FireHead

Oh come on, somebody has to want to sell me there Banshee. I haven't seen a a thing on eBay or Craig's List for over a month.

Did I post something wrong..............? I posted in this thrad without readiong the entire thing first. Besides, I am not sure that is a Ricky Stator kit that Jay has.

Some people say you need to have the gas in the fridge with the beer. Thus, a 300X bottle wouldn't fit. I personally, don't mind warm gas. The hang up is that most steel mix gas isn't pure CO2 and certainly isn't clean. I am not sure what happens when you try and MIG weld with a pure, medical grade CO2 as a shield gas. You should try it and let me know, that may speed up my purchase of a keg fridge. I think I want a TIG welder though and I never had much luck with steel mix in one of those.

A good chrome guy is hard to find, as are coating and heat treatment folks. SoCal is particularly bad as there are alot of places that do the work, but not many of them are any good.

If your buddy bought it, then it's a different story. However, you don't have to machione the valves yourself. All of the parts you need except the refridgerator and the keg tap are sold at your local welding supply store. A tap handle for the door is available from a ton of places for not much cash. :geek:

That's Jay from San Diego. His user name on here is jay750x or something like that. :thumbsup:

http://kegfridge.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv...Category_Code=K This is basically what I will be buying sometime near the end of summer. :geek:

When I was in college I used to make them out of Goodwill refrigerators that worked, but did not smell like a dead body, a converted rental keg tap, and about $20 bucks worth of welding supply parts and an out of cert. medical CO2 tank (usually free at the welding store). For a $60 bucks you could make yourself a really nice one, and you could tip me $100 for not kicking you in the nuts for not engineering that yourself. :biggrin:

I can't help you with that, but can I interest you in some a sarcastic comment or some verbal abuse instead? :yelrotflmao:

JUst in case this issue is still open. The Warrior and Banshee swingarm bearing kits from Pivotworks are exactly the same except for the bearing race tube. The Warrior bearing race tube is about 25mm longer than one for a Banshee. I know this because I just bought a kit for a Warrior as it was what a shop had when I was there. I got home, tried to install it and thus learned why I shouldn't be listened to. I will be canvasing the Portland area looking for a Banshee kit today. ::

LoL :yelrotflmao: :yelrotflmao:

Those weld areas were not cleaned properly. Maybe you can hire a mexican to polish it for you. :biggrin:

I heard about it. It was started by a few folks that got tired of the grown up Bluetraxx style crap over on PS. I am waiting to join after I see if it is going anywhere.

There is a guy floating around here with user name of Cosmic Quads or something like that. http://www.cosmicquads.com I haven't used his services yet, but I believe I am going to. I think he sell the foam.

You need to get a better side shot of the bike. They might be FMF Hi-Rev's. That reminds me that I need to buy a set of them to hang on my wall. :geek:

I thought the shaft on the petcock was sealed with an o-ring. I could be wrong. It has been a long time since I took one apart. :geek:

What kind of AV fuel are you running?

I actually disagree to a certain extent. The AV gas you are using could very well be degrading the o-ring in the petcock (funny word). I don't remember what type of Av gas is being used in this case. Certain types of AV gas to not work and play well with buna n material type seals. :geek:

The Sidewinder Ti-Moly parts are good.

I think Bansh-eman on here might be selling his. It's barely used. :biggrin:

To make sure we are straight.......................I just voice my indifference on the issue, nothing negative towards you. I think a few other folks got out of hand though.

I am really not into him trying to burry his treasue chest in anyone's backyard.

That's weird, Bansh-eman thinks I am a pirate hooker.

I agree as I generally do not use the term "always" if at all possible. If I remember, I will see if I can put something together with regard to silicon content of several pistons for a given engine. I will need to row my way through a bunch of the boxes that came out of my office when I moved, but I am pretty sure I have quite a few metrogical reports on various pistons. Hopefully, I got the point across that I was speaking to a performance oriented mission critical application. If I had a relatively stock engine, and wanted Jim-Bob at my local machine shop to do the machining work, then you had better believe I am putting a set of Pro-X pistons in the holes. The other thing I would like to float across here is that if you have a choice between a forged piston and a piston made from a billet, I would always choose the billet piston. Much of the higher end racing engines in a wide range of series use such a thing. NASCAR is particularly retarded as JE is a corporate sponsor of the series's and makes it real tough to use anything else. Of course we did, CP and Mahle were always somewhere in the top 20 numbers dialed on my Blackberry when I was at TRD. To compound things, I did not have a very good relationship with a couple people on the engineering side (or atleast that's what they call themselves) at JE. They got all butt hurt when I suggested that Probe Pistons, a small company down the street in Huntington Beach, had more going for it then they did (not necessarily true as JE is owned by PMI, but I was trying to get the point across that "accidentally" not inspecting a batch or two of pistons, which was clearly defined in our PO was not acceptable).

Disadvantages are: decreased reliablility, poor ring engagement, increased skirt wear, increased wrist pin misalignment. IF a piston is wearing out a cylinder wall something is wrong. This piston is always the sacrificial entity in the rotating assembly. I don't know where you got your silicon information from. I am not sure I can even speak to it. If want to talk about alloys that pistons are made of that's fine, but there is absolutely no way you can truthfully say a cast piston always has more silicon in it. For piston to function, you really only need a trace amount of silicon in the alloy, but you'll need to treplace it with something such as titanium, etc. :geek: