Maximizing Performance with Your ‘24 Duramax

Unlock your 2024 Duramax’s potential with our comprehensive upgrade guide. Discover top air intakes, fuel system improvements, engine upgrades, exhaust systems, and more. Visit Diesel Power Products.

For diesel enthusiasts, enhancing your truck’s performance is a continuous adventure. With the 2024 Duramax, the excitement and potential for upgrades are higher than ever since its debut. This guide will help you unlock your 2024 Duramax’s full potential with performance upgrades and modifications.

Optimize Engine Efficiency

One of the most popular upgrades for a new diesel truck is tuning. Tuners are designed to maximize efficiency in diesel trucks, unlocking the horsepower and torque we all desire. A tuner for a diesel truck optimizes the vehicle’s performance, ensuring compliance with regulations.

It adjusts engine parameters to improve combustion efficiency, enhancing power and fuel efficiency while minimizing unburned fuel (smoke). For trucks with diesel particulate filters (DPFs), the tuner optimizes regeneration cycles, ensuring that the DPF burns off accumulated soot more effectively. It also fine-tunes the Exhaust Gas Recirculation (EGR) system to recirculate the right amount of exhaust gases back into the combustion chamber, lowering the engine’s peak combustion temperature.

Tuners often include advanced diagnostic tools to monitor various engine parameters, helping to detect and address issues before they become serious problems. By ensuring all adjustments and optimizations adhere to standards, you’re not only getting an on-board safety net, but you are also getting a boost in performance.

For example, Edge Products’ EZ Module is a popular option available for the 2024 models. The Edge EZ Module for your 2024 Duramax offers significant benefits that make it a worthwhile upgrade. It enhances your truck’s power and torque, which is particularly useful for towing and heavy-duty tasks. By optimizing fuel injection timing and pressure, it can improve your fuel efficiency, saving you money at the pump.

Installation is straightforward with its plug-and-play design, requiring no extensive mechanical knowledge or specialized tools. With multiple power levels, you can customize the module’s settings to fit your driving needs, whether you’re looking for maximum power or better fuel economy. The module provides smoother acceleration and improved throttle response, making your truck feel more responsive and capable in various driving conditions. It also includes safety features to protect your engine and transmission by monitoring critical parameters, ensuring performance enhancements don’t compromise durability.

Overall, the Edge EZ Module helps unlock your truck’s full potential, providing a more powerful, efficient, and enjoyable driving experience.

Feed Your Engine What It Wants

The L5P engine, like all late-model engines, is a very powerful unit and it requires ample airflow to operate at maximum capability. Although out of the box these trucks are built to withstand virtually anything, there is always room to grow. Leave it up to the aftermarket space to find out how to squeeze every ounce of power and reliability out of a new truck.

So what about air and how do you maximize the intake of it? For instance, take S&B’s Cold Air Intake system. The S&B cold air intake for the ‘20-’24 Silverado/Sierra 6.6L Duramax is specifically designed to enhance the truck’s performance by minimizing air restriction and improving airflow compared to the stock intake. This intake system includes a fully enclosed airbox, which helps protect the filter from dirt and engine heat, ensuring that the air entering your engine is clean and cool.

The snap-in lid design simplifies installation and inspection, requiring no screws and ensuring an airtight seal with the help of a silicone edge trim. Additionally, the intake system features three air inlet points, allowing you to customize the airflow to suit your needs. In extremely hot conditions, the box plug can be used to seal off one inlet point, maintaining cooler air intake.

S&B has engineered this intake system to work seamlessly with your truck’s stock calibration or enhanced tuning, avoiding any check engine lights thanks to a properly mapped Mass Air Flow Sensor. The kit also includes a silicone hood scoop seal that integrates with the OEM hood scoop, further increasing airflow to the filter and enhancing overall performance. With an upgrade like this, you’re on track to get everything you paid for.

Exhaust The Fumes And Look Better Too

Although everyone loves the sound of a hot rod, late-model pickups don’t have the luxury of a huge difference in sound when it comes to exhaust upgrades. However, there are gains to be had in that department. Again, with maximizing the potential of a ‘24 Duramax in mind, we’re looking for an uptick in performance available.

PPE’s High-Flow Exhaust Manifold And Up-Pipe Kit is an excellent upgrade for anyone seeking improved flow. These are shaped to look just like factory pieces except these are designed with a more durable material and a larger internal diameter increasing volume. Increased volume means increased gains.

Not only would exhaust manifolds and up-pipes bring more volume, but you can also see lower exhaust gas temperatures and quicker spool-up. With this thicker material, that exhaust heat is now retained inside and driving the turbocharger harder which is felt behind the wheel. These stock turbos have great response time as it is, but name one person who doesn’t enjoy more throttle response.

Moving toward the back of the truck, exhaust can not only be a performance upgrade but it also can be a part of an exterior upgrade, too. For example, MBRP’s “Armor Black” DPF-back exhaust allows you to bolt on a better-looking exhaust quickly and easily while still seeing performance gains to boot.

A system like this combines sleek style with durability. Sealed seams resist rust, while the black coat finish withstands extreme heat. Gain up to 18 horsepower and 28 ft/lb more torque, along with lower EGTs. Mandrel bent tubing minimizes backpressure, improving performance. Installation is easy with a bolt-on design. This may not be a complete kit that most are used to seeing but gains are to be had and availability is plentiful.

