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…meh…. So since your up to speed with the behind the scenes stuff….(And I understand and respect the desire to keep that private since it's personal) Any chance that the product delays in the Sniper camp are due to Gary waiting on Jim to swing by and do the welding? They may not be the same company….but I don't think Sniper would even exist if it wasn't for Passion. I know that when Stellar got swamped with work, he at least started a post to let people know he wasn't going to take any new work for a while because he needed to focus on current booked work. Sounds like even the Passion faithful are getting crickets when they try to contact him for a while now…..

There ^^^….fixed it for you.

If you can't contact a builder thru text, calls, or emails......either they don't want you as a customer....or they don't want any more customers. If you have a hard time just contacting them....think it thru to the next step....what if he had your motor right now?............ Do yourself a favor and call REDLINE RACING. See how his phone is doing. I bet it works fine. Even better. ...leave Jim a message with your number. Then call Cam at Redline and send him your motor......I bet Cam has your motor back to you before you even hear from Jim.

Well I have a key to the shop. I built the entire dyno cell and completely remodeled the shop. I dyno for free. People who mention me get a discount. I'll be attending the AMA Supercross race at Indy with vendor tickets. Did I sink my own money into the dyno? No. But I have thrown money, supplies and time into the shop as a whole to make having the dyno even possible. Not an owner, not paid staff, but definitely part of the Illinois Powersports family. So... i'm sure you have a place you consider "your ride spot" even tho you don't own it. So YES, that dyno is "my dyno".

What ratio you running?

Gotta kinda suck to drop coin on a 1134cc Scimitar, spend time tuning that beast and finding the sweet spot in your set-up only to find it can't draw a crowd. The Sportsman classes at an NHRA event have more butts in the stands…….. People will watch one of a 1/2 dozen top chef type cooking shows…..but nobody wants to see any racin' with roost. Sad. Sand drag racing……..drawing in spelling bee viewership numbers.

Still looking

Well the NHRA is a perfect shadow sport to compare to. In this economy, to see them struggle with fan involvement is an indication of the realities in trying to build a fan base from scratch. We are a cottage industry and 300' sand drags is a small niche in that. The only people who are doing the "watching" at the track are friends and family. Starting another website might somehow "unite the tribes" but the attendance numbers aren't going to change. If EVERYONE rallys around a race held somewhere and begins following a National tour......that just leaves even less riders home to support the local/nearest tracks that are already hurting. Heck, my plans to attend the LS ride will keep me and 5 other friends from paying the $20 each to the owners of the West Michigan Sand Dragway that weekend. Plus any other people we might have dragged along who might have entered or just bought food from the track grill. Not to mention the hotel we all usually stay at that weekend....

Woo Woo Girls are fun. Woo Woo Guys are just Ghey. Anything that has Woo Woo guys as cheerleaders in it is just lame ass, you had to be there…..and drunk, shit. But hey….glad YOU enjoyed it. ….meh….

FMF FATTYS are a great pipe. I know for a fact they can push over 70HP. They also offer great low end torque. I run them on my all purpose Banshee and that bike is killer as a dune bike as well as a woods/trails machine. (But ditch the stock silencers. If all you have is head pipes……that's not a sleeper….that's a bike that looks like it was built on the cheap.) Porting will make you awesome gains. You can make 70+ HP with stock carbs too. (So don't get caught up in the bigger carb hype) Get some porting, a cool head with domes your builder likes, do a billet water pump, get some good silencers, do the "Pro Mod" tranny mods if your opening the bottom end and then add some V-Force 4 reeds. Do a 27.5 pilot and a 290-320 main and have a blast.

Not for your reading level. Please select less challenging text. NOTE: There were more than a few others who got a little "Windy" with their response. One even called himself on it. LOL

