I am sick and tired of hearing people say that a raptor has more torque than a banshee. These are not the correct words. Ride a banshee and you will feel it pull harder than a raptor. I have ridden both completly stock. The raptor should be said to have a wider band of torque. Many are confused and think that the raptor pulls super hard. It is just like snowmobiles the RX-1 may have more torque than a 700 twin two stroke but if you look a dyno tests it is less torque over a longer band and the two strokes have gobs more torque over a small powerband.

 

the differance is because one is 4-stroke and the other is 2-stroke. 4-stroke always have the torque advantage over 2-stroke

 

It may not have more torque on paper bug the rappy's torque is a lot more useful.

 

Banshee's have barly anything for TORQUE.... Banshees have HORSEPOWER, that's why you have to let them rev to get good power out of it. Notice how you can short shift a 4 stroke and it'll keep pulling? Try that with your banshee once, because that's what torque is.... Torque gets you from point A to point B quicker.... It's hard to explain the difference in torque/horsepower.

 

My father explained torque like this:

You go to the bathroom in the morning with an erection, push it down to aim into the toilet, and your feet fly out behind you! It has nothing to do with this discussion but I like the analogy:-)

 

Horse power is what burns holes in the ground, torque is what hooks it up.

 

Torque is twisting power, hp is twisting power x rpm divided by some irrelevant number. Just because a raptor has more torque at 3000 rpms dosent mean it has more torque (although stock it probably does). Quit useing torque as a word for a feeling. Its a number that describes how hard a motor is twisting. The reason some banshee motors have 100 hp is because they have a alot of torque at like 10000 rpms and that equates to more hp.

 

Best way I think You can find the torque of a quad, is to put it in a gear you know is too high, and see how well it gets through it. Ive done it on my raptor, it cries for a few secs then starts to pull through it. Tried it on a piped banshee, it throws a fit and dies in a few secounds.


BTW The reason your probably feeling the banshee pull is cause you are hauling **** with the engine reved nice and high.



Another good way to test torque is to put it in first, start going, then hop off and let it idle, see how far it goes. If she has alot of torque, get on your walking shoes.


JMO

 

From all the dyno sheets I've seen between Raptor's and Banshee's, Raptor's have far more torque. Typically, a Banshee has to have about 10-15 more RWHP than a Raptor to equal that Raptor's torque. And then it will only equal the Raptor's torque at peak output. The Raptor will still have more torque throughout the RPM band.

 

the rappy has what I like to call ''low end torque.'' You can putt it around in a gear high because a good bit of its torque is placed in the lower rpm's . the banshee has what I like to call "top end torque." It keeps pulling strong past 7500 rpm's while the rappy motor at 7500 rpm's is losing power. The useable torque of the two motors is at different rpm's. the raptors torque is more useable in trails and the shee's torque is more useable in wide open terrain.