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the blue ice stuff is a coolant additive. You dont need to use it if you cant find any to buy. If you ever change your engine coolant, mix it 50% antifreeze and 50% distilled water. During the summer you can run more water, like 80% water. If you wanna keep using the blue ice, just read the directions on the bottle. Alot of us use this additive called Water Wetter, its similar to the Blue Ice product. Both are supposed to bring engine coolant temps down. Have fun with your new Banshee, if you take good care of it and join in the talk on this forum, your Banshee should last forever and spank all those cool 2001 Raptors. Time for a user name change maybe

Glad you asked. Soupies are nothing more than ground spiced pork\ham stuffed into casings and cured, soupies recipes are very guarded. I can give yas the basics, but nothing exact. Soupies are an Italian recipe, the full\real name for em is suprasatta, and I prolly spelled that wrong. Everyone just calls em soupies. Years ago only a few local guys made these soupies, but now-a-days there a alot of local guys making them. They are similar to pepperoni's. The local fire company holds their annual "soupie bowl" and contestants bring their best soupies to be judged. Makin' them is not an easy process, you get about 5 of your buddies together in January or February, a pile of beer and nice clean cold garage to work in. You cant just make 10 soupies, there's too much work involved to just making a few soupies. Last year we made over 300 for our crew of 5 guys. We all got about 55 soupies out of the deal. We made some "regulars" some "hots" and some "garlic", this year we made some using deer tenderloin. The process.... Buy a ton of pork. Grind up the pork in a meat grinder, catch it in 5 gallon buckets. When the 5 gallon buckets are full of ground pork its time to mix in the spices, the spices make or break the soupie and I wont tell yas what spices we use. Take a drill and mount a big badass paint mixer to the drill, proceed to mix in the spices with ground pork in the 5 gallon buckets. For 300 soupies you will need about 7 or 8, five gallon bucket fulls of ground pork. These things are very labor intensive. If you enjoy making home made beef or deer jerky, you'll enjoy and understand the work that goes into soupie production. Ok, after the soupies and spices are mixed, take the ground spiced pork and mash it through the meat grinder once again(second time through the grinder), but this time it doesn't go into a bucket, it gets stuffed into casings..... like a sausage.... or pepperoni. The casings need to be handwashed inside and out and we clean em with lemon juice. One or 2 guys will clean casing for 4 or 5 hours.... Now get one guy to feed the meat grinder, one guy is working the ground spiced meat into the casings and a third guy ties off the casings with string. Tying the casings is labor intensive and prolly the worst job. We take turns on all the jobs, but we heavily rotate the tying job, your fingers get sore and blistered from tying casings. Other guys are mixing meat\spices with the paint mixer, cleaning the casings, cutting string, or whatever. It took 5 of us to 2 full drunken nights to make 300 soupies, it takes atleast 5 more get togethers to finish the whole process. Ok..... once the ground spiced pork is in the casing it looks just like a fat round sausage. Soupies are on average 10 inches long and 2 to 3 inches in diameter. Tie off both ends of the casing with string. At this point the soupies are soft and tube shaped. Once you have all 300 or so soupies stuffed, you hang them by their strings off of nails on the rafters of your garage, they hang there for a week. Soupies are made in the cold winter months so you can hang em without em spoiling. After they have hung for a week and they are starting to harden up, its time to press em. A finished soupie is still 10 inches long, but its not round\tube shaped anymore, its pressed almost flat, about 3\4 inch thick. Soupie presses are simply made out of a few 3\4 inch plywood sheets, a pile of 3\4 inch wood spacers and some cinder blocks for weight. So.... we take down all 300 soupies from their hanging nails and put them in this home made press. The press is usually 4 or 5 sheets of 4x8 1\2 plywood. Plywood with the soupies on the plywood with 3\4 inch wood spacers around the soupies, then we put another sheet on top and put more soupies&spacers on the second tier, and then a 3rd and 4th tier and finally put some weight on top of the press to compress the soupies to 3\4 inch thickness. Keep em in the press for 3 or 4 days. Disassemble the press and remove the flattened soupies and hang em back on the nails, where they will hang for about a month. Cant let them freeze and you cant let them get warm. The final step is to put em in 5 gallon buckets filled with extra virgin olive oil. They soak in this oil for a minimum of 8 months before they can be eaten. Most soak em for a year before they eat their soupies, suposedly the longer they cure.... the better they are. Eating them..... remove\cut the casing off and with a meat slicer or sharp knife, slice the soupie in thin slivers, 1\8th inch slivers. You can get about 75 of these slivers from one full soupie. They go good with beer and a football game, they are great to snack on when your sitting in your treestand too. There's a few local mom&pop stores that make their own soupies and sell em and they sell for about $10 bucks a soupie. So there yas go.... you learned something new today. Soupies !!!!!!!!!!!! http://www.thebansheezone.com/Bansheezone/Soupies.htm Trade me something Its like nothing else I can think of, sorta like pepperoni. Gotta slice em thin. Damn im jonesin' for soupie now

