Did you notice how intently he was listening to Gale? When a legend speaks...a smart man listens

Gale, please please please write a book. These stories have to be recorded. From the Sundowner to the military applications to diesel tuning and everything in between, this man has changed the automotive world. I for one would buy it the day it came out.

I remember as a teenager pulling up next to a Syclone at a stoplight. I was in my Firebird. One second we were sitting there, the next he was gone. I couldn’t believe my eyes, it was amazingly fast.

Love the back story with gmc, this is why I love watching your channel

People who are unhappy with technical and background conversation should consider going back to WRC Crash Videos. Much more mindless action of the kind I must admit I often watch too, but Mr. Banks is such a goldmine of knowledge, I can’t resist! 😄 😀😀. In another video, Mr. Banks said he was looking forward to 20 additional years on the planet (I predict more than that, considering that flat midsection 😀), and I know he will be around to see (and perhaps contribute to) developments in electric propulsion that will make us shake our heads over the mechanical complexity of IC we have lived with for so long. Also hope he lives long enough for technology to develop a technique to upload his magnificent brain to a solid state memory device! 👍👍👍 You rock, Carl Banks!

Beautiful 9th generation F150...always loved the look of them in all black Lightning trim.

so much real world experience and knowledge .Here in oz much respect

Hilarious ending. You guys have good chemistry.

I ran that same supercharger on my 98 Jeep Grand Cherokee 5.2 because it was the only supercharger kit I could find that would fit my Jeep. It really woke up the stock engine. As people have pointed out it can't compete with other superchargers for racing but adds a ton of usable torque starting immediately off idle. The problem I found was the bearings need to be replaced too often because they don't get oil. Instead they are sealed with grease and can't handle the rpm needed to make power. So you either have to keep the rpm way down for reliability which limits power. Or you change the pulley to spin them faster in order to make power which causes premature bearing failure and more frequent bearing replacement. I finally removed the kit because i got tired of replacing the bearings every year.

I had one of these on a 25th Anniversary Mustang GT. This supercharger made a better hair dryer than a blower. Made more HP NA with an Anderson N41 camshaft than I did with the blower. Great video Gale. May the jackassery continue!

The history and stories in this video were awesome, thank you for sharing.

I could listen to and study Mr. Banks knowledge til the end of days. He is a God Damn american hero and genius.

The knowledge this man has just boggles the mind. Fantasy Engine, a collaboration between him and Smokey.

I would really like to see the next step! Part 2??????? Gale knows what he is doing & I would love to see what Gale could do to that truck to greatly improve it!

I remember that blower way back. It was available in the Motorsports catalog, the old one during the fox body craze, during the late 80’s, before the lightning came out. Don’t knock the blower, it was available to be installed by the dealership. The weren’t looking for big boost because the had to warranty it.

That looks like a Powerdyne BD-11a supercharger. I had one of these on a 92 mustang and it was an internal belt driven supercharger. They had advantages in that they had a considerably cooler inlet charge than an oil cooled centrifugal. They were really bad about belt slip - I suspect that may be the issue here. I had to tighten the belt down so much the blower bracket was bending. Once you got them dialed in, though, they were fantastic. I made 512rwhp at 9psi on a h/c/i 302ci motor. Another great thing is you could rebuild them for fairly cheap. I did mine twice.

I have a '93 Cobra that I bought new and started modifying at two days old. It still has the stock short block with ported Edelbrock heads and port matched intake, custom ground cam, and headers - and a Powerdyne supercharger that I added around 1996. This was a kit put out by Powerdyne specifically for the '93 Cobra that had a one piece billet lower pulley that combined the Cobra underdrive serpentine pulley with the blower drive pulley. It was a BD10 as delivered, but I sent it back in to Powerdyne for a BD11 upgrade when the BD10s started having bearing trouble. My experience with this blower is different than on this Lightning, the Cobra made 429 HP at the wheels on a Superflow dynamometer. Other 5.0 Mustangs at the time running the various Vortech blowers were putting out more HP and torque, but usually not that much more. My best time at the strip was an 11.81 at 119 mph. The car is still a lot of fun, even if the newer muscle cars can show it taillights.

I would love to shake Mr. Banks' hand one day. Genius in performance engineering.

Gale, you are a very good influence. Wish I had found you before trying to be a designer at Ford. Jay Mays laughed me out in '92 for the retro-stang. "But no-one wants old cars, kid". Then he took credit for it! F×÷>ing FORD!

Holy crap just slap that alky on there already. Whew! Great to see this guy in action. Never lose the live of talking engines.

