Las Vegas, Nevada: It seems like only yesterday that Team ORC was heading north to the mountain town of Wheatridge, Colorado, where we paid a visit to the ATS Diesel Performance Team. However, it's been six-months since Clint Cannon and his ATS Diesel Performance crew, www.atsdiesel.com , installed the ATS Diesel Performance Stage IV system into the Off-Road.com Dodge Ram 2500 powered by a 24-valve Cummins Diesel engine and the ATS Tranmission.

And now 6-months later, we are ready to announce what we at Off-Road.com have discovered after 30,000 miles of tortuous terrain. Let's just say that if you're not rolling down the road, whether rock, dirt or asphalt, protected by ATS Diesel Performance transmission, then you are running the risk of real adventure.

Ready for the Baja Peninsula: With more gear than you want to know, the Desert Tank stopped by the headquarters of BFGoodrich's own, "Wild Bill," to take on more supplies and his own personal gear. The CHP and DOT don't want to know how much weight we were pushing, but the ATS Diesel Performance Transmission led the way with the TripleLok hooking us up right!

Not only have we tested this machine in the wilds of the Baja California Peninsula, but we have toted a heavy 30' fifth wheel loaded with an off-road car inside the trailer for miles and miles across the Western Slope of the United States. This trailer has housed the MotoSat Mobile Satellite System that Off-Road.com uses to uplink images, content and video to the main servers in the Las Vegas, Nevada. It's been to every event that we have covered in the past 6 months. Nonetheless, the ATS Diesel Performance Stage IV transmission has been pressed into what we describe as "severe service."

TRIPLELOK TORQUE CONVERTER: The stator is CNC machined for optimal torque multiplication.TripleLok™ gets you where you're going no matter what you're towing. The TripleLok Torque Converter is the leader in its class.

TRIPLELOK ROCKS: From the Colorado River at Needles, California to Flagstaff, Arizona, is a series of grades that continually climb all the way towards the high mountains. This grade leaves the floor of the Mojave Desert and rises to the mountains surrounding Flagstaff. During the past 30,000 miles, we have pulled this grade several times, and recently in the heat of the spring pushing 110 degrees. Not to worry, the TripleLok transfers ultimate power to the asphalt pushing The Off-Road.com Desert Tank through the 100-miles of Arizona desert to mountain trek without a problem. TripleLok Rocks the desert!!! www.ATSDiesel.com

TripleLok™ Torque Converter: One of the key elements that we have noticed in the Off-Road.com Dodge Cummins Diesel truck is the ability to lock up the torque converter. No doubt that ATS Diesel Performance TripleLok™ torque converter was designed and built to tackle the biggest mountains in the West - therefore you can be confident it will handle any load on any terrain. Off-Road.com has tried and tested the TripleLok Torque Converter on the highest mountains in the West, loaded to the gills, and we can provide our personal testimony that it has handled the toughest and baddest hills in the United States.The TripleLok Torque Converter installed in the ORC Desert Tank and has been extremely successful in keeping the power to the asphalt. Towing our heavy trailer throughout the West has been nothing but a breeze since replacing the stock torque converter with the TripleLok.

TripleLok™gets your power to the ground with a heavy duty machined billet cover to eliminate warping, an innovative triple-disc clutch design to eliminate slippage (without increasing line pressure) and an optimized CNC machined stator to get you off the line faster when pulling heavy loads.

TripleLok™ has twice the surface area and handles three times thetorque our leadingcompetitor and is designed to maximize exhaust brake performance. TripleLok™ has been in research and development for over two years and has excelled not only the documented testing by John Wind, but we at Off-Road.com have completed our own documented testing pulling extreme loads up and down hills throughout the West.

LEADING COMPETITORS IN TECHNOLOGY: In comparison with other leading manufacturers of high performance torque converters, ATS Diesel Performance leaves the others in the dust. And you only have to drive one TripleLok equipped truck and you'll not even think again about the competition. ORC has over 30,000 miles on our newly installed TripleLok, and after towing a 30' trailer through the mountains of the West, we have confirmed that the ATS Diesel Performance TripleLok is the only way to go.

What's amazing with the ATS Diesel Performance transmission is the actual true performance we attain using this product. There is nothing like being saddled behind the wheel of a big heavy truck towing a big heavy trailer.

