Watch This Compound Turbocharged, Cummins Powered, 1935 International Truck Rip Off Low 11s At The Strip


Watch This Compound Turbocharged, Cummins Powered, 1935 International Truck Rip Off Low 11s At The Strip

Kyle and the boys at 1320 Video were recently at Orlando Speed World dragway and while there they caught up with one of the neatest diesel hot rods we have seen in some time. The 1935 International truck hot rod is powered by a built 12V Cummins inline six diesel engine which has been hopped up with a Hamilton cylinder head, lots of injection pump work, and most importantly a pair of turbos set up as an inline compound arrangement. There is an 80mm billet wheel turbo sucking in the atmosphere and slamming it into a 60mm cast wheel turbo that is sending the highly compressed air into the engine. Backed with a Chrysler four speed overdrive automatic transmission the truck is used infrequently at the strip and (apparently) frequently on the street as the driver talks about beating up on a ZL1 Camaro recently.

We can’t speak for the off-track activity but we can say that with 90psi of boost and an estimated 900+ horsepower, this thing is awesome. The truck was lazy on the leave during this run as the driver had issues with the truck trying to creep through the lights as he was building boost so it “only” ran an 11.22. With more boost and a more aggressive 60′ time this thing would be into the 10s without even thinking about it. The curb weight of 3,300lbs is largely biased to the front we’d have to guess so there’s always going to be that hurdle to jump but hey, you have to give up something to have a rig this cool, right?

A luxury cruiser it is not, but a fast and awesome rig it is! We bet it gets great fuel mileage when the driver isn’t in the boost all the time. Then again, he’s probably in the boost all the time. We sure as hell would be. Diesel performance is here and the guys who are really into it are the same age bracket as this dude…young. Know what that means? It’ll be here a while!

PRESS PLAY BELOW TO SEE THIS RATTY TRUCK HAMMER THE STRIP!


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