Our Friends at Engine Pro Offer New Diesel Products

The high-performance diesel market continues to grow in popularity as enthusiasts want more horsepower for their vehicles. Engine Pro has joined the diesel market with its technical engine knowledge to provide some impressive products. Now, Engine Pro can help anyone looking for high-performance diesel valvetrain products desiring to crank up the boost.

Engine Pro created an opportunity to use its Nitro-Black valve line technology in the mid-size diesel world. The company now offers numerous valves, drop-in valve springs, and heavy-wall steel seamless pushrods that can be ordered in custom sizes. You can also get the Viton valve stem seals you need to assemble your diesel cylinder head with these parts.

With all of the boost that a high-performance diesel engine sees, the valves really need to be durable to avoid any issues. The valves Engine Pro offers are made from Inconel® materials* and feature stellite faces like all Nitro-Black valves. The proprietary five-step liquid nitriding process Engine Pro uses improves the ductility, provides a smoother surface that reduces valve guide wear, plus it fights corrosion and deposits.

“You’ll need to control the valves and keep them seated at higher RPM and under boost. Our drop-in valve springs will do this without a bunch of machining to make them fit.,” stated Dave Sutton from Engine Pro. “Our pushrods are stiff and won’t flex so you don’t have to worry about them breaking while getting all that lift from the cam up to the rocker arms. Speaking of camshafts, performance diesel cams don’t work like naturally-aspirated gas engine cams, bigger is not better. It is critical to have the events of the camshaft timed correctly to build boost and to get turbos spooled up quickly.”

If you’re looking for additional horsepower for your diesel engine check out the Engine Pro website here. 

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* Inconel® is a registered trademark of Special Metals Corporation for a family of austenitic nickel-chromium-based superalloys.

What do Dimples Have in Common with Diesel Engine Oil?

This morning at 8:00 a.m. The Masters opened in Augusta, Georgia.  

 

Enthusiasts in the golf industry enjoy the impact between a golf club and a golf ball. With diesel engine oil, enthusiasts enjoy the impact of driving with increased horse-power and torque.  

Hence, Champion is offering 12 Titleist PRO V1 Golf Balls with any purchase of Champion Blue Flame Performance Diesel Oil of 12 gallons or more during the months of April and May. Send a copy of your purchase and shipping address to marketing@championbrands.com

Did you know? The impact on a golf ball typically lasts only 1/2000 of a second, but it establishes the ball's velocity, launch angle and spin rate. After this brief impact the ball's trajectory is controlled entirely by gravity and aerodynamics--no matter how much the golfer hopes or curses. As a result, aerodynamic optimization is achieved through a dimple pattern design. 

A smooth golf ball hit by a professional golfer would travel only about half as far as a golf ball with dimples does. Most golf balls have between 300 and 500 dimples, which have an average depth of about 0.010 inch. The lift and drag forces on a golf ball are very sensitive to dimple depth: a depth change of 0.001 inch can produce a radical change to the ball's trajectory and the overall distance it can fly.

Dimples on a golf ball create a thin turbulent boundary layer of air that clings to the ball's surface. This allows the smoothly flowing air to follow the ball's surface a little further around the back side of the ball, thereby decreasing drag.

Dimples also affect lift. A smooth ball with backspin creates lift by warping the airflow such that the ball acts like an airplane's wing. The spinning action makes the air pressure on the bottom of the ball higher than the air pressure on the top; this imbalance creates an upward force on the ball. Ball spin contributes about one half of a golf ball's lift. The other half is provided by the dimples, which allow for optimization of the lift force.

The impact of Blue Flame Diesel Engine Oils is also measurable. These robust oils are formulated with workhorse high-zinc performance additives, superior protection, advanced polymer technology, and high TBN, supported by a carrier blend of synthetic fluids. 

In addition, Blue Flame Diesel Engine Oils deliver unmatched high temperature film strength and lubricity protection, with the muscle to combat oil shear and maximize sustained cylinder compression. They also inhibit oxidation, corrosive acids, sludge and varnish build-up. 

