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Top Diesel Dragster: Famoso Test


On April 30, 2009 the Banks Power crew headed out to Famoso Raceway and ran a 7.17 at 181.08 mph.

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25 Responses to “Top Diesel Dragster: Famoso Test”

  1. ketd9 says:

    awesome

  2. boilingpoint2 says:

    surprisely it sound like a gasoline

  3. shrimp909 says:

    Do you know what RPM they go to?

  4. peepeevagi says:

    @LeeLeefritz93 I’m suprised that engine doesn’t rip a rift in time and space lol.

  5. LeeLeefritz93 says:

    @peepeevagi its gotta be a good couple thousand dude

  6. peepeevagi says:

    I’m afraid to ask, but how much torque does that engine produce?

  7. joffeloff says:

    How are these ‘drag diesel’ engines compared to ‘top fuel drag’ engines? I mean, are they comparably ‘extreme’ in terms of being built for one run or two and then rebuilding? Or do they last longer?

  8. hondarideralex says:

    @gotboostduramax funny you say that. in terms of rods components, the banks engines use the stock crank, heads and block. if you watch some of the other videos where gale talks about the engine, he says they use stock aluminum heads crank and i think rods (?). You can put 10000 into a twin turbo 12v cummins and get 1000 horsepower that you can drive down the street.

  9. duramaxin81 says:

    @weed46 wow your a idiot theres no filter on it and if it did why does a light haze come out right before the burnout

  10. MrMoooren says:

    yeah its crazy my 05 sterling with a cat c15 475 hp 1600 ftlbs not a bit of smoke ever and it pulls at low rpms its the way to go man run em lean and lots of boost

  11. EETechs says:

    @dewartt69 LOL your torque figures are so wrong. A top fuel dragster engine torque figures are in the low 4000 to 6000 range.

  12. moptim says:

    they go very fast on max boost?

  13. bobwatters says:

    nice to see no smoke all these tards on here that think trucks looks so fast b/c they smoke should see this to see how a real diesel is tuned

  14. gotboostduramax says:

    And a top fuel engine only costs about 50,000. 00 Hard to believe its that cheap. They come apart every run. I have a couple pistons and rods out of Del Worshams funny car and after 4. 5 seconds down the quarter one rod is bent and the other has the bearing spun off. Both pistons are shredded

  15. gotboostduramax says:

    @mozzarrella Hard to believe to a brad anderson top fuel engine. Same ones in all the top fuel dragsters and funny cars are actually cheaper to build than a Pro Stock engine. There is more technology in the prostocks bigblock engines and there is deffinetly more technology in these diesel engines as well. Diesels are extremely expensive to build. The diesel will just never match up to the unreal power of a blown nitrometh engine. They also have to rebuild those blow nitro engines every run.

  16. terhhh87 says:

    What transmission are you using in this dragster?

  17. alecisdabombyea says:

    @dewartt69 top fuel runs 8k rpm :)

  18. alecisdabombyea says:

    i work for Banks power and helped build this dragster, the way we get very little smoke as possible is that we use all of our resources, edge bully dog efi all those just throw out unburned fuel, we pipe our turbos to the intake so well that if there was any black smoke is was burned and used,

  19. WillJPalmer says:

    sounds nothin like a diesel lol

  20. Dylan22190 says:

    awesome sound

  21. dewartt69 says:

    @mozzarrella top fuel rails run 85% nitromethan and scream down the track at 10K rpms. a top fuel diesel rail still dosent spin half that many rpms not to mention has to match or exceed the top fuel rails power at 8000hp and 12500-13000 ft lbs of tourqe

  22. mozzarrella says:

    I wonder how diesel rails would compare to top fuel rails if they had the same amount of money put into them? Top Fuel Dragster runs twice as fast as this but I bet the diesels could come close if someone would just build one

  23. baldandold says:

    great, 7. 15 and no black smoke, top marks, where can i buy one?

  24. furyofbongos says:

    Don’t know anything about drag racing, but did I notice a doppler affect as it went down the track? The pitch got lower as it got faster. . .

  25. hightechredneck19 says:

    its called nitrous and tuning. . . . . lots of nitrous will clear up any smoke

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