Gale calling that truck a critter absolutely made my day

Ha, my first supercharger was a Powerdyne, internal belt driven blower. I later replaced it with PD’s oil lubed BD-11a version. Never had any issues with either but the belt drive one was very limited in boost, never did make more than 6 or 7lbs of boost on a 9lb pulley. Brought back memories seeing your PD!

13:09 when you see someone driving a Carolina squatted pickup truck.

When do we get the next exciting chapter? I'm hooked!!!

I would really like to see more on this truck!

Nobody, repeat, nobody knows the internal combustion engine better than Gale. I love seeing your videos. Thanks!

Wait. Didn't I watch this yesterday? Or am I still smack in the middle of a 2 day bender?

damn that is the best pillar pod i have ever seen for a OBS ford would love to get one

Boy oh boy I wish Mr. Banks would fiddle with my f150 2019 5.0 such knowledge he has you know it would be a good outcome not some inflated number

Had to fix them edits hehe

Love the idea of finding the true numbers of horsepower and torque

What a cool truck. I think I want one!

Thanks to banks for the gmc syclone. I never seen one in person but im amazed by the engineering that went into it. Even the drawing sketch looks like the modern 2000's gmc trucks.

The GMC syclone and Typhoon were the only two vehicles that could keep up and even beat the legendary Buick Grand National. I use to street race nearly every weekend in the 90s and seen plenty of GNs and Turbo GMCs.

Love the lightning clean

That A pilar pod is awesome! Is that a custom piece?

If you can find a guy named Mike, he had a shop in Las Vegas NV called Silver State Motorsports, he was do a lot with Lightnings with turbos getting some impressive #'s back in the day. He might have so info for you.

mid range driveability makes everyday driving fun and easy to get around traffic. I think that might of been the goal all along for this truck

This era vehicle brings me back to my 1989 Pontiac sunbird Turbo. Had a distributor even. crank scraper, roller lifters multi port Injection. Muncie 5 speed. Stock. Really was untouchable on the street unless someone had a cyclone or a lot of money under the hood. Paid 2900 back then used. Now it would cost you about 30K to have as much fun.

I've got a powerdyne on an 89 sho. It's not the Fastest thing in the world but it sure is fun and it's drivable.

The Powerdynes were always junk. Vortech was the way to go on these if you wanted a bolt on kit. Most of the guys who wanted more went Procharger with custom brackets since they never made any for the truck, and that was only before turbos took the market. My 95 was an NA full exhaust, full bolts on, untouched long block and made 495whp 525wtq with a 150 shot BigShot GT40 plate kit and 245 356 with no juice. I always regret selling it, it was such a fun truck.

So air density is basically the weight of the air, not necessarily the amount, correct?

Sounded like the belt was slipping. What was the boost up top ? That would explain low hp but high torque. Not defending the blower at all but it should have made more hp for sure

Mas air was available on the f150s after 94 on the 302/300 ci motors with auto trans .

If I recall correctly it's the bd11a (powerdyne) old school SC

When are you gonna finish this little project???

Why no curve? The peak numbers are really bad, my second car was a 2000 Saab 2.0 turbo with over 200.000km on it. Factory low pressure model turbo and over 200hp 300nm at the wheels, with a engine with less then half of the displacement.

I really wanted to see them do something with this, but I couldn't ever find anything else.

Had a Powerdyne on my fox body Mustang. Nice, quiet setup but not a lot of HP.

I am curious to see how the Banks Idash 1.8 gauges are wired/installed in this vehicle. I have an older ford diesel that has no engine computer. Are these gauges somehow plumbed into that truck's engine computer? Or are the gauges working off of their own sensors? Thanks.

being face to face with mr. banks is like facing the headmaster at highschool when you knew you screwed up.

How did you get the Banks iDash to work without OBD2 on that truck? Ir is it a matter of just adding sensors?

Finally, a guest who can somewhat keep up with the intellect of Gale Banks! I was hoping to see the boost and temperature data from the supercharger. Guess I'll have to wait for the second installment.

I wonder how the truck would do with a real cold air setup and not drawing in under hood temp air

Wow a old school powerdyne. Seems like these carb blowers from the 90s are juat heat pumps that wine. Crazy it retards the timing that much.

Everyone knows the peak HP and peak TQ numbers dropped to mid range RPM avgs because there wasn't a real Christmas tree in the bed. Thanks for the video:)

Most of the lightnings i ever ran into at the drag strip were running 11s and 12s back in the day.