 

These robust performance oils keep diesel engines going longer by reducing soot-induced engine wear, controlling abrasive soot contamination and preventing high temperature corrosion, even while allowing for improved fuel economy and lower total cost of ownership. They are proven to increase engine horsepower and torque. https://www.championbrands.com/diesel-engine-oils/

 

Enjoy the dimples and the oil this summer. Get 12 Titleist PRO V1 Golf Balls with any purchase of Champion Blue Flame Performance Diesel Oil.  Send a copy of your purchase in April or May with 12 gallons or more plus your shipping address to marketing@championbrands.com Limit one set of golf balls per household. Must be 18 years or more of age. Offer ends May 31^st.

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The Masters is one of four major championships in professional golf, annually scheduled for the first full week of April. (In 2020 the tournament was held in November due to the pandemic.) It is always held at the Augusta National Golf Club in Georgia. One of its most famous features is The Green Jacket which is awarded the winner of each tournament is the official attire of members of the Augusta National. The jacket designates Masters winners as honorary members of the country club.

Champion Markets Professional-Grade Honing Oil for Diesel Engine Builders

Champion Brands continues to boost its visibility with a number of new products, programs and product upgrades. Diesel engine builders can especially appreciate the broad spectrum of products developed with their needs in mind.

For over six decades Champion Brands, a globally recognized blender and packager of motor oils, gear lubes, brake fluids, and many other specialty lubricants, has recently introduced to diesel engine builders a Professional-Grade Honing Oil for machining metal parts to perfection.

Honing oils are a liquid-emulsion lubricant used to assist in the cutting, grinding, and the honing process. This product helps protect the abrasive tools in honing machines while also removing heat and debris (swarf) to ensure accuracy in producing a sharp edge. Honing oil has just the right consistency for sharpening stones. It will neither gum it up nor glaze it, and it will provide just enough lubrication to avoid wearing out the stone prematurely.

Champion Professional-Grade Honing Oil, part #4242, is a robust high-performance honing and finishing fluid utilizing a select blend of base fluids and additives. With added anti-oxidant protection and low-odor extreme-pressure additives, it provides excellent performance and corrosion protection for honing ferrous alloys, cast iron, low-medium alloyed steel, high-alloyed nickel, nickel-chromium alloys, titanium alloys and aluminum alloys. In addition it is safe for use with yellow-metals.

The product is a low viscosity chlorine-free neat oil containing a high level of ester lubricity additive to impart excellent surface finish on machining of hardened steels and nickel alloys. It can also be used in super finishing applications, utilizing stones rather than tapes.

Ingredients include: petroleum distillates, hydrotreated light naphthenic Pentene, 2,4,4-trimethyl-, and sulfurized. Specifications include: 

     Boiling point: >270°C (>518°F) 

     Flash point: >115.56°C (>240°F) 

     Auto ignition temp >260°C (>500°F) 

     Viscosity: Kinematic (40°C (104°F): ~0.05 cm2/s (5 cSt)

     Appearance: Clear amber color.

 

Champion Professional-Grade Honing Oil is recommended for honing of toughened steels, nickel alloys and to achieve particularly good finishes in short stroke, micro-finishing operations on tough materials like bearing steel. It is also applicable to fine machining of steel and non-ferrous metals as well as light drawing and stamping operations.

 

It's also suitable for honing non-ferrous metals with ceramic or bakelite bonded carborundum or silicon carbide stones as well as metal bond diamond stones. High lubricity ensures longer tool life, higher work speeds and better finish quality.

 

“Our low-odor solvent technology effectively flushes the work surface without the noxious smell of kerosene-based fluids. Suitable for a wide range of workshop applications for diesel engine builders, it offers excellent lubricity, high performance anti-foam agents, yellow-metal safe, excellent solvency, rapid flushing action of fine swarf, elimination of surface glaze-up on honing stones, compatible with Sulphur containing honing stones, can be used on honing and super finishing operations, approved by honing machine manufacturers, excellent cooling properties, and chlorine free,” stated Karl Dedolph of Champion Brands, LLC.

