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thats me on an old junky mower i got for free and decided to mod a bit. change the pulleys between the engine and the trans. then you can do 20-30-40mph like me. just have to get a bigger pulley for the engine, and a smaller one for the trans. probably have to redo the idlers too but it isnt much work.

tell me about it. i run in sand too and scratch the shit out of my toomey hush kit by doing wheelies. i went so far as bending the center silencer out of shape during one praticular wheelie. i was actually going down the street scraping away at the grab bar and hush kit i was that vertical. i think it would be easier to cut the stinger tubes which are in front of the silencers in order to shorten them a few inches. then just fab up some new silencer hanging brackets. i made my brackets out of an old car tyre, for vibration resistance. its like a rubber hanger on an automobile. it seems to really help with the noise.

riding banshee is like having very dirty very rough sex with a hot girl. i guess that would describe any 2 stroke though. you can sit there in 3rd gear just plotting along at low rpm and floor it. you wait paintly as the revs slowly build untill the engine beliefly studders as it comes into its proper power range and then bam you are going sideways and wondering if you are going to crash into someones house. you slam it through the rest of the gears and in a very short number of seconds youre pushing 90 in an area that is really designed to be rode through at 30. it gets scary real fast. thats the thing about banshee. it can go faster than you want under most any condition so you have to keep alert. its great for someone like me who doesnt really jump too much. i just kind of fuck around on some higher speed smooth trails on the weekend. consider it duning but with trees and other obsticles in the way. the banshee is generally considered by most to be an antiquated machine as far as its suspension goes. so if youre into big jumps or running on motocross tracks, the banshee might not be for you. earlier this year when i bought my banshee at the yamaha dealer, the salesman asked me why did i want a banshee? i replied with: "i like to go full throttle and full brake and anything else is nonsence." he then remarked that a banshee is probably the right quad for me afterall.

canyncarvr, read this. http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/straw-man.html thats all i have to say on this discussion.

this is true. you can think of a banshee, or any 2stroke for that matter, as literally a supercharged engine. the exhaust pipes literally act as a supercharger to force more air into the engine than it could normally get on its own. why would anyone want to run high compression heads on a supercharged engine? doesnt make much sence to me. (unless you run alchy) thats counterproductive to gaining power. its the reason why the stock banshee has only a 6.5:1 compression ratio. if you go to some aftermarket websites who make banshee heads, none of them talk about proper squish design, theory and practice. i havent found one yet that says anything about their squish. just more billet bling to slow ya down and burn a hole in ur wallet. but this is sadly, the normal thing to do because more people dont even know what squish is. they just think (higher compression-more power) when it simply isnt true.

lets give the guy some credit, he DID sucessfully do a motorswap. it sucks that he downgraded to that motor, normally people upgrade motors. ill bet he had this banshee chassis, and that honda motor with nothing to put it on. but atleast he did something with a banshee chassis that would have otherwise just sat behind someones garage and rusted away to nothing. most people would throw it away or let it rot.

the flywheel pullers make it easy but if you are not planning on doing flyheel work very often then you can save the price of a puller by using 2 small screwdrivers to GENTLY pry at the backside of the flywheel, and then with a 3rd set of hands place a brass drift on the crank and lightly wack it with a small ball peen hammer. the key here is not to use much force. let the inertia of the endplay of the crank seperate its self from the flywheel.

be carefull because that acid will eat the aluminum waterjacket, head, etc just as easy as it will eat the aluminum off the cylinders. ive used muratic acid before for other, non related things. its some nasty stuff. if you get a little wiff of it in youre lungs youre bodys reaction is to breathe out quickly and uncontrolled. its weird.

nothing wrong with doing what the manual says. afterall they are the ones who made the banshee.

you must CLEAN the handlebars to get rid of any dirt, grease oil etc, then hit em with some light sandpaper only where the grips cover them up. next clean the crap out of the grips to get rid of any grease, oil dirt etc from the inside. finally put a few drops of superglue onto the inside of each grip, spin the grip so the superglue goes all the way around. install, come back in 30 mins. there you go.

is this the weight of a fully dressed engine complete with airbox, radiator, hoses etc, ? i mean the rad is part of the engine. the engine cant run without it. likewise the carbs, airbox, filters, etc...

