This week’s special Saturday edition of Black Friday looks at a Cummins powered 2nd gen Ram on the drag strip where it is abusing a much newer Duramax Chevy. Unfortunately, there is no information offered in either the description or the comments (which, by the way, are incredibly stupid) but it is clear that these are two heavy modified heavy duty pickups.
The Chevrolet Silverado packing a Duramax diesel in this video is pretty fast with an elapsed time through the quarter mile of 11.469 and a trap speed of 119.69 miles per hour. Numbers like that would allow this diesel powered Chevy pickup to beat a great many of the sports cars that you see on public roads. That is also a whole lot faster than your average Cummins Turbo Diesel powered Ram but the 2nd generation Dodge pickup in this video is clearly far from stock. The Chevy shown is a quick truck…the CTD Ram shown in the video is holy $#!? Fast. With a blistering quarter mile time of 10.77 seconds and a trap speed of 121.63 miles per hour, this is a heavy duty Dodge truck that will crush many of the world’s fastest supercars on the drag strip. It could probably tow all of those supercars home, too.
In addition to being incredibly quick, the Cummins Ram in the video below uses a pair of stacks to black out the sun as it roars down the quarter mile – making it a fitting candidate for our Black Fridays feature pickup.
"Before I was old enough to walk, my dad was taking me to various types of racing events, from local drag racing to the Daytona 500," says Patrick Rall, a lifetime automotive expert, diehard Dodge fan, and respected auto journalist for over 10 years. "He owned a repair shop and had a variety of performance cars when I was young, but by the time I was 16, he was ready to build me my first drag car – a 1983 Dodge Mirada that ran low 12s. I spent 10 years traveling around the country, racing with my dad by my side. While we live in different areas of the country, my dad still drag races at 80 years old in the car that he built when I was 16 while I race other vehicles, including my 2017 Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat and my 1972 Dodge Demon 340.
"Although I went to college for accounting, my time in my dad’s shop growing up allowed me the knowledge to spend time working as a mechanic before getting my accounting degree, at which point I worked in the office of a dealership group. While I was working in the accounting world, I continued racing and taking pictures of cars at the track. Over time, I began showing off those pictures online and that led to my writing.
"Ten years ago, I left the accounting world to become a full-time automotive writer and I am living proof that if you love what you do, you will never “work” a day in your life," adds Rall, who has clocked in time as an auto mechanic, longtime drag racer and now automotive journalist who contributes to nearly a dozen popular auto websites dedicated to fellow enthusiasts.
"I love covering the automotive industry and everything involved with the job. I was fortunate to turn my love of the automotive world into a hobby that led to an exciting career, with my past of working as a mechanic and as an accountant in the automotive world provides me with a unique perspective of the industry.
"My experience drag racing for more than 20 years coupled with a newfound interest in road racing over the past decade allows me to push performance cars to their limit, while my role as a horse stable manager gives me vast experience towing and hauling with all of the newest trucks on the market today.