 

About the company: Champion Brands, LLC, is a globally recognized industry leader in specialty lubricants for over 65 years. Champion Brands produces and blends over 350 products including fuel, oil, engine additives, and lubricants for the automotive, racing, heavy truck, agricultural, industrial, and specialty markets. For more information about Champion Racing & Performance Lubricants contact your nearest Champion distributor, or call Champion at 660-890-06231. Champion Brands, LLC; 1001 Golden Drive, Clinton, MO, or go to  http://www.championbrands.com

 

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2021 Champion New Products and Announcements

Champion Brands Celebrates 65 Years in the Lubricant Business

Champion Oil's Winter-Blend Diesel Flo Fuel Additive Gets an Upgrade

Highlighting A New All-Season Air Brake Anti-Freeze from Champion Brands

Champion’s Classic & Muscle 15W-50 Motor Oil for Vintage Trucks

Blue Flame Contingency Program for Drag Racers: How to Get Your Piece of the Action

Champion Oil Seeking Diesel Vehicle Builds for SEMA 2021

Special Offer For New Champion Diesel Oil Distributors

Champion Blue Flame Diesel Engine Oil Recommended for Limited-Edition Shelby F-250 Super Baja Pick-Up

Champion Oil Introduces a Professional Grade 80% Ether Starting Fluid

Champion Blue Flame Diesel Engine Oil Supports OOIDA Members

Champion Offers Power-Shield Assembly Lube & Oil Booster to Diesel Engine Builders

XDP Now Offers Deep Billet Aluminum Lower Oil Pans for Diesel 6.7L Powerstroke

Give your 6.7L Powerstroke an additional two quarts of oil capacity and a custom race-inspired look with the Xtreme Diesel Performance (XDP) X-TRA Deep Billet Aluminum Lower Oil Pan XD454. The XD454 is designed as a direct-fit replacement for the factory plastic pan on the early models and a replacement for the steel oil pans on the late model trucks.

This Lower Oil Pan features a CNC-machined finned bottom for enhanced looks and added strength. Unlike cast pans on the market, this billet pan has a welded design that gives you a high-performance look with a deep sump design for added oil capacity. 
https://www.xtremediesel.com/xdp-x-tra-deep-billet-lower-oil-pan-xd454

Each pan has a machined groove for the built-in O-ring seal and a large magnetic drain plug for easy oil changes. Each pan comes ready to install and is backed by the XDP 1-year, unlimited mileage warranty.

Features:

• O-Ring Gasket
• Magnetic Drain Plug
• Welded Aluminum Construction
• Stainless Steel Mounting Hardware
• 2 Quarts Increased Capacity Over Stock
• CNC-Machined Finned Billet Aluminum Bottom

Products manufactured by XDP carry a 1-Year warranty against defects in materials and craftsmanship. The Warranty is Limited to one (1) year from the date of sale and limited solely to the parts contained within the product's kit.  

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Champion Creates Professional Grade Poly-7 Red Grease for Diesel Trucks

Not all grease is created equal. Here's an excellent new grease from Champion Brands, Poly 7 Red.

(Clinton, MO. 04.01.21) For over six decades Champion Brands, a blender of packaged motor oils, gear lubes, brake fluids, and other specialty diesel and automotive chemicals, has recently announced a Professional Grade Poly-7 Red Grease for driveshafts, tie rod ends, fittings, U-joints, kingpins, drag link, spring pins, spring shackles, slack adjusters, etc. in diesel street, off-road, and racing applications.

Champion Poly-7 Red Grease, Part #4053T/40- 14 oz., is red in color, a NLGI #2 classification, tacky, multi-purpose, and high temperature grease that incorporates polymer and premium additive technologies, hydro-treated base oils, calcium sulfonate, and a lithium complex thickening system. Its unique chemistry prevents melting and breakdown of the grease at temperatures over 500°F.

