Choosing a Crankshaft for Your Banshee Engine Build

If you are planning a Yamaha Banshee engine rebuild or Banshee performance engine build, the engine components need to work together as a complete system. It's important to match up the performance level of your crankshaft with the performance demands of the other engine components. The crankshaft is the backbone of your engine. Selecting the right crankshaft for your engine build is crucial to building in the desired life expectancy of your engine. 

For a stock engine rebuild, you do not need the most expensive crankshaft option. But how much crankshaft performance is required for the engine build you are wanting? This chart helps lay out the engine components that go with each crankshaft. 

It's important to have a reasonable budget to allow you to build in the kind of performance you want -- either right now or with some important components you can build on and grow into later. 

At Re-Do Banshee, we help you decide on the performance level that is suited to how you want to ride and your budget for the build. We can help you design an engine build or full Banshee build that can grow with your riding experience and budget. 

If you have questions about your DIY engine build, or you want to explore having Re-Do Banshee do the work on an engine build for you, give us a call or send a message. 

 

 

 

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If you have a Banshee to restore, want to upgrade your suspension, or are planning an engine build, we're happy to help.

We specialize in Yamaha Banshees. If you have a different project in mind, contact us and we will let you know if we can take it on and what you can expect. 

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We offer a range of services. We can:

  1. Help you select parts for your DIY build.
  2. Help you Pack and Ship your Engine to us, build your engine, then ship it back to you to install.
  3. Complete the engine build for you and install in your Banshee.
  4. Inspect, repair and service the whole Banshee for you.
  5. Build or restore your Banshee.
  6. We may also be able to locate a local Banshee for you - then install your newly built engine in it.

Project References:

  • We calculate engine displacement based on the bore in the engine's cylinders and the stroke length of the crankshaft. Click here for more explanation in our Banshee Engine Displacement blog article. 
  • Click here for information about Banshee engine break-in procedures. This includes our recommendations for Fuel to Oil Ratios and Selecting the Correct Fuel.

About the Authors:

This project article was written by Janel with plenty of help from Virgil. Virgil is the Banshee mechanic, and I am the website mechanic. I do own and ride a Banshee, which helps. 

The Re-Do crew hopes sharing our project info and specs may help some with their own projects, or that you find it interesting. I want our technical info to be accurate and helpful.

Please do let us know if you like our project articles, or if you think I need to correct something. You can send an email to info@redo-parts.com - and your comments will be passed along to me. 

Thanks ~Janel 😉👌