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Whitey did a turbo bike, was FI if I remember correctly.

My buddy had a turbo bike on carbs. Crazy fast, way too much work to keep it running good though...very, very picking about the jetting and tuning...5 to 10 degree change in temp and it was back to the drawing board...etc...

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I seen one run at the dunes a few years back. it was pretty damn fast and sounded mean as hell, like no other banshee I've ever heard. But like dave said, he was tunning it about every two passes down the track. It was fast, but not any faster than any other built shee out there that day. Kind of a novelty IMO, cool though.

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I don't recall the color of it, it was at least 3 or 4 years ago. :shrug: I remember that it was a younger guy driving it, early 20's maybe. and there was a large older guy helping him tune/work on it, I assumed it was his dad....? they would wrench on it for an hour then ride for 10 min, then go back to wrenching.

 

thing ran though...and was def unique.

 

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I'm in the process of building a turbo banshee right now. I'm going to try blow thru single carb for now and eventually will be going with EFI from Gigot Racing regardless if i get the carb tuned or not. The motor is far from stock internally though so i cant imagine a stocker would last long if boosted. I posted a thread on here about it but planet sand lets you post bigger pics so i've updated that post more http://www.planetsand.com/forums/ubbthread...ge/1#Post585248 . Hopefully within 3 weeks max it will be running. I'm trying to make it to the memorial weekend drag racing at Lapeer Dragway in MI.

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I'm in the process of building a turbo banshee right now. I'm going to try blow thru single carb for now and eventually will be going with EFI from Gigot Racing regardless if i get the carb tuned or not. The motor is far from stock internally though so i cant imagine a stocker would last long if boosted. I posted a thread on here about it but planet sand lets you post bigger pics so i've updated that post more http://www.planetsand.com/forums/ubbthread...ge/1#Post585248 . Hopefully within 3 weeks max it will be running. I'm trying to make it to the memorial weekend drag racing at Lapeer Dragway in MI.

 

Hey whats going on memorial weekend at lapeer dragway. I havent herd anything about it and I would like to come watch the drags. I dont live too far from lapeer. Could you give me a little more info

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Hey whats going on memorial weekend at lapeer dragway. I havent herd anything about it and I would like to come watch the drags. I dont live too far from lapeer. Could you give me a little more info

 

A bunch of my buddies just told me that theres a big racing event going on out there memorial weekend. I haven't looked into the details yet myself, they all just want to see if my banshee can run 11's. Do you happen to know the lapeer dragway's website or a person to contact for official info? If i can get it running and find a set of bald tires to put on (poor man's slicks), i'll definitely be out there. Even if I don't get it turboed in time, i'll still try to take it out there with the normal setup on there.

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