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Gale Banks Engineering and its four divisions, Banks Power, Banks Technology, Banks Marine, and Banks Racing, are companies created by Southern California hot rodder and automobile engineer Gale Banks. These companies design, engineer, and build high performance parts for the automobile and marine aftermarket and military customers. Located in Azusa, California, the company develops technology and components for both gasoline and diesel-powered vehicles, but is best known for advancing development of the turbocharger and ultra high performance diesel engines for racing and street purposes.

Banks-powered race vehicles have won numerous marine racing events and championships, and have set many speed records. These include 'World’s Fastest Passenger Car' and 'World’s Fastest Diesel Truck'. The Banks Sidewinder S-10, built from the ground up at Gale Banks Engineering, produces 1250 horsepower and is the 'world's fastest and quickest diesel drag truck' with a 7.72 second elapsed time and 179+ mph top speed in the quarter mile. These records have been certified by official motor racing sanctioning organizations, including the FIA and NHRA, and are detailed in the History below.

Banks Power products include ECM-tuning devices, and intake and exhaust airflow systems for diesel-powered pickup trucks and recreational vehicles. Diesel Performance, Trailer Life, and other magazines have reported that these Banks Power products deliver significantly improved horsepower and torque measurements while yielding an up to 10% improvement in fuel mileage.

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History[edit]

1958: Gale Banks begins his career as a hot rodder by modifying the engine in his mother's car. He founds 'C.P's Auto & Marine Racing Engines' as a way to fund his college expenses at Cal Poly, Pomona.

1966: Banks modifies a 1953 Studebaker and drives it to class records at El Mirage Dry Lake and the Bonneville Salt Flats with a top speed of 184.52 mph, as certified by the Southern California Timing Association.^[1]

1970: First Banks-branded turbo marine racing engine is built. Gale Banks Engineering and Banks Power engines win the American Power Boat Association (APBA) & NJBA (National Jet Boat Association) Jet Class national championship.

1974: The Banks/Brunette tunnel boat powered by a 398 cubic inch engine developed by Gale Banks Engineering and Banks Power wins the first of five consecutive APBA Endurance Tunnel Hull national championships.

1976: The 'Crucifier', a race boat powered by a Banks fuel-injected nitro HEMI wins every event it enters, including the NDBA (National Drag Boat Association) and APBA nationals.

1978: Gale Banks Engineering is contracted by N.I.S.T.A. in the Department of Transportation to develop the power train for its Large Research Safety Vehicle (L.S.R.V.) program. When finished, it met proposed 1985 fuel and emission standards. This year also saw Banks develop the world’s first electronically injected oxygen-sensing turbocharged engine for Volvo.

1980: The U.S. Navy Seals contract Banks to develop an experimental twin-turbo marine engine that produces 535-hp and runs on 84-octane 'Battle Gas'.

1981: Banks creates the high performance diesel aftermarket with his first turbocharger system developed for the 6.2 litre GM diesel. Also that year, a Banks-powered 450-hp twin-turbo Buick V-6 becomes the prototype for the Buick Grand National production car.

1982: The “Sundowner” Corvette, powered by a Banks twin-turbo big block, becomes the 'World's Fastest Passenger Car' at 240 mph, taking the record away from the 'Hanky Panky' Studebaker, which also used a Banks-developed twin-turbo power plant. This year also saw the Banks twin-turbo powered S-1 Express take an APBA world championship.

1984: A street-legal Pontiac Trans Am with 700-hp and a Banks turbo breaks the 200 mph barrier and becomes a cover story for Car & Driver magazine.

1987: A Banks Power twin-turbo, 1800-hp Pontiac GTA sets a new 'World's Fastest Passenger Car' speed record at Bonneville Salt Flats at 277 mph as certified by the Southern California Timing Association. This record stood for the next ten years.

1988: Banks turbocharger systems become a GM dealer-specified option.

1992: A Banks Power-developed twin air intake and intercooler system results in a claimed 80-hp improvement on the factory-turbocharged Dodge Cummins engine.

