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Yeah, I am 98% sure that's one of my old arms......... I'll see if I can find pictures of it on one of my bikes or when I was making it.

I saw that. I just didn't want to claim the arm as being one of mine if he had bought the bike from Maine.....

If you don't mind me asking, what approximate geographic location did you get the bike from? If that carrier doesn't have any engraving on it, and has tapered or cartridge style bearings, then there is a pretty good chance it's off of one of my old bikes. Do most of the fasteners on the arm look like they are alternatively marked aerospace grading types?

Generally, you want as little unsprung weight as possible (even on a car). You smooth out the ride with the design of the suspension, not unsprung weight. Unsprung weight is usually something you "deal with" instead of designing it into a suspension system.

Where did you come across that arm? I made a +4" arm for a stock carrier that looked kind of like that about 8 years ago and I let it go with my old yellow bike when I was still in skool..........

Word. In the world of engine development, Dynojets are the AMC Gremlins of the engine development world. They are better than nothing, they work the way they are supposed, but not without extra effort.........and rarely do any of them perform exactly the same. In other words, I might fiddle around with one, but I would never put my name on a sheet from one, and I would rather be doing better work with something else.

Not necessarily.......... It just means you have to run higher compression and/or some of artificial aspiration device.

Very nice........... I like.

So, you finally decided to look inside the cases on that thing........ Did you find the bag of marbles or BonBon's big black rubber dildo I left in there?

You need to try and show up there during the summer, when I might actually be in town..........

Two things (Dave noted both): 1.) The piston skirt broke for a reason. Most likely, the bore is out of round or not square to the crank (providing nothing else is wrong with the engine. 2.) You can't put a cast piston in a hole machined for a forged piston and vise versa (The machining spec. / tolerances are different).

Who is in the ass group?

Pro-X pistons are a great cast piston for OEM'ish engines.

They moved out of Portland a few years ago (now in Boring, along with JJ&A, Twister, Cascade, etc.). I haved talked to Eric since then and he seems to be doing pretty well. They moved because it's a more efficient place to do their type of business than in Portland.

Is Eric actually making these pipes or are they Shearer's with Cascade's new silencers on them? (I could be a month or so out of the latest Oregon ATV industry info stream........)

You have to get them from Works or one of their distributors. I know Cascade and several others should be able to sort something out for you if dealing with Works directly is not fast enough for you.

If anyone is interested here is exactly what I sent Jerry for feedback on the bowls that I purchased for my red bike. Keep in mind that this converstaion is meant to be between two engineering oriented folks, I am completely happy with my purchase, and I am still running these bowls: "I finally broke down and bought some of your float bowls. I am very happy with them and they are the best bowls I have seen on the market and I can say that having fooled with pretty much every bowl out there with the exception of K&T. I have even made several iterations of bowls myself that never made me really happy. With that said, I have one negative comment and two suggestions: *I only received one bowl drain screw. The one I did receive was a 10/32 screw and the bowl drains were tapped for M5x.08. I sorted this out without trouble, but someone else might not be happy about this. *It might look better if you included a button allen screw for the drain instead of a phillips head screw. *It might be nice to chamfer or deburr the top edges of the bowl itself as they are very sharp." Hopefully this helps some of y'all.....

The price is wrong bitch............

I am also looking for a seond set. I have the skills to make them, but they are made in such a way that they are not easy to make without the specialized aluminum bending equipment. I am still looking to shag a set off of eBay (paying twice what they're worth).

If ya need more, let me know.

Janssen should also have what you need if you want to keep the heims.........

Cascade makes them. They might be more than you want to spend. The covers are not on their website, so you'll have to call them.

DG and AC have made reasonable looking skides in the past.

I agree 100%.

I tend to disagree. Harkore Engineering has the best hubs out there for a Banshee IMO.