I'm still bored. Welcome to the site. LOL

Big name sponsors aren't reluctant to finically back 300' sand drags due to safety. The issue is the lack of interest. A sport doesn't "Grow" because a sponsor feeds money into it. The sponsor puts his money behind it because it already has a large growing fan base. There are PLENTY of sports where safety gear or rules are lacking, yet they still have sponsor backing. The 2 sports that are the closest cousins to 300' sand drags are AMA MOTOCROSS and NHRA DRAG RACING. Chad Reed (22) Played the roll of human lawn dart last Saturday with a crash that broke a lot of bones. Safety gear???? Just helmet, boots and gloves. No neck braces. I'm a fan of the neck brace (Tho I do not own one at this time) But for a while AMA racers were moving towards more armor. Full knee braces, elbow guards, neck braces, etc. Now with the top riders are running minimal gear….the trend is back towards a stripped down amount of apparel. This lack of safety gear and the subsequent injuries to top riders is not a problem for the many sponsors of that series. Still, that racing series is filled with fans who are mostly riders themselves and even with them filling stands every weekend only see late evening media coverage for one day on cable. The outdoor series was spread over 2 networks with one showing heat one and the other showing heat two on different channels and at totally different times of day! NHRA has a HUGE fan base due to the fans ability to relate to the sport in their daily life as drivers of cars. It's had GENERATIONS of followers and tracks are spread all around the country. It's not a big effort to find an NHRA sanctioned dragstrip. The auto makers have fed the sport with HP wars over the years that help the grass roots involvement that starts with friendly stoplight runs between young drivers. Even with all that going for it, the sport is mostly filled with gear heads who have SOME level of a modded car of their own. Now lets look at 300' Sand Drags. 90% of people watching the races showed up with a racer or know one personally. 99% of the women fans are only there because the guy they are with is into it. The payouts are too low to reimburse the racers for the cost to drive to many of the events. Most tracks are on a complete shoe string budget. Some winners of a particular series championship simply showed up to more races than anyone else. Since east coast, southern, west coast racers can't afford to tour the country without loosing money doing it….you don't get a big national following, nor do you get to see just who is the fastest and how one region stacks up against another. (NFL and MLB at least have divisions that play for a final overall title.) There are no real classes. Sure they will limit cc size to build a class….but nothing like NASCAR where they specify wheelbase, engine, tires, minimum weight, etc. So you don't get a sense of "Rider Ability" it's more of a "Bike Ability" leaving many with the impression that wins are simply won by buying the most power or having the lightest bike/jockey. Light weight jockeys discourage fans from feeling like they personally could be part of the action. Then there is the time involved…..I go to 300' tracks and participate in the Friday "Test and Tune" and for $20 make sometimes as many as 15-20 runs from 5-9 pm. But I go to a track that's only a 5 minute drive from our dunes. So I get to ride the dunes from about noon till 4pm before going to the strip. Then I ride the dunes all day Saturday. I really don't have any interest in killing a weekend at a dragstrip to make minimal passes knowing I could spend my day actually riding instead of watching endless track prep….. I enjoy the track….be I would never build a track specific bike. I've been involved with this hobby/sport/lifestyle since the 80's. You wanna know how many times I've seen ANY kind of ATV drag racing on TV?……NEVER! I've seen swamp buggy racing, Top Fuel/Jet Boat drag racing, Snomobiles drag racing on grass, Bar Stool Racing….. HELL I've even seen CIRCULAR SAW DRAG RACING! So the fact that ATV drag racing can't find a following on TV…..but Curling in the olympics has days of coverage should be an eye opener. (The most I get is a quick 1/2 hour update on GNCC races from RacerTV and the swap every other weekend with the motorcycle coverage) Is there an action sport that RED BULL doesn't sponsor?……Yeah ATV racing of any kind. How many times does Travis Pastrana have to get a concussion or break himself before RED BULL runs away from the lack of safety? NOT GOING TO HAPPEN. So let's drop the notion that lack of safety is what's holding back ATV drag racing…….

You need to join us on some Silver Lake dune trips this summer.

You are running stock gearing and a stock size chain. Sounds like you took one too many links out. Remember, the chain tension is set with swing arm fully compressed. That's when the chain needs to be the longest, so THAT is the point to set chain tension. You can hook as classic red strap to the rear carrier and up to the rear grab bar to compress it and hold it there till you set the chain tension. Some gearing combos just don't work with the factory swing arm/carrier. So just add that link back in with a second master link. Then you have flexibility for most gearing combos.

If you have access to AV fuel....Run that. It's the same as 108 octane race gas.

Here is the thung about nitros.....it only has value on a pure drsg bike. Adding nitros in your bike would be a bad idea. The bike will be all wrong as soon as you hit the button. Right away your clutch gets fried, plug gap/heat range/timing all wrong, your gearing will be all wrong, tires too small, swingarm, etc...... Your bike is mostly stock, so chances are your carb tuning skills are not strong enough chase a nitros tune....... Bike on NOS are a waste without using them on every pass. NOS is NOT for a recreational machine.

^^^^THIS!!!!!!!! #1 reason I won't ride without one now.

And get some 27.5 pilots. That's the pilot size it needs.

Stock covers only work if you're running a slingshot lock-up. Arm style require a "Lockup cover"

Must be that size….might be willing to go with a 9" rim instead of the 8" Let me know if anyone has a set floating around.

Clymers manual is awesome…..but lists wrong clutch spring torque numbers.

thanks for joining…..just so you could sell your machine. A picture would be nice……...

[Regarding the Planet Sand flashback] At one point Planet Sand was open to everyone (Like HQ is now) Noobs could ask questions and the answers would start out basic, and by the time it was over you would have top builders voicing full dissertations on a concept. (They could be even longer winded than me since no one was trying to read that shit from a phone.) LOL Part of the vibe was that many of the people with knowledge were able to log on and answer questions and be respected for the valuable input. Once Planet Sand became a pay to play site, the noobs and lurkers disappeared and it turned into a chat room for the few racers in the sport. At that point two things happened….#1 people stopped offering good advice because it was just making the competition faster, #2 People (mostly fellow racers) stopped asking questions because they didn't want to look like they didn't know something. From then on it was just a racer chat room that was bound to fail as people lost interest.

ModQuad runs an entire company with that mentality. Unfortunately not all CNC programmers are equal. It's more important that the end product WORKS good rather than LOOK good. My ModQuad stator cover required major "Mods" to get the clearance needed for an advanced timing plate. Too many companies think they can copy others and succeed, yet use lesser quality aluminum or no quality control.