I'm here today with Lenny Reed, owner of Dynomite Diesel Products or DDP. We've been carrying DDP
in Thoroughbred Diesel for a long time. This is Lenny's first time inhouse with us and we're glad
to have him here. Lenny, I'm going to let Lenny talk about how he got into the fuel injection
business to start. He's got a little bit different story than what everybody else has gone as far as
fuel injection goes and it's a really cool story. So tell us a little bit about how DDP started.
Well, basically I was raised in the machine shop mechanic, small town,
right up the middle of Washington. And at that point when 2000 come around,
I ended up acquiring my very first Dodge truck, it was 94. One of the local guys,
very good buddy of mine had worked on this truck, but a TST Cam Plate tenant. And I
ended up driving this truck and I thought, "Wow, this is great." This 94 truck got a CD player,
power windows, and air conditioning. And I was pretty much saying this thing was bad.
West coast style mirrors. Yes, it had [crosstalk 00:00:56]. But I
ended up driving this truck and I got great mileage and it was really comfortable to drive
and I kind of fell in love with it. So instantly I got together with some guys that were in Las Vegas
time. They were called the Diesel Organics. I ended up going down there, became one of their
sellers real quick and bought my own dyno. And in 2002, we ended up installing the dyno. We started
up Dynomite Diesel Products and from that point forward, it's pretty much just been a whirlwind
of purchasing tools and trying to grow the company. And so we do a lot of research,
a lot of design, a lot of development, but things like that just trying to make sure that
we're actually building products for consumers, just like my other shop and trying to make sure
they go in once and they stay in once and they make the customers get out of there happy.
Yeah. One of the things, one of the selling points for DDP for us is the amazing nozzle horsepower
increased quality that Lenny's brought into the process. With increased horsepower injectors,
not a lot of information was brought to the forefront on the injectors of how the
drilling process, or the honing process, or the EDM process actually was, and what
quality control steps were needing to be brought into the performance aspect of the injector. So
Lenny's has got a lot of pride in what he's done and he makes a nozzle that is second
to none. I want him to talk just a little bit about that process that he's brought in now.
Sure. So basically like all those processes you were just talking about, those are all employed
for diesel nozzle technology manufacturing. None of them are super wrong and none of them are
absolutely perfect. Every one of those processes has its own pros and cons. And it's truly just
a matter of using all of those things together to make something that you know inside and out. It is
an extremely high quality product. So whether it's been drilled or EDMed to start out with,
that doesn't make the nozzle flow rate equal. So we use another meter to measure the nozzle flow
rate. And then we will finally polish that off with Extrude Honed and with the Extrude Honed,
it's a slower process than just EDMing, but once we get it, we get it towards zero. It's
balanced with the... You can do a whole bin of 60 of them if you want, they're
all going to be the exact same. So that's one thing that we do with just the nozzles. Yeah.
And then you guys on injector sets, you all reassemble and then balance
them as an assembly as well. Yeah, for sure. So like I said,
we can burn 60 nozzles the exact same time and all those nozzles will be the exact same
size. So they can sit in storage and when we get a purchase order, or if we're going to build two or
three sets of injectors, then each one of those sets gets balanced individually as a group of
either six or eight, whether it's a Cummins, or a Duramax, or Power Stroke. So each set is balanced
for that one particular box. That's awesome.
Inside the box, whichever one of the employees actually did the testing and the balancing,
he signs off on it, and then he puts the specs in there on what they did flow as they left the shop.
So if there ever is like contamination problem or some sort of drivability issue, we can get
that piece of paper back, throw them back in the same test then, and then see what has changed.
Yeah. Flow sheets with all sets. That's awesome.
Flow sheets with all sets, you bet. That's cool. Lenny. Thanks for coming, man.
Thank you. We really appreciate it.
Appreciate it. DDP, great product.
Check it out on the website. Thanks guys. Appreciate it.