Supercharged F-150

Today, we're going in search of more horsepower.

We'll show you how to get back the power you lose by upgrading to bigger wheels and tires and taller suspensions.

It's three stages of power to make your gas burner perform as good as it looks.

It's all here today on trucks.

Hey, welcome to trucks. Today, we're going to solve a problem that a lot of truck owners face. Once they start to modify the rig, we know that what a lot of you guys do is go to a dealership plunk down for a new truck and then start to throw things like wheels and tires and suspension systems at it. But after a while, the weight and the rotating mass of those items can actually rob your truck of power.

So today, we're starting with this brand new 2006 Ford F 150. It's already been treated to a custom set of 22 by 9.5 inch wheels wrapped in 33 inch tall tires all riding on a Donohoe racing coil over suspension. Now we just got back from the horsepower shop where we ran this truck on their

dyno Jet chassis dyno

Ford claims 300 horsepower. The flywheel for stock F 150 with a 5.4 trip.

Ok. Looks like we got a baseline of 202 horsepower, 234 ft pounds of torque.

Not too bad. It's got this thing in the shop.

So to boost the power output in our 5.4 L engine, we went to Banks engineering. Now you diesel guys have been benefiting from the available upgrades for your trucks. But banks has also been involved in gasoline performance for years and they've just come up with three stages of performance for our F 150.

1st is the Stinger system.

This kit includes a cat back stainless steel exhaust that banks calls the monster exhaust.

It's available in both single and dual tailpipe options.

It also comes with a high performance lifetime filter inside the ram air cold air intake housing.

This all feeds into the high ra M intake plenum and all the engine tuning is handled by an auto

mine programmer.

Now all this is a great starting point for any truck. But if you want even more power, you can upgrade your stinger system to a power pack by adding a set of these banks torque tubes. These stainless steel tubular manifolds lower restrictions in the exhaust system and help with the scavenging effect of

exhaust gasses. But when you're ready for the ultimate power for your gas truck, you need to pull out the big guns. And the third stage from banks engineering is their big hoss bundle.

This includes the ultimate power adder. A bank's blower. This belt driven supercharger delivers great low end torque and will stuff our 54 V8 with cool dense air. Thanks to an integrated intercooler. This will maximize the power output of our truck.

The kit also includes everything you need such as the proper larger injectors and spark plugs.

Now, the cool thing about the big Hoss bundle is that it builds on the components already found in the power pack. Let's get this on the lip. All right.

But before we go to the limit with a big Hoss kit, we're going to start with the stinger. That's the cat back monster exhaust, the cold air kit and the auto mine then toss this truck back on the dyno for what you guys are asking for. Real world numbers

with the stock exhaust gone from the truck. We could begin to install our new monster exhaust with the front pipe, followed by the muffler

and finally two tail pipes out the rear for that high performance. Look,

ok. Now that we've cleared a path through the air to get out, it's time to take care of the air coming in. Now, this factory air box is full of restrictions and the new bank's Ramer system will allow us to increase the air and fuel charge going into this engine.

This system is an easy install. After removing the stock unit, swap the mass airflow sensor into the high ramp plenum and drop it into place.

Now, the final step in the Stinger install will be to reprogram the truck's PC M using the bank's handheld programmer. This will adjust the engine's timing and match a fuel delivery to the airflow improvements we've just made with the Stinger.

Now, this entire system was pretty easy to install and you guys should be able to do it at home with just simple hand tools.

Now, I know what you guys are thinking. What kind of power will these parts make on my truck? Well, let's go over the horsepower

dyno and check it out.

Now, remember that our truck baseline with 202 horsepower and 234 pounds of torque. And this run is with all the components from the Stinger kit.

All right, with the Stinger, it looks like we got 227 horse and 2 51 ft pounds of torque. Oh, good. That's better.

All right. With the Stinger kit, we picked up 25 horses and 17 ft pounds of torque at the rear wheels. That's a pretty good kick for just a few parts installed.

Yeah, not bad at all. But when we come back from the break, we're going to dig back into this truck and move on to stage two of our quest for more power. Stick around

25 horses. That ain't bad,

but when we come back, we'll move on to stage two.

Hey, welcome back to trucks where we're searching for even more power for this F 150. Now, this truck came to our shop like a lot of newer trucks sitting a little bit higher, rolling on some big wheels and tires

and modifications like these

can actually rob your truck of power. This is the extra weight of these 22 inch wheels. Your truck is now having to turn down the highway.

Now we've gotten some of that power back thanks to Bank Stinger Cat back, stainless steel exhaust ram, air, cold air intake and some reprogramming with the auto mind.

Now, the Stinger kit bought us an additional 25 horsepower and 17 ft pounds of torque. But we're looking for more power and we're gonna get it with a set of these torque tubes. Now, these high flow primary tubes will help us with the scavenging effect in the cylinders. Now, if you look at the stock manifold, you'll see that it shares a common primary tube and this can lead to turbulence in the manifold and sacrifice flow.

But a set of these tubular exhaust manifolds like these torque tubes have individual runners for each cylinder. This pulls the exhaust out of the cylinder and actually helps on the intake stroke to draw in more air.

That means we can add more fuel.

Now, this is a big job due to the clearance issues between the torque tubes and the frame rail, we've removed our splash shield for better access and you might want to allow for a couple of hours aside, to replace these manifolds after they're in, they just bolt up to the stock down to

now that we've improved airflow even more. We're going to once again recalibrate the PC M using the same banks programmer that we used before this time choosing the power pack setting.

And since we're after maximum horsepower, we're going to set it up to run on high octane fuel. But if you're feeling the pinch of the pump, don't worry. The bank's programmer has tuning options for mid and low octane fuels

with our new power pack installed. We can head back over to the horse power shop for another dyno run.

