(rock music)
- It'll do a burnout.
(men laugh)
- Hey, what's going on guys?
Lawson with Custom Offsets.
I'm here with Dustin,
and in today's video, we're gonna be unboxing
some Banks Performance parts.
- You just went to Banks.
- I did just go to Banks.
I just met with Jay over at Banks in California
like four days ago, five days ago.
Wasn't that long ago, so super exciting.
We got to see a bunch of stuff,
and we're also walking through there,
and there's a random Ford GT40 chillin'.
So that was super awesome. - What?
- Yeah, Gil banks and the GT 40.
- Oh my God. And it's dope.
I didn't see this video yet. I need to go see this video.
So do you.
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All right. In today's video,
we are going to be un-boxing
some bank's performance parts.
This is actually going on our new
company build.
RIP CO2, we don't need you anymore.
There's a new sheriff in town.
- Hey, don't be like that.
- Sorry.
(unboxing noises)
- All right Lawson, what do we got here?
- All right. We've got,
a name tag.
- Alright, here we go.
Yeah, Yeah. So this is the Banks ram air intake.
Super cool things about this thing, obviously,
it's a cold air intake,
so it's gonna get you much cleaner, cooler air
than your factory intake.
It's also gonna flow a ton more
than your factory intake is.
And it's not just like a statement.
Like, oh it'll flow more.
Banks actually puts this to the test,
so we have some really cool footage
when we were out there.
They were showing us that they'll
take factory intakes and put them on a flow bench.
And measure the air flow through it,
and then engineer theirs, and measure the air flow.
And if it's not better, they won't market it.
So.
- Technology baby.
- Super cool stuff.
I mean in terms of the filter,
they have the biggest filter on the market.
It's literally, for size reference-
Turn your head.
It's literally the size of his head.
They're frickin' massive.
- Yeah, that's like 3 times the size
of my truck's intake.
- Yeah, it's big.
And it breaths a lot of air.
- That's what she said!
- We got a little box here.
- What is it? Does it say?
- Doesn't say.
- Oh, these go over there too.
(box sliding)
- Just says some warning stuff.
(knife opening)
- What do you got?
- I don't know, I thought it would say.
- Oh my gosh, what do you mean you don't know?
- It doesn't say, it just says Banks!
- It say's on the back!
- It doesn't say on the back.
- It says right there.
- It does not say.
- The Derringer Tuner.
- Oh yeah, it's a Derringer Tuner.
- And this is gonna be your PedalMonster.
So this is all of the actual engine electronics.
So go ahead, open those guys up.
- All right.
- So what you're looking at here,
is the Banks Derringer Tuner.
So that's gonna be an in-line tuner, right.
It's gonna sit a long your engine, factory harness.
And it's gonna basically give you added power.
The cool thing about Banks,
is that all of their products are 50 state legal
and they're carb compliant.
So, every single one of those is gonna have
this little silver sticker that says that
Banks actually went to California,
the state of California, measured emissions
out of all their stuff, and said,
"Hey, these are legal products.
We can still manufacture these and sell these
in all 50 states."
So you can dump a tuner on your truck,
gain some more power, and still be super safe,
obviously, and also within federal regulations.
The other thing that's in here is going to be
the iDash DataMonster.
So that's this cute little guy right here.
I have a ton of experience with these,
these are what I'm personally running
in the Duramax.
This little gauge face-
and basically it's gonna sit in this cool
little single pod kit that they give you,
which is a suction cup mount for it.
But, it's gonna read out all your engine parameters.
So, it's gonna read out anything that
you're reading on the ECU,
in terms of coolant temperature, oil temperature,
stuff like that.
Gonna make sure that you stay safe
and also this is how you adjust your tune.
Really cool system, all self contained.
Super awesome, so.
- PedalMonster here.
- You know what that is?
- Nope.
- Even better.
So on top of all this, right.
We've gained some horsepower, or will gain
some horsepower with the Derringer.
We'll be able to monitor our key PIDs, right?
Parameters, with that DataMonster, and then
the PedalMonster is actually a pedal modifier.
So what that is, is it's gonna give you a couple
different settings that you can bump it up.
And it's gonna alter how your pedal feels, right?
As you stand on it, so.
In max, max power setting, you can plant it
and it's gonna go right to full throttle
almost immediately.
So, it gets pretty rowdy.
