Dave Talks Monster-Ram

00:04 we are about to show you something so phenomenal in this industry and often something misunderstood it’s called air you you can’t just add fuel to any engine diesel or gasoline and not add the correct amount of air to get the right air to fuel ratio to build horsepower adding fuel without the

00:25 proper amount of additional air is burning money so we have a fifth gen cumins that to be exact the 2020 comings here uh this customer miles talked to him on the phone apparently he uh been watching videos about the grid heater failure there’s a stud underneath the grid heater that uh destroys these

00:43 engines in fact I’m taking a guess here but I would honestly say 20% of the engines we tear down has cylinder number six piston with impaction on it you know the older ones the ones that got high mileage on them and they haven’t done this I try to be conservative if you

00:58 follow me and you watch me I don’t try to exaggerate stuff too much except how great my kids are but I’m that’s not an exaggeration they really are great kids it’s seriously a problem so we are going to replace this with the monster ram intake which eliminates that heater grid

01:14 failure and that nut falling off getting sucked in and basically destroying the engine bounces around usually on the top of number six piston and causes catastrophic failure this will help avoid that but there’s it eliminates it impossible yeah hey G everybody wants me

01:31 and you to meet up and get together and I know we’re going to we we’ve been trying to do that so I hope so because holy camole man we’re selling these like crazy I’ve got these on my store uh there’s a link here on the video you can click that link and go to our store

01:45 we’ve got our Engine line on there a bunch of banks products fast fuel system products uh but you can buy them right off the store thanks everybody want don’t you tell them some of the other benefits besides the grid heater eliminating that nightmare it increases

01:60 air flow significantly by over 120% of an increase in air flow as my dad was saying earlier a lot of these trucks some people think that adding fuel just changing tuning increases power but you’re forgetting an important factor is the amount of air that’s coming in the

02:20 original Factory intake is extremely restrictive but then look at this is why they call it the monster ram is because it is a monster and you know it it you really don’t get the idea of how good it is until we show you how bad you know the original one is because they Supply

02:39 Bank supplies you with a new fuel line we still have this nice radius Inlet here into the engine and you don’t have this dead wall if you look at the other aftermarket ones they got that terrible dead wall right there and it’s just like taking air or whatever and just run it

02:54 into into a wall instead of forcing it down to the engine I mean this thing is it’s the best thing on the market Barun and then where where does that heater element goes right in here doesn’t it y yeah and it’s just it screws in here we’ll get it out of the box here to

03:08 relocate it everything this kit comes with it all we get a lot of kits that say it’s B on ready to go how often would you say that’s right where aftermarket never you know honestly every time I see a a a performance product and it says bolt on I swear I’m like no pain pain is about to happen to

03:28 me so yeah Banks is really the only thing that is is manufactured to work well do you pay a little bit more yeah but what in life do you get that is cheap that actually works well really nothing so this is the heating element to eliminate this grid and it screws right in here so if it ever burns up

03:47 because you know they’re they’re like a toaster element that get that thing gets glow and red hot it’s that easy to replace just screw that one out put a new one in and it doesn’t come apart like the factory unit does we’ll show you that here in a minute we’re going to

04:00 show you how it gets replaced start to finish and then we’re going to go for a test drive after and see what kind of difference it makes the truck is totally stock so I’m excited to see the difference so we just removed the the intake heater grid the intake heater is

04:32 only this portion the rest of this is just the plate for it how bad is that dude oh scale of one to dirty uh 11 now that’s the carbon that will naturally collect there as it’s recirculating it through the EGR system your intake temp sensor you can’t even see it so here’s the intake look how

04:53 restrictive that is now with all the carbon buildup it’s even more restrictive you’re not getting any air through that here’s the EGR Val here’s a pipe for the EGR the facty setup alone is suffocating this engine from the G there’s really no difference right just kidding massive

05:14 difference this is why they call it the monster ram look at how significant of air flow you have compared to this little dinky thing now the cool thing about Banks look at the air Inlet there you’ve got to keep that relatively the same for that model body to connect

05:31 there but the rest of it the accurate description is 122% of an increase there’s so much benefits huge difference so here’s the factory fuel line and then we’ve got the banks fuel line that they’ve made for this you can see the difference this one makes a wider Loop

05:49 because it’s got to fit the monster ram but we’re going to install this getting close I can feel the horsepower already okay now we’ve got a a pro tip especially on a lifted truck we still have to have a stand Here let the air out of your tires it lowers the trucks

06:13 potentially a few inches or more makes it a lot easier instead of reaching over or having a huge stand it’s an old trick that Dave taught us the monster ram is machined at the base there for the fuel line if we were to mount the dipstick tube there we’d obviously be hitting the

06:31 bracket so they’ve made a relocation bracket so that we’re not hitting the heater it’s all set up this is why we like Banks one of the things I want to show you when these come off look at how much carbon with the Restriction in here and not only that but then you add to

06:45 that this heater grid plate and you can just imagine how much restriction you’re getting from this down to this look at all the carbon that can be ingested back into your engine if this thing just hiccups and you don’t want that coming back into your engine now here again is

07:04 that famous grid heater where the bolts uh come apart and then get sucked into the engine another place for restriction another place for a lot of carbon buildup and with the banks we don’t have any of that and of course this is the wonderful thing you want 50 state

07:21 emission approved it’s a great setup we just love it and what we love most about the banks is how it makes the truck run let’s go for a drive every time I drive anything after I’ve installed some Banks Engineering equipment on it I’m always amazed just in the test drive now I know gails does

07:40 uh dino runs on this to prove his point that the additional air flow maximizes power but you can feel it on a test drive and you have the peace of mind that your engine isn’t going to suck a heater element nut or bolt and ruin your engine yeah just smooth just gets up and

08:08 goes I’ll tell you for the cost and the peace of mind and the benefit you know as an engine builder I think it’s the best thing you can do I really do if you want a performance upgrade for your truck coupled with a a fast fuel system first thing I’d do if I had a brand new truck I’d put something

08:26 that’s going to save me money in the long run that’s a best insurance you can ever put on a diesel love it