If anything, i'm guessing if they add a new engine, it'll be a small diesel.

 

Already put that out, it's a inline 6...

 

GM just released a whole new engine and the full engine line for the new 2019 trucks.

It's a new 2.7 Turbo Inline 4 cylinder that makes 310hp/348tq. No new numbers on the Diesel though, here is a video with coverage.

 

They need to do something with the 5.3 to up the ante. They are gonna fall behind if they don’t. The new 10spd that gm and ford developed is awesome in a ford, I am curious how it will act once Gm programs it. It is great in the cars but Gm loves to dumb down the trucks tuning a lot.


I hope the Dmax works out well, Ford just released their new 1/2 ton diesel and I am not impressed at all. The Baby Dmax has potential.

 

I figured with new tech and more time to fine tune the calibrations and engine parts that they'd get more power from the 5.3 but I guess not. So now it's just 2 different versions of the 5.3 now.

 

Ya. I was disappointed in that also.

 

But hey now "we" get trucks that can have cool turbo noises from the factory.

Seems like with the new computer encryption stuff that it will be a while before anyone can even modify a new truck though.

 

They said that about the 14 too. People were tuning them like 3 months after release.

 

This new stuff is no joke though, the encryption key stuff is something else. I don't have EFI Live but on HP Tuners side they have nothing to even report on the LP5's in the diesel trucks and those have been out for more than a year.

The last I heard on the E99 in the ZR1 corvette with the same technology there is no ETA on anything yet.

 

As this stuff pushes forward tuning is going to end anyhow.... All the manufacturers are pushing for legislation to outlaw doing it anyway and as more autonomous features hit the market it will probably become reality. In the end it won't be someone not being able to break encryption but more who wants to market the product and assume liability.