The 2 drag races on tacky smooth, flat dirt road, no gravel, excellent traction, the banshee has aftermarket pipes, high compression head, ported transfer, intake & exaust, 2 in 1 carb, open air box, mine is as far as I can go w/o race porting (check my pics for list of mods) to avoid being reqd to run race gas. 2 races showed the same, once he started in 2nd then he started in 1st. I had, he said a quad length a head of him unitil his 5th gear. Believe me, 5 th gear on a Banshee is really moving. I run the 42-36 helix, I know what people meant when they said the eninge won't make enough power to keep up w/ the faster up shifting helix. What seemed to happen was, when he hit's 5th gear, I seem to quit accellerating for a couple seconds, then it seems to start to rev fast again & then I started accelerating again, right w/ him. When he wound out 6th gear, he started to pull away again. I am SOOOO happy w/ this scramblers performance w/o having to run race gas. I know it always is asked what kind of performance can be expected from these scamblers. Just wanted to let you know. I don't care about the lag in power/acceleration, this is going fast enough for me. Last year he beat me much worst, but that was prior to me adding the race pipe to the scrambler, lightened flywheel & clutch changes. He also made his Banshee faster since last time we raced also so my point is, these last 3 improvements make a BIG difference I think. By the way, he is a very good rider.
Jim Maloney 98 400 Scrambler

 

i like hering about scramblers beating up on modded machines,it makes me [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif[/img]..

 

Nice job Jim,
I hate how people stick there noses up at scramblers and diss them in every way possible, this really disgusts me.... so i really like to hear about stuff like this. One of my riding buddies just got a CRF450 powered hooser racing quad...he brags about it being so fast and tells me its not worth to put money into a scrammy but i think hes so stuck on honda it dosent even pay to listen to them, that and i dont do mx anyway. Thanks a lot for sharing your story Jim this reminds me that srambler are caged monsters...with hidden potential....


nate

 

Jim,
What gear ratio are you using? It sounds like you are running out of gear. My sport use to do the same thing.
Eddie

 

Actually, since it's a 4x4 I can't change the gearing, although, my mecahninc thought there was a way to change the sprocket inside the tranny that runs the front drive shafts but I deciced I don't really care to go any faster than 75+mph or whatever it's going. I use those short Kenda tires so that kind of lowered my gearing even more, the wrong way. Oh well, it was really fun racing such a fast quad & doing so well. I think he was really suprised how well the scrambler ran cause he did a lot more mods to his since a couple years ago when we last raced so he thought it wouldn't even be close. For those of you wondering if you can get the HPD race pipe to work w/ the HPD trail mod, I'm telling you it works great. I know it wasn't designed for it & it would be way faster w/ race porting but not interesed in running race gas.
Jim Maloney 98 400 Scrambler

 

Glad you like it Jim.The fun doubles when you go to the race porting.[img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif[/img]

 

I was told by a polaris mechanic that you can go in the trans on a 4 * 4 and change the gear backlash on the front output shaft to add bigger(larger than stock 22' rear 23' front) tires.

 

that sound an hellish of a good time,that cool,race port that jug and
you should beat him on top end.

 

Much thanks to Scramblered & Ced & others for all the help in setting this thing up. I love it. As far a changing gearing, I'd like to run the short small tires but raise the gearing instead of lowering it to get more top end speed. I think it will be a lot of work to do it so maybe I'll just skip this mod change.
Thanks
Jim Maloney 98 400 Scrambler

 

Well I just bought a 2000 400 4x4 that only has an FMF pipe and jetted. ............I know I need an HPD pipe but this came with the bike.......... Either way this thing feels way faster than the stock one I had a few years back so I can only imagine what GOOD pipe would do for this thing. More mods will come with time; clutch kit first. I really like to shift but I gave up my 400EX since I wanted 4 wheel drive but still wanted somthing sporty. Hearing stories like this just makes me like the bike even more since I know how capable it can be. Keep 'em fast!