Competition Look out, here comes Banks!

[KBennett]

Did anybody see the diesel article about the Duramax in Hot Rod magazine this month? I am not here to promote Banks products but I thought it was an interesting article. A lot of talk about making it run like a gasser, lightening the crank, and it has a custom oil pan with a 7-stage oil pump. It almost sounded like Comp461's motor.



They have finished the Type R Dmax and you can see videos here:

Banks Type R

Maybe it's just me but the truck does not look that fast in the videos and according to the article they have already "damaged" the 9-inch rearend in initial testing.



There was also a short blurb about him building a "Type D" drag racer that will rev to 7000 RPM. Comp, are you going to be calling out Banks next?

 

[HPetrat]

Just wondering...

Is this the same motor they were installing on the "Urban Gorilla" project on that "Extreme 4X4" show I saw a while back?



Curious...



HP

 

[mattymac]

Just wondering...

Is this the same motor they were installing on the "Urban Gorilla" project on that "Extreme 4X4" show I saw a while back?



Curious...



HP

Yea, but apparently the "Type R" has alot more gasser racing mods.



I think the outsides are basically the same (twins, fueling, intake, exh,)but the internals arent, (crank, pistons, cam, rods... )

 

[LPreston]

You think the "Type R" on that truck upsets the ricers?

 

[TGibbs]

Is this a true twin setup though or is it isolated with one turbo for each four cylinders? Wasnt that how the extreme 4x4 one was setup?



Tristan

 

[Amish Elegance]

"WTH man, that aint no Honda. WTH he got a "type R" sticker for? I should smoke him with my "tater piped" Civic!" - Stupid Ricer





Its got separate turbos for each bank. I think thats what gives it that gasser sound.

 

[mattymac]

I dont know if they were compound or not. I dont think they were, I think they were running a turbo for each bank. I liked when they dynoed the motor at the crank and it was 680 or something. A bunch of my chebbie buddies all excited about a 700HP duramax. I hated to tell them that there are some companies getting close to that at the tires with one chip and some nitrous. TTS extreme and some laughing gas with all the supporting hardware is easily over 600 to the tires. Also whats that motor cost? I thought it was around 7k for the kit itself? You could build a way better setup for the cost of thier kit.

 

[Timbeaux38]

I liked when they dynoed the motor at the crank and it was 680 or something.

Wow... only 448 more and they will have as much HP as COMP LOL

 

[COMP461]

I saw the motor in question not long ago in person; it is a twin turbo, not a compound turbo, which is the correct tern for what diesel people call twins. The neat part about these motor, is the fact that they are designed to run in a 24 hour endurance race, and the 600 + number was at full load and over 4000 rpms for over an hour. The person that built that motor just left my house this morning. He now has some DuraMax motors for boats that really rock. Big numbers and holds those number for hours at a time. The turbo’s are from Industrial Injection along with the pumps and injectors. These motors do not even hint of smoke at close to 800 hp FW.

 

[bgilbert]

Did anybody see the diesel article about the Duramax in Hot Rod magazine this month? I am not here to promote Banks products but I thought it was an interesting article. A lot of talk about making it run like a gasser, lightening the crank, and it has a custom oil pan with a 7-stage oil pump. It almost sounded like Comp461's motor.



They have finished the Type R Dmax and you can see videos here:

Banks Type R

Maybe it's just me but the truck does not look that fast in the videos and according to the article they have already "damaged" the 9-inch rearend in initial testing.



There was also a short blurb about him building a "Type D" drag racer that will rev to 7000 RPM. Comp, are you going to be calling out Banks next?

Who cares??? :-laf

 

[KingS]

sorry thought I was on a Dodge site guess I was wong. lol just kidding



so who's going to be first to put it in thier dodge or buy a chevy to get it.









Sorry guys just felt like being a smart *** today nothing wrong with duramax except cummin is better.



where did you see this again I would like to check it out. gotta watch what the competition is doing.

 

[Cummnzpowr]

twins

COMP:Twin means "identical" so basically you're saying all correctly named "twin-turbo'd" trucks have 2 identical size turbos in there? If technicalities prevailed, i'd say the proper term would be called "Bi-Turbo". When you have "twin" children, you don't have a giant and a midget. . usually they are the same size.

 

[Dl5treez]

When you have "twin" children, you don't have a giant and a midget. . usually they are the same size.

You've obviously never watched "Little People, Big World" on TLC... :-laf

 

[Sled Puller]

I guess I used to run fraternal, compounded twins. :-laf

 

[MSalvatore]

wouldn't it make them divorced bi-turbo's?

 

[JR2]

I don't care who you are or what kind of Diesel you drive that is really cool. That truck is going faster than you think and sounds good. I may not like Bank's parts but I have to applaud his efforts to spread diesel in motorsports.

 

[MMeier]

When you have "twin" children, you don't have a giant and a midget.

In certain parts of the country, that could very well be a true statement !

 

[Turbo Thom]

Greg", what is, how is, the "correct" term determinded for a pair of turbo's. Who set the standard we should adhear to. I thought , compound turbo's and twins were the same. I guess I'll never get right. Those damn Alabama goverment schools, 50 years ago. . Now I gotta start all over again.



. . Preston. .

 

[Cummnzpowr]

...

A "series" is what you call something that feeds something else. . IE:turbos. . OR. . A series of B. S. from COMP!! :-laf

 

[KBennett]

Here is the "Type-R" beating up on some little stuff

http://bankspower.com/DmaxTypeR-pages/movies/TypeR-Btnwillow1.wmv