Banshee33 Posted February 22, 2004 Author Report Share Posted February 22, 2004 Paul Turner Mids are like $700.00 . They are the best for trails? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
THOR1 Posted February 22, 2004 Report Share Posted February 22, 2004 Hey man you did the right thing in getting the shee! I ride the woods in Western North Carolina and keep the 4-stroke pukes crying. Something cheap you could do is drop a tooth in the sprocket. I ride with fmf gnarlies and love them. The only thing I have to mention is you might want to spend a lil extra $ on some good silencers. Get the q series silencer, out east here Im running into a of of hassle trying to get into riding areas with my power core 2s. Keep us updated on the hop ups. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Banshee33 Posted February 22, 2004 Author Report Share Posted February 22, 2004 Should I drop tooth in the front? Will I have enough chain adjust or do I have to cut the chain? Are FMF fatties good pipes too with Q silencers? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holyman Posted February 22, 2004 Report Share Posted February 22, 2004 a guy I work with told me I made a bad decision on my choose. He said I should of got a raptor. He said that because misery loves company. Some of the cheapest mods you can make is switching to a 2:1 filter to start with and ditching the stock air box. MUCH better air flow. As far as pipes go, don't just jump inot buying pipes. They are expensive especially when you buy them new and they may not fit your riding style. I ride trails but prefer higher rev pipes. I had T5's on mine and loved the mid high power delivery. Any quad can go slow but it's great to get a little open spot and REALLY show where the banshee shines out WOT I run Trinity pipes on one of my banshee's because they are a higher rev pipe and they're stainless so no rust spots. On my #2 banshee I run a Motofast 2:1 pipe which I feel has excellent power across the board and it too is stainless so a few splashes with the hose and it goes back in the garage. Alot of people will recommend a pipe but most of it is what you're used to. If you can, ride someone elses with a diff pipe and see how you like it before you go out and drop $600 on pipes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Banshee33 Posted February 22, 2004 Author Report Share Posted February 22, 2004 Should I drop a tooth in the front sprocket? Do I need to cut the chain if I do? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wassup350 Posted February 22, 2004 Report Share Posted February 22, 2004 I would not drop a tooth, i think its geared low enough stock. I rode my friends banshee with stock gearing and it did fine through the trails. If anything i would get a larger front sprocket. This will decrease your bottom end but you will get more out of your engine and be able to go faster through out your powerband. I would only do this though if you get some new pipes, or something else to increase the power. My Banshee has one tooth higher and it does fine through the trails, you just need to get good with working the clutch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Banshee33 Posted February 22, 2004 Author Report Share Posted February 22, 2004 Ok this is what I think will be all I can do for now. Let me know is this is a good start for now. Trinity single carb, FMF fatties with Q silencers (Have to be a little quiet where I ride), Better airfilter, Razor2 rear tires, 20cc noss head (Maybe).... After that I'm POOR . I want to shut up this raptor guy I ride work with. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SyNtAxx Posted February 22, 2004 Report Share Posted February 22, 2004 Hey all, I am not sure I would swap out the duel carbs for a single carb setup. If i understand the concept correctly you will be swapping back to duel carbs if you do modify your engine in the future.... I ride 80% woods on my duel carb setup....with out a problem. It does take a lil bit of time to adjust properly but hey so does any other good thing. If it were me i would stay with 2 carbs..... just my opinion. If I am wrong guys please correct me... Nick Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
locogato11283 Posted February 22, 2004 Report Share Posted February 22, 2004 Should I drop a tooth in the front sprocket? Do I need to cut the chain if I do? i would drop a tooth up front. if you are riding slow at all in the trails you are gonna be in 1st gear all the time. if you drop a tooth you are gonna have a better range of lower gears and yea you mihgt have to cut your chain( no big deal). i had toomey t-5s and a 12 tooth sprocket on mine and loved it. i have no need to be able to run 90mph in the trails. so i dropped a tooth and had alot better gearing with it. id recommend at least trying one tooth down and if you dont like it then its a small loss. as for pipes i say go for the t-5's. they are a good all round pipe that work well with alot of mods and they sound sweet too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lian Posted February 22, 2004 Report Share Posted February 22, 2004 i heard the fatties are good for trails and they work really well with engine mods thats what im getting plus i dont have alot of money so i looked arouns and moto world you can get them cheap and free shipping since there over 100 and you can tell them about there add in dirtwheels and get a 10 percent discount plus tyhere on sale in there now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SyNtAxx Posted February 22, 2004 Report Share Posted February 22, 2004 Hey, Fatties are the shit I run the fatties and prefer them over the Tommey T5's. They respond well to porting and stroking also. I ride trail as i mentioned before. Nick Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
