BMDMAX
09-15-2005, 03:50 PM
This year the Duramax had a great showing at Edge. Over 700 plus HP on the Superflow and multiple 12 second trucks. If things pan out my Duramax should have a magazine shoot and a TV interview, hopefully we won't end up on the cutting room floor!
Edge put on a sweet event. They had nothing short of a small army of employees (some temps.) on hand at the events. This was no minor expense/event and pretty much all company management right up to the CFO were on hand for the entire events as well!
I spent the AM Friday at Edge with Kennedy Diesel and got a private/personal "Presidential" tour by Edge President Tom Carlin himself while plant operations were still in process! We also got a brief ride in Tom's truck with the new A2 demo! Yes the unit DOES exist, and it's pretty sweet. There's a few details to iron out yet so no beta units, but suffice to say it is pretty darn neat as a GPS (with audio) or as an Attitude controller. There is even a simple menu of vehicle types so that the unit is universal among "Juice compatible" vehicles regardless of brand or engine series.
Friday afternoon it decided to rain and hail slopping up our freshly washed trucks, but at least the hail didn't do any damage. The race track crew organization/track prep did not exactly do Edge any justice, but I am sure that Edge will lay down the law for next years event and make it even better. By the time we got in the gates, and unloaded the Tech lines were about 15 deep each so we had very limited test time to get dialed in.
Saturday saw LONG lines of trucks waiting for the dynos. Many of the guys in the 400+ line were simply in the wrong line, but I'd guess they've never been humbled by the dyno before. What struck me was the number of trucks that just plain rolled smoke at idle and of course were left to run most all day in anticipation of their dyno run that was coming up in a few hours. Results will be posted in the not too distant future, but I ran 650.8HP and 1328.5TQ, Motovet ran 479.5HP and 982TQ, Kennedy ran an awesome 725.8HP and 1373.8TQ. MP's little red truck was at 509HP.
Over 4k miles logged for us including local driving to/from events etc. resulted in 10 MPG for the LLY pulling the trailer/truck most everywhere we went. I had hoped for a little better mileage but we were grossing 18K running 70 to 85 MPH pretty much all the time. The mountains were not a problem. :)
Here is a teaser vid from the event:
www.bmdmax.com/downloads/wote-1.wmv (http://www.bmdmax.com/downloads/wote-1.wmv)
Some photos from the trip:
http://www.bmdmax.com/images/truckntrailer.jpg
http://www.bmdmax.com/images/spooling.jpg
http://www.bmdmax.com/images/edge.jpg
http://www.bmdmax.com/images/truckntrailer3.jpg
http://www.bmdmax.com/images/psd.jpg
http://www.bmdmax.com/images/sunset.jpg
http://www.bmdmax.com/images/kennedy.jpg
http://www.bmdmax.com/images/reddyno.jpg
:drive:
Edge put on a sweet event. They had nothing short of a small army of employees (some temps.) on hand at the events. This was no minor expense/event and pretty much all company management right up to the CFO were on hand for the entire events as well!
I spent the AM Friday at Edge with Kennedy Diesel and got a private/personal "Presidential" tour by Edge President Tom Carlin himself while plant operations were still in process! We also got a brief ride in Tom's truck with the new A2 demo! Yes the unit DOES exist, and it's pretty sweet. There's a few details to iron out yet so no beta units, but suffice to say it is pretty darn neat as a GPS (with audio) or as an Attitude controller. There is even a simple menu of vehicle types so that the unit is universal among "Juice compatible" vehicles regardless of brand or engine series.
Friday afternoon it decided to rain and hail slopping up our freshly washed trucks, but at least the hail didn't do any damage. The race track crew organization/track prep did not exactly do Edge any justice, but I am sure that Edge will lay down the law for next years event and make it even better. By the time we got in the gates, and unloaded the Tech lines were about 15 deep each so we had very limited test time to get dialed in.
Saturday saw LONG lines of trucks waiting for the dynos. Many of the guys in the 400+ line were simply in the wrong line, but I'd guess they've never been humbled by the dyno before. What struck me was the number of trucks that just plain rolled smoke at idle and of course were left to run most all day in anticipation of their dyno run that was coming up in a few hours. Results will be posted in the not too distant future, but I ran 650.8HP and 1328.5TQ, Motovet ran 479.5HP and 982TQ, Kennedy ran an awesome 725.8HP and 1373.8TQ. MP's little red truck was at 509HP.
Over 4k miles logged for us including local driving to/from events etc. resulted in 10 MPG for the LLY pulling the trailer/truck most everywhere we went. I had hoped for a little better mileage but we were grossing 18K running 70 to 85 MPH pretty much all the time. The mountains were not a problem. :)
Here is a teaser vid from the event:
www.bmdmax.com/downloads/wote-1.wmv (http://www.bmdmax.com/downloads/wote-1.wmv)
Some photos from the trip:
http://www.bmdmax.com/images/truckntrailer.jpg
http://www.bmdmax.com/images/spooling.jpg
http://www.bmdmax.com/images/edge.jpg
http://www.bmdmax.com/images/truckntrailer3.jpg
http://www.bmdmax.com/images/psd.jpg
http://www.bmdmax.com/images/sunset.jpg
http://www.bmdmax.com/images/kennedy.jpg
http://www.bmdmax.com/images/reddyno.jpg
:drive: