Banks Racing Performance and Project Vehicles (2024)

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All Banks Power Projects Banks Built: LokJaw C20 Killing a Duramax Banks Powered OshKosh JLTV Project Speed Bump ROQ Crusher Mike Ryan’s Banks Racing Freightliner Dwayne Peace’s 1955 Thunderbird Banks Sidewinder Jetta TDI Sportwagen Paul Dallenbach – Open Wheel Unlimited #98 Banks Super-Turbo Marine Diesel Engine Banks Sidewinder Jetta TDI Gale Banks 866T V8 6.6L Turbo-Diesel Marine Engine Banks Sidewinder Top Diesel Dragster Banks Sidewinder S10 Diesel Drag Pickup Truck Jay Leno’s Tank Car Donahoe Racing Baja 1000 Ford Super-Duty Race Truck Banks Sidewinder GMC Sierra Banks Sidewinder All-Terrain Trucks Banks “Rat Rod” Shop Truck Kroeker-Banks KORE Baja 1000 Dodge Cummins Banks Sidewinder Dakota Teague-Welch-Banks Streamliner Chinook Concourse – World’s Fastest Motorhome American Roadster Experimental Project Syclone GMC Truck Motorsport’s S-15 Club Coupe Banks Twin-Turbo V6 DeLorean Made in the USA – Top Alcohol Funny Car Banks Pacemaker Top Fuel Dragster Banks Twin-Turbo Trans Am GTA Banks-collaborated Buick Regal Turbo Project Salt Shaker Banks Pontiac Trans Am King Sting S-1 Express Peter Minallas’ 1100hp Trans Am sleeper Sundowner Corvette Reg Benton’s Export Lion “Hanky Panky” Studebaker Wood-Banks Dekon Monza Volvo – future powertrain development program NISTA Large Research Safety Vehicle Program Monzeratt – Dominator Jet Boat The Crucifier Hurry Round Hondo Banks/Brunette tunnel race boat “Grit” Endurance Marine Race Boat 1953 Studebaker Mom’s “Hot Rod” FAQs

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iDash Helps Enthusiasts Make Better Parts

Although Banks products are primarily intended for the US and Canadian markets, the iDash and Sensor Modules transcend distance and are effective tools that can be used globally.

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Racing History Opens Eyes to Diff Cover

Patrick Blakeley discovered Banks when he was researching land speed record vehicles.

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Turbos Vs Superchargers

Forced induction systems are either turbocharged or supercharged.

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Banks Wins SEMA Show (Unofficially)

SEMA 2023 was one for the books. Huge crowds filled 26 miles of Las Vegas Convention Center aisles.

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All Banks Power Projects

At Banks Power, we push the limits of what is capable. One way we do this is through Racing and custom project vehicles. Theinnovative vehicles and engines, created in Banks Power’s Race Shop, push the power envelope to the edge. Below you can take a closer look at some of our Project Vehicles.

Banks Built: LokJaw C20

LokJaw is Banks’ 1966 Chevy C20 show-stopper. The slammed pickup is powered by a 600-horsepower supercharged Banks R866SC diesel engine.

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Killing a Duramax

After weeks of adding sensors, changing intercoolers and piping, ECM tuning, and more, Gale and the Banks test group were

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Banks Powered OshKosh JLTV

The Humvee replacement is here, and it’s bad ass! This vehicle is the result of a years long design and

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ROQ Crusher

Jay “Lightning” Tilles of KROQ famebrought us a bone-stock 2006 Duramax Dually which we transformed into the fire-breathin’ behemoth. When

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Mike Ryan’s Banks Racing Freightliner

Size Matters…The Banks Super-Turbo Detroit 60 Series powered Freightliner taught us a lot about high altitude diesel calibration running Pikes

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Dwayne Peace’s 1955 Thunderbird

A Banks 1150 HP Twin-Turbo system was selected to grace the underhood of Dwayne Peace’s award winning 1955 Ford Thunderbird,

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Banks Sidewinder Jetta TDI Sportwagen

Current diesel-powered passenger cars, like the Jetta TDI and Golf TDI, offer outstanding torque and plenty of usable horsepower. That

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Paul Dallenbach – Open Wheel Unlimited #98

Pikes Peak – Race to the TOP! The Pikes Peak International Hill Climb (PPIHC) is the second oldest motor sports

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Banks Super-Turbo Marine Diesel Engine

A twin turbo Duramax marine engine gets an extra kick from being supercharged! It has a very long name and

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Banks Sidewinder Jetta TDI

When the Robert Bosch Corporation came to Banks and asked if they could inject some excitement into the rather pedestrian

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Gale Banks 866T V8 6.6L Turbo-Diesel Marine Engine

Gale Banks 866T V8 6.6L Turbo-Diesel Marine Engine Banks’ legendary performance reputation was first earned in the ’60s’. It all

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Banks Sidewinder Top Diesel Dragster

…The Banks Sidewinder Top Diesel Dragster. Raw Diesel Power! Long, sleek, and blindingly quick, today’s high-horsepower, rear-motored dragsters are the

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Banks Sidewinder S10 Diesel Drag Pickup Truck

The Quickest & Fastest: 7.77 E.T. @ 180.00 mph. The Banks Sidewinder S-10 Duramax pickup was entered in the Top Diesel Class at the NHRDA World Finals on September 25-26, 2010 in Topeka, Kansas. Driver Wes Anderson clicked off a 7.77-second pass.