Turbo. The sun is a mass of incandescent gas, a gigantic nuclear furnace. Where hydrogen is built into helium at a tempeture of millions of degrees. Its good to see you around Turbo

that was a garlic one, I have regs and hots, but the best ones are the deer tenderloin ones. Hope you drank a cold beer with it, they're better with a beer to wash em down. Glad to hear ya liked em, most guys do. Its definetly a different taste, sorta like pepperoni and...... I dunno, I dunno but they are good. I got about 40 more of em soakin' in olive oil. The one you ate is one year old, they gotta age like fine wine.

duece did you ever buy those custom cut domes from that dude you and Holyman ripped on ?? RKtek I think was his user name....

Shit I wish I woulda jumped into this thread before I started this one http://www.bansheehq.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=17758

Raxen what pipes and carbs are you using ?

I gotta disagree, Chris Borich and Matt Smiley, GNCC pro racers finished #2 & #3 respectivly this year. Both running Hiper wheels. Johnny Gallagher old school GNCC racer, placed 1st this year in the senior class, runs Hiper wheels. Chris Borich Matt Smiley John Gallagher Jason Dunkleburger, John Natalie and Dana Creech, all big name GNC racers use Hiper wheels. Jason Dunkleburger Dana Creech

We were talkin' about this at work tonight. Its gonna be one hellava snowy winter, just like last year. Jeez it rained almost every weekend this past spring\summer\fall. Im in Pennsylvania BTW. I say, bring on the snow, I love it.

Thanks for the reply Raxen. I hope to race my Banshee next spring\summer, woods racing, hairscramble\XC\GNCC kinda racing. Im worried that a big 7mm is overkill for what im planning. I dunno. I really dont know what to do with this crank. The only cylinders that I have for this stroker are a set of virgin Rz juggs. Once they are set up for a big 7mm, there's no going back. I know most Banshee XC racers are running setups for low end grunt. I dont know......... Im torn whether to use this crankshaft or just sell it.

Patriot Racing...... never heard of em. Hey dan if you need an apprentice\helper....... just holler. I'll work for a place to stay and a hot meal.

WTF is the matter with the guys at AC. They have to be using a jig to weld up thier products, but EVERYONE has a story about thier AC bumper or grabbar or whatever not lining up. I have thier "mudscreen" front bumper and ya know how its got those 4 little arms that attach the bumper to the frame, all 4 of these arms are fucked up, nothing is uniform, it looks like the guy welding it, held the main part of the bumper in one hand and eyed up the placement of the little arms and just welded em up, looked at it and said "close enuf". AC is junk IMHO, I can give more examples of AC junk parts. PRM for bumpers and skids and Graydon for nerfs. "AC" stands for...... "all crap"

Couldnt have said it better myself..... but let me try(Yoda style) ahem... Discontinued when they get, much better however than Banshee it will be, Yes. Just bustin' your balls xt45

Here's a complete stainless bolt kit on Ebay. Im using these bolts and they work great. http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAP...item=2443573299

I dont "see your mods at the bottom"

bump your mains up to 330's and see how it runs. If you got the time, put 340's or 350s in..... put the big jets in and see if you can get it to bog, once you got her boggin' drop down a size and you should be set. I just changed mine from 380's to 400 and it runs great. went from 70 degree jetting temps to 40 degree temps.

gearing changes are your only option. If your not riding a groomed MX track, you'll find that the 18s are difficult to trail ride with, you'll be hitting your rear sprocket\rear brake rotor all the time. Keep the 14 sprocket, sell the 18's and get a set of 20 inch tires. If you insist on running the 18 inch tires, and want more top end, then go for the 15 front sprocket or fiddle with the teeth amount on your rear sprocket.

You can get Champion beadlocks from JamesLucky.com, they sell em with different color beadlock "plates". Hipers are the ticket tho.....

yea dude, you gotta cut your front plastics, the section you cut is the long narrow section on the front plastics, right about where your knees are when sitting on the kwad.

Check the steering stem stop. Those little ears bend and allows you turn your wheels to much. Could be dangerous. I braced mine, rock solid now.

B370, just my opinion but dont paint em.

...... and you can send that cheerleading pic to... [email protected] anytime your ready, just send it.... anytime...... asap tho..... the pic.... email it to me.

How's your 250r coming along ??

Front fender brace, dont get ripped off at the dealership, buy one on Ebay for pennies. Im sure there's guys here who have cut thier front fenders and dont need thier stock fender braces anymore. I had a set, but I sold mine. http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAP...item=2443074016 http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAP...item=2442902628 http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAP...item=2443429269 You talkin bout the foot gaurd thats attached to your footpeg ? take em off, they're gay. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...2&category=1469