Competition Gale Banks Engineering Runs Fastest Quarter Mile Pass in NHRDA History

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Gale Banks Engineering Runs Fastest Quarter Mile Pass in NHRDA History

Speedworld Dragstrip Whitman AZ:
1st run 7. 87 ET at 175. 45 MPH
2nd run 7. 90 ET at 174. 40 MPH​

October 4th 2008 during the NHRDA Desert Diesel Truck Nationals in Phoenix Arizona , Gale Banks Engineering ran the fastest pass in the history of the NHRDA and backed it up within 1% .


Driver Wes Anderson
Vehicle 2001 Pro Stock Chevy S-10
Chassis Don Ness tube chassis
Motor Chevy 6. 6 Duramax ( estimated HP 1300 at 5500 RPM )
Turbo Twin Garret TR30R Turbos run in parallel
transmission Bruno BRT converter drive , Hughes converter , Liberty extreme clutchless 5 speed
Rearend Don Ness fabricated housing, Mark Williams's axles and third member

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Again the NHRDA wants to congratulate the Banks team on a great weekend of diesel drag racing.

 

[NHRDA]

We have an issue on the video, we are correcting it and it should work tomorrow.

 

[JDiepstra]

That's cool but we're still not buying his stuff.

 

[GCroyle]

Looks like there is a video camera on the passenger side glass, is that the video we would see?



I haven't seen a drag for a while, but that picture shows a lot of the forces applied to the slicks, look close at the sidewall.

 

[2broke2smoke]

That's cool but we're still not buying his stuff.

yup ...



and i thought slicks wrinkled off the line ... and then got taller at speeds that cause the backround to blur

 

[GCroyle]

Maybe we have a photography expert here at TDR that could comment, but it looks like a very narrow depth of field picture that would blur the background and show up as out of focus.



This is something that is pretty finite with motorsports and racing, ET's and MPH, style points don't count it ain't figure skating.

 

[Forrest Nearing]

it's also something that can be done in photo editing with any subject to try to get it to stand out better.



I'll still never buy anything from Banks, but that doesn't take anything away from their accomplishments!

 

[MStrain]

Impressive, I don't know why everyone knocks Banks, I have the Six Gun with speedloader and it is great. Good quality products and good customer service.

 

[2broke2smoke]

i knock his products because when i called his company with questions about performance products for my '01 the salesman stated "we developed them with dodge and banks products don't void your factory warranty "



and i don't know how many times i've been at a dyno run listening to an individual who spent more money for banks products only to find they don't deliver as promised ...



banks has the best MARKETING ...



and some of the worst performance per dollar ...

 

[ThrottleJockey]

Go post Gale's little Duramax toy on the GM site. This is a site for diesel TRUCKS.



Tube chassis, 20 gallons of cetane boost and a bottle of NOS per pass. It should go faster than that. Maybe the one gallon of ULSD thrown in to keep it classified as a diesel slowed it down.

 

[Forrest Nearing]

Go post Gale's little Duramax toy on the GM site. This is a site for diesel TRUCKS.



Tube chassis, 20 gallons of cetane boost and a bottle of NOS per pass. It should go faster than that. Maybe the one gallon of ULSD thrown in to keep it classified as a diesel slowed it down.

actually, it's a site for dodge diesels, but this is posted in "other topics" in the "competition forum"



I'm sorry you can't afford to compete... I can't either. But I can certainly appreciate any DIESEL that makes awesome power. And yes, you could run it on pure cetane boost, peanut oil, etc. As you're well aware, the name Diesel doesn't refer to a type of fuel... it refers to a type of engine... invented by a man that originally tried to use coal oil and wound up using peanut oil.



it is a truck, and I'm sure you also realize that engines don't consume NOS to make power.

 

[ThrottleJockey]

Actually, my comment was directed at Gale Banks Engineering, not at Forrest Nearing. I don't know you. I didn't say anything to you, nor did I direct ANY comments toward you. I would'nt know you if I bumped into you walking down the street.



You got a bunch of Bank's junk on your ride, that's great. But don't blame me, I didn't bolt that crap onto your truck.



And what does my drag racing budget have to do with anything?

 

[Dieselnut59]

I am much more impressed with the Scheid Diesel rail dragster that runs on pure DIESEL fuel, without all the NOS garbage. And it is just a little 6 cylinder!

 

[Forrest Nearing]

Actually, my comment was directed at Gale Banks Engineering, not at Forrest Nearing. I don't know you. I didn't say anything to you, nor did I direct ANY comments toward you. I would'nt know you if I bumped into you walking down the street.



You got a bunch of Bank's junk on your ride, that's great. But don't blame me, I didn't bolt that crap onto your truck.



And what does my drag racing budget have to do with anything?

nope, I don't have any Banks stuff... nor will I ever. I was just picking apart your comments. It's a truck. It's a diesel. You said this site is for diesel trucks...



you also said something about octane booster and burning NOS



news flash, Banks isn't the only company out there running synthetic diesel. Heck, when Alex Laughlin went off the end of the track, they attibuted it to not running enough additive in the fuel

 

[ThrottleJockey]

nope, I don't have any Banks stuff... nor will I ever. I was just picking apart your comments. It's a truck. It's a diesel. You said this site is for diesel trucks...



you also said something about octane booster and burning NOS



news flash, Banks isn't the only company out there running synthetic diesel. Heck, when Alex Laughlin went off the end of the track, they attibuted it to not running enough additive in the fuel

Actually, if you would re read my comments, I said CETANE boost and the term 'burning NOS' was initiated by you, not me. See, Forrest, OCTANE booster is generally used in the combustion of gasoline, not diesel. My comments were meant as a joke, playing the dozens with GBE. Not to be taken as fact. We ALL know no one knows what fuel formulation Gale chooses to run in his rig, nor do we care. My future post will all be predicated with a disclaimer.



And the only thing 'truck' on the tube framed Banks rig is the DuraMax block.

 

[Forrest Nearing]

lol, you got me on the cetane thing



you said they went through a bottle of NOS per pass... there isn't a vehicle on earth that consumes a bottle of NOS per pass!!!

 

[ThrottleJockey]

Forrest, give me the definition of exaggeration.....



It was a joke.



You said that thing was a truck. It neither tows nor hauls anything. At least Scott's BBD has a hitch on it.



Okay, okay. It hauls @$$! It's a truck.

 

[Forrest Nearing]

well... NOS is a manufacturer of nitrous oxide delivery systems... bottling a corporation must be a bit like catching lightning in a jar



there ARE vehicles that'll consume 10lbs of nitrous oxide in a pass, but there isn't a vehicle on earth that's injecting NOS in their engine!

 

[silverram03]

Say what you will but that truck sounds pretty damn mean.

 

[Vaughn MacKenzie]

Sounds dang awesome. Hats off to Banks.