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Jay Leno’s Tank Car

…Harnessing the power of over 1600 horsepower is no easy task! Jay does Gale a lot of favors, so to

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Donahoe Racing Baja 1000 Ford Super-Duty Race Truck

Baja 1000 Ford Power Stroke, with Gale driving and Bob Bower navigating, they finish first leg out of Ensenada on

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Banks Sidewinder GMC Sierra

The World’s First Roadracing Diesel Pickup, Banks GMC Sierra is another in a string of racing vehicles created to display both Banks high engineering standards for the creation of all its products and the innovative nature of the company as a whole.

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Banks Sidewinder All-Terrain Trucks

Banks Sidewinder All-Terrain, industry’s first diesel-tuner truck packages Banks Sidewinder All-Terrain packages debuted on Hot Rod Magazine’s Power Tour 2005,

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Banks “Rat Rod” Shop Truck

Another “Sleeper” at Banks Power This is another “sleeper” in the Banks Power stable. This 1991 Chevy SS (took out

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Kroeker-Banks KORE Baja 1000 Dodge Cummins

First diesel to finish Baja 1000 Baja 1000 Dodge Cummins drove to Ensenada, Mexico, and ran the full Baja 1000,

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Banks Sidewinder Dakota

This is the truck that shattered existing speed records – and people’s perception of diesel performance.Cummins diesel-powered Project Sidewinder set

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Teague-Welch-Banks Streamliner

This is The World’s Fastest Single Piston Engine Hot Rod. It set the F.I.A. 5L to 8L Class Ten two-way

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Chinook Concourse – World’s Fastest Motorhome

World’s Fastest Motorhome: yes, you read that right. Banks PowerPack®ed Ford 6.8L V-10 Class-C Chinook blasts past General Motors’, to

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American Roadster Experimental

“The AREX (American Roadster Experimental) is an American car,” designer David Stollery explained, “and I feel Chevrolet has that image

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Project Syclone

1990 Syclone LSR — World Record 204.145 mph “Banks team of Bonneville veterans’ fine-tuned race strategy tweaked the truck to

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GMC Truck Motorsport’s S-15 Club Coupe

GMC Truck Motorsport’s S-15 Club Coupe, managed by Gale Banks Engineering, set five land speed records at the Bonneville Salt

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Banks Twin-Turbo V6 DeLorean

World’s Fastest DeLorean Gale Banks Engineering, a firm located in Azusa, CA, makes a habit of taking sports cars and

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Made in the USA – Top Alcohol Funny Car

Don “The Snake” Prudhomme’s last funny car provided the basis for the Banks powered “Made In The U.S.A.” Top Alcohol

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Banks Pacemaker Top Fuel Dragster

Gale Banks and Ron Hodgson developed the first twin-turbocharged nitromethane dragster to compete in the elite Top Fuel category of

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Banks Twin-Turbo Trans Am GTA

World’s Fastest Passenger Car Running on nothing but straight gasoline, this Banks twin-turbocharged Firebird scorches the Salt at 287 mph

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Banks-collaborated Buick Regal Turbo

A Banks-powered 450-hp twin-turbo Buick V-6 becomes the prototype for the Buick Grand National production car. Banks-collaborated Buick Regal Turbo

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Project Salt Shaker

Clocking more than 267 mph, Banks Twin-Turbo Trans Am breaks Banks’ own 1981 record for World’s Fastest Passenger Car 1986

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Banks Pontiac Trans Am

A street-legal Pontiac Trans Am with 700-hp and a Banks turbo breaks the 200 mph barrier and becomes a cover

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King Sting

Jim Denooyer posted top speed on Saturday, everybody said the engines were set on kill and would never last in

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S-1 Express

Key West, Florida — After clinching the ‘Offshore II’ National Championship and setting the APBA Kilo Record at 114.141 mph,

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Peter Minallas’ 1100hp Trans Am sleeper

Custom one-off project 1,100 horsepower Trans Am sleeper! Peter Minallas came from Johannesburg wanting a 240 mph, street sleeper. Banks

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Sundowner Corvette

Banks Twin-Turbo 454 powers ’68 Corvette to 240.738 mph, to become World’s Fastest Passenger Car Banks twin-turbo 454 powers a

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Reg Benton’s Export Lion

Gale Banks turbocharged engines completely dominated the 1978 edition of the New Zealand Citizen Jet Boat Marathon by powering boats

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“Hanky Panky” Studebaker

Bruce Geisler brought the Studie out of retirement, Banks put in his 300”, 930 hp Twin-Turbo Chevy and Choate legged

