The left side carb needle and seat leaked after a moose rebuild kit and then a dealer needle and seat, still leaked. Jay cut the seat with a special tool and it cured it. The float was slightly off on the RH carb. Probably from all the times I had it out rejetting it. When he got it on the dyno and started pulling he could tell that there was something up with the clutch. I pulled the cover. The pancake bearing was to long and hitting the cover. He machined it and found a shorter screw and took care of that issues. He also made an adapter to extend the cable adjuster by the handle.
I spent the day at Illinois Powersports. The results were impressive. My bog and flutter are gone. The transition into the powerband is way smoother. I ended up at with 58-59 rear wheel HP. 9500 rpm peak. 91mph on 18" tires. The most interesting thing to see was how much the air mixture screw made a difference through the whole rpm range. I learned alot today. I had 3 issues with my setup that I wasn't even aware of. Jay caught them right away and resolved every issue with some custom milling and ingenuity. My Banshee is finally ready for the guys ATV trip this weekend up to Florence WI. My home town. 250 miles of groomed pristine trails. There is a stock YFZ 450 and 450R, stock Raptor 660, stock banshee, Modded DS650 and my modded Blaster. The Raptor couldn't keep up to my modded blaster on tight trails. So I know that the Raptor doesn't even come close the Banshee. I have already walked the DS650 in a drag. No one is passing me anymore!
I spent the day at Illinois Powersports. The results were impressive. My bog and flutter are gone. The transition into the powerband is way smoother. I ended up at with 58-59 rear wheel HP. 9500 rpm peak. 91mph on 18" tires. The most interesting thing to see was how much the air mixture screw made a difference through the whole rpm range. I learned alot today. I had 3 issues with my setup that I wasn't even aware of. Jay caught them right away and resolved every issue with some custom milling and ingenuity. My Banshee is finally ready for the guys ATV trip this weekend up to Florence WI. My home town. 250 miles of groomed pristine trails. There is a stock YFZ 450 and 450R, stock Raptor 660, stock banshee, Modded DS650 and my modded Blaster. The Raptor couldn't keep up to my modded blaster on tight trails. So I know that the Raptor doesn't even come close the Banshee. I have already walked the DS650 in a drag. No one is passing me anymore!
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I did exactly that and still no spark. I have a friend with a running shee with the same style cdi. I'm going to take it and bolt it on his bike and see if his won't start. If so he has a good used one for sale. It will also need a kill switch or eliminate it.
I'm trying to understand how the ignition system works. By looking at the schematic it looks like the CDI wants to see a ground at the key switch and no ground at the kill switch. The tors module supplies a ground to the cdi when there is a malfunction and kills the ignition.
Also the parking brake wiring is missing. And my schematic doesn't have that in the diagram.
Yeah the tors is eliminated. The carb switch plugs are just unplugged. The throttle switch is still plugged in and the tors module is still plugged in. Don't the carb switched ones need to be looped on each connector? Or can you just unplugged the tors module to get the same results? I've test the ignition switch and kill switch. The kill switch is real loose in the control housing and I'm not getting a solid continuity when I move it back and forth. So I disconnected the B/W wire and kicked it and still no spark.
Customer brought me an 01 shee. There is 120psi compression with a ARA racing head, dome size unknown. fmf riva's w/ power core 2's. Stock box w/ lid and Single K&N. Those are the only mods with stock ports, crank & pistons. Stock carbs have 280 main's. Is that enough mods to go that much higher in jetting?
A customer brought me a 01 stock banshee. Its been beat and it has several problems other then the no start. The customer tried replacing the stator with a Ricky Stator brand. Then he had spark on one side. He replaced the coil with a 06 used oem and said then he had spark on both caps. The first thing I did was a compression test. I got 120psi on both cylinders. Then I pulled the reeds and checked them, they were ok. I took a peek at the cylinders walls and they look good. Next I ran a leakdown test and it wouldn't hold any air. One intake boot was leaking massively. Its torn. Next I did a spark check and now there is no spark at all on both cylinders. The next suspect would be cdi right? Resistance checks are next.
This has a ARA Racing head on it. I've never heard of that one yet. Can anyone give me some insight on how good of product it is? Are other size domes available for it?
I got a chance to go an another plug chop run. I ran it with 350's in it but I got a bog before the power band. So I dropped to 330's since I dind't have any 340's. I got a good amount of load and wot on the plugs. I finally have a nice brown ring on the plug.
I think I'm ready for some dyno time now if I can afford it before the May 30th trip.