Ducman

So what you're saying is that I can fill my banshee tank with concrete and as long as I kick it over for a couple million years it will turn into premix gas and run? Or I could take out the plugs and put in wood dowels and a couple billion kicks later it would fire right up? We'll first of all you need the right ingrediants like the mineral and nutrient rich brew that was probably the makeup of most of the earths water in the pre-life stages, concrete ain't gonna light on fire real easy so your a bit off track there. I'd be more like you left your banshee was sitting around with the gas tank cap open, the tank fills up with rain water, some wood chips fall in the tank from the tree overhead and start brewing some alky, the squirel chews a hole in the bottom of your tank and the watter drains out but the hole gets plugged with wood chips before the higher concentrated alky thats on top drains out. Next a few pine cones fall out of the tree in rapid secsession turning your key on and kill switch to run then landing on your kick start and low and behold fires that sun of a gun right up, of coarse it'll rev to the moon cause your jetting would be way to lean and the straight alky probably gonna toast your rings. If you got some really high compression custom domes, maybe 10cc, weld the shit out of the crank and install the wood dowels in lue of spark plugs in you might get it to diesel for a bit, but the top end HP will probably suffer and the piston maintenance would be very high.

Cheers Brooke Stick it Dirt-star-rider you sack of shit!

When I was 18 (in 93') I got a 87 CBR 600 Huricane used with 16k miles sold it when it had 40K. I got a 94 ZX6E (in 97') with 16k miles, sold it with 34K miles, got a new 99' Ducati 996 when I graduated college in Dec. 98'. It has 12k miles now. Can't part with her, she's special. I haven't seen another crotch rocket that I felt the need to add to the stable, guess its like I'm married to that one now.

Exactly my thinking! Who's to say that our solar system isn't an atom and the universe as far as we can see isn't just a molecule in a larger universe? So many things we will never know or have the answers to. Who's wrong or right? Will 9 out of 10 people on the planet not go to heaven because they didn't believe in Jesus? Because the bible say's if you dont accept Jesus as your personal savior that's what will happen. What about the people born lets say in a remote part of the rain forest that aren't even exposed to christianity. It doesn't seem fair that they wouldn't get to go to heaven. Kinda exclusive for neone not in the club.

I've never been to Florance because its a bit farther comming from CA. How does it compare? I might give it a shot for a day. I'm going to be in Winchester Wed thru Sat (9-1 to 9-4) and probably Spinreal and/or Horse falls Sun and Mon (9-5 to 9-6).

I think the 28mm flatsides would be a good choice. Boreing stock carbs to 28mm might be a cheaper alternative.

