Diesel World January 2025

With 2024 coming to an end, we are getting to the last few events and trade shows before the off season, when we take some time to catch up on content from the year, spend time with family, and get our plan for 2025 in line. I’ve been taking the time I have at home turning wrenches and forum diving to get project Stock to Not to the next stage of the build going, which hasn’t been an easy process throughout this year. With our original plan being just to make a 700 hp street truck is still going, we have redirected our end goal a tad bit—Stock to Not is going 4WD! After some big inspiration from my friends to do ET racing at pretty much every event this…

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A familiar face on the Outlaw Diesel Super Series circuit (ODSS), David Beach and his 1996 Ford F-250 have proven that these tired 7.3L Power Stroke motors can still get up and go with the best of them. Going into Ultimate Callout Challenge this year, David was tied for first, and after his unfortunate motor mishap at BG Truck Jam, dropped down to fourth place. As it turned out, we were there that weekend at the Jam, and we actually stayed in David’s race trailer the whole time we were there. The pearl white 7.3L has been given a monstrous overhaul that boasts both beauty and brawn. Almost every part has been powdercoated or polished, with myriad power additions such as Hypermax connecting rods, Mahle pistons, VS racing 468 turbo,…

As every working day passes, most of us daydream about what it would finally be like to reach that oh-soblissful era of retirement. Even though never having to wake up to report for work sounds like a literal dream, having that much extra time can propose other issues. What does one do to fill those free hours days to avoid becoming bored? You can only take so many naps during the day and play so much golf before you fall back into routines that may not be the retirement experienced you hoped for. So, what else can you do to make that well-deserved time off seem like an endless summer vacation? If you’re anything like Brian Durf of Carlisle, Pennsylvania, you go back to…WORK?! It didn’t sound right when he…

Every once and a while, we get the opportunity to write about someone truly unique, and when it comes to folks who are truly unique, there are few in the diesel world who fit the bill quite like the one and only Michael Cordova. Known to many as “The Ninja,” Michael is a Bowling Green, Kentucky, native with a knack for speed. Piloting a Cummins powered diesel dragster, Cordova and his team not only have the drive to break records, but the pedigree to back up that claim. In 2023, Cordova and his team would set out to break the world record at the Wagler Fall Nationals event. After a tough break in his earlier passes, Cordova would go on to lay down a 3.877-second pass, crossing the line at…

It’s crazy to think that the 2024 Ultimate Callout Challenge has been over for six months already—but what’s even crazier is that it means the 2025 event is just six short months away. While most folks are winding down for the year with holidays coming up, the fiscal year ending, and the like, somewhere in a shop there’s a crew turning wrenches, prepping for next year’s big dance. We only thought it was fitting to recall the 2024 event and review the event in anticipation for next year. The 2024 Ultimate Callout Challenge was a lot of things, but if we could sum it up in one word, it would be…wet. For the first time in a few years, the event battled the elements with rain impacting almost every facet…