Banks Still holds this 33yo World Record!

[@coreymacqueen4802]

I was a freshman in high school, and I remember seeing the pics of this truck and absolutely falling in love with it. So cooooool.

[@fryreartechnology7611]

That laptop!! Oh how far we have come.

[@bankspower]

Right!?! All the data and equipment that had a separate trailer and with massive antenna have be replaced by a single laptop, GPS module, and high tech ECM. 30 years of tech difference is amazing.

[@fryreartechnology7611]

@@bankspower y'all need to get it back out and hit something light like 300mph now. Flex on your old record, maybe use a new version. I know y'all can do it too!

[@bankspower]

We're going for the Pikes Peak next year. Also, not sure if you've seen it, our Trans Am did 283mph in 1987. Check it out 👉🏻 official.bankspower.com/project/custom-projects/banks-twin-turbo-gt-trans-am/

[@fryreartechnology7611]

@@bankspower that's amazing and 1987!!!? That's even crazier you was knocking on 300mph door.

[@icare7151]

The history of cutting edge performance the Banks way, decade after decade. The HTEB advantage: Horsepower. Torque. Efficiency. Banks!

[@bankspower]

Agreed.

[@icare7151]

@@bankspower fun marketing idea, introducing “THE B” factor THE Banks performance solution equation + T Torque + H Horsepower + E Efficiency = B Banks Want THE B? Got THE B. THE Banks Performance Solutions simply add up. “THE B” factor explained: Two type of people Those that got THE B Those that want THE B Go ahead get THE B Best, KP Colorado Springs, CO

[@crabappleracer]

1990 I was a freshman in high school, if a revisit to back up those numbers today is made it would be a video series to see. The GMC Canyon has a duramax 3.0 and to see gale bank’s version to hit salt flats to make a statement again would be a head turner😊😊😊😊

[@stewpiddewd]

i own a 1989 gmc s15 extended cab. to know my truck is even just the same body style as this truck is so cool!

[@jdcarguy1242]

Those flames are awesome. Very fitting!

[@bankspower]

They are! The livery is one of the best parts of the truck, it's definitely a 90's design.

[@bill2178]

We’ve been robbed we never got a 5.0 syclone

[@S10guyy]

The 5.0 was even twin intercooled, but naturally aspirated! The syclone was turbocharged!

[@donaldcovington9448]

I’ll always remember the 1977 GMC 1/2 ton short bed I had as my first truck .

[@OzarksWildman]

Man! They had that six cylinder thumping! 👍

[@depthsounderdave]

"For an assault on the salt", the dad jokes are on point!

[@PiDsPagePrototypes]

Thankfully it's not an EV, imagine them adding 'battery' to the marketing speak !

[@depthsounderdave]

@@PiDsPagePrototypes I could get all charged up about that.

[@Luckingsworth]

Thats wordplay. Not a "dad joke".

[@IceBergGeo]

@@PiDsPagePrototypes watch out you might start a reVolt.

[@PiDsPagePrototypes]

@@IceBergGeo 🤣

[@apollorobb]

I remember watching this when it happened

[@bankspower]

Nice

[@crusiethmaximuss]

Nice 😎🤙🏻 Always appreciate Banks content

[@notsofresh8563]

Today guys are hitting 200mph with a stock block in 1/4 mile........Oh my times change.

[@solder955]

Gale banks looking like Saul Goodman. Classic video.

[@ryanburbridge]

Love the 90s

[@Joelontugs]

You know your a savage when you set records in a truck with the aerodynamics of a brick lmao

[@CriticoolHit]

I miss when shifts sounded like that.

[@bankspower]

Yup, handmade shifts are always best.

[@navseal345]

That sound! 👌

[@hyper8545]

Bout time banks makes a hyper car

[@Grimm-Gaming]

Some 4 cylinder crazy tuned by banks in something like a lotus chassis

[@JayRussellDuramax]

@@Grimm-Gaming I want to see the world's first, diesel hypercar - with a Duramax in it! That would be epic!

[@J.R.in_WV]

The fact they were able to bore and stroke a GM 4.3 V6 to get an extra 700 cc’s displacement out of it, increase the C.R. To north of 14:1 and have it all hold together making 570hp at north of 7200 RPM is just a testament to how advanced Banks and GM performance were even back in the early days of electronic fuel injection. For those who don’t know the 4.3 was an inherently “shaky” engine, even the later vortec models with a balance shaft weren’t particularly smooth idlers and the early carbureted and TBI units even with a perfect tune-up would shake noticeably at idle. Needless to say this doesn’t make for an engine that’s particularly stable at high RPM’s even with the factory stroke length. I’m certain a LOT of time and energy went into balancing that rotating assembly and developing the strongest components possible to get the two 5.0 V6 race trucks (the other was a nearly identical ex-cab S-15 with a nearly identical engine however with different tuning and 5.13 gears out back to make it a more effective 1/4 mile drag truck) to run like they did and last while doing it.

[@RolandElliottFirstG]

They are not Trucks, we call them utes in Australia, trucks are a vehicle generally over 3 ton + and much larger than these little things.

