KILLING A DURAMAX Pt 1: First fire! 🔥

It's taken weeks to outfit the engine, air intake system, exhaust system, intercooler, and dyno with sensors necessary to gather all possible data during the ultimate test of a Duramax L5P. Now that we've poked and prodded it, let's see if it'll run!

Chapters:
0:00 Intro
1:00 First fire
1:40 Intelligently documenting everything

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#duramax

[samc]

"I wanna push it until the crank is on the floor, or the heads are on the ceiling."
-Gale Banks

Legendary quote

[SirBoden]

Props to anyone who refers to themselves as a “Special Jackass”.

That made me laugh.

[ec]

Hats off to Gale for single handedly running GMs quality control department.

[evil_me]

Gale Banks is a true modern day mad scientist! 😎

[ronjlwhite]

Crank on the floor or heads on the ceiling...AWESOME!!!

[Daniel_Madrid]

This is what I love about Banks, they do their research and are going above and beyond other guys.

[tptrsn]

This is one of the best things I've ever seen! Intelligently finding the limits of the engine with full instrumentation is the dream of every high performance engine geek!!

[dixiemae]

Damn right. The authority on anything with a motor. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[ec]

My favorite part of these vids are always that long awkward pause at the end where he stands so still you wouldn't know the video was still rolling if the sound wasn't on.

[truckguyjoe]

“Any jackass can kill an engine, but it takes a special jackass to do it intelligently”…by far my favorite comment ever spoken by the horsepower guru Mr. Gale Banks. Going to be hard to top this one!!

[randomsomeone]

Gale Banks,
The most savage, most honest tuner in the world.
Period.

B K

[rivett]

I love how this is a little bit about him making money and a lot about an addiction to know everything about what that motors weaknesses are

[teejay]

Gale Banks is Legendary!
Love this man!

Thank you Gale for your countless contributions to the automotive performance industry and specifically the common Joe hotrod world.

Omg I love these series they’ve been doing lately! Banks’ R&D is amazing to hear how much they put into it!

[chrisphillips]

Holy crap! After watching this video, I HAD to subscribe. I work in Aerospace Physiology where we do research on equipment and humans to push the limits of human capabilities in air and space. Your sensor technology and my love of the internal combustion engine had me at hello!

[chriscardoza]

Your man that makes power for the people in the most simple ways....

[pavlos]

Gale Banks is a true gearhead and scientist if there ever was one!

[drewhh]

Anyone who doesn't like the methodology behind finding out what killed the engine is probably an idiot anyways. Knowing what killed the engine and how far you can take it is what gives us great products that coincidence with reliability. Knowing that upgrades are based on results of something tested rather than some idea that "might be beneficial" is always a winner. Kudos to you guys making videos for those who actually want to know the why.

[SuperplusFred]

I found out about your chanel yesterday and i'm loving the hell out of your content. Best chanel i found in 2020, i've been watching every minute i've been awake and just wanted to thank you. Helps me better understanding a lot of the problems i'm having in my own projekt.
Greetings from germany

[JAXTRUX]

Gale that's the way we used to set our backhoes and trackhoes up back in the day - we would adjust up the reliefs up till you blew a hose then we would back it off a flat - and call it perfect!!!!