BANSHEE 500 twin
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BANSHEE 500 twin
I read an article a couple of months back about the possibility of Yamaha putting out a 4 stroke 500 twin banshee. the article stated that the motor was basically two 250 motors slapped together which they already have on a snowmobile.
I went to the yamaha dealer where i bought mine and asked about it. they told me that it's definately NOT gonna happen and gave me 3 reasons...
1. The most obvious, they still make the banshee, just can't sell it in the U.S.(emission laws). so even if they did make a 500 twin, it would have a different name.
2. the 500 snowmobile engine is too wide for a quad.
3. that engine has 85 horsepower...never see anything close to that on a production sport quad.
<u>just curious to see what anyone else heard</u>.
I went to the yamaha dealer where i bought mine and asked about it. they told me that it's definately NOT gonna happen and gave me 3 reasons...
1. The most obvious, they still make the banshee, just can't sell it in the U.S.(emission laws). so even if they did make a 500 twin, it would have a different name.
2. the 500 snowmobile engine is too wide for a quad.
3. that engine has 85 horsepower...never see anything close to that on a production sport quad.
<u>just curious to see what anyone else heard</u>.
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BANSHEE 500 twin
Yeah I never understood why some of these mfgs didn't slap their larger engines in their UTVs since size isn't as much a factor. I know BRP has some PWCs with 3 cyl engines putting out over 100hp. My cousin pointed out why they don't put some of their sport bike engines in and that's because of RPMs required to make power but they could drop the gearing way down and have a screamer...
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