What to do?

[d-wadeshee]

It's been awhile since i've even logged in here but now its time to do something to one of my banshees or atleast figure it out. I have a ltr450 that runs great and is an awesome bike. I love the power and it only has the pipe, filter, and pc3. But one thing it isn't the smoothest riding dune bike. Whenever its a little rutted up i feel it big time and i get sore. I almost get to the point where I don't want to ride anymore. And when that happens i usually just go passenger in my dad's sandrail. I can't afford a rail so i figure i could try something else. Well here's the dilema. We have 2 stock banshees, one runs and one doesn't. I have to choice to either sell both banshees and get a new quad thats under $5,000. Only because my uncle told my dad that the 450's are going cheap. But this where i came up with something. I can sell on banshee and keep the other and my dad said I could use the money from getting a new quad and put it into the banshee. If I go this route it gives me a choice to either ride the banshee or 450. If i do the banshee i love the old sundahl stlye and there is a guy i found called Chassis Inc. I spoke with him and am waiting some faxes for pricing. I figure this set up would be the ultimate duner and would ride great. My only worry is losing that 4 stroke torque. So what would you guys do to get a good reliable power out of the banshee motor and on pump gas. Basically just looking for some advice.

[dirtydownunder]

hmmm, i started off reading the post thinking you dont wanna spend to much then you threw the custom frame into the mix haha. 5k will get you your frame and some of your suspention

4 stroke torque is 4 stroke torque so your never going to get that down low hit. being a duner your not ever really that low in the revs anyway.

i reckon a nice ported 4mm/long rod cub would complement it well, but get ready to get used to carrying more gas haha.

how much faster do you wanna go and how much do you wanna spend ?

[bbcmudtruck]

Well, I would sell the banshee that doesn't run and put that money towards some nice shocks for the ltr. OR you could sell the one that does run and spend $2500 on building a sweet ass 4mil dune motor. Your going to need about $1500 more for some shocks and $425 for arms though.

[d-wadeshee]

I already do have pipes on both banshees and they run good. But i didn't think about the gas being an issue until you brought that up. That's one of my favorite things on the 450 is that it runs all day on a tank of gas. The thing with that custom chassis is the fact of all the wheel travel but i just did some research on a LTR450 and it can get 19" travel with long travel. So that is the same as that custom chassis. I liked that banshee because its so out of the ordinary but that pricing is a little extreme. So i could probably get more for my money if i set up the 450 and possibly a hard running banshee.