeep
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Posted August 4 2008 02:01 PM by David Kennedy - Editor
We’re getting ready to take the Jeep out shock testing with Bilstein. But we thought we show you a baseline of how the 3.0L diesel Jeep works in the sand right .ow (4900) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpXUn8wFIcY
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A closer look at the SR-71 Blackbird’s Pratt & Whitney J58 Jet Engines
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Posted August 1 2008 05:26 PM by David Kennedy - Editor
When I was up in Clackamas, Oregon this week at Warn’s 60th anniversary media event John Cappa and I decided to hop in a rental car and drive down to McMinnville, Oregon to see the Evergreen Aviation and Space Museum....
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$1,300 Diesel Tax Credit
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Posted July 29 2008 08:24 AM by David Kennedy - Editor
Volkswagen of America, Inc. today announced that buyers of the Jetta TDI sedan and SportWagen are eligible for a $1,300 Federal Income Tax Credit. The Internal Revenue Service has issued a certification letter...
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Not bloody likely
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Posted July 24 2008 10:19 AM by David Kennedy - Editor
A good friend of mine, Fred Williams owns this 1964 Jeep Forward Control (FC) crew cab pickup truck. Some of you may know my friend as “Crazy Uncle Freddy”, or as Paul Williams, or as the Technical Editor of...
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Terrible News
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Posted July 23 2008 11:01 AM by David Kennedy - Editor
In shocking news out of Peoria, Illinois- Caterpillar has decided not to redesign its on-highway diesel engines to meet the 2010 EPA emissions standards. This is terrible news, and provides insight on just how difficult...
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The new 4.5L Duramax bolt pattern
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Posted July 21 2008 07:52 PM by David Kennedy - Editor
I'm shocked that I never noticed this before… but new photos of the 4.5L Duramax reveal a change to Chevrolet’s V-8 architecture that hasn’t happened in 53 years: The 2010 4.5L Duramax engine bellhousing bolt-pattern has...
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Diesel Power Grand Cherokee
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Posted March 10 2008 01:54 PM by David Kennedy - Editor
With the price of diesel fuel hovering around $4.00 in California, I thought I better stay home this weekend and work on our diesel-powered 3.0L Jeep Grand Cherokee.
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Diesel Power Dakar Adventure - Day Three Race Canceled
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Posted January 4 2008 10:33 AM by David Kennedy - Editor
It's 10:12 am local time and we are standing in the hotel lobby. It looks like the entire VW team is here. The lobby is a buzz with rumors about the race. It sounds like there is some drama playing out...
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Diesel Power Dakar Adventure - Day Two Final Update
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Posted January 3 2008 08:08 PM by David Kennedy - Editor
Here are the photos I took today/tonight. So far the Cannon 5D is hanging tough, even in the rain. I hope it holds up this well in the sand.
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Diesel Power Dakar Adventure - Day Two Update Four
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Posted January 3 2008 07:43 PM by David Kennedy - Editor
You know (Stephen Watson), I bought (and brought) a Surefire flash light for the trip with extra batteries.. Cleaned and brought spare AAAs for my LED headlamp, and Volkswagen even gave us LED head lamps. I also...
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Diesel Power Dakar Adventure - Third Update
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Posted January 3 2008 03:37 PM by David Kennedy - Editor
I had no idea tech inspection would go like this. It is 7:30pm local time and I've been through a virtual carnival of booths to get my insurance worked out, my toll booth pass, two GPS systems, a satalite phone, and...
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Diesel Power Dakar Adventure - Day Two and a Half
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Posted January 3 2008 10:47 AM by David Kennedy - Editor
Right now I am in line for the tech inspection and there are 13 Touaregs like mine, four VW vans with race seats, roll cages and BFGs and 6 MAN six-wheel drive trucks . I get the sense that there are even more VW...
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