There was no light, no air, no soil, no minerals, no electricity, no heat, no cold, no nothing. The mathmatical possibility of something as insignificant as a single cell with all of it's complexity evolving would be far less than one person living to be 10,000 years old and winning every states lottery every week for 10,000 years and all of that without ever buying a single ticket. That sir is impossible. Any mathmatician will tell you that even if you do play the lottery and use the same numbers for the rest of your life the chances of you ever winning back the money you spent on the tickets is mathmatically impossible. That's rolling a few balls in a barrel and randomly picking out a few. The theory of evolution is that by randomly rolling a few balls around in a barrel you will get a brand new #### which has never existed before and a brand new **** which has never existed before and a brand new ++++ which has never existed before and when all 3 roll out, they are all different and yet work perfectly together. Well actually there was light, air, soil, minerals, electricity, and heat. It doesn't take life for these things to exist, only chemical reactions and time. Well if you want to argue that god made matter and time well I guess I'd just ask, then who made and/or existed before god. Once again we'd be going outside any possible knowledge and both be full of shit to argue one way or the other. And any mathematician will tell you as you approach infinity almost anything is possible if there is even the slightest chance. Now if you only believe the earth has been around for 6000 years and carbon 14 dating for organic matter and uranium isotope dating for rocks is a farce made up by scientists then I could easily see how life from evolution would be mathematically impossible. However, in the scientific community we know that the earth is somthing like 4 billion years old. Here's how your cow in the blender theory does work. If you were to take flower, eggs, sugar, and chocholate chips and throw them out of an airplane almost 100% of the time they would blow around and fall to the ground as a big separated mass with little trace of what you started with. Do this for a hundred lifetimes and you still get nothing. Try this for several hundred million years or maybe even a billion years and eventually the ingrediants will fall to the ground as a perfect choclate chip cookie through random occurances. A a little vortex in the air cause by rising warm air bringing the particles together, some moisture, throw in a little lightning... voila... a cookie is born. I think if you play every possible ticket in the California lottery with the same numbers for something like 100,000 years your are statistically guarenteed to win. Even the blind squirel will eventually find a nut. There are theories that life on earth has existed many times and has been wiped out by natural geological or cosmic events and has started over and comes back because earth has a chemical makeup and atmosphere that is the perfect mix for producing life. Dinosaurs sound familiar? We only know about them because they only lived as much as 150,000 years ago, but if it was longer than that then the earth would have recycled the evidence by now because of plate techtonics and submergance. In terms of your lifetime vs the earth you are just a blink of the eye. There may have already been intelligent beings on earth that lived thousands of years and already died off. Your just the latest and greatest version 2.6 Maybe that is divine? How can we tell? That is why faith is blind and searching for an intelligent answer that is complete is also fruitless in the end.

Point at him and give him the histerical you gotta fuckin be kidding me laugh. If he keeps talking, laugh louder untill he gets the point. 6 years and only one other person besides myself has ever ridden my Ducati 996. If it is even tipped over when its at a stand still its like a $1k fix.

With the snorkel removed airbox lid on and a stock air filter run 260 mains and or 30 pilots (jetting recommendations that come with fatties from FMF), 27.5 pilots will work fine too. 270 or 280 mains when it gets cold in the winter. Loosten the carb top, then the clamps on the front of the carb and the ones connecting the boots on the rear of the carb to the airbox. Push back on carb, boots will flex back towards/into the airbox. Leave boots attached to the back of the carb, this seems to be the easiest way for me to get the carbs back on, puting boot around airbox vs around the back of the carb. Turn the front of the carb outward and pull carb out, pull slides out as soon as the carb is free. I prefer doing 1 carb at a time, less chance of mistakes. Dont forget to reattach coke tube between carbs, and bowl drain tubes.

So true, yet impossible for so many to accept. Some people can not simply accept that there is a lot of shit they just don't know and can not be found out. If you need the bible as a security blanket to make you feel OK about dying, knowing that your conscious is not simply going to fade away to the nothingness that was there before you were born, that's fine with me. The bible teaches good morals and values and helps people get along with one another. But, it can also be viewed as a simple explanation with a happy ending for what we can not understand and never will. So don't go around preachin that you know your shit like its a fact. I'm not about to make a retarded argument like evolution can not mathematically exist and not explain the equation, the principle, or theory in mathematics that disproves it, or why it wont back the theory up. Thats a bullshit argument with no explanation. Nor am I going to argue that the "Theory" of evolution was the only way that things came to exist because I don't think anyone can explain the seemingly magical "spark" or cause for the combination of molecules to occur in the beginning that resulted in the first single cell organism that was able to reproduce itself, evolving into, and resulting in all the organisms that we know and are surrounded by today. That would be pushing the limits of random occurances to the limit even given the millions of years it has taken to do it. And it aint that friggin hard to figure out how monkeys, apes, and/or other prime mates along with humans can co-evolve from the same or similar genetic roots and end up different. But to fully understand how genetics and reproduction can take a variety of grass and breed it over generations to result in a stalk of corn, or a week like vine and genetically evolve through generations to produce tomatoes, you would need a slight bit more education than the high school "intro to biology" class that you obviously slept through. All I am saying is that dont try to push your argument weither your on the believer or nonbeliever side of the fence because you simply don't know can't definitively prove anything one way or another. "Don't try to sell any of your crazy here cause were all stocked up! - As Good as it Gets" It is better to keep your mouth shut and let people think your a fool than to speak up and proove it in my opinion. I am simply content for now to just not know and appreciate life for the complex enigma that it is.

