The diesel performance gurus at Gale Banks Engineering are getting on the teaser bandwagon with this tail-shot of their new 200 MPH diesel dragster. Using a Duramax 6.6-liter mill not unlike Banks' ...

Gale Banks knows a thing or two about power. And to say he’s had a profound effect on the U.S. auto industry would be an understatement. His Azusa-based company, Gale Banks Engineering, is known for ...

Azusa, Calif. – – On Saturday March 6th 2010, the Banks Power team and their track-shredding Banks Sidewinder Top Diesel Dragster will head to Wittmann, AZ. for the Speedworld Dragstrip for NHRDA’s ...

At a recent Southern California event highlighting the benefits and strengths of the new 6.6-liter Duramax V-8 turbodiesel, we spent some time with Gale Banks of Banks Engineering. For those who know ...

For most hot rodders, diesel performance usually means giving a truck more pulling power to get over a hill with a car trailer in tow. But a diesel engine on the race track? We're talking sled pulls, ...

View post: Is This the End for Diesel? Toyota Says the Clock Is Ticking What makes the series fascinating is Banks’ knowledge, paired with the company’s comprehensive iDash engine monitoring system ...

Proving the high-performance diesel drag racing doesn't require crude machines belching black smoke, the high-tech Banks Sidewinder Type-D drag truck has set a new world-record for fastest and ...

Back in the late ’70s, Pontiac asked me to do a turbo package for its Sunbird. That car had a four-cylinder, transverse-mounted engine in it. It was kind of an econo car. They wanted to do a Sport ...

Hoonigan is responsible for some fairly epic videos and recently embarked on a project to build a Chevrolet Camaro with a Duramax diesel engine that can hit 200 mph (320 km/h). According to Gale Banks ...

You won’t find many more experienced engine builders than Gale Banks. He started hot-rodding over half-a-century ago and as time continued, he built perhaps the most respected reputation of anyone in ...

When most of us think of Gale Banks, we think of diesel engines, big honkin' trucks and tuning boxes that make pickups perform like slingshot dragsters. What you might not know is that Banks and the U ...

As a 72-year-old hot rodder who grew up in Los Angeles during the adolescence of our industry, one might expect Gale Banks to be a man of old war stories and faded time slips; a guy with a garage ...