First of all I apologize about being long winded but I figure the more information the better. I am fairly new to the site. I have been reading posts like crazy on everything trying to learn all that I can both here and elsewhere. I bought my banshee about a year and a half ago. It is an '03.
Long story short, the rings broke, taking the domes and pistons with them but didn't hurt the cylinders at all. I have torn the whole thing apart, deciding to do a total rebuild, not just the top end. I am not comfortable with the history of the machine and do not want to do this all again in a couple of months.
Where I ride:
Florida, mostly trails, lots of sand, some gravel and some more sand. I am a teacher and therefore am able to travel a lot during the summer months and plan to spend them exploring different areas starting out with Little Sahara in June and then maybe Hatfield McCoy, also spend a lot of time in upstate NY (Syracuse area) during time off as that is where I am from originally.
My build:
I love the power-band which is why I ride a banshee but in order to make it functional for me I need more bottom end. Enter the serval cat, which leads me to a 4mm crank. This is where my dilemma comes in. Keeping in mind that dependability is extremely important to me and that I'm not all about chasing horsepower numbers, I am thinking about going with a 4mm crank with tz bearings from the two stroke shop. The big claim obviously is that it is balanced while all others are not properly balanced. Is this worth the extra money? To my best estimates it will tun me an extra 300 or so? Anybody have any experience with this? I am all about using the right part the first time, but with so many out there, which is the right part? Obviously billet cranks are out there but I think that that would be way overkill...I would like to keep to pump gas for now but down the road I am going to be looking to bump up the compression and do a EFI E85 conversion but would like to get everything set up conservatively first.
There are obviously many other things to consider, but this is the beginning and I will approach them as I reach them. Any constructive advice, thoughts, ideas, etc. would be appreciated.