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Gale Banks: No Fear in Business

Gale Banks of Gale Banks Engineering has 50 years of experience in the field of automotive engineering. He has designed numerous award-winning engines, and has been instrumental in creating formative technologies used by major automotive manufacturers. Banks expresses the importance of standing by great ideas in the face of adversity...

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Videos 2008-03-08

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Speed demon puts pedal to metal on alternative fuel

Gale Banks always had the need for speed. Whether hurtling 200 mph across the Bonneville Salt Flats in a test car or starting for Team Donahue 2005 in the Baja 1000, improving engine performance is always high on the agenda of the president and founder of Gale Banks Engineering in...

Articles 2007-04-23

Tow truck power.(Gotta Have It)

Squeeze every last ounce of power--and fuel--out of your diesel truck with the new Banks PowerPDA ($370) from Gale Banks Engineering (800/601-8072; bankspower.com). The PowerPDA software turns any normal Palm PDA into a powerful command center for your vehicle. When connected to the Banks OttoMind6 tuner,...

Articles 2007-01-01

Banks introduces Ram-Air intake system.(PERFORMANCE PRODUCTS: New Product Showcase)

Gale Banks Engineering Ram-Air intake system is available for 6.6L Duramax LLY and LB7 trucks; 5.9L Cummins; and 6.0L Power Stroke versions will soon follow. * System adds up to +39 hp and +69 pound-feet at the rear wheels, when combined with...

Articles 2006-04-01

DOI Secretary Gale Norton, President of Travel Industry Assn. of America Roger Dow to Present Conclusions from National Report at NPC Oct. 6

News Advisory: NPC Morning Newsmaker Program WHAT: National Press Club "Newsmaker" News Conference WHEN: Thursday, Oct. 6, 10 a.m. WHERE: Zenger Room, National Press Club DETAILS: U.S. Secretary of the Interior Gale Norton and the president ofthe Travel Industry Association of America, Roger Dow,...

Articles 2005-09-15

Fuel for thought: the future of automotive propulsion may already be here, waiting at your local truck stop.(diesel engines)

If you happen to have been in a cave for the past 20 years or so and haven't seen a computer since 1983, you would be shocked at what the modern PC is like. Guess what? Same for diesel engines. I haven't been out of society for...

Articles 2005-09-01

High capacity torque converter

Gale Banks Engineering has developed an aftermarket torque converter for heavy-duty pickup trucks. The Banks Billet Torque Converter BBTC is designed for 1994 to 2003 7.3 L Power Stroke engines with E4OD/4RIO0 transmissions and for 1998 to 2005 5.9 L Cummins diesels with 47RE/48RE transmissions. With its dual-disc lockup clutch...

Articles 2005-08-01

Didja Know?

Jeff Arend, driver of the CMKXtreme Machine Funny Car, worked for five years as the operations manager at Frank Hawlev's NHRA Drag Racing School. Arend also worked at Gale Banks Engineering, which manufactures aftermarket gas and diesel performance products for pickups, sport utilities, and motorhomes, prior to his return to...

Articles 2005-03-04

Diesel pickup sets land-speed record. (Industry News).(Brief Article)

In October, Gale Banks Engineering proved its street-legal, Cummins-powered Dodge Dakota is the world's fastest pickup by running more than 213 miles per hour at Bonneville. The 700-horsepower truck, named Project Sidewinder, pulled a trailer full of spare parts onto the Salt...

Articles 2002-11-01

THE INVESTMENT COLUMN; A nailbiting time for beleaguered FKI

FKI IS walking a tightrope in an economic gale, and while the engineering group's management is pretty confident it isn't going to fall off, the City is fearing a horrible accident. FKI is burdened with pounds 500m of debt, more than its market value and a...

Articles 2002-10-24

Diesel land speed record goal of Project Sidewinder - Industry News

210+ mph in Dodge Dakota ... illustrating diesel as a performance engine ... 600 hp out of 5.9 L A new high profile engine and vehicle development program its sights set on a new diesel land speed record at Bonneville Speed Week this August, as well as the...

Articles 2002-08-01

Full circle

LONDON-What do the Ferris wheel and ASEE have in common? The 1893 Chicago World's Fair. ASEE was formed at that exposition, which was billed as a peek at the new century. And the highlight of that fair was the world's first Ferris wheel, a 250-foot marvel built by George Washington...

Articles 1999-11-01