The Faster Cracker

i have the ITP Trac Star in 23" on the front and i put some 18" rears on that i got for 40 bucks just for the hell of it. Yeah those 18s were not worth a darn but it kinda looked cool especially with 10" rear wheels! Kinda had a TT look. anyways, i'm liking those 23s. i needed the clearance as well. once the shee is converted to a full drag bike i will go to something smaller and lighter for sure but for now as long as it is round and holds air it works for me

so i recently stripped 3rd 5th and 6th gears. i took all the gears off and of both axles to check them out. i replaced the damaged gears and replaced the bearings as well. when i had the tranny sitting in just the bottom case everything spun smooth. like a dumbass i didnt try shifting through the gears though. shift forks are lined up correctly. though only thing i did notice wiht the top case still off is that there was some slack when you would turn the gears before the second axle would catch up. i put the top case on and when i bolt it down it wont shift out of third and when you spin the drive sprocket there is a catch. it will stop the rotation but you can turn past it with a little more force. any ideas?

so i am going to either order a stock tranny or straight cut gears from jeff at FAST tommorow. Question?: Why would i want to run straight cut gears? Is it worth the price diffrence? What gains are there? What disadvantages are there?

i need a whole tranny or if you can part with jsut the 3rd or 4th gear wheels i need some bad. they are on backorder from yamaha. thanx

ok so yall might know that i jsut got my banshee running again. (pinched stator wire caused cdi and coil failure) So i got it fixed and we went riding Sunday. Didn't ride it to hard just a little wheelie stuff and drag racing. riding back from my buddies house where we were riding back to the house about 5 miles on some back back, back roads. i get about a mile from the house and the rear locks up and i hear a grinding noise from the tranny. i wasn't full throttle top gear. just varying thru the throttle range and gears riding easy. i get the motor torn down tonight to find 3 gear wheels stripped. IF it werent for bad luck i wouldnt have any at all! everything else is fine though. any ideas on what might have happened? should i go back with OEM gears or is there soemthing better?

runs great. seems to hit a wall though on the top end the higher the curve i set with the cdi though

ok so i got everything fixed. thanks everyone for the help. it turned out to be the red wire coming out of the stator. it had a small cut in ti and it was to the back of the wire. i checked it earlier but did not see it. i noticed the next time when i was going to go and take the adjustable timing plate off. cost me a coli and cdi! oh well. once again thanks for everyones help

Get you a bottle of "Colonel Brassy" and a can of "Major Shine". Colonel Brassy and Major Shine. It took off the surface rust and most of the pitting, Colonel Brassy that is, and the Shine, well put a damn good shine on it. And its like 30bucks for both. or at least thats what we sell it for. Shit is so good that you dont hae to even use a rag to get the rust off. It will come off jsut using your finger and you dont have to have elbow grease to do it either. I had mine done in 20 minutes, both pipes! Shoot me a pm if you want and ill give wou some before and after pics. i can ship to if you want to but some

UPDATE: Everything checked outas far as electrial goes. i also replaced the coils, plug wires and caps. the only thing not tested was the cdi. I jsut got the Dynatek in that i ordere but i am not sure what the three extra wires are for. They are black, brown and blue. the stock cdi only had the the two terminal plugs and thats it. where do the three wires hook up?

Ok so i repalced the coil. Primary coil is has been OHMed twice and it checks out. all grounds are good. all connections in wiring harness are good. still ahve intermitent to no spark and any spark is weak. Going to replace the CDI with a Dynatek. Any opinions on Dynatek? also noticed there seemed to be a bit of rust or some kind of buildup on the inside of the rotor. couldnt pull it off since i didnt have the puller. it would throw a few sparks out fo the rotor/stator

thats next. doing this in between dealing with customers

as the title states is there so much as to much timing. I was wondering if yall think that running plus 5 degrees on the timing is to much for a stock head? Yes i do have the spacer gasket to run the stroker crank. Im running VP but i have to switch to pump gas with amsoil ocatne boost casue my fuel supplier quit carrying the stuff. Do i need to back off on the timing or what? stock head stock jugs

Well i found out what it was. My coil went bad. Threw me for a loop since it was running one minute then not the next. Oh well. thanks for the help AKheathen I was wondering if yall think that running plus 5 degrees on the timing is to much for a stock head? Yes i do have the spacer gasket to run the stroker crank. Im running VP but i have to switch to pump gas with amsoil ocatne boost casue my fuel supplier quit carrying the stuff. Do i need to back off on the timing or what?

