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  • High Performance Diesel Engines

    Bruce Mallinson
    June 2016
    A new revelation has just taken place at Pittsburgh Power this past week. Michael Niss out of Wisconsin has been searching for 11 miles per gallon for the past 3 years. When I meet Michael for the first time he had a 386 Pete with a PACCAR Engine p...
  • High Performance Diesel Engines

    Bruce Mallinson
    May 2016
    The Louisville Truck Show is now over for another year and it was wonderful to meet all of our owner operator friends. I must say this show is like a family reunion, being we have been working the show for the past 25 years. The attendance was down...
  • High Performance Diesel Engines April

    April 2016
    Back in the 1980’S Cummins Engine Company made a .013 thicker head gasket for engine blocks that were resurfaced. It was an ingenious idea, because as the block is resurfaced the compression ratio of the piston is increased because it’s now clos...
  • High Performance Diesel Engines

    Bruce Mallinson
    March 2016
    “DON’T GIVE UP THE SHIP”: We have all heard this saying, and this past fall, I had the opportunity to tour the Naval Academy in Annapolis, MD. In one of the buildings, those five words are written using 3-foot-tall letters. In the trucking ...