. Posted February 22, 2004 Report Share Posted February 22, 2004 I run mainly trails and run the LRD adjustables. Wouldnt run anything else, I can ride slow as any 4stroke and when I'm not in powerband it mainly feels like a 4stroke power/torque. I can adjust my pipes to where the powerband comes on so I've got them adjusted where I can ride right at the edge of powerband in whatever gear I'm in. The powerband is real smooth with them, and comes on over a greater rpm range instead of a lightswitch feel that could come on unexpectantly and send you somewhere you dont want to go. When I raced my buddy when we had the same exact setup, with a rolling start on the road, My LRD's we're dead even with the T5's in a race with a little edge going to the LRD's on top end rev, and they just felt like they pulled a little harder than the T5's. Switching bikes we were about dead even within a bike length both ways. And lowend difference was second to none. Stick with your stock gearing, you'll be fine. The stock tires suck and shortening your swingarm is a major improvement on getting traction to the ground on a shee. Razr2's will help you out quite a bit with a stock swingarm. Another good trail tire if you get into mud/shoot hills at all would be a 20" blackwater tire. I run a 21cc dome on my noss head and it puts me at 150 lbs of compression at 900 ft. A 20cc might put you on the edge of having to run race gas at 0 elevation. I'd stick with the dual carbs. For a trail type setup after you get porting and such 28mm duals taperbored to 30mm seem to be the best setup to run. If you run mud/water/really dusty conditions at all I'd stick with a ProFlo foam filter. I ditched my airbox a long time ago and have gone through thick and thin with my foam filter, mudholes, coal dust, and my intake tract has stayed clean throughout it all. A K&N would give you a tiny more power, but I feel for my conditions and how I ride that the extra little power isnt worth the reliability of my engine. (take some baby powder to a k&n and see if it passes through when you squeeze the bottle). It's all about how you want to set your shee up and exactly what you'll be doing with it. There is so many different modifications you can do that will take you in any direction you want to go. Get some dual stage reeds and it'll completely improve your throttle response. Completely changed how I rode my shee with how it reacted when I wanted it to react (kinda hard to explain). And also get some of those bolt on kick ups that go on your footpegs. I slipped a peg once and it wasnt pretty, and after putting them on it increased my confidence and being able to push on them in corners helps cornering some. The main thing, do a lot of research on every mod that you want to do to your shee. Because its been around so long their is soooo many different options for every mod. This site is full of information and is starting to be a good resource again since its changeover we lost a lot of search info. If your interested in fatties, consider like type pipes. Do a search on LRD's, paul turner mid's, fatties, and other pipes that you'll feel interested in and find out as much as you can about them before purchasing them. You could spend weeks here searching to get the answer you want, but you'll be completely certain it will be the one you want to make. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pimp559 Posted February 22, 2004 Report Share Posted February 22, 2004 You might want to think about having your stock carbs bored to 28s if you get the fatties(its a lot cheaper than trinity set up-probably at least 400.00 cheaper). I ride ssts and my wife rides fatties with 28s. We ride hill trail riding alot and her bike has way more bottom and mid range. Of course I smoke her on top on a drag but how often are you gonna be draggin in the woods? She still smokes my friends raptors on drags too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Banshee33 Posted February 22, 2004 Author Report Share Posted February 22, 2004 Thanks guys.. I can't beleive there are so many choices on everything. The only thing I'm really sure on is the single carb deal, Razor2's, Air Filter change & noss 21cc head. My trails are not that slow so I may adapt for t-5's I just don't know Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
97redshee Posted February 22, 2004 Report Share Posted February 22, 2004 i would never ever run that single carb set up.the stock 26mm carbs are fine.gauranteed you will lose power with the single verses the stocks.if you run a low-mid pipe you will be fine.use the single carb money for a mx port job and you will be way happier.i would say mx port,any low mid pipe,razr's,noss head.with this you will destroy your friends.i ride my 77rwhp dune bike in the trails and all though the power is like a light switch i can chug up steep ass hilss off the pipe in 3rd.and if there is a strait is is over.off corners i short shift and can still keep up with my friends raptors,yfz's ,and 400ex's. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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