I was looking at a predator TLD with an HMF pipe, edelbrock carb, and some other stuff.

My buddy with the 400ex raced him with his only mods being a k&n filter and airbox vents..... he won. He switched quads and my buddy said that the pred felt like it had less low-end torque than the 400ex. He also said that he noticed some backfiring and maybe even some flames shooting out of the muffler occasionally. (Could that be bad exhaust valves?

Does this mean that there could be something very wrong with the predator and that I should stay away from it? By the way, I highly doubt that my friend is biased towards his own honda because he used to always say that the predator was a beast of a machine..... up until they raced.

I kind of doubt that the pred rider sucked, because he seems like a decent rider.

 

It sounds like the jetting is wrong on the pred.