Reliability Is As Important As Performance

When you invest your hard-earned money into a truck, you want it to last. You want to enjoy it for thousands and thousands of miles. However, if you skimp on certain items, that fun can be cut short. Today’s fuel is very manipulated with this and that and unfortunately, you never know what you’re going to get.

It is 100% mission-critical that you’re monitoring what is going into these hyper-expensive fuel systems. They are very capable and very impressive but they are also very expensive to replace. So, why not protect that investment? Filtering your fuel is one of the easiest and most cost-effective things you can do with a diesel. A 2024 Duramax is no different.

Something we want to add to the performance maximizing list is Fleece Performance’s fuel filter upgrade kit. Although you aren’t seeing direct horsepower gains from this, you are protecting the other gains you’re adding. If the fuel system fails because of poor filtration, guess what? The performance is no longer being maximized.

Fleece’s fuel filter kit is designed for efficiency and engine protection. This patented kit enables a seamless transition from the stock cartridge filter to a spin-on canister filter, offering increased capacity and longer change intervals. Crafted from anodized billet aluminum, the filter base maintains proper fuel flow across the PTC heating element for cold weather effectiveness. Quick disconnect fittings ensure OE quality fit and finish, with installation in the stock cartridge filter base location.

Not only is this better filtration, but these spin-on filters have a plethora of cross-reference compatibility. A local parts store can more than likely set you up with a new filter during maintenance Saturday.

Aside from better filtration, conditioning the fuel you’re putting in the truck is something to consider as well. Not only will you better lubricate the fuel being consumed, but there are boosts in performance available too. Check out additives like Hot Shot’s Secret’s Everyday Diesel Treatment and F-Bomb’s “Hellfire” Cetane Booster.

Accessing Better Handling For Your ‘24 Duramax

Upgrading your suspension and steering improves vehicle control, ride quality, and handling. If you want a nice ride, larger wheels, and tires, and retain off-road and hard-working capabilities, suspension and steering upgrades are everything. Weak areas in the system can break, delicate shocks can result in poor ride quality, and more. For someone looking to maximize the performance of a 2024 Duramax, here are a few things to consider.

Kryptonite’s “Death Grip” tie rods are designed for 2011 and newer GM trucks. These are extremely heavy-duty and are compatible with both stock and modified suspensions with a factory location center link. Not only have they been tested to 21,000 pounds of pressure, showing exceptional durability, but they also come powder-coated and laser engraved offering a nice touch “under the hood.”

While you’re at it, you may want to give the wheel wells some extra clearance with those beefy tires you just bought. Check out Cognito’s 3” standard leveling kit that comes with everything you would need to improve the suspension aesthetics and its performance too. It is a bolt-on, easy installation too.

With a 3-inch front lift and improved ball joint angle, it reduces nose-down rake while maintaining adequate droop travel for optimal ride quality. Plus, it accommodates up to a 35×12.5-inch tire on a 9-inch wide wheel with 5-inch backspacing. Made in the USA, this kit includes torsion bar adjuster keys and front shock spacers, ensuring easy installation within just 3 hours.

Getting The Power To The Ground

If you now own a 2024 Duramax, you’re either looking to maximize its performance because of incoming upgrades or you’re repairing it because you’re hard on things. Or both. For those looking to just increase the longevity, keeping the transmission cool is something to consider. BD Diesel’s dual-stacked transmission cooler is a great upgrade that allows you to have an auxiliary transmission cooler with a built-in fan to keep those heavy-hauling transmissions cool.

If you know you’re going to abuse the truck and need a transmission that will laugh at the harsh conditions, SunCoast offers a 10L1000 rebuild kit that offers a ton of upgrades allowing your 2024 Duramax to handle more power. What does that include? Heavy duty Raybestos GPZ frictions and steels, upgraded SunCoast valve body and pump, billet apply piston and so much more. This build-it kit offers 29% more clutch capacity than OEM which inevitably results in more holding power.

Boosting The Numbers

If you want your turbo to perform at its best, it needs proper airflow. Too little, and it’s sluggish and underperforming. For your 2024 Duramax turbo, you want better performance without sacrificing the response and performance you often lose when upgrading to a larger turbo. The stock turbo inlet is restrictive, leading to issues like premature bearing failure. But simply increasing the inlet size can create turbulence and damage the turbo. That’s where the Monster-Ram Intake Elbow from Banks Power comes in.

Thoroughly tested and engineered, it offers 23% more internal volume for increased airflow without risking damage. Improve throttle response, and fuel economy, and reduce stress on components with this expertly crafted solution and not only yields gains but it also can come in Banks’ known red color. This upgrade is easy on the wallet and results in instant gratification.

Conclusion

In conclusion, enhancing the performance of your 2024 Duramax is an exciting journey with endless opportunities for improvement. From tuning your engine to upgrading your suspension, each modification takes you closer to unleashing your truck’s full potential. At Diesel Power Products, we offer a wide range of top-notch components and expertly engineered solutions to help you achieve your goals. With our expertise and high-quality parts, we’re here to support you in maximizing your truck’s performance and experiencing the thrill of diesel power to the fullest.