I have had both and I perfer my Banshee any day in the woods. For all out torque I would take the Zilla. For overall reliablility I would have to take the Banshee hands down.

Stormnorm: I'm sorry but I never have to rev the Pi$$ out of my banshee when in the woods. The problem with the zilla in the woods is to much low torque if your not carefull it will take you for a ride in to a tree.

none4444: Banshee's are very nice but the Zilla is a very fun toy. I agree with the 250R being a good woods rig but don't care for the other 3. (2 strokes to many)

 

My bad, perhaps I wasn't very clear on that one... You're right about the 500 weighing slightly less than the banshee, I didn't mean that it was heavier in comparison..... It's just heavier than the optimum woods/trail machine would be.

none444, you shouldn't be giving an opinion based upon what you 'hear'...

 

Banshee dry weight=386lbs
Zilla dry weight=392lbs

I guess we could say they weigh the same.

 

With the Banshee there are plenty of mods you can do to get low end torque if that is what you are looking for. Get a Trinity C.V Carb system and you will have all the low end grunt that you want and have a smaller bike to get in and out of tight spots. The Zilla is just to big IMO to ride in trails, it is an awesome bike trust me I miss mine but it has its faults like all bikes. I am just say the banshee with work can be what ever you want it to be

 

some of your horsepower and weights of quads are wrong.

 

I have a 87 500, ride in the woods regulary. it sucks. it is to big (physical size), and is just to much power. as for the banshee, it is lighter, smaller (physical size), so would be the better choice of the 2. personally, if all i was doing was woods riding, i would make sure it was a 4 stroke.

 

I don't think the 500 sucks but that's your opinion and that's all that matters but the fact is in stock form the 500 is the fasted quad ever. If the banshee if the fastest twin cylinder two stoke it isn't the fastest quad the quadzilla 500 is the fastest two stroke, faster than any four stroke, it's the fastest production quad ever.

Oh, stormnorm I know the top speeds you posted are correct because I've seen other people that had that magazine article but the rear wheel hp numbers don't seem. Does a predator really have 45hp stock, also I have a z and I wish it were about 30horses but your post says it has 32hp I always though it just had about 29hp just a little above a 400ex. I mean if your numbers are right that's cool but does anyone else know if this is right (which I don't think they all are) and does anyone have the actual numbers for these quads? If so would you please post them? Also I think a banshee has over 40hp in stock form and your post says 37. Once again you might have got this somewhere I just want to know if it's factual or not, thanks.

 

The top speed #'s are correct...but the hp #'s were give to me by someone in the forums at one time. I've heard many times that the banshee HP was in fact around the 37 mark

 

From what i have seen the HP#'s are correct for the most part. Of course I like the Rappy/DS numbers the best LOL. The only one I know is wrong is the predator. No way is it 45 RWHP maybe 45 at the crank but not 45 RW.

 

None4444,
The banshee is the only twin 2 stroke atv. Plus it isn't the fastest twin in the world. Most 500cc+ snowmobiles crank out 100 horsepower +. Hell the Arctic Cat 900 twin cranks out 150 hp[img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-shocked.gif[/img][img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-cool.gif[/img][img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif[/img] . But you are probably right about modifying it, open up any quad mag and there is pages of banshee parts/mods.