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Ken Bruner
2024 AMSOIL Ultimate Callout Challenge (UCC) champion and owner of Capital Diesel Performance in Windsor, California, specializing in high-horsepower diesel truck builds.
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Jun 5, 2026
Why Making Big Power Isn't Enough to Win UCC
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32:12JonGUEST
Yeah.
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32:24Ken BrunerGUEST
And, you know, Chase will sit down to me and go, "Ken, you need to treat this like a 3.0 puller.
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32:28Ken BrunerGUEST
We're gonna pull back the horsepower because your chassis is not set up to handle it, and it's just gonna light the tires off and do not, do nothing well." You know, me not having as much sled pulling experience, I'm like, "Maximum horsepower, maximum tire, and, and let it rip." And then, you know, coming from, like, Chase's perspective, he's like, "I'm gonna set this up like a 3.0 truck that we have a ton of experience with, and we're gonna get a solid pass down the track." And that's kind of like the, you know, the back and forth that we go through each day, just leaning on everyone's experiences.
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32:57Ken BrunerGUEST
Ryan, another one on the track, you know, drag racing is Ryan's domain, so talking to him about ramping in nitrous, you know, and, like, when lockup command is going on, you know? And he's so good at seeing that, "Oh, you know, we, we smacked the tires," or, "Oh, you know, we ramped in too hard.
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42:04JonGUEST
It always sucks to ship engines to California.
UCC Champ Reveals Perfect Daily Driver Power Level
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15:38PatrickHOST
Maybe in the off season or downtime is just sending off a sample, seeing if there's any sort of abnormalities, you know, in the, in the wear or anything like that, just to stay on top of it.
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15:51Ken BrunerGUEST
You know, we've got the, um, the oil test results back, and I was kind of blown away 'cause I've never, I've never done that before.
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15:58Ken BrunerGUEST
Um, but, uh, you know, the last couple times we have, and, and you could even tell if your, you know, your shop rags are dirty, right? There's particulate counts, there's like fiber counts, there's, um, you know, if you run coolant, we've seen that.
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16:13Ken BrunerGUEST
But, [laughs] um, you know, and just getting that kinda like breakdown of, you know, what, you know, the sick content or like, you know, how much, you know, fuel is in your oil.