broke Posted October 6, 2005 Report Posted October 6, 2005 I think alot of that depends on the motor. If you have had some serious port work done there is less area left for the rings to ride on, therefore wearing the rings quicker. Duece, if you exhaust port is anywhere near the size of mine, considering the same type of motor from the same builder, you may be looking at reduced ring life. Hey, you gotta pay if you wanna play. Reringing for the most part is cheap, easy and gives me some piece of mind. I will probably do mine every winter which should amount to 50ish hours. Kids don't leave a whole lot of free time. That's my stand point on this, at least. Quote
Proquad101 Posted October 6, 2005 Report Posted October 6, 2005 I have gone about 2 years since my last re-build. Re-build time will be effected by a lot of things like dirty airfilters, shitty gas, shitty oil. Sometimes you may just get some shitty parts in there and they need to be replaced faster than others. So I really dont think a person could put a time or any kind of a distance or amount of fuel burned to measure when you need to re-build with out doing a compression check. Thats just my $0.02. Quote
Blue Duece Posted October 7, 2005 Author Report Posted October 7, 2005 I think alot of that depends on the motor. If you have had some serious port work done there is less area left for the rings to ride on, therefore wearing the rings quicker. Duece, if you exhaust port is anywhere near the size of mine, considering the same type of motor from the same builder, you may be looking at reduced ring life. Hey, you gotta pay if you wanna play. Reringing for the most part is cheap, easy and gives me some piece of mind. I will probably do mine every winter which should amount to 50ish hours. Kids don't leave a whole lot of free time. That's my stand point on this, at least. 423678[/snapback] i have a stock shee that droped 20 psi in the left jug and ten in the right after 60 hours.........i just put rings in my passion motor after 45 hours of wide open desert racing, because i went from 180 in each jug to 165 psi, didnt even hone it and i was back to 180 psi in both jugs...........the compression tester is your best friend..........i have a cooler and a temp gage and i can pound my bike and it doesnt exceed 165 degrees that could have something to do with it.......you could eat out of my air box, i allways run fresh 118 race fuel and change my gear oil every other moto, i agree with pro quad, fresh fluids helps friction a whole lot, adding life to the rings, but he and i both, when we take the shee out we pinn it for the entire time were on them, i have a little honda 70 i go fetch beer on, its got about 3 million hours on it i wonder if it needs rings yet Quote
Proquad101 Posted October 7, 2005 Report Posted October 7, 2005 i have a stock shee that droped 20 psi in the left jug and ten in the right after 60 hours.........i just put rings in my passion motor after 45 hours of wide open desert racing, because i went from 180 in each jug to 165 psi, didnt even hone it and i was back to 180 psi in both jugs...........the compression tester is your best friend..........i have a cooler and a temp gage and i can pound my bike and it doesnt exceed 165 degrees that could have something to do with it.......you could eat out of my air box, i allways run fresh 118 race fuel and change my gear oil every other moto, i agree with pro quad, fresh fluids helps friction a whole lot, adding life to the rings, but he and i both, when we take the shee out we pinn it for the entire time were on them, i have a little honda 70 i go fetch beer on, its got about 3 million hours on it i wonder if it needs rings yet 423718[/snapback] I ride mine like I hate it. All I have done to mine in a couple of years is put rings in it a 2 or 3 times. I have not replaced a piston or anything else and it still runs just as good as the day I had the motor built. Quote
Blue Duece Posted October 7, 2005 Author Report Posted October 7, 2005 mine 2 Pro, just fresh rings before an implosion and your set, actully after your in sync with your bike nothing feels better than a fresh top end ........i broke my fresh rings in on 10 laps of short burst's of the throttle at 20:1, toped off with 50:1 and when out and held it wide open, for a 20 mile shot across the desert, i have the same pistons too, they looked great, runs like a damm champ................Jim builds a great motor........ Quote
ozosborne Posted October 7, 2005 Report Posted October 7, 2005 I ride mine like I hate it. Word. Quote
ozosborne Posted October 7, 2005 Report Posted October 7, 2005 i have a stock shee that droped 20 psi in the left jug and ten in the right after 60 hours.........i just put rings in my passion motor after 45 hours of wide open desert racing, because i went from 180 in each jug to 165 psi, didnt even hone it and i was back to 180 psi in both jugs...........the compression tester is your best friend..........i have a cooler and a temp gage and i can pound my bike and it doesnt exceed 165 degrees that could have something to do with it.......you could eat out of my air box, i allways run fresh 118 race fuel and change my gear oil every other moto, i agree with pro quad, fresh fluids helps friction a whole lot, adding life to the rings, but he and i both, when we take the shee out we pinn it for the entire time were on them, Another question: My quad manul says that I can only run on unleaded. Can I run on 120 octane racing fuel? What doesn't make sense to me is that you put unleaded in and then add two stroke, that doesn't make sense Anyone out there got an 05 running on racing fuel? Quote
Blue Duece Posted October 8, 2005 Author Report Posted October 8, 2005 Another question: My quad manul says that I can only run on unleaded. Can I run on 120 octane racing fuel? What doesn't make sense to me is that you put unleaded in and then add two stroke, that doesn't make sense Anyone out there got an 05 running on racing fuel? 423835[/snapback] i think with stock jugs and low compression your better off with leaded pump fuel its when you start getting into the 155 psi and higher compresion, you have to start running 50/50 or straight av fuel......i have to run at least 108 or risk detonation, so i get the 118, i like it, it burns real clean when i do a plug chop my plugs look good and wet yet still have a nice golden brown burn to them, you could run your stocker on av fuel but i dont think it would run any better.....id be more apt to run your stock motor on unleaded 91 or 93 and add some trick racing fuel to it, making it high octane unleaded......... Quote
ozosborne Posted October 8, 2005 Report Posted October 8, 2005 So then why unleaded instead of leaded?? Quote
Blue Duece Posted October 8, 2005 Author Report Posted October 8, 2005 So then why unleaded instead of leaded?? 424086[/snapback] ummmmmm im not sure im just a guy whos had banshee's since day one i havnt launched any rockets lately, ill bet someone on here knows the diff between the too, i remember back in the day they didnt have unleaded gas, you just put regular in your chevy and drove Quote
ozosborne Posted October 10, 2005 Report Posted October 10, 2005 Must be the tree huggers! I ran on leaded this week end at 40:1 and she was sweet. I'm taking a GPS next time to see what top end I get standard and what the diff is with pipes changed. Quote
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