theold96er

Sell it? Hell no. I'll learn the carbs inside and out before I sell it. I kinda figured it was a long shot. I'm almost positive I've got some resin or varnish buildup somewhere and a piece of it is trying to pass like a kidney stone. Carbs are comin' off. Somewhere I have a Clymer manual. Can't be that hard, I suppose. Time for a beer first.

I'm new to Banshees, and inherited a '96, stock displacement, aggressive port/polish on the exhaust side, 1.5 oversized carb throats, Toomey T5's, and the standard Toomey airbox vents, as well as an aftermarket timing plate. It's jetted for near sea-level for Florence, Oregon, but I have it in Idaho at about 2200 feet. I put fresh mix in after it sitting for 10 years, and it started first kick and idled beautifully, and ran perfectly. Within 2 weeks, it's loading up BAD in the low/midrange, but screams up on the pipe. Not sure why it changed so quickly over maybe 2 hours' total runtime, but can B12 chemtool additive be added to the fuel itself in a certain amount to clean the carbs safely? I'm not quite yet at a level where I can tear a pair of carbs apart and then have to re-synch them. Half a left turn on each air/fuel screw improved it a bit, but not much. I don't think it's the jetting, because for a while it ran beautifully and never bogged. And then it just started bogging one day.

I just inherited an excellent condition '96 Banshee, but I didn't build it. I'll list the mods I'm sure that have been done, and since I don't have access to a dyno, I'm hoping someone can give me a ballpark HP figure based on these mods/hardware: It has Toomey T5's and silencers, nearly perfect cylinder compression, an aftermarket timing plate, the standard Toomey airbox vent mods, carb throats 1.5mm over stock diameter, and jetting done for anywhere between sea level and 2500 feet. The displacement is stock, but it has a fairly aggressive port/polish job on the exhaust side, and aftermarket reed valves (I think it might be a 4-reed setup, but I'm not sure), as I'm not much of a mechanic. Knowing mine is a '96 and had about 47HP stock (not 34 like the post-2000 models), what kind of estimate would you give on its likely HP output range?