Dirt Wheels: Blaster vs. Raptor 250 Shootout
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Holy crap, the 2010 ride must have been in the Himalaya's. Look at the clip position, main jet, and pilot screw settings and that's with a pipe. :-/
Also, notice they put in a 4 mil stroker and made no mention of porting for that... It would be like boring that 250 so that it could fit (if it were possible I know) a 450 piston but continuing to use the 250 cam and valves...
All in all it seemed like a fair comparison considering the generation gap in designs. The blaster was designed in the late 70's-early 80's.
Oh and how about the blatant plug? "This tester admitted he was really abusing the motor and clutch to get it to go that fast. However, the Hot Rods crank and Vertex piston held up well to the abuse"
Also, notice they put in a 4 mil stroker and made no mention of porting for that... It would be like boring that 250 so that it could fit (if it were possible I know) a 450 piston but continuing to use the 250 cam and valves...
All in all it seemed like a fair comparison considering the generation gap in designs. The blaster was designed in the late 70's-early 80's.
Oh and how about the blatant plug? "This tester admitted he was really abusing the motor and clutch to get it to go that fast. However, the Hot Rods crank and Vertex piston held up well to the abuse"
wow vertex pistons must be great cause dirtwheels said so!!! i think im gonna swap mine out! lol i guess it was pretty fair but as we all know its all about sucking yamaha off for advertisement dollars.
Well, that's what the folks over at vertex (and apparently Dirtwheels) thinks happens.
They give dirtwheels a piston and a few bucks to say it was good, dirtwheels gives them a one-liner, the next time a custom is searching for pistons they consider a vertex. Win-win-win because vertex isn't a BAD piston just not necessarily the best...
Something I didn't add a minute ago: It seems to me that the first review is less....biased and tampered with.
They took factory bikes as fresh as possible with no mods and ran them side by side. The reviewers admitted that the blaster had dated suspension (which we all know it does) but had a little more power (which makes sense).
It seems to me that there were too many variables in the second article. The magazine "leveled the playing field" by modifying the raptor as much as the blaster but it doesn't really seem so... the blaster had aftermarket shocks, a pipe, a jet kit, aftermarket tires, and a 4 mil stroker. The Raptor got a pipe.... Maybe that was dirtwheels attempt to er...."suck off yamaha" as you say by making it seem like you HAD to do all of these things to a blaster JUST to keep up with a shiny new raptor 250...
Now I'd LOVE to find someone local with a rappy 250 with just a pipe on it who would run me on my blaster. I'm pretty sure it would be a slaughter house.
They give dirtwheels a piston and a few bucks to say it was good, dirtwheels gives them a one-liner, the next time a custom is searching for pistons they consider a vertex. Win-win-win because vertex isn't a BAD piston just not necessarily the best...
Something I didn't add a minute ago: It seems to me that the first review is less....biased and tampered with.
They took factory bikes as fresh as possible with no mods and ran them side by side. The reviewers admitted that the blaster had dated suspension (which we all know it does) but had a little more power (which makes sense).
It seems to me that there were too many variables in the second article. The magazine "leveled the playing field" by modifying the raptor as much as the blaster but it doesn't really seem so... the blaster had aftermarket shocks, a pipe, a jet kit, aftermarket tires, and a 4 mil stroker. The Raptor got a pipe.... Maybe that was dirtwheels attempt to er...."suck off yamaha" as you say by making it seem like you HAD to do all of these things to a blaster JUST to keep up with a shiny new raptor 250...
Now I'd LOVE to find someone local with a rappy 250 with just a pipe on it who would run me on my blaster. I'm pretty sure it would be a slaughter house.
I didn't even see the second one- damn have to go read. My 250 is just piped and did a good job keepin up with with a stroked -ported blaster -ummm until 4th-5th gear then I got smoked buy my son... But it does have pep, i'd like to do a little cam and porting to it, and see how it does then? Who needs suspension when your driving in a strait line!!
Ok just read it, don't know how I missed that, Interesting, sure glad they changed the handlebars, gave an extra .000008 HP for the weight differential.
Ok just read it, don't know how I missed that, Interesting, sure glad they changed the handlebars, gave an extra .000008 HP for the weight differential.
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