What Team ORC will tell you, is that the ATS Diesel Performance Transmissions and TripleLok Torques converters work. And they work well. Every single attribute that ATS Diesel Performance Founder-Clint Cannon said this Stage IV transmission would do, it has done. Each particular detail that Service Manager-Mike Meineke told Team ORC about has performed as if Mike was programming it from the backseat.

ATS Diesel Performance just plain works!

We constantly have pulled countless hills at only 2200 rpm passing all the others without a strain. We have also mashed the pedal to the floorboard and ran it at 2800 rpm to fly by the "problem childs" of the American highways. And the ATS Diesel Performance Stage IV Transmission has led the way.

This is not an info-commercial friends. We have put this transmission through the ultimate test. For instance:

Beginning in January 2003, we immediately put the ATS Diesel Performance to a several thousand mile road trip after returning to Las Vegas from Wheatridge, Colorado.

We trounced to the Glamis sand dunes countless times throughout the winter months in search of the next Robbie Gordon. We have put severe service on this ATS Diesel Performance transmission and torque converter and it continues to perform.

In March 2003, we covered multiple events ranging from Baja California to the hills of Utah. And we covered over several hundred miles of dirt road in a 5-day period surrounding the SCORE San Felipe off-road desert race and then pre-ran a 606-mile loop in the pouring rain, mud, sleet, and more preparing for the Baja Express Adventure in May 2003. Imagine being in the middle of the Baja Peninsula in the heavy pouring rain, over 150 miles from the nearest Mexican assistance, which isn't much to speak of, and your trodding along on slick, deep, mud-soaked dirt roads in four-wheel drive-low gear. ATS Diesel Performance proved during that trip that they have indeed built a "Baja Proven" high performance diesel transmission and torque converter.

In April 2003, we completed a 5000+ mile road trip that circled six states over the span of two and a half weeks towing the ORC Sat Trailer.

TRIPLELOK LEADS THE WAY FOR OFF-ROAD.COM

In May 2003, we led 20+ off-road motocyclists and ATV riders over a 606-mile off-road trip throughout the Baja California Peninsula. The Dodge Ram "Desert Tank" was used as the primary support vehicle and traveled the same route as the off-road vehicles. During the entire trip, the truck was loaded with supplies and gear and towed along a single-axle Sportsmobile 4WD trailer that was loaded. The Sportsmobile trailer has a multi-action pivoting 4WD hitch that allows the trailer to keep any tension off of the truck frame. At one point, we traversed a 200 foot embankment that was near 25 degree angle downhill. In 4WD low, the ATS Diesel Performance Transmission creeped the truck and 4WD Sportsmobile off-road trailer down the hill. Once at the bottom, it was necessary for the ATS Diesel Performance transmission to extract us from the 7-foot berm built up at the bottom. Again, no problem!!!

Only days later, upon our return to the United States, we serviced the truck, loaded the trailer and headed out for another 5000-mile trip across the West covering live events throughout the America's off-road venues. Towing days and nights, the ATS Diesel Performance transmission led the way for another successful trip.

And in between all that, we continue to be on the move daily to the many off-road areas West of the Mississippi in search of the latest in the off-road world. The lists of trips goes on and on and on.

If you want the best in tranmission performance for your Dodge, Ford or Chevrolet, visit www.atsdiesel.com and take a trip through a company that has a proven track record with the best product on the market.

TRIPLELOK & THE BAJA EXPRESS CREW

	STOP BY AND SAY HELLO: Not doubt that many readers have seen us trailing down the road. It's every trip that we get to pass out a few decals to the attentive ones that stop and say, "hey," or honk their horns as they pass by the ORC truck and trailer. If you're one of those people, stop by and say hello and see what the TripleLok torque converter is all about!

ATS Diesel Performance offers the best of any upgrade path if you will be modifying your engine to increase horsepower or pulling heavy loads in the future. You can install just the TripleLok™ now and enjoy the benefits of a strong reliable lockup clutch and better acceleration with our optimized stator-while saving your transmission. Later when the need arises, you can upgrade the valve body with our high performance valve body to improve shift quality and further extend the life of your transmission. Visit ATS Diesel Performance for your specific transmission needs. www.ATSDiesel.com

Team ORC is traveling across the West providing live coverage at off-road events, off-road races and rock crawling competitions. For a close up look and discussion of the ATS performance parts, look us up at one of the many events ORC is covering this year.