Ok. The power pack's got us 245 horse and 260 ft pounds of torque.

All right. Now we're getting somewhere.

All right. So now we can move on to the third stage and pull out all the stops. Yeah, but we can't add all this power and not address the brakes. So stay tuned.

Coming up next,

the hump goes on to breed big power in our F 150

later

we'll ignite the third stage.

Welcome back to trucks in our F 150 build up. This is a pretty typical street truck with a mild lift and of course larger 22 inch wheels and 33 inch tires. We've been hunting for power to make this thing perform again. And so far, we've stuffed 43 horsepower and 26 pound feet of torque back into the rear wheels. But now,

now it's time to take our truck to a level it's never seen before with the addition of the bank's big ho

bundle that includes this root style supercharger. Now, this will work hand in hand with the rest of the bank stuff we put on today and is the ultimate power adder for the 5.4 L Ford.

The big Hoss kit includes everything from both the stinger and power pack kits, but adds this blower with an integrated inter cooler intake manifold and blower assembly and comes with all the gaskets and hardware to bolt it up

before the new blower can go on. We'll move our ra M air out of the way so we can get to the factory parts that will need to come off.

The bank's blower uses an added idler pulley with a longer belt.

The pulley mounting bracket sits under the alternator, so get ready to pretty much strip down the top of your engine.

Keep in mind that a lot of the stock bolts are reused. So keep track of everything.

Got it

too

on a late model modular engine. Each spark plug has its own coil and these will need to be removed to swap out the supplied colder plugs.

Here's an easy way to get your plugs out of a cylinder head recess, use a piece of vacuum hose to grab the plug

and just pull it out.

The same trick works to install the new plugs.

The factory fuel rail is reused and reinstalled under the blower manifold, but we're swapping the stock injectors with banks high flow units that will keep up with the demands of our new force fed system.

If you just add a charger and don't upgrade your injectors, you risk running the engine lean or running out of fuel at high RPM.

Using a kit that bounces air fuel delivery will decrease the possibility of internal engine damage.

The super charger uses an independent coolant system with its own reservoir and electric circulation pump. This maintains a constant supply of fluid to the iter cooler that lowers the incoming air temperature.

So

I'm there. Yeah, we're over here. We're

good

when you reinstall your alternator plug in the connectors before you bolt it down,

then it's just a matter of reinstalling the factory bolts

and installing the new bank's serpentine belt pulley.

The new serpentine belt goes on,

followed by the new upper coolant tube and hose ends.

The stock throttle body is bolted in place on the blower housing

and the factory connections go right back in place.

The heat exchanger mounts up front between the bumper and frame rails. The F one fifty's bumper design allows for the best mounting spot with the most protection and airflow

and finally transfer the mass airflow sensor to the new inlet tube

that is one slick looking unit. And the best part is that we'll be reusing all of the parts from our Stinger and power pack kit only replacing the high RM inlet tube with this new piece. So you could add the big house kit to your existing power pack at any time.

Now, just as we've done in every step of the process, we need to reprogram our trucks PC M to control the bigger injectors that are matched to our new banks blower.

All right. Now, for those of you who need a little refresher course on how a roots type supercharger works. Check this out.

A

supercharger is basically a belt driven air compressor. It uses two counter rotating lobed rotors to force air into the intake system.

The bank's blower uses a serpentine belt driven by the crank shaft to deliver 5.5 pounds of boost that is then forced into the cylinder on the intake stroke.

This boosted air intake charge is more dense and therefore more fuel can be added to the cylinder.

Now, I know you guys are thinking, hey, you've added all that power to keep up with the power that you lost from running these big 22 inch hoops, but those stock brakes aren't designed for all of that. We'll check this out

this extreme plus kit from beer will help us increase our clamping force on the rotors and significantly decrease our stopping distances. And if you're running wheels 20 inches and above a kit like this is a must. Now, back, we're going to use these stock replacement Crossrail invented rotors that are great for wet weather performance as well as out gasses.

Now, this system not only uses all the factory mounting points, it improves braking by up to 25% depending on what you're driving.

So now, not only do we have the power, we need to get these big tires and wheels turning. We've got the ability to throw out the anchor if need be.

All right. Now, we're just about ready to go back over the horsepower

dyno and see how much new power we can breathe into our F 150. We'll do that right after we come back from the break.

When we come back,

the

dyno is going to tell us how we did stick around.

Hey, welcome back with all the golf fast goodies stuffed under a hood. It's time to take one last trip over the horsepower dyno and see what kind of numbers this entire package is going to give us. But before we do that, let's take a look back and see what we've already achieved.

Our truck baselined with 202 horsepower and 234 pound feet of torque at the rear wheels with his stinger kit. We added a ram air intake cat back exhaust and retuned our truck with the auto mine programmer that gave us a total of 227 horsepower and 251 pound feet of torque

by adding the bank's torque tubes and reprogramming with the auto

mine to the power pack setting. For premium fuel. We saw 245 horsepower and 260 pound feet of torque.

Now that we've got our big house bundle installed with the bank's blower. Let's go see how much power we can make.

That blower is working man.

The big hospital

has got his 335 horse and 355 ft pounds of torque. All right, those are the numbers we're looking for. Let's grab some fun.

Yeah.

Well, there you have it a great solution for those of you who want to get back some of that performance that you lost by adding power robbing upgrades like wheels and tires or suspension lifts. Now, we've shown you three different kits and a whole lot of parts, but each system is available individually and makes them perfect for those of you who have already started to modify your trucks at home

and by upgrading the brakes, we not only made this truck stop better, we made it safer, but in the end, this truck's performance now matches its good looks

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