The pipes are on e-bay now with pictures, item # 2485726074 or use this Link I'll polish the silencers for free for HQers. See the blaster silencer (item # 2485724058) that I'm selling to see what the mirror polish job will look like (actually better because I will sand and prep them better) Blaster Silencer

I'm planning a trip to Winchester Bay from about the Wednessday before Labor Day Through Labor Day, 9-1-04 through 9-6-04. My motor will be done by then (4mm stroker) so I'll be Jonesing to flawg the beast up Ol' Baldy. I'll be staying in the campground closest to the doon entrance point in my dads RV. Would love to hang with some fellow HQers. Also planning a fishing trip on a party boat and some crabbing. Anybody else going that weekend?

Right on Bro! What all mods ya got?

Shorty's Racing is building me a 4mm stroker right now. Can't wait! They sell CPI inframes for $550 and %10 discount on your first purchase so it comes out to $525 shipped. I don't think that deal can be beat. However, when I talked to them they said that the rockets will do better on motors with port jobs that are NOT for all out drag racing (they don't sell Rockets so they told me this even though it was probably killing their sale). The guy that answers the phone everytime I've called (Bill) is a friggin banshee motor expert so I'll give them an A+ for customer service. He said that where the CPI's shine and do better than the Rockets on a full drag port or a highly built drag motor. I believe that on a stock port or mild port the Rockets come on earlier and smoother and rev a tad bit higher too. That's what made me go with the rockets, also to save the %10 discount with Shorty's because I knew I'd be getting a stroker after not too long. I was planning to do the motor work myself but with all the overtime I'm working this month and with rest of the work I'm getting they're only charging me $120 for tear down and rebuild, so it's time saved and money well spent to me. Also, they sell the 4mm stroker cranks for $450. The only bad thing is that they don't post on the BHQ like PassionRE, but when I went to PM and email PassionRE with questions both mail boxes were full and not taking any more messages anyway. Shorty's Racing

Stroker domes are better than the plate. More crank case pressure or something like that makes them work better. Most 4mm stroker cranks also use a 5mm longer rod. 795 series pistons are better than blaster pistons, bigger port windows I think. 795 series pistons are for use with the 5mm longer rod (wristpin is 5mm closer to the dome) and then you will still need the stroker domes or plate to account for the extra 4mm in piston travel and the correct squish.

Not necessarily. From results we've seen from banchetta's stroker and passions motor's I'd say yes bigger is better. But the 4 mil stroker I'm having built by shortys racing, they say will run optimum with a 28mm carb even with an aggressive dune port like I'm going for. They said with a full drag port on the 4 mil stroker bigger carbs would be better though. Shorty's racing does a tripple port on the exhaust side though, vs passions 12 port has the tripple port on the intake side so I think passions motors like to breath in a bit more air and fuel with the tripple port on the intake side, but with the tripple port on the exhaust side you get a better super charging effect because its able to ram more air into the cylinder on the exhaust side before the piston closes the exhaust port. I think the exhaust tripple port may make for a more efficient motor, but I cant say from experience yet, we shall see soon!

Shorty's racing lightens flywheels for $35. Portland Oregon Boonman may do a better job, I duno, but for me it saves a lot on shipping to only send it to the west coast vs east coast.

Yikes! I think check forgery is a felony. Boy, she has screwed herself and everyone around her plus threw away her second chance. Sorry to hear about this. What a mess.

Does my avitar count? Nope, straight up pasty white cracker here.

