Banks cold air intake

timmac wrote:

Banks system has been proven to work and even the military has hired his company to add HP to military ground equipment and small Navy boats..

So.....does your equipment do "mission critical" work, where it needs to go REALLY fast or needs to pull a tank with locked threads ??

I hope you are happy spending your money on something that you really don't need.

I am very happy NOT spending mine on that kind of stuff.

Edd505 wrote:

Fuel additives not needed?

I did say "most".

And I did live in the north country for about 60 years.....and did use that stuff in my diesel tractor, mostly because the fuel I used for most of the winter was still "summer" grade. I've heard that you should be good without an additive down to 10F or so IF you have winter grade fuel.

And I give my gas engines a dose of Techron every 5K miles or so.

Here's one on the more extreme elevation trips.
I thought something was wrong and stopped and put it in neutral and it started to roll backwards.
I was lucky to hit 12 mph, lol.
IMG_0869_zpsomvpowwv (1) by 185 EZ, on Flickr

I understand the loss of power at altitude but mine seems to be noticeably worse especially coming from the Ford V10 with less hp and tq.
When i hit 6000' it's literally floored all the time just to try and maintain speed
I ran a system scan and everything looks good and cleaned the MAF sensor
I am towing but I towed the same trailer with the ford on the same roads
I doubt their claims of 15 hp with just wires but it sounds like a good thing to do anyway

185EZ wrote:

Seems the 8.1 is terrible on power above 5000'

Any N/A gas engine will be...

A round tube with a filter on the end can't make up for higher elevation air density.

Try to jog a mile at a mile high compared to sea level and you'll get the idea... ;)

Even boosted engines will suffer a bit at high altitude, but just not near as much as a N/A engine..

Good luck!

Mitch

I tested very carefully pre and post Banks when I had it on my 460 equipped motorhome. I gained .5 mpg with the Banks headers. Their really good with their almost 5/8 thick manifold flange. The ram air only rams your wallet. All the gains are from the headers. I took the ram air off. Worthless. The stock air setup is all you need and keeps your engine cleaner too.

Sam Spade wrote:
After-market engine "fixes" mostly are good at just one thing: Getting money OUT of your bank account. That goes for oil and fuel additives too.

The best thing you can do is keep the original equipment in good working order.

GM would not have put on an air intake system that harms the engine performance.

So in other words all those recalls forced on the GM/Ford/Chrysler was a bad idea the they knew what they were doing to begin with, the big 3 and others do what's best for there pockets 1st.

Banks system has been proven to work and even the military has hired his company to add HP to military ground equipment and small Navy boats..

:R

Sam Spade wrote:
After-market engine "fixes" mostly are good at just one thing: Getting money OUT of your bank account. That goes for oil and fuel additives too.

The best thing you can do is keep the original equipment in good working order.

GM would not have put on an air intake system that harms the engine performance.

Fuel additives not needed? Leave FL and go north in the winter w/o this in a diesel, see ya in the tow yard.

185EZ wrote:
Has anyone tried the cold air intake on their 8.1 Workhorse?
The stock one looks restrictive
Banks

Banks cold air intake is good but much better if you get the Banks headers and exhaust system with it.

Like said in another post : To achieve anything you need to work on both ends. More air in is useless unless you get the air out.


I have the full Banks Power Pack system and it does give more HP and Torque in the lower/mid range RPM's


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