General Motors' Duramax engine family is one of the three leading names in diesel engines, right up there with Ford's Power Stroke and Cummins' diesel engines — like the legendary Cummins 6BT ...

The Duramax engine was introduced in 2001, and it quickly became known for its reliability and performance. The 6.6L Duramax diesel engine has made an appearance in the Chevrolet Silverado and the ...

We're comparing the spec sheet for the GM Duramax V8 L5P engine against its main rivals from Ford and Ram to see how it ...

In 2019, General Motors introduced the Duramax 3.0 diesel engine in its lineup, which could outperform or match its rivals in power and towing capacity. Several years later, in 2023, the inline ...

When I spoke to high performance engine specialist Gale Banks about this engine recently, he explained that, unlike the 6.6L Duramax which he has pushed past 1,200 hp, the 4.5L has relatively ...

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General Motors released the new 3.0L I6 LZ0 turbodiesel Duramax engine in conjunction with the launch of the 2023 Chevy Silverado 1500 and 2023 GMC Sierra 1500, offering more power and torque than ...

General Motors’ 6.6-liter Duramax LB7 was a state-of-the-art V8 diesel engine with four-valves-per-cylinder producing 235 to 300 hp and 500 to 520 lb-ft of torque. In addition to a turbocharger ...

The engine’s cooling capacity was improved, but as a whole, the Duramax was left largely untouched. “There’s not much on the engine, which is great news—it’s mainly the frame ...

This strong, efficient, refined engine was miles ahead of the Navistar engine in the Ford trucks and the Cummins engine that Dodge uses. The Duramax diesels are built by a General Motors-Isuzu ...