Magazine Articles – 2005

Project Titan Bolt-on Performance Upgrades Read more about this post

Pump The Power Installing a Full Banks PowerPack on a Ford F-350 Read more about this post

Rough 'N' Ready...A Rat Rod With a Twin-Turbo Imagine driving a 1,100 hp, Twin-Turbo sport truck Read more about this post

Riding The Big Hoss Think of your diesel truck as a sleeping giant. Read more about this post

The Wild Bunch Can a diesel-powered off-road rig also be a hot rod? And a fuel-efficient highway cruiser to boot? WHO KNEW? A Read more about this post

Diesel Power For Decades, Fringe Hot Rodders Have Been Predicting a High-Performance Diesel Revolution. Read more about this post

Fuel for Thought The future of automotive propulsion may already be here, waiting at your local truck stop. Read more about this post

Banks "Rat Rod" Shop Truck How the Banks Race Shop modified its twin-turbo "Rat Rod" pickup for the Hot Rod Magazine Power Tour Read more about this post

Gale Banks Engineering to Road-Race GM Diesel Pickup Gale Banks is out to prove diesel engines are capable of high performance, and he's proving it one racing venue at a time. Read more about this post

Torque Tough Banks' billet torque converter takes on big diesel power The Banks Billet Torque Converter is designed to withstand the stresses Read more about this post

A Kick In The Gas Improving your old 460 Ford's torque and power with a Gale Banks PowerPack system Shown is our test vehicle–a 1996 Read more about this post

Hopping Up the Turbodiesel Dispelling the smoke about black, sooty smoke—and how to obtain maximum continuous, useable power from a diesel. Read more about this post

Dynamometers: Fact or Fantasy How to get factual horsepower and torque numbers using dynamometers—and why inertia dynos are dyno jokes! Read more about this post

Riding the Big Hoss How Banks Gets More Horses from a Ford F-250 Power Stroke Read more about this post

Banks Goes Camping Camping World is a nationwide certified dealer and installer of Banks Power Systems. Read more about this post

Turbodiesel Tow Rigs To Go No wonder diesel light truck sales have nearly tripled in only 10 years! Well, that was then. Today’s turbodiesels are Read more about this post

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 Read more about this post

Mastering Teamwork at the Baja 1000 Banks Power teams up with Kent Kroeker and his KORE racing Dodge Ram. Read more about this post

Banks' Duramax BIG HOSS INSTALL The latest generation of General Motors Duramax turbodiesels, designated LLY, are taking the truck world by storm. Read more about this post

Truck & SUV Super Tuners Performance. It's Not Just for Cars. There are millions of truck and sport-utility-vehicle owners out there unwilling to sacrifice performance Read more about this post

Banks' Intercooler For Third Generation Trucks When Banks Engineering came out with an intercooler for the Third Generation trucks my first thought was, "Why?" Read more about this post

H.O 6.0 Banks Big Hoss Bundle for 6.0L Diesel Fords Read more about this post

The Engine of the Future: Here Now It's an exciting time to be involved in high performance diesel. It's an exciting time to be involved in high-performance Read more about this post

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 Read more about this post