not that i know of. my family owns and rents out houses to people. each time a person applies to move into one of our rentals we do a full background check on each persons name that will be on the lease as well as anyone else thats going to be living there additionally, kids are excluded though. i havent found a free background check website yet, but if there is one id like to know about it as well.

if only a $307 loss puts you in debit to the point where you cant pay youre every other month electric bill, maybe you should sell off a banshee. believe me i dont mean to offend ya, but bills should awalys come before pleasure and you should awalys have enough $$$ on hand to pay bills atleast 6 months in advance.

most people dont actually calculate it these days(not sure if thats what you meant or not) , its far simpler to google a compression ratio calculator and just plug in the numbers.

im sure thart his race team adjusted the jetting to compensate for changes in oil ratio, so what you say makes sence. but lets not forget that nobody leaves power laying on the table, espically easy to get power.. if theres a scrap of power to be had by doing something as easy as running at 16:1 compared to lets say 50:1 or 100:1 you can bet they are going to run 16:1 every time.

whats it worth? i have a complete hush kit, used but in mint condition. i am thinking of downgrading to a toomey non hush exhaust. i dont know how much louder ill be though.

alot of them grilles look like they block off more than 50% of the radiators cooling area. not good imo.

they prices are kind of high.

something i havent really got my head around is the idea that there is some benefit to running a 2 stroke lean on oil. whats the point? lets just say for sake of arguement that it doesnt hurt the motor and there is no ill effects. if you take an engine and do a compression test, then add a small dribble of oil down the sparky hole and do another compression test, the engine amlost awalys shows higher compression, because the excess oil helps to seal the rings. this makes sence because my brother in law was on a outboard race team in the late 70's early 80's and when i got my banshee he was talking to me about 2 strokes in general and told me that even in those watercooled marine outboards they found they awalys got more power using a richer mixture of oil. , they would run the mixture all the way down to 16:1 or even 12:1. he said running with that much oil in the gas made for problems like fouled plugs and such but it made the most power. they didnt run that rich if there was to be alot of lower rpm driving or technical turns and such. only on the higher speed courses, because those courses didnt foul plugs as easy. while im not suggesting anyone here go out and run their banshee at 12:1 fuel/oil ratio, i would suggest that 100:1 or 300:1 may not be the best way to make the most power. it sure would keep youre sparkplugs clean that i will admit, but plugs are cheap, a motor is not. nobody ever lost a 2 stroke because they put a little too much oil in their gas (wihtin moderation of course). having a little bit too much oil will foul a plug, maybe add some deposits to the engine, but it isnt gonna cause youre engine to burn out. maybe yamaha had it right when they wrote that they require the use of a 20:1 to 25:1 fuel/oil mixture as stated in the factory banshee user manual. come to think of it, i remember back in the days before 4 stroke motorcross bikes really took off, every 2 stroke would smoke pretty bad at the starting gate, even the amsoil bikes. i doubt they were running at 100:1. they smoked just as bad as anyone else.

ive awalys had good luck with chainsaw bar oil. its tacky as hell and alot cheaper than those speciality foam oils. i think a gallon or bar oil is about $2 at walmart.

ive been giving this some thought and i believe i am going to order that carbon fibre intake setup. is anyone else running it or will i be the first?

i seen some scary pictures of crank failures linked to amsoil 2 stroke oils on some snow mobile websites.. id be carefull running them. seems that amsoil doesnt protect so well and the cranks of a bunch of sleds rusted up and threw bearings.

in my thread here: http://www.bansheehq.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=61368 i was inquiring about purchasing a shaved head. you replied with the words "didn't I send you one already?" which implied that you thought i was the one who screwed you out of youre shaved head. i hope you dont think that was me who screwed you, because ive never talked to ya before or set up any kind of deal with you. good luck getting youre money though.

so you guys all think ill be ok to lose the snorkel? i guess im a little scared of that. i sometimes hit deep water at 20-30mph, it nearly throws me over the bars and makes a HUGE wave of water that soaks the whole quad down. after a day of riding like that i have had 6-12 ounces of water in the bottom of the airbox sloshing around. ive also been known to make runs through water nearly carb high, and mud runs to the point where i get stuck.

i was wondering if anyone has hooked up a water vacuum gauge to the stock box to measure the restriction in the stock box, snorkel, etc, while riding around? i have t5's on my quad and because of the fact that i frequently cross water, mud etc, i feel i should keep the stock box and snorkel. however i wonder how much potential i am losing by keeping the stock setup.