Something really unique about the PedalMonster
that not a lot of other guys on the mark have,
is that it's super safe, so,
unlike some of the competitors out there,
if it fails, it's not gonna-
it's gonna default back to stock.
So it's not just gonna leave you with no throttle input.
Which is a little bit scary because,
not so much on the truck side but there
have been car examples where that's happened.
- Yeah.
- Their pedal modifiers have just failed,
and then they just stuck in the middle
of a stop light.
- Dang.
- Little scary, so.
- Yeah.
That's crazy.
Well, we're gonna crank that all the way up
on this truck. 'Cause we like to party.
- Burnouts for days, baby!
- Do you even know what this is?
- I have one of those!
(chuckling) Why are you using that knife backwards?
Did you guys see that?
- Guys!
(box getting cut open)
- He opened it with the backside of the knife.
- That's fine.
- Oh my god, all right.
- That's how you cut it with your skull knife, okay?
- (laughing)
- Yeah!
- (laughing)
- So, cool. So this is the one and only
Ram air diff cover.
I like how you're just holding it up under there.
- So Banks diff cover's are like the most
sought after diff covers.
- Yeah, they are.
- I think Taylor's got one over there.
- They are the ones.
That's what I went with on the Duramax.
For those of you guys that have followed Banks
for any amount of time, you know that
there was a whole video series where Gayle
actually built plastic diff covers,
and he was up under there with a flashlight
and he actually- they like drove the truck-
Someone was in the truck on the lift running it
at like 30mph.
So you could see what the fluid actually does in there.
And what he found is that,
flat back diff covers tend to wear the oil down more
because the ring gear in there
is throwing it against the flat back.
It's just not
conducive to good gear lubing,
I guess is the right word. You know.
So, he built these super cool covers,
but yeah, they're the cover in the market.
- They're sick, yeah.
- I mean they're awesome.
This one of course is black
with the milled Banks logo on it, so.
These are gonna feature those really big
deep cooling fins, that are gonna help
keep that diff cool.
There's also pockets in here that actually
scoop the air up and run it through the fins,
hence the RamAir diff cover thing, so.
- All right, this,
obviously we save big box for last.
- Always!
This is gonna be your guys' exhaust.
(plastic rattling)
Oh my gosh, and of course,
'cause it's for a super duty, so.
Exhaust is massive.
- Just pull one of those pipe-
I don't know that we need to pull 'em all off.
So pull one of those pipes out.
- Here you go.
(box sliding across floor)
This is uh, this is the exhaust.
- Yeah.
So that's gonna-
- 5 inch.
- The Banks 5 inch monster exhaust.
It's a DPF back system so it retains the
factory diesel particulate filter,
and all the emissions stuff, right.
Again, 50 state carb compliant legal.
All that good stuff.
Super cool thing about these is they make
these all in house.
So like, again, when we were walking through
Banks the other day, they literally just have
racks of tubing, and right next to these
big mandrel benders, and they just (beep, beep, beep)
do a little tick, tick, tick on the old
tack welds and call her a day, you know.
So, super cool stuff.
It's gonna help open up that exhaust
by quite a bit.
Really pairs well with the intake
and the tune.
'Cause obviously more air in, more power,
more fuel, better exhaust exit, so.
I believe it's like 82%,
this will flow 82% better than stock,
which is, should be pretty cool.
I think the only other thing to touch base on here
with Banks stuff and why we went Banks
vs some of the other guys is,
not only do they, you know,
have some really good research
into their products, and those guys obviously
make most of their stuff state side,
but because they make their stuff
right over in California, pretty much all
of this was in stock.
We ordered this last week, and it showed up today.
So, really cool stuff, great guys over there,
ton of engineering behind their products
and of course having it in inventory helps a ton, so.
It's enough out of me,
let's get Banger started.
- All right.
- It's the next day.
- Hi guys, it's tomorrow.
- It's tomorrow.
- Just like that.
It's tomorrow.
So we got the exhaust laid out here,
it's actually very few pieces because
it's DPF backed, so we're gonna get that
put on.
The rear diff cover is up on the bench
along with the tuner and the gauge and everything, so.
We're gonna do the exhaust and the rear diff cover
here real quick.
And it is a little bit later in the day, again
until we got started.
So, hopefully we will have time to do everything today.
But I am going to get into it.
(hip hop music)
- All right so, it didn't take long for this
super easy part of this install to go
completely to (beep).
And (beep) us royally.
This truck is 3 years old.