1993: The Banks 'Sidewinder' aftermarket turbocharger is introduced. Tests show that turbo-lag times decrease and throttle response improves when compared with factory turbochargers.

1994: Banks begins offering intercoolers to improve the performance of the Ford Power Stroke diesel. At this time, the Ford factory was not using intercoolers on their diesel-powered pickup trucks.

2002: A street-legal Dodge Dakota pick up truck (the Banks Sidewinder) built in the Banks Power shop with a 735-hp, 1300 lb-ft, 5.9 litre Cummins hauls its own trailer to Bonneville and sets the FIA record for 'World's Fastest Pickup Truck' with a two-way average of 217 mph and one-way top speed of 222 mph.

2007: The Wes Anderson-driven Banks 'Sidewinder' S-10 with a 1250-hp, 6.6 litre Banks Power/Duramax engine becomes the 'World's Quickest and Fastest Diesel Drag Truck' with a 7.72 second elapsed time and a top speed of 179+ mph in the quarter-mile, as recorded by the National Hot Rod Diesel Association.[1].

2009: Gale Banks receives a Distinguished Service Citation from the Automotive Hall of Fame.

2010: On March 6, 2010 the Banks crew tested out the Top Diesel Dragster's new 'Stroker' 427 cu. in., twin-turbo 7.0L Duramax engine at the NHRDA Nationals in Wittmann, Arizona. The Banks Sidewinder S-10 runs at NHRDA in Topeka, Kansas winning top diesel class with 7.77et @ 178 mph.

2011: Gale Banks builds world's first supercharged Top Diesel Dragster. Gale Banks teams up with Paul Dallenbach to race the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb.

2012: Banks and Dallenbach race at Pikes Peak.

2013: Banks and racer/stunt driver Mike Ryan team up to race at Pikes Peak in a Freightliner Cascadia.

References[edit]

• Car and Driver magazine, June, 1984 cover story
• Autoweek magazine, September 21, 1987 cover story
• Popular Mechanics magazine, November, 2002 story
• Truck Trend magazine, July, 2003 cover story titled The World's Fastest Pickup and it's a Diesel
• Sport Truck magazine, May, 2003 story titled Flat Out on the Salt Flats
• Diesel Power magazine, February, 2008 story titled Fastest Duramax On Earth

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'On station somewhere near the three-mile marker you see it long before you hear it. Racing across the pure white horizon, a small red dot speeds crazily toward you, pursued by a pearlescent plume of salt spray. Then, like distant thunder announcing a storm, the primal scream of a turbocharged big-block engine beings to build, brief interruptions signaling the gear changes before it settles into a deep, steadily increasing roar. Turbocharged cars don’t make a lot of noise, but this one delivers an unmistakable vibration through the air. Something awesome is about to happen.

The Bonneville salt flats are about as close as most of us will ever come to standing on another planet. An overwhelming sense of isolation slowly gives way to profound admiration for the pure, majestic beauty of the salt, and the geological forces that caused it. They say it’s the only place on earth where you can actually see the curvature of the earth, and it’s damn sure the only place you’ll see a Pontiac Trans Am rip by you at speeds almost beyond comprehension. The speed limit sign at Bonneville says 1000 mph, and so far there’s never been a single speeding citation handed out. But that doesn’t mean the impossible can’t happen.

The red blur is really moving now, and there’s no mistaking the sleek aerodynamic profile of a 1988 Pontiac Trans Am GTA emerging from one horizon and disappearing over the other one in well under a minute. At nearly 12 seconds per mile, it is unquestionably the world’s fastest street machine. As driver Don Stringfellow climbs out of the car four miles farther down the course, the official speed report confirms a 277-mph average through the third measured mile. The car’s onboard inertial dynamometer indicates an excess of 1600 horsepower being produced as the car exited the final mile at more than 283 mph. Something awesome has just happened!

