Banks Sidewinder S-10 - Jay Leno's Garage

welcome to another episode of Jays garage we're gonna do something completely different today we're going to talk about high speed one of the fastest cars in the world actually the fastest car in the world in particular category there's also a diesel it's also fuel efficient and it's also owned by my good friend Gayle banks Gayle Hawaii I'm good Gayle is the leader in diesel technology and he owns the fastest diesel drag truck in the world correct it is and also you have the record for the world's fastest pickup at Bonneville 222 222 but you drove the car to Bonneville broke the record and then drove it back and told its trailer there see that's what I like because that's what they used to do back in the early days in the 20s in the 30s guys would drive their car to Lamar wherever you know take the lights off just connect some pieces win the race and then drive the thing all the way back I mean to me that's exactly that's very cool now I know you like gas cars as well but Diesel's is really what you see is the future correct I think Diesel's of bridge technology from where we're at to where them we might be going which would be hydrogen or highly highly electric right things now tell us about this vehicle here okay this is a three thousand pound Chevrolet s10 pro stock truck as campaigned in NHRA for a number of years this is the lot the last one that was ever built its kind of wrong to drag race pickup trucks but people do it right but to do it with a diesel in it right it's like what do you thinking a smoky smelly heavy all of those negatives right right well this is today's diesel and it's lightweight high speed we're making about 1320 horsepower out of how many cubic inches this one is 402 cubic inches are nominally 6.6 liters this is the most fuel-efficient engine in my 50-year career and it's in a race truck I'm going to do a great burnout we have you got to do it I know you waiting for the burnout won't get to that and a little but if you're a gearhead I think you'll enjoy hearing about this because I think Diesel's really are the future you know you go to Europe and I think 48 or 50 percent of all cars are diesels and for some reason they really haven't caught on here you know I think it's because we equate Diesel's with smelly gas stations you always have your nice clean pump and then though your diesel pumps way over there in the corner that's exactly the dark yeah yeah but diesel is actually much cleaner now what we're running in and this is the ultra low sulfur lab right on Road diesel okay we fuel this thing at a truck stop I'll tell you let's take the hood off it now and show people exactly what we're dealing with we're starting with our basic v8 is what it's a Duramax v8 out of a new Chevrolet or GMC pickup truck the block and the heads are stock castings a heads being aluminum crankshaft is also a stock crankshaft and that's fairly new a fairly reason isn't it aluminum heads on a diesel motor yeah that's pretty rich I mean that's something because you always think when I was a kid diesels were so ratalie and the heads had to be incredibly heavy to not pound themselves exactly it's called the combustion recipe we watch the pressure in the cylinder when when we're running these engines on the dynamometer so we can tailor the combustion pressure curve in the old days you couldn't do that these aluminum heads I still heard a week ago some guy going oh that'll never work right they've been on these engines for six or seven years now yeah and we're pushing we've tripled the horsepower output of this engine more than tripled it let's say and we're still running the stock heads let's explain to people you know this common-rail diesel here ok fuel pressure we're talking tremendously high yeah I took it's approaching 30 thousand pounds per square inch ok when you figure an automobile runs on anywhere from 2 to 15 pounds of pressure yeah that's really been the key lately that is made for the key yeah actually getting the fuel atomized right more refined particles so they can oxidize or burn with a hot oxygen in there and no smoke out the tailpipe when we do do a Burnout with this you'll see a lot of smoke but it's nothing that it's all tired let's go through we have twin turbochargers twin turbos the caps are over the air inlets boost air into the intake manifold castings that we've made for this rascal and we've got some nitrous tanks in in the cab two of them we use about six seven pounds of nitrous in one run we inject nitrous right into the boost lines a certain amount for staging and doing the burnout and then a greater amount for a full power run normally with a turbo you have an intercooler because you're heating the air in the compress right the nitrous acts as additional oxygen and it chills the air so your 400-plus here you're about 130 here okay and this here these are bleed valves for you know those are purge purge lines for the nitrous so when when we stage it you'll see this plume of nitrous he's just clearly clearing the lines we talked about how fuel-efficient it was this is the gas tank I mean it's about a gallon about a gallon you can make a half a dozen runs in the thing and let's talk about the transmission now it is a manual transmission but without a clutch it's got a torque converter yeah so you have to shift it it won't shift automatic exactly explain to people because we have a lot of people they're kind of new to this exactly what a torque converter does it's like a fluid dry mm-hmm it's a fluid coupling between the engine and the rest of the vehicle the rest of the powertrain it