How's this for Cummins powered.

[Petetrucker07]

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dh4khp98_9c

[Fabrux]

I watched a couple episodes of their show the other day and was wondering what was in this thing for an engine.

[Fat Brian]

It's a 12 valve 5.9 Cummins like in a early nineties Dodge truck.

[Force]

I saw that car at the SEMA show last November.

But I'm not really getting the diesel thing...why would anyone want to put a large hopped up diesel engine in a hot rod or car when the diesel fuel is a lot more expensive than gasoline (both in the US and over here), .It can't be for fuel efficiency as a hopped up diesel engine consumes plenty and it can't be because it's better, you get lots of torque but the fact that diesel engines has a narrower power band than gas engines doesn't help much... so it must be just to be different.

Edited February 21, 2015 by Force

[farmallgray]

Probably because diesels are cool! To be different and also to show that you can get a lot of performance from a diesel. Most people only think of diesels for slow lugging power but there are a lot of drag racing diesels in everything from pickups to dragsters and funny cars that are changing peoples thinking.