Vehicle Archives

Banks’ Duramax BIG HOSS INSTALL

The latest generation of General Motors Duramax turbodiesels, designated LLY, are taking the truck world by storm.

April 30, 2005

Turnkey Power In Your Mailbox

Guide to Crate Engines & Blocks What it is: Next-Generation Complete Twin-Turbo 366ci small-block engines Some details: They have CNC-machined aluminum front assemblies and low-profile aluminum air

April 30, 2005

Mastering Teamwork at the Baja 1000

Banks Power teams up with Kent Kroeker and his KORE racing Dodge Ram.

April 30, 2005

I’m a Ford guy. I can’t explain why, except to say that from the time I was a young kid I have always felt more partial to the Blue Oval brand than others. It could be because my dad owned more Fords than other brands. I was one of 6 kids, so we always had large vehicles. I remember going to church in an early 70’s blue Econoline with a 3-on-the-tree shifter. I never got to drive that one, but I remember logging a lot of miles in it. It was replaced by a 1982 brown Econoline powered by a 289 V-8 with a variable venturi carburetor… not one of Ford’s better ideas. This one I did get to drive.

April 15, 2005

H.O 6.0

Banks Big Hoss Bundle for 6.0L Diesel Fords

April 1, 2005

Boost in a Crate… It’s a V8

Gale Banks Engineering’s Twin-Turbo Small-Block Chevrolet V8: 1,115 HP @ 100 OCTANE/815 HP @ 91 OCTANE

February 1, 2005

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 schedule but the power kills the drivetrain

January 1, 2005

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.

January 1, 2005

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, and Banks’ Power Stroke 6.0L, Duramax and

January 1, 2005