Ultimate Callout Challenge: Drivers 19 And 20 Announced

#19: Dimitri Millard – No Zone Diesel 

Dmitri Millard is one of the best-known names in high power diesel competition, especially dyno competition. He competed in the original Ultimate Callout Challenge in Salt Lake City, Utah back in 2016, but sat out the 2017 competition with his own truck, opting instead to lend his expertise to help a few other competitors during the event.

Millard plans to compete once again at the 2018 UCC with his regular cab 2003 Chevrolet 2500, affectionately nicknamed Katrina since it was a salvage truck rescued from the remains of Hurricane Katrina. As a past diesel competition veteran and champion that has continuously pushed the performance envelope of the Duramax engine platform Millard has seen his share of elation and disappointment both on dragstrips and on chassis dynos.

He has recorded some of the quickest and fastest Duramax powered truck times and the highest Duramax dyno number at over 2,300 horsepower. He has also experienced blown tires and seen pieces of his engine scatter under the truck with catastrophic failure resulting in a fireball that goes with it. Undeterred, he continues to push the performance limits with the help of his crew at No Zone Diesel as well as all of his sponsor’s.

Millard will be using an engine that was assembled by Jeremy Wagler with WCP deck plates and a whole host of Wagler special goodies to make tons of power while staying together under the tremendous stress and pressure of developing more than 2,000 horsepower. The engine is fueled by a set of three Exergy 12mm CP3 high-pressure fuel pumps that deliver plenty of fuel to a set of Exergy 500-percent over fuel injectors.

To keep up with the massive amount of fuel delivered to the engine Millard relies on a set of compound turbos to provide tons of air for the Duramax engine. To put the power to the wheels he relies on a high-performance Allison transmission built by the experts at No Zone Diesel

Coming back to the Ultimate Callout Challenge with the highest horsepower Duramax to date certainly gives Millard and his fans high expectations for the 2018 competition. Will the potent engine hold together for the entire weekend of demanding competition against the other top diesel challengers, and can he put all that Duramax power successfully to the ground on both the dragstrip and pull track? We will have to wait and see!

#20: – Shawn Baca – Industrial Injection

Shawn Baca is without a doubt one of the best-known names in the diesel performance world. His trucks Master Shredder and Master Shredder 2 have been the highest chassis dyno horsepower trucks on the planet for the past several years.

In the past two Ultimate Callout Challenge events, he has spun the dyno rollers to the tune of more than 2,400 horsepower and over 3,200 lbs-ft of torque each time they strapped Master Shredder 2 to the dyno. During other competition runs he has put down as much as 2,375 horsepower on fuel only and 2,571 horsepower with a nitrous oxide assist.

With numbers like that it is no surprise that Baca is undefeated in UCC dyno competition and could very well three-peat in the dyno competition at UCC 2018.

As the lead engine technician at Industrial Injection, Baca knows his way around a diesel engine and obviously knows how to make good power especially with a Cummins powerplant. The engine in his truck is a 6.7-liter Shredder Series engine with all of the necessary internal modifications and upgrades to handle extreme power levels.

He configured the engine to receive a high boost intake charge from a triple turbo compound setup. To keep up with the triple turbo setup he uses a triple Industrial Injection XP CP3 array with large underdriven pulleys from Beans Diesel Performance to keep from overspeeding the pumps at high RPM.

The XP CP3 pumps deliver tons of fuel to a set of Industrial Injection Top Fueler injectors that precisely inject large volumes of fuel into each cylinder. The Shredder Cummins engine is backed by a B&J four-speed transmission to handle the power while providing quick shifts and low parasitic loss.

With all of that power, most would expect Baca’s truck to be one of the fastest out there, but he and his team have struggled to put the power to the ground in a way that translated into quick ETs. In the 2016 UCC, he finished in 15th place with a low 11-second run while things slowed down a little bit with teething pains from a new transmission in 2017 that lead to a 19th place finish with a low 12-second pass.

Since then the team has dialed in the truck better and have posted a best 1/4-mile ET of 9.49-seconds at 149 mph giving the team high hopes for a good finish on the drag strip in 2018.

At the inaugural UCC Baca pulled the sled more than 300-feet to cap a 3rd place overall finish, but problems with the new transmission led to a poor performance on the pull track in 2017 despite the addition of cut tires for better traction. Despite winning the dyno once again poor finishes on the drag strip and pull track left him in 13th place overall. No doubt Baca and his Industrial Injection team look forward to redemption in 2018 with the help and support of his sponsors.

We know Baca has the power to be the top dog, but can he control it and put it to the ground to earn the coveted overall win? We look forward to finding out when the rubber hits the track, rollers, and dirt May 4-6 2018 at the third annual Ultimate Callout Challenge!

About the author

Artie Maupin

Artie Maupin is from Southeast Missouri and has an extreme passion for anything diesel. He loves drag racing of all kinds, as well as sled pulling competitions.
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