has the ability to slip so when you're at idle or low speed the brake pedal in your car right prevents any forward motion right the minute you get rpm going it starts coupling when you're sitting at the line you've got your foot on the brake more like you're holding the torque converter actually we're locking there's a brake on the output of the torque converter okay and we're locking that so it's spinning the fluid and getting it hot real hot yeah yeah and we have a little ice chamber behind that goes right under here and we cool the transmission fluid in there or torque converter flew in there once he releases that break the power feeds instantly into the transmission he's in low gear and you see this thing just paint rubber we've got the sheet metal off here's what he's talking about about cooling the transmission we're warming the car up earlier it had ice in it and how that what water's hot just from sitting here and that's still the easiest way to cool it isn't it just old fashioned is no freon there's no other kind of high-tech cooling it's like water he's doing a lot of different ways water and ice yeah yeah absorb a lot of energy let's take a look at the interior we've got the doors off the vehicle now Oh walk us through here yeah here you see the shift linkage for the 5-speed so it's a five-speed it's a five-speed clutchless transmission now do you use all five speeds in a quarter mile we do Wow in fact we use it first two and in about the first 60 feet now most Diesel's rev up to about 3,000 3,500 yeah yeah kind of revs you getting on this motor well we're about 5,800 or Wow now that's a lot for a diesel that is a lot okay I dream of more right our engine control unit which is over here is something we've developed for these engines at banks and I put a 6000 rpm limit in the original design now I'm starting to regret that yeah yeah speed the fuel burns at I ultimately will determine max rpm and what is this it's a line law this is the line law can explain to what a line lock it basically locks up the brakes on the line just the front wheel right yes so it kind of holds you keeps you from creeping yes okay take us from left to right on the gauge this is braking pressure in the hydraulic system oil pressure water temperature and boost pressure okay tachometer right shift light right so that's basically it we're doing all the other brake here on your throttle yes having a standard automobile can we take some of the sheet metal off maybe you can see the torque converter is that a magnesium uh transmission yeah it's a magnesium Liberty five-speed okay has to counter show orchestra gears so you don't deflect the main shaft and bend or break gears you any special fluid you run the standard it is a very high temp silicone based fluid and that's your transmission level check right there I guess isn't it it is it's got its got a dip sticks got our hand on the bottom we're cooling that of course with the ice in the back right now for those who are watching to say what is the point of this is it just guys you know wasting time and energy drag racing well there's actually a lot of real-world application Gail works with the Armed Forces and the long-haul truckers and the FBI and the Army and Navy and all of this to come up with more fuel-efficient vehicles what you see here is the fact that you have a vehicle that is the fastest vehicle of its kind in the world and it does it on probably a tenth of the fuel that actually that a gas car would use so that can transfer to semis tanks all kinds of other technology and that's what you do that's exactly what it's all about yeah we look at these racers that we run as test beds right we're developing technology while we're racing there's not a lot of ways to test these engines or to push the edge right and if why not do it in a speed contest as well let's meet the driver Wes come on in here Wes Anderson as you see Wes is kind of younger more handsome version of Gail this is what this is what Gail would have been the the 30 years yeah what's what's your best time it's been 777 a quarter-mile Wow 80 Wow yeah I could guess a lot of people think it drag race it just gets in you go go and you press the gas and you go but there's a lot more work involved in it that's basically about it j-just hold on and okay finish line I was wrong that's it okay there's nothing to it just get a guy who looks kind of like Gail and you'll be put in you step on it but and what is your shift point 5,800 uh about 4800 about forty eight hundred forty okay because again a diesel makes torque so far they so load down you know when you see f1 engine noise revenue 18,000 20,000 rpm they're making all their power at the top but the diesel makes all its power cut at the bottom in the middle and holds it doesn't it yeah and that's extending the RPM range is what I'm talking about about it during burnouts will hit 55 to 58 hundred right going through the lights will be well over 5,000 well let's uh let's put summit back together fire it up Oh let's get some fresh ice for our torque converter now if you'd like more information on this we kind of touched the surface if you're a real gearhead you can go to Gale banks's website what's your website its banks power comm bank's power comm and they will take you through every aspect of this end oh there's some nice how they put it together yes and how you can do some of this stuff to yours let's fire it up let's see how it sounds there we go let's go do a Burnout yeah

Channel: Jay Leno's Garage

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Length: 12min 35sec (755 seconds)

Published: Tue Feb 12 2013