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Fairbanks-Morse Generator At 1940's Oasis Divorce Ranch
A New Diesel Power Project
Posted January 21 2012 05:59 PM by jason.thompson
I dropped by Floyd Lamb Park at Tule Springs just north west of Las Vegas. It's an old oasis springs used by Native Americans and then prospectors. In the 1940's it was turned into a self sustaining dude ranch that...
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Timing a 7.3L IDI
Diesel Performance Specialists
Posted January 9 2012 07:37 PM by jason.thompson
Last time we installed a Diesel Performance Specialists DPS "turned up" injection pump, performance injectors, and new return line kit. (Installing a new return line kit would fix 95% of the problems we get asked...
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Regenerative Braking
Spring Power
Posted January 6 2012 11:41 AM by jason.thompson
I've got a book that I can't find right now called Horseless Carriages it was written in 1900. They had compressed spring cars back then. I remember building a mouse trap car in high school that used really big...
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NH3 From the Sun and Electric Engines (LEICE)
Ammonia Power
Posted December 18 2011 07:09 PM by jason.thompson
I'd like to see how an engine would run on ammonia. It'd be nice to produce your own ammonia fuel from the sun...at home.
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Cummins Powered Swap
Travelall: Readers' Diesel Sneak Peak
Posted December 17 2011 02:57 PM by jason.thompson
This International Travelall is awesome. This is all I want for Christmas. Don't you wish International still sold consumer SUV's?
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Diesel Power Started the Power Revolution
POWER is the New GREEN
Posted December 12 2011 02:02 PM by jason.thompson
A few years back someone started saying GREEN and ever since its been a part of our vocabulary and mindset. Green means taking care of the environment by not mindlessly wasting our resources. Basically being more...
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First Look: Performance Diesel Machine (PDM)
Industrial Injection Visit
Posted December 8 2011 10:49 PM by jason.thompson
We just got a first hand look at Industrial Injection's Performance Diesel Machine (PDM) capability. This is where our Doomsday Project got it's 12-valve engine machined and assembled. This was an awesome learning...
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DPS
7.3L IDI Injection Pump Install
Posted December 8 2011 10:25 PM by jason.thompson
Last weekend Alex Nine and his friend Aaron drove up to Underground Diesel's shop in Las Vegas. Newly was nice enough to let us use his shop to install the parts. We installed some DPS injectors and its injection...
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Bumper and Headlight Fixes
Plastic Repair: Mixplast
Posted November 14 2011 10:49 AM by jason.thompson
Plastics are making their way on to our trucks. Diesel cars with plastics are already here and there will be more to come. At the body shop I used to work at only one guy could weld plastic with any luck. You have...
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Ceramic Coatings and Air Gap Engines
Low Heat Rejection Engines
Posted September 23 2011 10:46 AM by jason.thompson
Low Heat Rejection engines were all the rage back in the 80's and 90's. If you take a gallon of fuel 1/3 of the energy goes to the wheels, 1/3 goes to the coolant, and a 1/3 goes to the exhaust gas temperature. LHR...
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MegaMax
Gale Banks Engineering’s New Blown 7.0L Duramax
Posted September 17 2011 07:09 AM by David Kennedy - Editor
Deep within the prototype and engineering building on the Banks Azusa, California, compound—there’s a new supercharged diesel being built. Behold, this 7.0L (427ci) Duramax features a 2011 LML engine block (the strongest...
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Must Have Tools for Every Toolbox
What's Your Favorite Tool?
Posted August 27 2011 02:04 PM by jason.thompson
What is your favorite tool? What tool can't you live without? What tool do you find yourself always picking up day in day out? I keep my tools in multiple tool boxes instead of a big rolling chest. Chests are heavy...
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Skyactiv-D = Rocket Ship
Mazda Diesel Test Drive
Posted August 4 2011 09:01 AM by jason.thompson
I just got done driving the new Mazda Skyactiv-D diesel headed for the U.S. It'll be here 18 + 18 months from now.
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Industrial Injection Service
IIS 6.7L Scorpion Ford compound kit
Posted June 14 2011 09:41 AM by jason.thompson
Looking to add something to your 6.7L Ford to upgrade its performance? Here is a message we got from Industrial Injection:
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My Non-Turbo 7.3L Block = Paper Weight
How to Use a Dial Bore Gage and Vernier Micrometer
Posted June 8 2011 01:42 PM by jason.thompson
This is the first time I've used a dial bore gage so Rob Parelli of Tork Teknology lent me his Sunnen dial bore gage and vernier micrometer to check the cylinder bores of my ’87 Ford F-250's (Project 300)...
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