 

These additive and polymer technologies ensure for the racer maximum lubricity, adhesion, resistance to water wash-out, and defiance to sling-off. Strong tackiness additives keep this grease in place under high pitch line speeds, and provide ease of application. It is engineered with extreme-pressure anti-wear additives to deliver excellent protection in heavily loaded diesel applications, ensuring long component life.  
https://www.championbrands.com/poly-7-red-nlgi-2-high-temp-super-tacky-grease/

 

Poly-7 Red contains a premium combination of additives that provide excellent resistance to oxidation, rust and corrosion. Extreme-pressure chemistry and polymer technology work together to ensure reduced wear, especially under extreme shock loads, and protects against scuffing, spalling, fretting, and pitting of bearings, gears, and bushings.

 

The high base oil viscosity index improves pumpability while offering higher protection at high racing operating temperatures, while lithium complex thickening provides top tier run-out resistance at heightened operating temperatures. Its superior friction-reduction properties help ensure diesel street, off-road, and racing type vehicles operate at peak performance.

 

About the company: Champion Brands, LLC, is a globally recognized industry leader in specialty lubricants for over 65 years. Champion   produces and blends over 350 products including fuel, oil, engine additives, and lubricants for the automotive, racing, heavy truck, agricultural, industrial, and specialty markets. For more information about Champion Racing & Performance Lubricants contact your nearest Champion distributor, or call Champion at 660-890-06231. Champion Brands, LLC; 1001 Golden Drive, Clinton, MO, or go to  http://www.championbrands.com

 

UREA Costs Are Climbing; Expect Increases in Diesel Exhaust Fluid

Urea

Diesel Exhaust Fluid (DEF) is a non-hazardous solution, which is 32.5% urea and 67.5% de-ionized water. DEF is sprayed into the exhaust stream of diesel vehicles to break down dangerous NOx emissions into harmless nitrogen and water. DEF is not a fuel additive, however, and never comes into contact with diesel.

Here’s the kicker…The price of urea, a key component in Diesel Exhaust Fluid (DEF), reached $392 a ton at the end of March, up from close to $350 at the start of the month. This represents a 9% increase over the period. Strikingly, the price of urea has skyrocketed by close to 80% over the past six months. The majority of the price increases have been seen since the beginning of 2021 and are shown below.

“DEF, as diesel vehicle owners know, is an important component in keeping trucks and machinery operating within federal emission guidelines. What DEF is, at a simplified chemical level, is a combination of deionized water and urea that transform harmful nitrous oxide emissions into harmless water and gas,” stated Karl Dedolph of Champion Oil.

 

“Starting in 2010, DEF became a major need for companies using medium and heavy-duty diesel vehicles. Changes in EPA emission standards required reductions in diesel burning engines to reduce their pollution output to the lowest levels in history, and Selective Catalytic Reduction (SCR) is the technology of choice for original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). As this emission standard has increased to include off-road vehicles, generators and a variety of engines, DEF is being used now more than ever."

 

“Assumedly, as regulations increase, DEFs importance in keeping emissions down will continue to be high. Modern technology has quickly adapted to DEF's role in our lives, “ added Dedolph  “Vehicles with SCR technology have a display on their dashboard that can easily alert the driver as to DEF levels. The improved fuel efficiency ,with the addition of DEF, is a great benefit for diesel vehicle owners when by law they have to conform to DEF emission standards.”

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Diesel Tech Seeking Submissions for Their Special Salute to Our Troops Edition

If you've ever been involved in the car and truck scene in this country, it doesn't take long to see the variety of ways this industry steps up to support our troops. Organizations like Support Our Heroes and The Wounded Warrior Project have done much to raise awareness and to be there for those who have served. Raising awareness is an especially important aspect of all these organizations. Those who have made sacrifices to serve our country ought not be discarded and forgotten. 

This is why Diesel Tech is planning a special "Salute The Troops" issue this summer for its July magazine. 

If you have served in the military, or have friends or family members who do, Diesel Tech wants to share your modified diesel trucks. We're certain that there are some seriously striking trucks out there. If you have something inspiring to share, visit this page to fill out their submission form: 

https://www.dieseltechmag.com/2021/03/2021-salute-the-troops-submissions