MaxPower250r
05-10-2007, 10:43 PM
First post--I've enjoyed searching your forum, lots of info, but its time I get in on this. First off I run a 88trx that I bought on a farm sale 15 years ago for 700 bucks-I did real good. The guy who set if up had died but he raced it, I don't know if he was pro, semipro or what but I know that my R has raced inside old McNichols arena in Denver. When I bought it I was 14 and all I did was run the wee out of it and have fun, I had no clue of what a jewel I was running. I lost interest and it sat for nearly 10 years until last fall when I did a full frame off restoration. I started doing trx research and I quickly realized that I had been running the wee out of some expensive gofast parts-Paul Turner high rev, porting of unknown quality, weird reed cage, shocks with rezzies, extend axle, that sort of stuff. While the frame was off getting pc'd I sent my whole engine to the dude who used to work on our cr500's--ten years ago. He couldn't tell me what kind of port job it had or anything, he just bored it, checked it over and put it back together. SO what I'm needing from you guys is to look at some pictures and give me some input. I don't know if the reed cage is a trx or cr or what but it has some porting tool marks in it and the brownish piece was glued in there and fell out when I took it apart-It also looks like its been masaged a bit. My engine guy is showing his skill in the picture where you can see the reeds obviously aren't big enough to cover the cage window and they don't lay perfectly flat on there. I know that you can't tell exactly what kind of port work you've got without putting the cylinder into macdizzys hot little hand, but the engine is together and running so the best I can do is a few shots of the intake. It also has porting tool marks, I just don't know what I'm looking at--did somebody just clean it up or does it look more serious. All I know for sure is any engine mods would have been done between 1988 and 1992. It somehow was still on its orginal bore and now its .010 over with a wisco prolite. I run 50:1 belray on 92 octane, k&n with outerwears, she cranks 165psi cold and we're at 4800 feet. Performancewise all I can tell you is it will whip a stock 2003 banshee by 6-7 bike lengths on pavement with similiar riders and gearing in a run though the gears pulling away hard the whole way, I don't know if thats good or not. Sorry this was so long, thanks for any input and I hope this post comes out right-I'm having trouble attaching pictures.