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Wood-Banks Dekon Monza

1978 Woods – Banks IMSA Monza – First Banks Automotive Twin-Turbo The Woods-Banks Dekon Monza featured the first Banks automotive

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Volvo – future powertrain development program

Commissioned by Volvo of Sweden to design turbocharged engines. Banks develops the world’s first electronically injected oxygen-sensing turbocharged engine for

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NISTA Large Research Safety Vehicle Program

Gale Banks Engineering is contracted by N.I.S.T.A. in the Department of Transportation to develop the power train for its Large

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Monzeratt – Dominator Jet Boat

Gale Banks Turbo Engine/Dominator Jet Boat victorious in Rio Balsas Marathon FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 1, 1978 Gale Banks Turbo

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The Crucifier

The “Crucifier” powered by a Gale Banks injected nitro HEMI set records and won every event including NDBA and APBA

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Hurry Round Hondo

Hurry Round Hondo, an 1800 hp Twin-Turbo on methanol, wins every race including the NJBA and APBA Nationals, and breaks

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Banks/Brunette tunnel race boat

In the mid-70’s the Marathon Boat Company supplied an 850-pound tunnel hull that, once powered by a Banks 398 cid

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Barry Lieberman earned double second place finishes in low performance stock and modified closed course racing with his Banks-built 455

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“Grit” Endurance Marine Race Boat

Banks-powered 18’ Mandella “Center Deck” racing hull. This Banks-powered 18’ Mandella “CenterDeck” racing hull wins the grueling Parker9-Hour Enduro three

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1953 Studebaker

Banks modifies a 1953 Studebaker and achieves a World Record top speed of 184.52 mph Banks modifies a 1953 Studebaker

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Mom’s “Hot Rod”

14-year-old Gale Banks modifies Mom’s ‘31 Ford Model A from 40 to 105 hp Gale Banks begins his career as

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Banks Racing Performance and Project Vehicles (2024)

FAQs

Is the banks Derringer detectable? ›

The Derringer is undetectable after removal and here's why. Your truck's ECM calculates torque values primarily based on fuel flow.

How does the banks derringer work? ›

The Derringer monitors transmission-gear and torque-converter performance to optimize shift speeds and modulate slip within safe levels. TORQUE GAINS: Off-the-line torque is more telling for people who tow.

What does banks power do? ›

Banks Power is known far and wide as the premier designer and manufacturer of power-enhancing products for diesel- and gas-powered light trucks, motorhomes, and sport-utility vehicles. Since the 1960s, Gale Banks futuristic high-performance engines have broken new ground and set world records.

How do I contact banks power? ›

NEED HELP? Call 800-601-8072 from 7am-5pm Pacific.

Can you use Banks Derringer and PedalMonster together? ›

If using Derringer, 4-Channel, or other Banks Bus modules, the PedalMonster will serve as the connecting hub between the modules and the iDash. Connect the Banks Bus Starter Cable from the Derringer or 4-Channel modules directly to the PedalMonster.

Does the banks Derringer help fuel economy? ›

With all the safety features that the Derringer tuner has, I decided on Banks. The power and torque are incredible. I don't drive it crazy and only have the Derringer at level 3, and I'm getting about 4 more miles to the gallon!” Banks is strives to give you better fuel economy while adding power.

How much does the banks derringer cost? ›

Then there's the price: the L5P Derringer starts at just $479, while that supposed “100 hp” one costs $649! When you take a look at any of the tuners on the market and consider the price, features, and actual results that you get you to see why the Derringer is in such high demand.

What are the benefits of banks derringer? ›

The DerringerTM is 15% faster than stock accelerating from 60 mph to 80 mph and 17% faster than stock accelerating from 60 mph to 90 mph. In runs from 0 to 60 mph, the DerringerTM-equipped RAM is equal to, or better than, our own Bullet which has always been the Gold Standard.

How do you calibrate the banks pedal monster? ›

Press the Right Arrow on the iDash to navigate into MENU–>BANKS MODULES–>PEDAL MONSTER–>CALIBRATE. 5. Press the Right Arrow to acknowledge YES and confirm the calibration process. Fully depress the accelerator pedal and release the pedal.

What is a pedal monster? ›

PedalMonster is the only throttle controller connected to the vehicle's Onboard Diagnostics (OBD) port. Knows vehicle speed, gear, and transmission type.

Who has power over banks? ›

The Federal Reserve directly supervises state-chartered banks that choose to become members as well as foreign banking offices and Edge Act corporations. The Federal Reserve is also the primary supervisor and regulator of bank holding companies and financial holding companies.

Who is the owner of banks power? ›

Gale Banks - Owner - Banks Power | LinkedIn.

What is the difference between banks derringer and stealth module? ›

Let's put it in perspective, the Banks Derringer for the 2020 Duramax add 81 horsepower, doubling Stealth's actual gain. Derringer is also connected via OBD and closely monitors the engine and transmission, while the Stealth has no idea what it's doing to the engine, transmission, EGTs, coolant temp, etc.

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