Banks Projects

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    Banks Sidewinder S-10 Duramax

    Banks’ stunning 1200+ hp/1200+ lb-ft Twin-Turbo S-10 drag race pickup truck not only runs consistent 1/4-miles in the 7-sec. range, it does it without the black smoke!

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    Sidewinder Top Dragster

    Long, sleek, and blindingly quick, today’s high-horsepower, rear-motored dragsters are the ultimate racing vehicles.  They’re designed, and driven to do only one thing: streak down a quarter mile dragstrip as fast as possible in the very least amount of time.  Aerodynamically, these dart-shaped machines simply slice through the air like arrows. Watch the videos!

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    Turbocharging Jay Leno's Tank Car

    Banks nearly doubled the HP & torque output with Banks Twin-Turbo and Bosch fuel injection.

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    Banks Sidewinder GMC Sierra

    The World's First Roadracing Diesel Truck is out of the Race Shop and on the track.

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    Sidewinder Dakota

    This is the truck that shattered existing speed records – and people's perception of diesel performance.

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  • Recent Magazines
  • » Truck Trend — January /February 2009
    “The World's Quickest Diesel Pickup Breaks New Ground”
  • » Pasadena Star-News — December 4, 2008
    “Museum exhibit a tribute to Banks' long career”
  • » Pasadena Star-News — December 4, 2008
    “NHRA exhibit chronicles 50 years of Azusa's Gale Banks Engineering”
  • » Los Angeles Times — September 22, 2008
    “Gale Banks Engineering pushes to make vehicles more powerful, fuel efficient”
  • » 8-Lug — June 2008
    “Rampage Jackson's '08 Ford”