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I would love to try Redline oil sometime...but, it's not as easy to get as walking into a store to pickup SuperTechniplate. I've run Benoil in the past and currently run supertechniplate. I run the super because it stays mixed with methanol in colder temps. Sheefreak is right, you do not need to purge with race fuel. I've always used 87 or 92 octane (whatever I bought for my lawn mower/weedeater...lol) Here is the critical part, though. Make sure you use the same oil in your purge mix as you do methanol. My first year on alky I used benoil in methanol and R50 in my purge gas. R50 is NOT methanol compatible, and when the purge gas mixed with the alky and oil in the carbs it gummed them up something fierce. I run methanol at 28:1 and my purge fuel at 20:1. I recently started using Uplon as my purge oil. It's "upper end" lube for 4 strokes on methanol. Aside from being a secondary lubricant it also cleans the residue from methanol (it's corrosive, big time). No lubrication issues yet... Quite a few guys here run 20:1, it's easy...you just dump a quart into 5 gallons. Like any other fuel/air mixture component, you just have to jet accordingly to it, that's all.

I know Kevin Gigot has had good luck with EFI on a banshee. I can't tell you if he's used a turbo before...I don't know. But he's a mad scientist type guy that does most, if not all of his own R&D work. Great guy....just a wealth of knowledge. If you hit a stumbling block on the EFI...hit him up. He's not the secretive type person, he wants the sport and it's technology to grow where everybody benefits from it....

One of the biggest issues even Dan Hull has with his turbo motors is keeping it in tune. If the temp changes 10 degrees...it changes things. They are a bear to tune. However... Johnson is putting fuel injection on it. I really, really want to see how this works out. I would rather see a fuel injected turbo bike make pass after pass then a carb's turbo or even a bike spraying a shit ton of Nitrous. Keep up the good work...I'll be following this through completion as well. Don't use Photobucket...their pictures expire. I've been using imageshack.us for years...easy, free, no sign up and they don't expire.

Good luck getting 90ish to hook in the trails....especially in a 2 stroke power delivery.

No. Indexing plugs is old school on cars... It doesn't make a difference on your motor.

With FMF pipes and Pod filters? Yes. 25 is stock. FMF pipes generally like a fatter pilot. Is it really cold where you ride? Like...50 degrees or colder? What is your altitude? One step up from stock is 27.5, the next is 30. At the very least, I would buy a pair of 27.5 pilots for that bike, turn the air screws out 1.5 turns from lightly seated...and try it again. If you had an airbox with no lid, I'd try the 25 pilots and turning the air screw in. With pods...I'd go richer.

I'm not trying to be a smart ass...please don't take it that way (I don't know how to type to show my tone or attitude) I'd bet if you talked to 10 of the top builders, 9 of them (one of them might be hungover) would tell you that 80:1 is a bad idea. There is also research showing oils (all, conventional and synthetic) will make more power all the way up to 16:1...after that, the increase is negligible. I know your drag bikes are on gas, for two reasons... They wouldn't last at 80:1 on methanol and amsoil doesn't make a premix compatible with methanol.

That is exactly what I've found. Either your an amsoil dealer or someone's buddy is. It's like they give out dealer cost/product as often as Brittney gives you a shaved up the skirt shot...everyone's seen it....

I run only ES plugs. If you lean out, it'll burn the strap off most of the time and do no damage to the motor. i've seen the EGV, EG, etc. lean out and break a motor instead of smoking the strap. You need to make a few passes to get a heat reading on the plug. Start pig fat...and slowly lean down until it pull strong. It's too cold to hit my garage to show you what a good alky burning plug should look like. This is not my picture....but this is roughly how you want the plugs to look after a few passes. You can see the plating burning off from the ground strap. 3 o clock and 9 o clock are optimal. You also want the ground strap burnt right about to the bend. That's how you judge timing. The plug on the right is a new plug for reference...btw.

I had 2 97 CR 250s and I absolutely loved that motor. It ripped. First ever aluminium frame for the production bikes...it lead the way for what all the others are doing now....

I know badass lives in Brighton, MI. About 45 minutes or so East of Lansing. I'm not 100% certain the hoist is at his house, might be at a shop or friend's place. But my bet would be very close if not in Brighton, MI.

In my opinion, the only time you need a castor based oil is if you run methanol for fuel. It stays mixed better...and methanol is corrosive, unlike gasonline...so you need the extra lubricant. For a gas motor, Super M, R50, Golden Spectro...they're all good. I personally think Amsoil is a joke for two stroke premix and gear/trans oil. But like any other oil, it has it's band of faithful....nothing wrong with that. A good mixture of 32:1 or 40:1 for a gas motor jetted and tuned properly and you'll have no oil/fuel related problems for a long time. I've never, ever heard of benoil separating in gas. The only time I've heard it separating is in very, very low temps...which Klotz even tells you. I use SuperTechniplate which has castor in it...but stays mixed at lower temps. I use it in my methanol bike and in my other gas powered engines (my mini 50cc pit bike, chain saw, weed eater, etc.) In those small motors that don't turn a lot of RPM, you don't want to mix it to rich, stay 40:1 or so. They don't turn the RPMs or build the heat to burn off the oil....

