787 rebuild advise

[Tncumminsguy]

Rebuild the motor in my 96 xp project and needing some advise on it. Before tearing it apart the motor was running a Factory Spec II pipe, jetted carbs, and aftermarket rev limiter. I always ran 93octane in it and it ran great, but i'm one of those people who just can't leave things alone. I'm very tempted right now to build this motor pretty nasty but don't want to sacrifice the reliability it had or get the snowball affect where I have to change carbs and can't run pump gas!

My current plan was to get a new crank (not sure on brand), some platinum pistons, ADA billet head with 43cc domes for pump gas, have some mild porting done to the motor by a local builder, and R&D intake manifold. The ADA head will supposedly give me 175psi.

Anyone have thoughts on keeping this motor very reliable but squeezing more power out of it

 

[Jetskigoodies]

[MENTION=51824]Matt Braley[/MENTION] would be the man to talk to.

 

[Tncumminsguy]

Anyone have any insight

 

[LouDoo]

If you're asking for opinions, unless you're a racer, my opinion is don't do it, keep it stock, maybe with some mild mods. These little engines are already developing 110hp, which is a lot for a two cylinder engine. Almost anything you do is going to shorten engine life, I'll take reliability over a few more MHP's any day. But I'm a recreational rider not a racer.

Lou

 

[Tncumminsguy]

Thats what I'm thinking now because I just pulled the original motor last year and it wasn't even that bad just needed some love.