Dynamic Fuel Management: The 2019 Silverado's Advanced Gas-Managing Asset

As the heat beats down on Tucson and the best months of the year move in, there are tons of great activities taking place around the community for summer. During Father's Day weekend, you can check out the most authentic Mexican food that exists north of the border, at the Tucson Mexican Food Festival. The Southern Arizona Arts and Cultural Alliance partners with title sponsor Visit Tucson and the JW Marriott Tucson Star Resort and Spa to put on the Mexican Food Festival, where you can meet celebrity chef Eriki Bostick of Sies Kitchen, and enjoy a Mexican Brunch at JW Marriott on Saturday, June 26^th. This will be a perfect time to load up a new Chevy pickup with your best friends, as showing a room key will also yield you free culinary education classes. Mole, Ceviche, Tequila infusion, and Mexican Wines are just some of the exciting topics that will be covered for excited attendees during this event.

Events like this are times when a ride like the new 2019 Chevy Silverado is ideal: it is rugged, awesome, and high-performing as it gets. Now, there is another great reason to get set up with a lease or purchase of a brand new Silverado: this truck will offer the most advanced gasoline V-8 engine in the Chevy brand's history. The revolutionary Dynamic Fuel Management Technology on board enables the engines to operate in a total of 17 different cylinder patterns, optimizing efficiency, and the delivery of the all-important power. First introduced during 2005, this system has been improved on greatly during recent years.

Small Block chief engineer Jordan Lee was asked to comment on the effectiveness of this high-tech process, and said that “Dynamic Fuel Management enables only the cylinders needed to deliver the power you want, seamlessly delivering the best balance of power and fuel economy”. Dynamic Fuel Management incorporates the use of 17 very complex cylinder patterns. The larger number of cylinders are working overtime constantly to assure the correct amount of power delivery, and efficiency at any speed. Part of the high-tech wonder and intrigue of this system is the electromagnetics put to use: the system deactivates and reactivates every single one of the 16 unique hydraulic valve lifters in the engine, maintaining constant control of valve actuation.

When a cylinder within the system becomes activated, the two-piece lifters use energy to collapse on themselves, which prevents them from completely opening the valves. When the cylinder reactivates, solenoids inside take up the duty of sending an oil pressure signal directly to the control ports on the lifters, and the latching mechanism is what governs the closing and opening at the right pace. What all this means for the driver at the helm of the Silverado is that the engine has the ability to operate more often, while using a fewer number of cylinders. This ultimately saves fuel, and gives the driver the sensation of power on demand that stems from Chevy's well-built and engineered Small Block V-8 Engines. Feel free to stop in with any truck questions you may have for us here at O'rielly Chevy, and we'll showcase for you all of the features that play a part in the Silverado's promising future!