Are all the wires disconnected as well, aside from the mechanical boxes that were on top the carbs? I worked on an 01 that I had to cross the wires coming off the parking brake to close the loop. Normally, if it runs good at mid and upper RPMs it's not electrical/spark related. Normally.... I would guess it's one of three problems, starting with the most unlikely Slides in the wrong carbs, the half moon cutout must face the airbox. Choke tube disconnected or sucking air, cracked, etc. Carbs need to be sync'd. You can normally eyeball them pretty close. Jeff at FAST sells a tool that actually gets them dead on, it's called a syncrometer. It measures the vaccum pull at the carb. You set them at idle and again at about 1/3 throttle....and you're good to go. What pilots are in the bike? What are the air screws at? If you check the sync and it's good, remove the carbs, remove the bowls, remove the pilots and take a fine speaker wire and some brake clean and clean the pilots real good. They have tiny holes a grain of sand, literally...can plug. And that can quite easily cause cutting out at idle to 1/8 or 1/4 throttle or so.... Try this. Warm the bike up...then pull the chokes half way. It it runs much better, you have a fuel/jetting issue off the bottom (pilot and air screws). If it falls on it's face...and is blubbery...that's not the issue (again, check everything else out first...)

I will see JD at the track sooner or later...thanks for the quick response. My fullbore is easily 3-4 times thicker.. Light, but not what I'd call flexible...

Not to be a thread killer...how thick are these things? JD...I'm gonna have to see yours. I hate my fiberglass fullbores. Pain in the ass to put on...fit like pooh...

Eddie, First thing you need to to do is physically unplug the TORS. I promise they cause more headache than they're worth. Unplug the wires going to the brain under your gas tank, tops of the carbs, clutch and throttle. See if that fixes the cutting out problem. The main jets have little to no effect on the low end unless they're WAY, WAY off...and I think you're ball park.

That was NOT the game I was expecting...but I'm sure happy about the outcome. I'm sick of Manning this, Manning that...greatest ever. I'm a huge Patriots Fan, and how can Manning even be mentioned in the same breath as Brady? Last I checked, 3 super bowl rings in 4 tries over a 7 season period. With a different cast each time... I was expecting a 3-5 point victory by Indy, but was hoping for a Saints win. It was great to see them both air it out. 1 sack and 1 INT. Talk about efficient QBs... And Sean Payton made some of the gutsiest calls I've ever seen in a SB. Where Bellichick does just enough to win, Payton did it his way, live and die by the sword. I thought after owning Indy the 2nd qtr. and not wanting Manning back on the field to start the 3rd, that onside kick was BRILLIANT. Great game... New Orleans won't sleep or be sober for a few weeks!!

There's a LOT of sleds. It's a fundraiser more than anything, and it's run by volunteers. They were talking about this over on PS...

Dear Penis was actually sung by Rodney Carrington. He has some funny ass shit out there. Do a search for him, "Show them to me". Here ya go. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zf80jYNg8Og

F your Cheifs.... LIONS baby. We not only set the bar for losing, we set it HIGHER each and every year. Those guys work hard at finding new ways to lose all the time....

After seeing more pictures of that cub, I'll offer $150.00 for it shipped. It will need 500 bucks worth of work from Millenium to fix the cylinder, replaced the broken off skirt and strip then plate the cylinders. You can get a new cub cylinder for 875, never ran. I'm not trying to be a douche or low baller, I just can't see buying a trashed cylinder knowing you have to sink money into it...vs paying a couple hundo more for a brand new one. Let me know....

What stroke/bore is that cub cylinder setup? Does it need a "sleeve" or does it need replating? More pics please.

Not to mention domes are a little easier to come by on the 68 bore too.

I've gone back and forth on Farve. I liked him, I didn't...I do again. There is one thing no one can dispute at all...that his how tough he is. Picked up off the floor a few times and he still played the whole game. The guy is the iron man of the NFL in a position (QB) that usually makes babies and premadonnas out of grown men. It was 100% his fault what happened in Green Bay. He retired, they moved on to a younger QB then he wanted to be dealt in the game again. However... After paying one year with the Vikes and coming in late...he was one game away from the SB...so, he made the right choice in the end. I just don't like how that choice got played out.

Brees might have ended up with the best QB rating, but Indy's offense was ranked 1st overall. That takes into account what happens after the ball leave's the QB's hands via back or a receiver. Offense was Colts, Chargers, Vikings, Cowboys then Saints.