This week at Kill Devil Diesel 1-12-2026

🔥 This Week at Kill Devil Diesel | Behind the Scenes of Building Elite Power Stroke Engines 🔥

Welcome to This Week at Kill Devil Diesel — a behind-the-scenes look inside our shop and a sneak peek at what it really takes to build some of the baddest Power Stroke and diesel engines on the planet.

This isn’t a highlight reel.
This is the real work, the real process, and the real people behind every engine that leaves our facility.

In this episode, we take you behind the curtain at Kill Devil Diesel, showing the machining, prep, assembly, and quality control that goes into every single build — from daily-driven work trucks to high-performance Power Stroke engines.

🔧 Inside the Shop This Week:

• Balancing a 6.0 Power Stroke crankshaft
• Machining 7.3 Power Stroke cylinder heads
– Resurfacing
– Pressing valve seat inserts
– Precision valve seat cutting
• Piston machining and piston coating processes
• Magnafluxing and pressure testing 7.3 heads and blocks at our prep station
• Qualifying components before they ever reach assembly
• Boxing and shipping a 6.7 Power Stroke crankshaft
• How our custom foam packaging machine has drastically reduced shipping damage
• Head assembly with our lead head assembler, Dave
– 6.0 Power Stroke heads
– 6.4 Power Stroke heads
– Cast iron heads
– ICON Series CNC-ported aluminum cylinder heads
• Multiple engines on the stands, including:
– Brian “Jellibuilt” Jellich’s engine
– A finished 6.4 Power Stroke Stage 2 build coming out of testing
– 6.0L and 6.7L Power Stroke engines nearing completion
– New builds getting ready to kick off

🏁 Why We’re Sharing This

We get asked all the time what makes Kill Devil Diesel different.
The answer is process, precision, and people.

Every O-ringed Power Stroke head, every balanced crankshaft, every CNC-machined component is done with intention — because reliability and performance don’t happen by accident.

This series is about transparency, craftsmanship, and showing diesel owners what goes into an engine built to fix factory shortcomings and perform in the real world.

If you’re into:
• Power Stroke machining
• 6.0 Power Stroke reliability
• 7.3 Power Stroke builds
• O-ringed heads
• Diesel engine assembly
• Behind-the-scenes shop content

You’re in the right place.

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