We're sure Flo N' Go is sold with the best of intentions, but we can't think of any uses for a 14 gallon gas can with siphoning system other than thieving dino-juice. But since it operates at a somewhat slow rate of two gallons per minute, make sure your victim isn't just running into the store for a quick snack when you begin siphoning. Flo N' Go is available for $170, which would pay for itself in three "fill ups" or so. [Product Page via CG]

Sidewinder S-10 Diesel Kicks Gas at 2008 Super Chevy Show

FONTANA, Calif. (March 29) - The Banks Sidewinder S-10 drag race team achieved another milestone in diesel performance when it ran well into the 7.70s with a 7.72 best at 179.21 mph during the 2008 Super Chevy Show at Auto Club Dragway in Fontana. The world's quickest and fastest diesel drag truck backed up the 7.72 with a 7.78, 179.23 later in the day, making it one of the quickest and fastest vehicles on the grounds - period.
The Banks 6.6L Duramax-powered drag truck, a candy-apple red over gold, Don Ness-built former NHRA Pro Stock Truck, was competing in the Bracket 1 class in Fontana and testing in preparation for its next big showing, the SummitRacing.com NHRA Nationals April 10-13 at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, where the truck has been invited to make a pair of its notable smoke-free, CleanTune™ runs.
The 1,250-plus-horsepower, 403-ci Duramax pounds out as much engine torque as it does horsepower. When the Sidewinder S-10 gets to the finish-line lights, it's turning 5,500 rpm. "It's on the governor at the finish line," says owner Gale Banks. "We're not getting all of the power to the ground. We haven't used all of the engine yet."
The S-10 has run consistently in the sevens since late last year, continually bettering its elapsed times, from 7.96 at Speedworld Dragstrip in Wittmann, Ariz., in December to 7.89 back at the same track in February. The S-10 continues to break elapsed-time barriers - 7.90, 7.80, and now 7.70 - and the team knows the truck has a lot more in it.
From Fontana, driver Wes Anderson put a call into friend Derek Lamb of Lamb Components to get his take on transferring more of the truck's Duramax horsepower to the ground. (The Sidewinder S-10 is loaded with Lamb products, among them carbon-fiber brake rotors and calipers and front suspension.) Anderson and Lamb ran their ideas past Lamb's father, legendary performance parts manufacturer Roger Lamb, whose sound advice paved the way for the barrier-breaking runs.
On the truck's first run Saturday, the Banks Sidewinder S-10, which runs Bosch electronic engine management and fuel injection, clocked the 7.72, 179.21.
With the day growing late and dozens of race cars flocking toward the starting line, Anderson conducted some intense diplomatic negotiations with track officials in order to back up the 7.72. The officials knew the Banks Sidewinder S-10 was doing something special in the world of drag racing, so they allowed a quick return of the S-10 to the staging lanes. On a solo run this time, Anderson, before a crowd that watched in amazement, realizing that the Chevy on wrinkle-wall slicks is powered by a clean-running diesel engine, clocked the 7.78 at just a tick under 180 mph.

It's not often a design comes along and truly thinks outside of the box. What would you say to a GM developed, 4.5L V8 turbo diesel putting down 310 horsepower and 520 lb.ft. of torque in the footprint of a small block 350? What if we told you that same engine has common rail injection, a variable geometry turbo, no intake manifolds, and the exhaust ports on the valley side? Crazy! Yes - crazy good.

How can you not be utterly blown away with the brilliance of pushing charged air directly into the valve covers and skipping the lower intake manifold baloney? And come on, piping the exhaust gas directly to the center to meet up with the turbo makes us question other engine designers. To top it off, this is just the stuff we know about, GM is sitting on other details until the patents are through. We're taking this standout engine design as a sign of awesome diesely goodness to come. Say it together now - 2010 Pontiac G8 Ute turbo diesel. [via SAE.org]

We had a trio of Honda 600s in an earlier Project Car Hell, and the subject of this insane Hayabusa-powered 600 came up in the comments. Since then, the idea of stuffing one of Suzuki's loony engines in a 600 has hovered around us, a miasma we can only dispel by showing how we might go about doing the same sort of thing on a smaller budget. So! The recipe could go as follows: Take one tube-framed 1971 Honda 600 (go here if the ad disappears) and subtract the Chevette engine that comes with it. Next, add one this 2001 Hayabusa engine (go here if the ad disappears), which is already set up for installation in a four-wheeled vehicle. Stir well, seasoning liberally with blood, sweat, and cubic dollars. The 600 is already set up for rear-wheel drive (which is fine) but that doesn't mean you can't convert it back to front-drive and end up with the scariest torque-steering beast to ever drive on a public road... or get a second Hayabusa engine and make it a twin-engined, all-wheel-drive, totally uncontrollable deathtrap!

Screaming small-displacement engines are fun, especially with the unearthly power-to-weight of a Hayabusa mill, but there's something to be said for an engine that delivers maximum tire-obliteratin' torque at a mere 1,450 RPM. Hell, the Hayabusa probably spins that fast before it's even assembled! And what goes with serious diesel grunt? That's right, a big ol' postwar Detroit chariot- like, say, this 1947 Ford (go here if the ad disappears). It comes with a Chevy 350, which you can sell off and recoup .005% of the project's costs! Not only that, you get a Ford 9" rear, which might even withstand the torque of this Duramax diesel V8
(go here if the ad disappears). Yes, naysayers, we know the engine needs rebuilding, but you get the engine ECU, an Allison transmission, and a transfer case- and the seller takes credit cards! Hmmm... Veggie-oil Duramax Monster '47 Ford, anyone? Thanks (and a half-credit towards a PCH Tipster T-shirt) to Mad_Science for the tip on the Duramax!

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We're still confused. Anyhow, reader Mike L. hipped us to a website called 18 to 1 that specializes in oil-burning hot rods. And they just happen to have a Buick Grand National on the homepage that someone stuffed a Duramax into. The obvious question is what in the fuck why? At first I thought I found the answer perusing their forum, where the site's administrator posted up his latest Irwindale Speedway times: 8.258 / 84.81mph. Wow, I thought, that's mad. Like, zero to 80 mph in a second and then the diesel Buick just stayed the course. But then I read the fine print — those numbers are for an 1/8 of a mile, not a 1/4. We still don't get it. Also, that's a fake GNX badge, dude. – Jonny Lieberman

18 to 1 [18 to 1 + image]
The Truth About Diesels [TTAC.com]

Related:
Jalopnik Fantasy Grage: Buick GNX; Classic Top Gear: The Prius Kinda Blows; Buy A Diesel [Internal]

A slithery GT coupe powered by GM's 6.6-liter Duramax turbodiesel? What's next, a Navistar-powered TVR? A Cummins 610 Turbo Morgan? Not so fast — the Trident Iceni is for real. And with 375 hp and 520 lb-ft of torque, it can get up and go from zero to 60 mph in 3.9 seconds and top out at 170 mph. The company's taking orders on the six-figure sportster now. But before it does, it wants to prove the Iceni's fuel efficiency and eco-friendliness, so it's driving one of the cars from the UK to the Top Marques show in Monaco this week on a single tank of biodiesel. That's 900 miles on 26 gallons (and the filler will be sealed, so no clandestine fillups. Let's see a Duramax Silverado top that. – Mike Spinelli

[via Acurazine]

Related:
Detroit Auto Show: Variable Turbo Diesel Bruce [internal]