Installing suspension on custom Blaster
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Nvm selling the stock frame, you'll need that if you ever intend on riding on anything other than drag race 300fters.
Someone made an all out drag race frame out of that thing. No upper a-arm mounts left. If you want to trail ride, you'll have to get regular blaster spindles and brakes, and rebuild the stock silver frame. The good news is, you might be able to sell the drag blaster if you're not interested in drag racing. It looks like it's almost completely setup for sand drag.
Username, good catch on that rear suspension. Looks like someone had a field day making that one work! It's definitely different!
Where are you at in NC? If you were close enough, I have a set of drum brakes and cables for the front taking up space in my garage. It would get you part of the way there for getting a regular blaster going.
Someone made an all out drag race frame out of that thing. No upper a-arm mounts left. If you want to trail ride, you'll have to get regular blaster spindles and brakes, and rebuild the stock silver frame. The good news is, you might be able to sell the drag blaster if you're not interested in drag racing. It looks like it's almost completely setup for sand drag.
Username, good catch on that rear suspension. Looks like someone had a field day making that one work! It's definitely different!
Where are you at in NC? If you were close enough, I have a set of drum brakes and cables for the front taking up space in my garage. It would get you part of the way there for getting a regular blaster going.
Also, you may have trouble taking that engine out of that drag blaster and putting it in a regular frame.
If someone went through so much trouble to make a custom frame and front suspension it's possible they built the crap out of the engine and possibly went with an over ride transmission. The engine may run too hot to be of much use on the trails without overheating and if they installed an override transmission, it will be able to shift up under load without using the clutch but has trouble downshifting.
Something you may want to look into before spending a bunch of time putting together a stockish frame for which you have no usable engine.
If someone went through so much trouble to make a custom frame and front suspension it's possible they built the crap out of the engine and possibly went with an over ride transmission. The engine may run too hot to be of much use on the trails without overheating and if they installed an override transmission, it will be able to shift up under load without using the clutch but has trouble downshifting.
Something you may want to look into before spending a bunch of time putting together a stockish frame for which you have no usable engine.
I live in Wilkes. Thanks , i will take you up on that offer if thats the way i decide to go. Do you think it would be dangerous to ride on asphault or a dirtroad because i bought it for my wife so we could ride up and down our road together and down the dirtroads close to my house. Saving $1500 and having a little project, i couldnt turn it down. Did i show you guys all the parts that came with it
Some of these can be cleaned up and sold or used
Some of these can be cleaned up and sold or used
I didnt see your last post sorry. Yea all ive heard about the motor is that it has the big bore 240. Im not going to use the stock frame it sounds like too much trouble. Thats the reason i bought the thing was i thought i wouldnt have to do much and i could sell the stock frame and make some of my money back. If i do decide to spend time and money i will keep it for myself and see how big of a engine i can stick in it since i am 200lbs, and drag it
You've got enough parts in the pile there to put you together a mostly stock blaster and then sell the drag bike.
If you want to ride up and down the dirt road and play around on, the drag bike is NOT it. You need to take one of those other two bottom ends and start putting it back together to stick in that stock frame for her to ride.
If they set it up for pure drag race, the engine has so much timing advance and port work it'll be a snarly beast to ride even on the drag strip and on trails or at low speed it might even overheat or run lean and lock up!
If you want to ride up and down the dirt road and play around on, the drag bike is NOT it. You need to take one of those other two bottom ends and start putting it back together to stick in that stock frame for her to ride.
If they set it up for pure drag race, the engine has so much timing advance and port work it'll be a snarly beast to ride even on the drag strip and on trails or at low speed it might even overheat or run lean and lock up!
Oh and NVM, you've already got drum brakes and cables in the parts pile. If they are any kind of count, you can use those on the front of the stock frame.
A yamaha blaster is one of the easiest and least "specialty tool" intensive quads out there to work on. In the stock form, they're mild mannered and pretty fun to ride. In the non-stock form they're a snarling beast to be reckoned with.
If you want some decent for your wife to simply ride with you on, put one of the spare bottom ends you have there together and put a stock-ish blaster back together. She'll have a ball playing around on it.
Ditch the drag frame and suspension (and pretty much everything else that was modified for the drag blaster) because it will ride like garbage and worst case scenario, grenade on her far away from the house. Either way she won't be happy about it...
If you want some decent for your wife to simply ride with you on, put one of the spare bottom ends you have there together and put a stock-ish blaster back together. She'll have a ball playing around on it.
Ditch the drag frame and suspension (and pretty much everything else that was modified for the drag blaster) because it will ride like garbage and worst case scenario, grenade on her far away from the house. Either way she won't be happy about it...
I would clean up all of the spare parts you have lying around (degreaser is cheap!!!!) and take an inventory. I'd take a chance on one of those case sets and transmissions being stock and usable. You put the front shock on the stock frame and the drums back on it and you've ALMOST got a roller. Then put the rear suspension back under it and find a stock rear shock (I've got a yellow one also taking up space out in the garage) and you WILL have a roller. Once you've got a bottom end that's in decent shape, buy a cylinder and piston and you're ready to ride.
I guess i will just keep it for myself. to ride on the pavement by my house. I have drove it. It doesnt seem that anything too crazy is done to it. The carb does need to be cleaned and it was a little sputteree(if thats a word) seemed pretty mild. If i cant use it for what i wanted, thats ok because im only out 400 bones. I might fix it up a little and see what kind of profit i could reap. Its still a cool man toy. I dont like the gokart steering though
North of Raleigh. Quite a ride away.
It doesn't look mild but that doesn't mean it isn't either. Someone may have tried to "de drag" it some already by taking a lot of the hot parts off of it. You simply can't trail ride a cometitive drag racing engine. They'll overheat.
Like I said, degreaser is cheap. Take a stock of what you've got and put together a plan. If you're going to stick it out with a drag chassis, be prepared to expand your $1,500 budget (a bunch) speed costs...
If you plan on your wife riding it around just having fun, plan on that stock frame and putting together one of the other bottom ends. It'll last longer and it won't be as hard to ride as the other one.
It doesn't look mild but that doesn't mean it isn't either. Someone may have tried to "de drag" it some already by taking a lot of the hot parts off of it. You simply can't trail ride a cometitive drag racing engine. They'll overheat.
Like I said, degreaser is cheap. Take a stock of what you've got and put together a plan. If you're going to stick it out with a drag chassis, be prepared to expand your $1,500 budget (a bunch) speed costs...
If you plan on your wife riding it around just having fun, plan on that stock frame and putting together one of the other bottom ends. It'll last longer and it won't be as hard to ride as the other one.
Also, 4 snows are NOT made for asphalt. Don't ride them on it, it'll chew those tires right off.
There are some rear tires for sale in the classifieds section and I'm sure SOMEONE out there will trade some regular tires for a set of 4 snows if you want to back kinda stockish for the rear tires.
There are some rear tires for sale in the classifieds section and I'm sure SOMEONE out there will trade some regular tires for a set of 4 snows if you want to back kinda stockish for the rear tires.
