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Upgrade Guide: Engine Gasket Sets, Suspension Kits, and High-Performance Equipment

By Chris Hamilton

October 02, 2024

The Right Hardware for Your Hauler

Engine Gasket Sets

Ajusa Engine Gaskets Sets are manufactured with top-grade materials to perfectly fit and seal your engine for optimal performance and reliability. Sets are available for many engines made from the 1950s through today.

A typical gasket set includes these gaskets (exact contents vary by application):

Summit Racing Equipment 800-230-3030 www.summitracing.com

Grafix Gauges

Dakota Digital is proud to unveil the Grafix Series of instrumentation, fitting early GM trucks, with customizable features and new reverse backup video display. The Grafix Series offers analog, digital, or bar-graph readouts, onboard GPS for automatic speedometer calibration, and built-in Bluetooth for wireless access to the Dakota Digital App.

Dakota Digital 800-852-3228 www.dakotadigital.com

’23-’24 Canyon/Colorado 4×4 Lift Kit

Built upon decades of off-road racing victories, the Eibach PRO-TRUCK-LIFT combines PRO-LIFT-KIT springs and PRO-TRUCK Sport shocks for a perfectly tuned suspension system for on- and off-road performance. Designed to maximize ride height without compromising factory components, this system uses race-winning spring technology and heavy-duty shocks to handle any terrain. Made in the USA with a limited lifetime warranty, the PRO-TRUCK-LIFT ensures balanced ride quality and control.

Eibach 800-507-2338 www.eibach.com

Light-Duty 2-Post Lift

Say goodbye to laying under your car to work on it with a Tuxedo Vehicle Lift. These high-quality lifts are also ideal for creating space to store more vehicles. The Tuxedo Light-Duty 2-Post Lift is  available in two configurations: open top/floor plate with symmetrical lifting arms and closed top/clear floor plate with asymmetrical lifting arms.

Summit Racing Equipment 800-230-3030 www.summitracing.com

Capacitive Discharge System

The JMS Daytona CD-1 capacitive discharge system and coil optimize ignition systems on 4-6-8 cylinder engines, suitable for motorsports and high-performance street use. It offers programmable features like three-step RPM limits, nitrous retard, and user-configured timing curves, delivering 135 mJ of spark energy with a rev limiter adjustable to 10,900 RPM. Designed and assembled in the USA, it ensures reliability under demanding conditions.

JMS 601-766-9424 www.jmschip.com

2020-2023 GM 3.0L Duramax Air-To-Water Intercooler Kit

Pacific Performance Engineering presents the PPE high-performance water-to-air intercooler that adds both style and performance to your GM 3.0L Duramax. The PPE Intercooler has increased cooling efficiency due to its all-aluminum bar and plate-style construction, superior fin layout, and 2.4 times larger core. Cooler and denser charge reduces exhaust gas temperatures (EGTs) and increases fuel efficiency. This kit is 77% less restrictive than the stock GM intercooler, comes with five-year unlimited mileage warranty, and is emissions legal in all 50 states.

Pacific Performance Engineering 725-238-2002 www.ppepower.com