Was this re-uploaded because of the new you-tube policy? Was the supercharger's feelings hurt?

wouldn't it be easy to move the timing up a few degrees and see if that helps. fords got their distributer right in the front where you don't need spelunking gear just to find the tightening bolt

So the charger made the power sooner than later?

Beautiful truck

id put a snow kit on it it will help a lot not even a tune based one and if u do it right it can look like factory and in a pinch you can use a lower based fuel

My Suburban once had a Paxton S/N 95 supercharger. Did help very little. Formerly owned by Bob Petersen of HotRod.

HOW HAVE I NEVER WATCHED ANY BANKS POWER VIDEOS? WTF.

That’s Jack in the bean stalk and the giant

Gale you are the master. Please lower your prices on the older motor home headers for us workin stiffs.

I really hope this mr. Banks is mentoring a child or at least an employee. The amount of genius engineering and knowledge he has contributed to the world has been matched by very few people. If he were to retire today the entire automotive industry would be set back decades.

13:10 demonetized!

Next episode should be ignition timing system upgrade and methanol injection, that will make that HP peak wake up.

Wheres the Cummins push truck??

All the guys out there that say the only thing that matters is "boost" might want to take note here, there is a lot more too it. Watch his supercharged gmc whipple vids too.

Gale Banks strikes me as someone that would of been a doctor if he wasn’t into cars and trucks, ya know? He just seems to have that “doctor” demeanor about him.

Since the supercharger is offset (not sitting on top of the intake manifold), is it possible to drive it with an electric motor instead of the belt? That should allow the crankshaft to send more power to the drivetrain?

Glad these guys at least do real world dynos with the hood down

That guy needs to stop talking and listen! Banks is a legend and doesn't need his input.

G'day,,air temp can be reduce by water injection,,this will give you your desired air density,, and will solve detonation problem,,

Around 8:42 he claims that the production GMC Syclones came out in 1992 & 1993. That claim is incorrect. The Syclones were only made in 1991. GMC Typhoons were only made & available in 1992 & 1993. Now my all time favorite out of them, even though I'm more of a Typhoon fan, are without a doubt the Limited Edition (only 10 made, if I remember correctly) 1991 Marlboro Edition GMC Syclones! All red with white Marlboro markings & a "Corvette style" removable I-top.

Awe. A walk down memory lane

Mat's body language... total fanboi xD haha!

Water meth with some e85 would let you get that timing back.

It's a shame we can't get a new RCSB 2wd Chevy or GMC with just a 6.2L, a 6.6L L8T is just dreaming. I wish they would have sold the S10 and S15 with a TPI 350 V8 or later Sonoma/S10, Colorado/Canyon with the LS1/LQ4/LQ9/LS2. They sold some 5.3s but they were rare and low output.

No 93 octane fuel? I'm staying in Wisconsin! 😯

Thats a Powerdyne blower. They were belt driven instead of gear drive. They never made much boost especially on a 351. Put a Vortech YSI on it. See if it makes any power.

I've always wanted one of these, and a Ford nite

TRUCKSHOW PODCAST !!!!!!!

Making a twin I beam truck handle is very hard, its "ok" offroad on the road it does not keep up ifs on a c10 or s10. Best of luck... i hope the ford can win.

I love that Gale has a soft spot for S10's. me too. his record diesel truck was an s10? right?

If I had the money I would go to Banks for all my vehicle needs. America needs more men like him.

It probably works better in Montana altitudes than in Azusa, CA.

IDK man Banks makes that f150 look like a ranger lol.

Banks is a wealth of information and I watch whenever I see him in a video. I have never noticed, is he a giant man or is the host just a tiny dude?

Man I kept thinking that guy was jackvale

I would say you lost prak HP do to the old very soft factory valve springs, Ford LOVED to use soft valve springs right from the factor.

That's crazy. My Volkswagen 1.8t with minor bolt ons and a tune made 207 to the wheels through a 5mt. That's 5.8l with forced induction. That transmission must eat up a ton of power. Is the torque converter even locking up?

Mr. Banks I sent you a somewhat embarrassingly long letter as well as a few ideas and my resume. Just curious if you got it or if I need to go through more formal channels, which I’m happy to do but hoped you’d get the letter regardless.

I thought those Big cooling fans might have more horsepower ! .

Bank Sir, did you not test a supercharger for GM? once that netted zero increase? and this is "still worse"? Ford let us ALL down with that one?

Do not forget that that Octane is a minimum of 91, I would test it and you will find it is closer to 93.

That Windsor needs a timing chain set.

240hp @4200 and 330tq @3200 stock