Ok so I jsut put the banshee back together. I put my coolhead on and adjustable timing plate at plus 5 degrees. Runs great. It starts frist kick and we start and stop it about 15 times. Load it up and bring it home to my house from my buddys and replace the spark plugs just to do it. I went to a BR7ES from the 8. Would not start. So we pull it behind another four wheeler and it starts but if the RPMs drop to low it bogs and it wont rev back up. I think it is a few prob so i pull both carbs and clean them. They are now cleaned and synched once again. still wont start. If it does happen to start by kickstarting it is ever so breif and it just dies out. Next thing i check is spark. no spark on left side. Dissconect TORS and and check that pickup coil and timing plate are still together since i just replaced them. Pick up coil is good, timing plate is still at plus 5 degrees. come to find out that the left side plug was bad. replace plugs and go back to BR8ES. Spark looks weak. Notice that spark plug caps are a tad loose on top of plug. ( they have been like that for about the past 20-30 hours of engine run time and have not given me a problem - could they be presenting a problem now?) still have to pull start it, wont kick start. While engine running can hear pinging in exhaust adn the engine misses on both cylinders. still seems to have good power but once again if the rpms got to low and you gave it gas it would bog the engine and die. I am headed out to work and on the way i am going to get some new spark plug caps and replace them to see if that would help. Is it possible that the timing plate is out of adjustment? OH- I did put my stock head back on because i screwed up the o-rings for the cool head and did not have any replacements. so i am running the advance timing wiht a stock head. is that bad or good? the engine is a 4 mil +5 stroker on stock cylinders. As i said i have a race this weekend and it would be great if i could get it running. I would appreciate any help yall could give me. If if it is to say that i am a dumb ass. Im starting to stress out about the damn thing not running

Ok so i have encountered a new problem. I have the 17t front and 40t rear on there and now I can not get a chain to fit. Stick length is 104 for the chain but it is to short. I tried a 106 cut i dont have enough adjsutment to get enough slack out of the chain! any ideas?!

Ok so i just put on my adjustable timing plate on and have it set at plus 5. I also put on some 18inch tall tires which i think was a mistake but to make up for it i changed the gearing. I went to a 17t front and a 40t rear. The weather here has been shitty and im still putting of the diffrent dome for the cool head for the 4mil stroker. I havent been able to run it yet to find out what it is going to be like. Does this gearing sound ok to yall? I should have enough engine to turn it i think. I just want top end speed is all. Any ideas? comments?

will modquad domes for a 4 mil stroker work in a pro design cool head?

hmmm......... maybe so. tell me more please

so i am looking for some old motorcycles that might be basket cases but can run with out extensive engine building ( i am on a budget). preferabbly yamaha or suzuki but beggars cant be choosers! hit me up if you or you know anyone that has something like that

Did you try asking politely for it to quit acting up? J/K Double check that your parking brake is not set. Maybe its the rev limiter?

mods to my banshee: 4mil +5 stroker semi rusty fmf gnarly's stock head, cylinders, and bore vf3 ITP holeshots (not really impressed) and a Red Bull stickers (it gives you wings mutha Fu*ka) thats it. and i waigh about 60 pounds more than him to

nope, there is a guy about 30 miles from here that has a r6 powered trailblazer. he wants to get that

Ok so i dont get to post alot about this kind of thing casue everyone else i ride with has bikes like a 400ex or blaster or z400. so no point of burning up the keyboard about it. until this past weekend! Out at Mudbuddy's and of course i am the only one there again on a banshee or aby kind of serious sport quad for that matter until this guy rolls up with a YFZ450. looks kinda decked so i igured i would end up lining up with him by the end of the day. so we line up on the strip which is about 300 feet and loose loose sand. we launch and i proceed to walk away from him in the most beautiful of fashions. launching in second gear i managed to spin enough to dig down to the wetter sand to get traction almost instantly. i proceed to nose up and it keeps coming up but it timed out perfrectly to where when i needed to back off to keep it from coming over it was time to shift. did the same thing trough fourth gear and left it there grabbed fifth just to screw around. always beat him by atleast 3 lengths except for one time when i missed a gear. what makes it even better is that we had to go about 15 times. when he had enough he came up and said that i had a fast bike and all that stuff and asked me if i want to buy his YFZ from him because its for sale now! I have never been able to in my whole life been able to say that i had something so bad ass to make someone sell ther stuff because i embarrased him that bad. I know this sounds corny but it almost kinda brings a tear to my eye to see the fruits of my labor pay off. here is the link to his craigslist posting. guy selling his YFZ

what kind of silencers are those? they fit a banshee?

cool thanx man