BigRed350x

check out the link in my sig for a bottom end walkthrough.

Hope you have good crank bearings, and get your crank welded up. Got a good clutch?

You can fix the kick-back breaking the clutch cover pretty easy. Machine the white polyurethane bushing down a few mm and weld a washer on the kicker shaft behind the poly bushing. The kick-back usually only happens with lots of timing advance though. Don't kick it like a sissy and it shouldn't be a problem. - Jared

I've got a cool head shell I'd sell ya for $50 shipped. You'd only need the studs, o-rings, and a domes... all of which can be purchased on cascadeinnovations.net for $105.95 Just throwing that out there... it would be cheaper than buying one new by quite a bit. - Jared

Say good-bye to your $$ this sport is expensive.

He was just giving me crap.

You might do a leak-down test again and see if its changed. You can also spray carb cleaner around the cylinders, gasket surfaces, head, stator, etc and see if it bogs when you spray it. If it does, you have a leak somewhere. Start swapping parts side to side and see if the problem jumps to the other cylinder. Swap your carbs side to side and see if the other side goes lean. Swap plug wires, reeds, etc. - Jared

Sure your fuel is good and you have good oil? Maybe you have a float sticking and when it sits for a while its filling up with gas and flooding it... Maybe try some different plugs. Checked your compression lately? What do your plugs look like? You could pull the carbs off and clean them real good. Check float height, etc. - Jared

Skip the whole trinity thing. Get a set of T5's, CPI's, Shearer, Snipers, Etc. There are a LOT of better pipes out there.

On most banshees you can bypass the key by shorting the two black wires together and shorting the two colored wires together. If I remember right they are something like brown and red on most wiring harnesses. - Jared

Put some rubber between the light and the frame mount, isolate the light from the vibration of the bike. Might help them last longer. The factory lights had huge rubber isolators in them. - Jared

Stock carbs... you're probably running out of fuel or your jetting isn't perfect. Do you have a pingel or do you still have the junk factory T in the fuel lines? I'd start by pulling the carbs off, clean the crap out of them, check your floats and put a pingel on it if you don't have one already. - Jared

Or are you out of the country? lol

No, I only run ATF in my bikes. Oil sucks wang.

Restricting or stopping the flow through the coolant system is going to cause cavitation @ the water pump. I would watch your pump for damge and keep an eye on the plastic gear inside the clutch cover. Both will wear quite a bit faster with cavitation. Another solution is to try and find a radiator from a dirt-bike. Quite a bit smaller. You could just swap radiators in the winter time to the smaller unit, which wouldn't dissipate as much heat as the stock radiator. - Jared

I don't see an adjustable timing plate in your signature. Do you have one? If not, give Kevin @ HJR a call and get one ordered. His number is in my signature. Great guy to deal with and good prices. If you don't have a timing plate, getting one and adding 4 deg advance will help out the bottom end a ton. - Jared

Link to Pics doesn't work.

Oh man, looking at all these covers makes me anxious to get mine! I can't wait man!

Yes, but only if you get the gold powerbands with the valves.

You don't need that vent at all. Almost all aftermarket clutch covers have it removed. I solder it shut on all the covers I have. You can get by just fine with the rear vent. - Jared

Sold! I need it for my back-in-time sale deals!

Check around, you can find them cheaper than that. I'd check the for-sale section here and see what you can find. I know you can get the outerwears way cheaper than that brand new. I think the most I've ever paid is $30 for a pair for brand new ones.

Thanks man! - Jared

Well maybe I want to go back in time and sell some stuff. lol

Tear it down and split the cases. See what you really have in there and get rid of any surprises from the previous owner.