My dad has a 89' chevy 2500 2wd with about 260,000 miles. New motor at 215k because he would let it sit and idle for hours on end so the crank bearings wore out. It would have lasted a lot longer otherwise. That thing was flawless for the first 100k so a warenty wouldn't have done much good. His 98' 2500 4wd has had the manifold problem and some other stuff so an extended warrenty would have payed off. The new chevys seem to have a lot of pieces that cost a lot that I think are engineered go bad. I think the 5.3 OHC motor internals will last forever though just as good or beter than the 350ci.

You cant beat the sound of a tight V8 with flowmasters, no question, but pull up next to me with your Mustang GT or Camero SS while I'm in my 3500lb 2.0L 4-bangin AWD ricer runnin my 50 trim Garrett turbo and your about to get spanked. If corners are involved... Good by, see ya later. Tubo cars dont sound like they are running a fart can either, but not as appealing as a V8, but the sound of a hard spooling turbo and the blow off valve is pretty friggin cool.

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You need to go to sears or most any hardware store and get an "ease out" or screw extractor. Looks kinda like a square shaped (tapered) center punch with sharp cutting edges. You will need to get the appropriate size according to what size the broken bolt is, close enough will work, doesn't have to be exact. You will need to also get the appropriate size drill bit for the screw extractor. You drill into the shaft of the broken bolt as centered as possible and however far is needed so the screw extractor will go into the hole. Give it a very light tap to wedge it in the hole. Use a socket and wratchet and turn the screw extractor very slow and steady at first. You will feel it bite into the metal of the bolt shaft and get real solid. Hopefully as you apply some pressure the bolt will break free and turn out easily after that point. A good idea is to spray some penetrating solvant type oil on it first to help loosten it up. WD-40, free all, KY, somthing like that. Good Luck

I've heard some pretty funny jokes about government workers, especially about Cal Trans, being that I'm a government employee for Cal Trans. A civil engineer buddy of mine from when I was in school that now works in the private industry sent me this joke. Pretty funny shit. Lets hear your government worker jokes. Subject: Smart Cat Four men were bragging about how smart their cats are. The first man was an Engineer, the second man was an Accountant, the third man was a Chemist and the fourth was a Government Employee.... To show off, the Engineer called to his cat, "T-square, do your stuff." T-square pranced over to a desk, took out some paper and a pen and promptly drew a circle, a square, and a triangle. Everyone agreed that was pretty smart. But the Accountant said his cat could do better. He called his cat and said, "Spreadsheet, do your stuff." Spreadsheet went out into the kitchen and returned with a dozen cookies. He divided them into 4 equal piles of 3 cookies each. Everyone agreed that was good. But the Chemist said his cat could do better. He called his cat and said, "Measure, do your stuff." Measure got up, walked over to the fridge, took out a quart of milk, got a 10 ounce glass from the cupboard and poured exactly 8 ounces without spilling a drop. Everyone agreed that was good. Then the three men turned to the Government Employee and said, "What can your cat do?" The Government Worker called to his cat and said, "Coffee Break, do your stuff." Coffee Break jumped to his feet, ate the cookies, drank the milk, shit on the paper, screwed the other three cats, claimed he injured his back while doing so, filed a grievance report for unsafe working conditions, put in for Workers Compensation and went home for the rest of the day on sick leave. My friends comment: so where does your cat fit in all this, being you work for the government and you are an engineer?

They do, its called fuel injection. The carb can't presuized the fuel in the bowl or it would just run into/flood the cylinder with fuel without the motor even running. That's why the floats in the bowl shut off the flow of fuel into the bowl when it is full. You can put an inline fuel pump in front of a carb but it is only to fill the bowl with fuel faster. Fuel siting in the carb bowl is drawn into the carb by the air passing over the pilot and main jet via the venturi effect. The needle is not a jet, it is a means of limiting the fuel that can flow through the main jet when the throttle is from 0 to 3/4 open. That is why it is part of the jetting circut, but it is not a jet that flows fuel.