Firing Up | Building a Monster Truck Engine 12

Firing up the SUPERCHARGED TWIN-TURBO 7-liter Duramax engine for the first time! How much horsepower will it produce? What about boost will the 5-liter Whipple supercharger and twin Precision turbos produce? How well will the two intercoolers increase manifold air density? Gale Banks aims to find out.

00:00 Intro
00:24 Upgrades since episode 11
03:41 Dyno session parameters
04:11 First fire
06:49 Wrap-up

Gale brings us up to speed with all the modifications and reasons behind each one. Including the addition of turbine heat shields from Heatshield Products. If you want to learn more about those, Gale did a whole Unboxing video about them.

Now it’s time for firing up this beast! First, Gale checks for oil pressure and then he builds a little heat. Spoiler: we get well above 700 horsepower. Now it’s time for tuning on our supercharged twin-turbo 7L Duramax.

During the next episode, It’s no secret Banks has been developing the latest iteration of its super-charged twin-turbo Duramax. As long-time fans will recall, the first set of super-turbo diesel engines were installed in go-fast boats used by, well, we’re not at liberty to say. Suffice it to say the concept was proven in the very harshest of environments.