One thing you will want to research before you buy a radiator is how the mounting brackets are arranged to mount it. Myself and jim327 used a radiator out of a YFZ450 Yamaha quad. They have 4 mounting points and its pretty easy to fabricate brackets to mount it to the upper air box brackets and then make a simple bracket to mount it to the seat belt bolts. The Banshee radiator also mounts easily but I don't like having the radiator hanging on the rear down tubes in a position that anyone can bump it, get burned or bend the cooling fins.

I have mounted mine by re-enforcing the upper air box bracket to the air box (bolted not riveted) and drilled holes onto the air box plastic and used large 1" diameter washers to distribute the mounting over a larger area. I had to make sure the radiator has the rubber heat insulating mounts or it would transfer heat into the plastic and melt the air box! I guess I'll find out how well it works once I get my water cooled head installed.

As you can see, jim327 used a nice aluminum mounting bracket to hang his radiator from the upper air box mount.

What type of pump are you going to use? Jim and I both used a Mercedes auxiliary water pump. Pretty easy to find and pretty simple to mount.

Good luck,

Rand

I got it in like new condition for 50 bucks plus $10 for shipping! I'm pleased with it. Chomping at the bit though waiting for the new heads to be finished. At the time when I was acquiring parts, all the Banshee radiators looked the they went through hell and back!

My only issue I might have is the thermostat switches. The fan switch doesn't activate until 216F. From what I hear, the YFZ450's have an issue with overheating due to the high switch settings. I have seen aftermarket switches that lower them on temp down to 177F. If I have an issue this will be the route I will have to go.

Rand

First one came from Arizona, old guy had for the grandkids but they weren't around much so he sold it, spent it's entire life inside a garage except the few hours that it was outside being used. Hoser's diagnosis on it was that it had less than 40 hours on it when he saw it, I had already put about half that much on it.

Second one came from Ramject, he had bought it and decided he needed something else for his kid after having for only a short time. It was in nearly the same condition, every original nut, bolt and sticker, one of the wheels was ratty, so I had them all redone.

Something you rarely see anymore is the little rubbers on the front bumpers, both of them had them and they were still supple. My son in law blew a top end on the second one, when torn down, it was the original bore, so it was also very low hours.

I sold the pair of them to a guy here in Colorado who is a paraplegic, never heard back from him, but I have a feeling that his family ran the hell out of them based on meeting them when I delivered them. Sold the pair on the trailer for ten grand which pretty much paid for the first Drakart.

Here are a couple of shots of the first Drak, two stroke that had maybe two hours on it. Got it from a collector that didn't like it when he got it. And no, this is not the one that Baz has, this one and his were side by side in Alain's shop when I was out there to get Ol Blue.