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The Silverado’s 6.6-litre Duramax has been tickled under the
chin with an ‘EFI Live’ kit that offers a tune specifically for towing.
Aiding the tune is a Banks cold air intake and 4” straight through
exhaust. A Provent 200 oil vapour filter keeps the Duramax’s
intake oil free and helps prevent carbon build-up. Bill is big on
filtration and keeping fuel up to the injector pump. With that in
mind, he’s added a Fass 150 lift pump and fuel filtration system,
a Kennedy Diesel back-up lift pump and an Amsoil Dual Bypass
engine oil filter kit. The addition of the Amsoil kit has seen oil
changes stretched right out – Bill’s clocked up 30,000kms since
the last one – as regular testing of the oil is confirming that it’s
staying in good nick for a lot longer.
Bill keeps a close eye on the Silverado’s drivetrain via a
driver’s pillar mounted Edge CTS2 unit that displays - to name
but a handful of options - exhaust gas temperature, transmission
temperature, engine coolant temperature and even the
performance of each injector.
Up front is one of those TUFF bullbars that look ridiculous on
anything that isn’t the size of the Silverado, and Bills wired up a
couple of Fyrlyt Nemesis 9000s. The sidesteps and brushbars are
also TUFF items.
Underneath the Silverado is a 6” ProComp suspension lift
kit, and while they might not look overly large, those 18” alloys
are wrapped in 35” Mickey Thompson Baja ATZ P3s. That
very serious looking canopy is a CSM built steel framed and
alloy skinned unit, and it houses, well, bloody everything really.
Left: Bill and his son Zac. I’d just told Bill that I
own a Triton and he was pretty pissed.