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Photo Credit: Cleetus McFarland
Probably one of the most famous automotive YouTubers in the World is Garrett Mitchell.....better known as Cleetus Mcfarland. Cleetus and crew are known for their wild and crazy antics, but also being legitimately fast (depending on what they're doing) and for uh, breaking a lot of stuff. Earlier this week Cleetus' right-hand man (or one of them) LS George (aka Squirrel) took a pretty bad spill in a Fiero wheelstander they had bought years ago for a few grand. They got the admittedly dangerous looking car running and promptly stuffed it into the wall, which now means that the Feiro has an impressive 100-percent crash rate every time they've taken it out. Thankfully George was OK thanks to some good safety equipment and low speeds, although the car is now way more totalled that before, proving even though maybe you can rebuild a vehicle, maybe sometimes it's better to just start over.
If you're from somewhere that's not California, your answer is probably "...of course it's Illegal. Everything is there." Well, sort of, but also sort of not. It's true there have been some highly publicized cases involving CA, like a bone stock Hyundai Elantra N failing noise inspection and being sent to the referee. One of the big changes is that now California started in 2021 having the ability to detect major and minimal computer modifications through the OBDII port, and even something like transmission tuning can cause it to fail.
As more and more states adopt stricter emissions laws, we're here to tell you in's not the end of the world. There are plenty of legal modifications you can still do to your new vehicles like Whipple's 750-HP emissions legal Mustang package, and the 50-State Legal package does specify that you can be tuned! So yes you can be (legally) tuned in California, like everything else there, it just costs money,
Now for a bit of boring but useful news that's usually on everyone's mind one way or another: the price of fuel. So where are we at, you know with the Holiday season coming up? Well as it turns out the median fuel price right now is around $3.30-$3.70 nationwide, so all in all, that's really not that bad. Overall the trend is still downward, so that's good news for your travel plans! Whether you're gas or diesel, and driving near or far, now might just be the time for that big road-trip.
Firepunk Diesel has been a staple of Pro Mod Diesel drag racing for years. At first, they campaigned a very quick tube chassis S-10 that had been stretched and fiddled with to accommodate a Cummins engine. The truck easily dipped into the high 4s in the eighth-mile with nitrous'd Cummins common-rail power. More tuning, nitrous, transmission work, and rpm kept whittling the Elapsed times down, eventually the truck ran bottom 4s in the eighth, then a 3.99 on radials!
Firepunk knew the only way to go quicker at that point was to build a vehicle that was specifically designed to go quick with a Cummins, so they built their Pro Mod Dodge Duster. The Duster was hundreds of pounds lighter and had a better weight bias, but new car bugs kept them struggling for a while. Still they managed to set records, and this weekend they finally made a big step in performance when they went a 3.99 at 197 mph on big tires! The Duster is now a couple tenths quicker than the truck ever was on big tires, it's ran it's first 3-second pass, and its well on its way to even bigger and better things.
Photo: Shelby American Inc
Perhaps one of the nastiest Tuner cars you can currently buy is the Shelby GT500 Code Red, a twin turbo Mustang that puts down an insane 1,300hp through a DCT transmission. Now classically, tuners or exotic car people have focused around overall performance, power, braking, top speed, etc, because frankly, Drag Racing is hard. With a completely custom interior, carbon fiber widebody kit, and advanced power management and suspension tuning the Code Red might just sound like another pretty face that can't drag race. Just recently they proved the naysayers wrong however, as they went an incredible 8.59 at 161mph in the quarter mile on drag radials. Only 30 examples will be built, so if you have the money, time to get in line!
Ever wondered how your factory diesel competes with your neighbor's next door right off the lot? Well Edge Products out of Ogden, Utah wanted to find that out, so they put three of its new research diesel trucks on the dyno just as they were delivered. Unfortunately the results were bad news if you were anyone but a Ford owner, and that's even with the standard-hp version not the High Output Ford. The Ram wasn't an H.O. either (370hp-rated versus 420-hp) and it definitely showed. If you're a numbers guy who just skips to the bottom of the page to find out, the Ford Powerstroke came in at 472rwhp/1,019rwtq, GM's Duramax had a great powerband but split the difference of the two with a 423-rwhp, 905-rwtq rating, and the Cummins powered Ram came shuffling in behind at 343rwhp and 825rwtq.
Source: Edge Products
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