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If you have some ponies under your seat, you gotta get some haulers. If only for the INSANE 60" roost! You will hook much better. I didn't like the way they cornered until i figured it out. You have to start your turn on the throttle, and keep giving it more and more power all the way through the turn. It will slide out like sand skates, but it takes a bit more throttle and a bit more leaning as the front end will come up if you don't lean hard enough. The real payoff is the straight line hook-up. Amazing.

I must say, from reading the forum for a few years now, Banchetta seems to really know a few things. Try his advice, you will probably be happy you did.

If it is the cdi, I have a stock one off of a 2003 that I'm lookin to get rid of...

Br9es are colder plugs. Correct me if I'm wrong, but if you are running very high compression, or nitrous, too hot of a spark plug might introduce a detonation problem.

When will roadrunner start to fill up? Going on the Wensday before Pres.day, hoping for a good spot. It seems more crowded every year. Used to be able to arrive friday and still get a decent spot.

Do this or you will be verry sorry. You might even cry after you mushroom those threads.

I like 'em.

The simple way is to stick a small flat blade screwdriver down inside the spark plug until it is at the bottom between the porcelean and the metal. Gently pull back on the screwdriver until the porcelean(sp) cracks. It will crack vertically and come out in two pieces, of which you can examine up close for jetting purposes. This is much faster than hacking the threads. Takes about 2 seconds, and you don't even need to let the plug cool down. I was skeptical until I tried it.

Man, if you have a job, plan on it taking a few(3-5) weekend all nighters. Your powder shop will determine how fast the build will go. A bad pc job will result in pc in threadded or spec'd areas that must be cleaned out before tou can put her back together. Make a list of these places that needs to be masked on your frame, and tell your coater that you want to be present when Jose tapes off the threads.Give yourself twice as much time as you think you will need, and make sure to to take her on a couple of shakedown rides before going on a big trip with a newly built bike. Stuff WILL work lose.

I think I need to look at that sheet again....

Keep the faith, bro! You will find out whats wrong with her. I know from reading this thread that you have tried alot of carb adjustments that haven't helped. This makes me think back to my first banshee...... She was a pretty young thing, although her cherry had been poped by her first owner, he rode her very lightly and treated her like the queen she was. Her fenders were milky white, with a verry red you-know-what.(Radiator shroud) Back in those days, it was in-vouge for shees to have golden wheels, of which she had four. 1996 was a very good year. Alas, he ran into financial trouble and had to give her up to a young buck with a stiffy for two strokes - Me. I rode her VERY hard at first. It was a new relationship for her, and she did not want to disappoint me. I must admit, I didn't love her at first. That came with time and her total submission to my every desire. I had hand in the relationship. Then things changed. I grew satisfied. I started seeing another.(jeep wrangler rock crawler) Shee sat at home as I fratranized. Her displeasure at my infidelity started showing. I would come home late, drunken from budlight and buzzing from vicodin.(rockcrawling is hard on the back) I am embarrased to say that I even let several of my friends ride her hard in moments of drunken bliss. Hell, one time two of my friends rode her at the same time! I never took part in the double teams, as I found them kind of gay. But, I must admit that I took secret plesure in her humiliation. "Screw her needs," I would think to myself. Why should I clean up after this bitch? Why should I clean her air filter? Why give this slut race gas when she will just as quickly open up her jets and accept filthy 87 octane? She turned on me in the spring of 1998. Glamis. The shangra-la of banshee owners nation-wide. I was ready. I was hard as steel. I had dropped $500 on the trip, and had been talking much shit to any Honda owner who would listen. Shee had been there for me every time before. Not this time. First she started complaning that she didn't want to start. A HONDA owner carelessly pulled up her seat and laughed at her dirty box.(filter) I was ashamed . Next, she started cutting out when I tried to give her the deep throttle. She couldn't handle it. The last straw was when she didn't let my friend finish.(his ride) He got deep into the dunes, then shee fell asleep. I took her home and sold her the next weekend. The guy I sold her to papmered her back to health with a clean air filter and a new coil. I still see her from time to time, out in the dunes. My first. Love her and shee will love you back. Check your coil.

T-5s are a good pipe. I ran them all last year and most of this year.

WOW.. I never knew that those animal factories were so unbelivably cruel. That movie made my tummy hurt. Naw...I'm just hungry. Gonna have steak tonight, and ribs, hotwings, and oysters tomorrow for the big game!

If I were you, I would feel pretty comfortable with a 10-15 shot. Any more than that might be hard on your stock crank. You might think of getting a port job and bigger carbs if you are gonna run nitrous.

Bring some rubbers on big weekends. And twice as much beer as you think your gonna need. Also, I like to have a nice assortment of pain relief medication.(vicodin,muscle relaxers,black beautys, mellow yellows, buddas, x, oxycontin, percocet,lorotab,ect.....) You will need them for the various dune ailments you are bound to encounter while at Glamis, such as, but not limited to,

I have a set of chrome t-5s that are just laying around. They are in great shape, sell em to you for $200, let me know.

Don't polish the intakes. Go over them with a dremmel carbide cutter bit. It will give you the perfect finish in order to properly atomize the fuel into the air. If you got them off, get a sportport template and port those babys! Just be sure you got strong shoulders, cause it'll rip your arms out of their sockets after a good sportport!

I have a black one. (banshee, that is!)

Use some Trucker Polish. It is made for fat truckers polishing their big rigs diesel tanks and milk tankers. Most polish for the least work!

Thats whats nice about dune riding....NO MUD, ROCKS, OR TREES! Nice lookin bike. I wouldn't recomend chroming your frame. You can see about 200 of them just as nice on Turkey day weekend at glamis.

Yeah, if you are afraid to work a bit on your Banshee, you are gonna get tired of it running like hell. You will then end up owning a four stroke, and you will suck as a man.

Get a modified shift star

My dyna fs works great. I can switch between the 3 pre programed curves by taking off my seat and hittin a little switch. It has a bunch of leads coming off of the box for control of extra additions if you need them later on.

Maybe you got a weak link somewhere in your electrical sys. I have heard of banshees acting very strange if your coil is going bad.

You can get wheel spacers on ebay for much cheaper than a wider axle. It will handle much better if your rear width matches the front.