[@PiDsPagePrototypes]

Nah, they're not Utes - utes are based solely off of a passenger car platform - Falcon, Valiant, Kingswood, Commodore. These are pickup trucks, the basis for these goes right back to the Ford Model A, which came in Passenger car and Light Truck variants, the latter evolving in to larger delivery trucks and eventually pick-ups. These are based off a larger full chassis design. Ute's can do, up to 500kilos in the bed. Pickups are in the 500kilo to 3500kilo load in the bed range, and small Trucks are 4 metric tons and above. We didn't get Pickups imported by the manufacturer here 'till recently, with the exception being locally assembled F100's from Ford.

[@silkyjohnson5976]

Yeah dude that's definitely a truck😂 you might be thinking of an El camino. There is no weight requirement to be a truck by the way

[@PiDsPagePrototypes]

@@silkyjohnson5976 Automotive history, and the weight requirement - initially (and I'm talking 1890's here) a "Light Car" was anything under 10 tons, and a 'Truck' or 'Traction Engine' was over that - which is what led to the naming of the "Light Car Club" in the UK during the same period. The very first 'Road Trains' were Traction Engines pulling several carriages, each the size of a small bus. Here in Oz, you need a "Truck License" for anything over about 6 tons GVM now. You're right on the El Camino, it's a Ute, because it was based off a passenger car platform, same as the four I mentioned before. Subaru Brumby falls in to the same class, but a Chevy LUV doesn't, even though it's a Mazda, they were made as small commercial vehicles.

[@Luckingsworth]

@PiDsMedia Frankly unless its from the USA or Germany your conventions dont matter. We made the first true cars. We get to decide what to call them.

[@silkyjohnson5976]

Holy shit, I guess American auto makers have been falsely advertising trucks this entire time😂 We need you in Detroit immediately to spread the word🤣🤣🤣

[@bigdog2618]

What transmission(4L60?) and mods to it were you running.. And cool that only 549hp would run 210mph.But your 1800 hp firebird would only run about 287mph...Must be aerodynamics limitations..

[@cobra7250]

I am wondering how you can say you have the fastest truck at 200 miles an hour. I saw I just saw a truck run 262 mph. ????

[@icecold4874]

I wanna see the new production of supercharge duramax engine lineup with hp and tq specs

[@bankspower]

You can find more info here: official.bankspower.com/engines/

[@cobra7250]

In reference to the worlds fastest truck, Jesel Valve trains truck holds 11 records with a top speed of 262.

[@poot111111]

1:47 who is that young faced boy? LOL

[@ryanburbridge]

Who is it?

[@poot111111]

@@ryanburbridge It's the man, the myth, the legend himself: Gale Banks

[@ryanburbridge]

@@poot111111 try 1:48 lol

[@mrt.5689]

@@poot111111 You obviously cant read🤣

[@GosuVu]

Mint.

[@bryanrussell6679]

I've nearly always thought that GMC made a better looking truck than Chevrolet, especially the last 20 years.

[@claytonmachine12]

.............The difference is literally just the grill......

[@bryanrussell6679]

@@claytonmachine12 The grill used to be the main difference. But that's basically the face of a truck. GMCs generally look better, just like I said.

[@bigredracer7848]

112👍's up thanks for sharing

[@establisha]

So old it really doesn't matter anymore

[@coreymacqueen4802]

History ALWAYS matters.

[@gorgoths_ethos]

The hair ;)

[@chevyfan82]

Sweet👍

[@cobra7250]

I forgot to mention it was a Jesel truck which holds nine world records.

[@patrickjohnson7801]

A little bird told me that jesel next week has a little something to with another record that's about to happen.

[@151skateboards8]

That's my Dad driving

[@jwjr2197]

Does the cyclone still exist ?? Where can such technology be seen like that laptop lookin thingy 😂😂

[@coreymacqueen4802]

the Smithsonian.

[@TheHARMON301]

In my garage 😆

[@locky264]

Times have changed a stock pickup with the speedlimiter removed will easily do 200 now.

[@2mo2time]

Too bad gm been going down hill with their engines blowing up with Less than 25k miles

[@grantmackinnon1307]

Man this is awesome. Banks Power 🇺🇸 is the best. But ford is the truck, not gmc, brick nose f series, and rangers are the best trucks from that era.

[@bankspower]

To clarify, are you saying the sidewinder is a Ford?

[@grantmackinnon1307]

3:55 into the video, from that period of time (1988-1993)I think the Ford trucks are debatably better than what GM made. @@bankspower

[@grantmackinnon1307]

​@@bankspowerthe sidewinder is this GMC Sonoma with the 4.3 GM V6. How was the engine built to 5 litres of displacement, be interesting to learn a little more on the details

[@danielb-c9100]

Question Does galbank still own the 2005 Is Ford Chevy and Dodge Is side Winder all terrain

[@FxsX24]

First! Couldn't click fast enough

[@mattsprayberry0]

No GMC is a pickup not a truck

[@ryanburbridge]

Ha ha ha it’s a Ute

[@randybrechbiel9748]

A truck is a 1ton or bigger with a flatbed

[@PiDsPagePrototypes]

@@ryanburbridge Not a Ute - a Ute is built on the same platform as a Passenger car, these are small pickups built on a commercial vehicle platform.

[@ColeSpolaric]

I love how it had to be pushed to get it going because the gearing was really limited back then.

[@TheAmericanUhate]

That's normal on most all land speed record vehicles, still the same today.