boonman

Save your money. Get Wiseco. no comparison...

You need to get some self sagging shocks for sure. You don't want to mechanically lower it if you are riding trails. You will not like it..... If you want looks, buy another one, lower it, and keep it in the garage for you to look at. Keep the "ugly" functional one out back in the shed when you ride...

When run on the rear, you run the risk of bending the axle. In the front, you can save some $$ by just flipping your rims inside out....

$15-$20

Sounds like the clutch pressure plate isn't installed correctly and the top end has some shit going on. Maybe a head gasket leak, for the white smoke. and an air leak for the RPM's to be jumping around... Or, a crank seal could be gone....

That just made my morning!!!!

I like to look at it in the garage....

Fro, where you from in between Crapchester and buffalo?

Man, you cleanin house??? Where abouts in the country are you located?

Yes. When you split the cases, you will need some new gaskets. And you will also need new base gaskets, and some other misc. ones... The base gaskets, and some other ones, should come with your new top end kit. (pistons, rings, wrist pins, etc..) but what you will need to purchase seperately is a lower end gasket set. Crank seals, output shaft seal, shift shaft, kickstart shaft and what not. These should all be replaced..... And a tube of Yamabond from the local stealership.

Freedom is where I racce MX and TT. Not too bad a place there...... http://www.freedomraceway.com/

http://www.bansheehq.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=19796

LMMFAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I almost fell out of the chair on that one. I am curious where you saw my "stock" shee? Believe me, I have PLENTY of experience racing a whole lot of things with engines. Alot of different styles of racing as well. TT, MX, drag, cars, trucks, motorcycles, snowmobiles. Quite an extensive background I might add. And come to think of it, in all the time I've been here, I have never listed some of them like I just did. It has never been a question. But, I now feel it was in question. Anyways, I do not ride a stock bike. That is in my sig to throw people like yourself ("newbies") off the scent of my roost so to speak. And even if I did ride a stock bike, I could lay a serious whoopin' to alot of modded bikes, depending on what we were racing on. So, i wouldn't go around talking like that. (about having a stock machine pointing to a rider's ability) I can't speak for screamin demon here, however I have raced MX. I know what it takes to win. And I believe you have something confused. Wheel spin does not win races. unless it is a race to see who can bake off the tires first. What you are talking about is sliding. Two different things. What happens when you come off this hypothetical turn at 30 MPH, spinning like crazy. The dude on the thumper slides through the corner, with the AWESOME useable motor he has, and then hooks up ON DEMAND, and smokes right on by your crazy tire burning, wheel spinning monster? I'll enlighten ya. You lose the race. Riding a four stroke in MX is the best thing you can do. Especially with the technology in them today. I can say that I will never race my shee again in MX. I will wait untill I can run a thumper. They have a linear power delivery, that you can do with what you please. So what you are trying to tell me in your above quote is that just because a bike is a 4 stroke it can't slide through a turn? Now I KNOW that ain't the case. And it will take you an assload of mods to keep up with a stock 450. When both riders are of equal ability. You could stick $2,000 into a brand new shee, and still not be able to keep up with a stock 450 on an MX track. I know this to be true. Now, I am sure there will be the oddball in the group that is gonna try to tell me otherwie. However, I am speaking of riders of EQUAL ability. So, none of this rider makes the difference slander.

It must have been installed incorrectly. Mine has not broken yet. I have replaced the bearings twice, however, it hasn't broken. Your chain may also have been too tight..... This is the first I've heard of it. I have had lengthy conversations with Harry from Amp. Knowledgable fellow. And they stand behind their product. 100%

Did you put the slides in incorrectly? They only go in a certain way. And you need to make sure that they are in the correct carbs. the cutout in the slide faces the air cleaner. And it will cost you about $50 to get the removal kit...

I live in Elma, and work in Akron. Exit 48A off the thruway. And there is nowhere to ride around here. I will be setting up a grass dragstrip in the backyard though...

Depends what pipe, but I would estimate around 68.43 RWHP.

Brilliancy at it's finest!!!!!

I am fairly convinced you made this post in a drunken stupor. Stock for stock, I am willing to bet in any condition, that a 450 hands a shee a loss. Hrmmmm, seems to me that 100 yards, is equal to 300'. By my calculations, that seems to be the distance used in most dirt and sand drags. You can gear a 300EX to go 80 MPH if you wanted to. That would be enough to take a stock shee. The difference would be the time it took to get there. Go long enough, and the EX would eventually win. That is why there is a set distance in a race. If you win past 300', andx at the 300' mark you were losing, you just won on what is called the "loser flyby". I see this alot from the little rice cars when I hand them there ass in a race, I hit the brakes, and they go flying by. it must make them feel good or something. I can imagine the conversation in the car. "yo, Steve-o. Yes Jim Bob? You see me smoke that dude? Yep, you smoked him right there at the end." Same thing must go on in your head when you beat someone after 300'. I ain't talkin a 1/4 mile or the 1/8th here either. That is asphalt, and there is a difference in setup there. You could not take a 1/4 mile bike such as Nyuk's, and dump some paddles on it and expect it to start cleaning house in the sand. Same thing goes for screamin banshee. You can't just throw his bike on the pavement and expect him to run awesome tmes in the 1/4. Point is, you setup for what you will be running. And if you are setup for the long run, and some dude hands you your ass because he is setup for a 300' race, you can't go spouting off about how much you can embarass him in a 1/2 mile race. it just ain't like that.

The only thing I find hard to believe on that theory Chetta is that just using race fuel and knowing nothing else about the motor, can be helpful/beneficial, or just a flat out waste of money. If race fuel made the bike run cooler when compared to pump fuel, then there was surely a problem with detonation. And that was making the bike run hot. I still do not believe that just by running race fuel it will make the bike run cooler. Only when the fuel doesn't get burned. That would be the only explanation I can think of that would make it run cooler....

Sounds like it could be a combination of everything. Detonation can be a sneaky killer. And one feeds off the other. (lean, and detonation problems) I am betting he had a detonation problem all along. And the lean condition just sent it to the moon....

It's friggin been raining here for the last day. Pisses me off. We too lost all our snow. And the ground was froze too. And now, it is one sloppy mess. It is raining right now. Bull shit. And the skiing, I have to ski all season. I teach it. I would love to get the shee out in the winter for a trip. However, it looks highly unlikely. And that lottery dude, there should be charges levied against him. He is false advertising!!!!

You heard wrong. I will forever debate on this. If you ride MX, XC, or trails, you will like the Amp link. I like mine, and yes, it does work. I have tested myself. Ridden exactly the same bike with and without it. It does help traction, and torquing of the suspension as what happens on non amp equipped bikes. It does scrub off a couple HP on the dyno, but the benefits can be seen with better traction, and better handling. I think it is worth it IMHO. Now, the boost bottle, I have not found to be effective....