A Pontiac Firebird has just established an official new land speed record of 268.033 mph for production-based cars. If this were easy, Gale Banks Engineering of Asuza, CA wouldn’t be the only team trying to do it. With sponsorship and technical support from Pontiac Motor Division, the team of Banks, Stringfellow, and Geisler have their sights set on 300 mph in a production-based vehicle, a formidable goal that even experienced Bonneville veterans don’t think is possible. The degree of difficulty is proportionately high, something on the order of a NASA space shot. Every detail has to be absolutely perfect. Last year when Banks obliterated the AA/Gas Coupe record by more than 60 mph, they didn’t think the car’s NASCAR oval track tires would hold up or provide the handling and stability necessary to carry that kind of speed down the salt. Veteran driver Don Stringfellow quickly proved them wrong, pronouncing the Banks Trans Am the most stable, easy-to-drive Bonneville car he has driven.

Yet skepticism remains. While the unprecedented performance established in 1986 put much of it to rest, it’s still a lofty goal, but the kind of staggering technical challenge that Banks thrives on. Ask Banks to launch a Trans Am to the moon, and he’s likely to ask whether you’d like smoking or non-smoking with a window or an aisle.

The rules are rigidly structured, and Banks’ car reflects them perfectly. This is no aerodynamic perfect bullet groomed in a wind tunnel; it’s an unmodified production body running at near-production ride height with the stock factory aero package. Banks horsepower boosts it into the stratosphere of speed and Pontiac’s incredibly aerodynamic production styling provides its astonishing high-speed stability. Of all the cars originally considered for the project, the Pontiac Trans Am GTA rated the highest chance of success based on its aerodynamics alone. The Trans Am is as stable at 280 mph as it is at 60 mph, and t hat represents a major miracle of modern automotive design – the near-perfect shape.

Banks uses a proven 454-cubic-inch version of his awesome twin-turbocharged GM marine big-blocks to make the Trans Am go ballistic. Boosted to 25 pounds for the current record run, it will pack nearly 38 pounds of boost on the 300-mph attempt. Key elements of this essential powerplant are the twin Garrett turbochargers, Banks-fabricated high-flow intercoolers, and Pontiac Motorsports high-port/high-flow aluminum big-block racing cylinder heads. Gale says the engine is good for about 2200 horsepower in full afterburner, but he’s rather modest about the turbocharging expertise that makes this possible.

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A third key factor in the car’s phenomenal success is the immaculately prepared Lamb Components chassis. Highly regarded chassis and brake designer Roger Lamb built the chassis and suspension with absolute precision. It’s got brakes equal to the task of stopping a 300-mph freight train, and the modified Lamb strut and 4-link suspension offer all the feel and control a driver would want. Lamb also aided in the initial placement and mounting of the DNE (Doug Nash Engineering) 5-speed transmission and Long overdrive to minimize driveline drag and ensure essential balance and component integrity at unheard of drivetrain speeds.

Backing up this mechanical alliance of high-speed componentry is veteran Bonneville pilot Don Stringfellow, long-standing member of the elite 200-mph club and the current record holder in the AA/GC class. Stringfellow and Banks have a special relationship. He trusts Gale Banks implicitly and Banks values Stringfellow’s safety above all else. Their approach to 300 mph is professional, methodical, and precise. Banks won’t pull the trigger if the bullet’s not safe, and while he frets incessantly about final details before a run, Stringfellow, the 'Iceman', has nodded off behind the wheel, trying to catch a few winks before driving the Banks street machine faster than any man alive.

The Banks Trans Am is indeed a street machine in every sense of the word. It has good idle quality, good drivability, good looks, and it really hauls. It also has full carpeting and upholstery, factory bucket seats, full stereo sound system, and power windows. As true hot rodders and street machiners, we thrive on excess. We love things that really kick tail, and with Sammy Hagar screaming 'I Can’t Drive 55' on the stereo, Stringfellow, Banks, and Pontiac are kicking tail and taking names in the world’s fastest street machine.'

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