2018, it's 2021.
And just living in the rust belt, this is
what we deal with.
So all 3 of these press in studs off
of the DPF snapped off when we tried
to take the exhaust off.
And you can see, John can get a close up there,
just how much is missing compared to
how much bolt was there.
So, there's about half of that bolt was left
holding that in there.
So now, we need to figure out
how to get those studs out.
(metal banging)
Which are rusted in there tight.
Easiest way is going to be to blow
them out with a torch.
Except it's Friday afternoon,
and our tanks need to be refilled.
Which was something that, you know,
was gonna be done Monday.
So, we're just gonna leave this.
And move on to something else.
(tools banging on truck)
- Holy (beep).
- Everything is stock, John.
- Everything.
- Somebody siliconed the (beep) shut.
- Wait 'till I get it off and see how crusty it is.
- What's it taste like?
- (beep).
- Oh no!
- (beep)
(hip hop music)
(wrench turning)
- All right guys so, somehow I got conned
into doing this driving review.
So if you remember, we've got
the Banks cold air intake, RamAir intake,
the Banks DPF back 5 inch exhaust,
the Banks PedalMonster,
the Banks Derringer Tuner,
and the Banks iDash 1.8 up here.
There are some set up things that you need-
usually you would need to do, to get
everything to work together, but
this stuff is so smart that because I hooked
it all up at once, the tuner is actually
all calibrated, everything is ready to go
on the iDash, it knows what we're in.
So we're going to take it for a little drive
in stock mode, and then turn it up a little bit
and see if we can see a difference.
We've got it on the stock tune,
just driving here,
you can,
you know,
exhaust isn't loud, you really can't hear the intake.
You can definitely hear the turbo.
We don't have the radio on.
The PedalMonster, you can definitely feel
the throttle response is a lot quicker
than it normally would be.
And by a lot quicker, I mean we're talking,
milliseconds, obviously.
But you can feel it to where the truck
doesn't hesitate when you get into the throttle.
It downshifts and it goes.
And that's just on a stock tune.
So, this trucks got a decent amount
of horsepower as it is stock, so.
Not surprising.
So this wakes it up a little bit.
We'll, a,
we'll do a little pull here once we get into Mexico,
and then we'll turn up the tune and see what it does.
So, to turn up the tune, it's actually very simple
once the Derringer is connected to the iDash here.
You just reach over, you hit the up arrow,
level 2, level 3.
- And you can hear it go louder.
- Yeah.
And you can hear the exhaust pitch,
it actually rev's a little bit every time
you tune it into something higher.
So, now we're in level 3,
and we will see,
how she takes it.
(engine revving)
That's noticeable.
Now, the instructions also said, Banks does do
a disclaimer, the shifts are going to be
a little soft until it learns the transmission.
And there is a whole sequence you can do
of learning the transmission.
It's basically driving it around stock
for a long time.
So, we're kind of jumping ahead a few steps here
just to see how it preforms.
So the shifts are a little bit softer,
but that was still, that was pretty impressive
for a base out of the box tune.
Still the intake is-
intake's quiet.
Exhaust is still quiet, so.
Driving, you're not gonna notice any of those mods,
which I think is kind of a thing Banks does, you know.
It's all on the back end,
as far as the research goes.
They don't want the truck to be noticeably louder,
or anything.
They just want it to perform better,
and I think they've achieved that, so.
We're going to try level 6 here.
I can feel the transmission holding gears
a little bit longer, too, as we get higher
into the tunes.
(engine revving)
Definitely feels like more power.
Overall I'd say, it's definitely worth it.
The tune 3 seems to be a really nice driving tune,
which they said it would be.
And then tune 6 gives you some performance.
I wouldn't say it's, go out to the drag strip
and lay money down performance, but it definitely
wakes up a truck without having to do
a bunch of emissions deleting stuff, so.
So highway speeds, no drone.
You can hear the exhaust a little bit, again,
we have the radio off.
So, you know the cab's gonna be
a lot quieter than normally.
But overall, like the truck just-
it performs without sounding like it's performing,
which is what you want
with the new emissions rules these days.
(truck revving)
It'll do a burnout.
(laughing)
- Well, something must be on fire over there,
that's weird.
- All right guys, so there it is.
A little emissions compliant performance
courtesy of Banks Power.
Go out and get yourself some for your truck.
Customoffsets.com under the performance tab.
Peace.
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