Alky VS. Pump Gas

[BluBanshee98]

Hope some of you will be able to help me out with my question. I've got a 98 banshee that I would like to convert to alcohol for duning. My fiance and I are about to buy another shee which we will use both bikes for dunes and desert riding. I'm running stock carbs, a cool head w/19cc domes, its ported and polished, lightened flywheel, and advanced timing. K&T out of Utah did all the work. But to get to the main question, can I convert the carbs from pump gas to alcohol depending on what terrain i'll be riding? I hear that with alcohol you have to jet the carbs up so much you burn alot more alot faster. Everyones input is greatly appreciated.

[MotulMonsta]

From my understanding you need totaly diffrent carbs designed to work specificaly with alcohol and you need a fuel cell..you can't just fill up a stock tank with alcohol as it will evaporate way too fast. I think a fuel pump is required to keep pressure in the lines and stop vapor lock from happening...Not shure. I was going to convert my shee to alcohol years ago but the cost disuaded me.

[a&sbanshee]

alcohol burns 2 times faster than race gas and is very tempermental if u are just gonna straight dune this bike then i would keep it on gas but if u are gonna sand drag or hillshoot this bike the alky wouldnt be a bad idea cuz when i went from race gas to alky on my drag bike i picked up 2tenths in the 1/8mile once i got the jetting real close.and also if u go to alky i would reccomend gettin bigger carbs like a set of 35.5pj's or a set of 35 pwk's both of the carbs work really well and thats what we run on all of out bike pretty much

[MRMOONEY]

you dont need a fuel cell. you dont need a pump either. get a pingle petcock flows twice as much as a stock petcock.

alky wont evaporate in the stock tank. you can put the stock one on alky but get bigger carbs not worth the hassle. i ahve a set of 34mm mikuni set up on alky for sell pm if interested