Banks Sidewinder S-10: first diesel drag truck in 7's

While testing out our latest transmission mods at the dragstrip we ended up with our best run ever... and became the first diesel drag truck in the 7's! 7.96 @ 167.34!!!

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• duramax
• twin
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• diesel
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• chevy
• S10
• nitrous
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[upinsmoke945]

so how can banks be the first when the dr. performance drag truck did it on 2007 with their truck that used to be called Predator? of course, it wasn't officially backed up in the same year....so maybe banks is the first 'on the books'?

[bankspowerinsider]

@upinsmoke945 The only time Dr. Performance showed a 7.x time was when they smoked out the lights. They even admited it later. The quickest their truck has ever run was an 8.34.

[dslperf]

So much nitro you mixing with the diesel........

[bankspowerinsider]

Mixing nitro in with the diesel fuel would make less power not more. Nitro has a lower energy output than diesel does. Any nitro added to the fuel, whatever the concentration, would displace that same amount of diesel fuel and actually lower the horsepower output. As a matter of fact nitro only has 12.9mj/L of energy density while diesel fuel has 38.7mj/L.

[bankspowerinsider]

Once again guys and gals. It's perfectly fine to comment on the video. However, foul language, bashing and insults WILL NOT be tolerated. Your post will be deleted.

[jdbecker10]

I drive a Cummins, but am a lover of all things running on #2... And that truck is one of the most impressive things I have ever seen. Especially since it doesn't blow ANY smoke. Simply amazing. I can't wait to see the technology and HP we will have in Diesel motorsports in another 10 years!

[FORDGTFANATIC]

can i please come to work for you? at least sweeping stuff up? i love everything about diesels and love to be around them. lol i convinced my dad to modify his duramax and always talk him in to getting stuff for it, he never lets me drive it tho :/

[JesseDanielHimself]

@TechnologyR0xx0rz Yes, that's correct. The leaner you can run an engine, the more power it will make. A rich mixture zaps away some of the heat in the cylinder, meaning not as much power to push the piston down. The danger is that you don't want to run too lean. Too lean in a petrol engine, you'll get knock and risk burning a piston. Run too lean in a diesel you'll really burn the piston.

But hotter combustion makes more heat, very true. That's when a good radiator is handy.

[JesseDanielHimself]

@crewzindually Nitrous. When you tune a diesel not to smoke, that leaves some availible oxygen in the cylinder, that would otherwise not get burned. You can add nitrous to that air. So where diesel is going to combust with some of the air, if don't want the engine to smoke, then that leaves some unused air, and then you use nitrous. Gives you more power. You could also you autogas, that is, CNG.

[TechnologyR0xx0rz]

@JesseDanielHimself 3 months old comment, but I would like to add that, to put it simply, when they produce smoke, the engine is running on a rich mixture so the fuel is not fully burned. When they do not produce smoke, the engine is running on lean mixture. If I'm not wrong, running on lean mixture produces more power and is more efficient at the expense of heat?

[OzzInter]

Diesels have long ago lost their "oil engine" image.

A diesel powered car wons the Le Mans 24 hours.

"Performance Diesels" used in high performance European sports cars are very clean and very quiet.

You are on the right track developing high performance diesel engines!

[crewzindually]

are you running fuel only? there is a video of the truck in the pits tittle "banks smoke???" and he is clearly purging something. just wondering what it was

[JesseDanielHimself]

@pezsez2 @pezsez2 Diesels only start to make smoke once they start to run more than about 50% of the stoichiometric rate of diesel fuel. Basically, it reduces their efficiency and power to not make smoke.

But what's happening is that for the given amount of oxygen in the air charge, they could put more fuel in, but that would make it smoke, and the smoke is ugly. So the way they stop that smoke production is by purposely not putting so much fuel into a given amount of air.

[pezsez2]

ive got one question why isnt there any black smoke when its a diesels? he running propane injection lol ? any one here know ?

[pezsez2]

ive got one question why isnt there any black smoke when its a diesels? he running propane injection lol ? any one here know ?