New sled. 1996 VMAX 500. Advice/Tips?

Here is my 95 with the mods listed below. The Xtra-10 is a great improvement. I'm sure there are better skids, but these are cheap and take about two hours to install including drilling 2 holes and making two larger. I have reinforcement brackets/spacers that are fast and easy to install. Pipes?, Thats your call. The GYTR twins are another great improvement IMO.

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Here are some pics of my dads and mine, The blue one (mine) is a 96 XT w/ the stock suspension etc.. The red one is a 94 that we put an XT suspension in. The first two w/ the 94 are with the stock suspension. the last shows the holes and such w/ the XT.
 

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i did all kinds of work to my '96's thinner head gasket, jets, needle drop and a few other things. i have it all written down outside in the garage. all in all it really did not improve things a whole lot but it was noticeable, mostly i was trying to get better mileage and i did do that! i have a ton of extra parts , let me know if you ever need anything!
 
Two worthwhile improvements to this sled is a deeper track (stock has poor traction) and some clutch improvements (see member performance table in the Tech section). Also a thinner head gasket will improve the overall performance although you will need to run a higher octane fuel.
 
If you go to a thin HG, you definitely want to run premium gas. Just sold my 96 and also have my spare parts listed in our classifieds.

I had pipes on mine. It ran good, maybe I was lucky as my reliability issues came from not having cleaned the carbs.

The big help on the sled was to have my rear shocks revalved/rebuilt. I had a ton of worn out parts in the rear suspension. I think it was previously mentioned that the bushing are way cheaper than the hard parts that wear once the bushings are gone....
 
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