Very kind of you to say.

Couldn’t agree more. Perfect balance of tutorial, marketing etc. So much weak sauce on the internet and people missing the opportunity to speak to their market. This is an amazing example of catering to enthusiasts and the actual market. The work in the production and data presentation was very good on earlier videos. This is next level. I’m into turbocharged gasoline engine tuning yet this is still captivating. Banks would be a hell of a university/college lecturer if he isn’t already.

Tutorial don’t get any better from the premier engineer Gale Banks 👍👌

Gale Banks =Diesel king Would love to be able to meet the guy one day.

@@bankspower one question - I seems the valve spring rotation is something bad?

Sonny's stuff is insane

I wish I would have paid attention when me and Grandpa built our first Banks diesel. now my grandpa is done passed away and the 2001 dually Duramax is gone. Mr Banks is still here, give me hope, and the tools to provide high horsepower into the future. I know I don't have to have smoke, I know that every horsepower that I make is clean, I make pure horsepower on a perfect air to fuel ratio that Mr Banks taught all of us what's the only way to make true horsepower clean, smoke is horsepower left at the starting line. Thank you Mr Banks for bringing me and my grandpa a little closer together. He may have passed, but his memory ask philosophy is still here. I wasn't very amazing but it was the first time I ever seen a diesel burn the tires off. And it was a 2001 Chevrolet 1 ton dually with Duramax with all the banks at Bolton's he could get.. me and Grandpa Bill both did everything up in the garage or the pole barn.

I dont even think the manufacturer tests as strictly or as in depth ad gale does considering her has a contract with the US military building thousands of duramax engines for their oshkosh trucks. If the manufacturer tested as well as gale does we wouldnt have so many shitty vehicles lol. Gale is the godfather of horsepower

Me to brother! I'm a vw Honda nut and mechanic at ford. If he worked for any of them I can only imagine the problems he'd have found and solved before they decided to put it in production. Some engineering comes from grads making their final thesis and us mechanics hate them and some actually care!

I think any mechanically minded brain enjoys Grandpa Diesel

High five. Same but a civil engineer lol

Wish he did these videos and tests on petrols too lol i have no intention of ever making a diesel fast. Still love it.

Put the pipe down, and you'll most likely actually process, absorb, and retain some of the great information presented here... Anybody can listen, but if you can't functionally apply the info that you've heard into a real life situation and improve it, then you shouldn't even bother listening in the first place. Trying to learn new technical concepts while "high", is NOT a very efficient way to do it, guaranteed.

I was told something from my boss years ago. Those who can, do. Those who can’t, teach. He was referring to the educational staff at the college I went to, for day release when I started doing my auto electrician apprenticeship.

@@oakwoods55 Gale is a doer and a teacher! Nobody is doing more for the advancement of diesel technology than Gale Banks and the Banks team!!

Brad Larsen I’m not referring to Gale Banks. I’m talking about the school teachers.

This is literally my ICE course

You went to the wrong school.

It's bloody awesome!

"Now I am become death, destroyer of duramaxes"

This was carpet bombing. Nothing escaped the knowledge.

How can I save my little boy from Oppenheimer's deadly toy?

Excellent! We love hearing from new fans that are learning. Stay tuned for more education and the entertainment.

Right on, thank you for watching and being a loyal Banks fan. Stay tuned for more!

I'd argue that for a lot of us the science is the most exciting part. There are plenty of dyno pulls videos around, not nearly as many knowledge drops. That said, I do look forward to seeing the numbers they get with this cam.

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@@nou8257 I call mine 'dulcolax'

If you could call that thing a diesel. Basically just a petrol engine with a janky fuel conversion haha.

It’s way better than the Oldsmobile Diesel.

Duramax = money down the toilet swirl or not

I've tried to explain so many times to my Coal rolling buddies that, you aint making any more power when its smoking. They aint listening and think its cool to smoke out Miata's

Smoke is wasted fuel.

I was behind one of those fuel asshats in rush hour traffic last week. Took a right turn, u-turn and cut the light to get in front of him and it was worth it. Everyone who has a diesel should be required to watch Banks videos.

@@jamesford2942 yea some dude smoked out my dad in traffic also, he almost crashed.

@@zuestoots5176 You will actually make more power when some soot is present vs none. Gale even mentioned that in this exact video. The reason you can make more power is you increase your chances of burning all the oxygen in the cylinder vs Gales method of spraying just enough fuel so that there is always some leftover oxygen insuring complete fuel combustion. If you were to look at drag racing in a fuel only difference, gas vs diesel, at the exact same AFR your gas car can run much richer without soot being present. This is why gas cars can get away with making maximum power out of the available oxygen in the cylinder but a diesel cannot. It's the diesel fuel itself that makes the soot occur and It's also why a diesel engine needs the intake air to swirl as it goes into the cylinder. As gale also mentioned in this video if we get close to Stoich for diesel, 14.5 AFR, you'll have a soot cloud! Where as gasoline has an even learner Stoich value of 14.7, yet max power on turbo gasoline applications is around 11.9-12.5 AFR and it happens without any real soot production. We can't really see the wasted gasoline as soot so no one seems to care, but since you can with a diesel it's time for people to be upset. I'm not pro soot i'm pro education, if you hate being inefficient then hate it, but hate equally.

Glad it was helpful!

Freevalve seems like an amazing future, in theory. In practice, though, I don't see it being reliable enough long-term to do anything radical any time soon.

I just posted the same thing!!

@@jedidethfreak Currently only Koenigsegg uses it, I think. Indy racing uses a version of it with pneumatically actuated valves in their engines. If a lifter rolling (or sliding) along the surface of the cam lobes pushing the pushrods up into the rocker arm which then slides across the top of a valve stem to open a valve doesn't sound complex and antiquated, it should. But it's been reliable despite its complexity and number of parts involved. The freevalve technology has been around longer than people realize. I don't see any reason that it can't prove just as reliable. But change to newer and better ideas often takes a long time to take hold. Plus I think the Koenigsegg version is patented by him, and he's keeping it exclusive to his exotic supercars.

Cummins and Siemens played around with soleniod actuated valves back in the 80's, and a few other manufacturers have played around with electro-hydraulically operated. It's all great in the lab, when things like owners missing or ignoring oil and filter changes, using cheap oils etc doesn't happen, but manufacturers have to also warranty their equipment, and that means rock solid reliability, which probably tells you why free valves haven't taken off. As we've seen with variable cam timing, it's all great till the owner neglects maintenence...

@@TyphoonVstrom That's a good point.