Add a few coats of paint to the rear wheels, or change to a tyre that suits the terrain, and the Blaster will again be in front!
Raptor or stay with Blaster?
- Thread starter lilgrizz
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The Blaster is still best in the tight wood trails. But on the wide open power-line hilly sections that lead to the oval track the Blaster struggles to keep up.
Hmmm? I gave up a Raptor 660 for my Blaster with no regrets.
100 lbs lighter, $3000 difference in price, quicker and more agile. Love it
This is what I used to ride:
This is what I ride now:
That is me on the lower left, trust me, mine is the quickest machine in this pack and can almost go anywhere they do.
Yeah, I love my Blaster. For woods blasting thrills it cannot be beat. Who needs more weight?
Steve
100 lbs lighter, $3000 difference in price, quicker and more agile. Love it
This is what I used to ride:
This is what I ride now:
That is me on the lower left, trust me, mine is the quickest machine in this pack and can almost go anywhere they do.
Yeah, I love my Blaster. For woods blasting thrills it cannot be beat. Who needs more weight?
Steve
I thought weight can smooth out the ride. Like when a truck has a full load. Or am i wrong the lighter it gets easier to smooth out?
better shocks will smooth out the ride. if your quad is too heavy for how the shocks are set up(or the person is)
it might be smoother, but you will probably lose a lot of susp travel
it might be smoother, but you will probably lose a lot of susp travel
It can, but would you ever think of driving that truck fast?
Shocks and springs need to be set for the weight of the vehicle.
What comes on the Blaster is cheap junk, true enough, but can be readily upgraded.
Many machines out there come with better suspensions than the Blaster but have 100 lbs more weight.
When it comes to wrestling the machine over rocks and logs, less weight counts.
If you are just riding on mindless flat track, make it heavy, long and wide...
Steve
Hmmm? I gave up a Raptor 660 for my Blaster with no regrets.
100 lbs lighter, $3000 difference in price, quicker and more agile. Love it
This is what I used to ride:
This is what I ride now:
That is me on the lower left, trust me, mine is the quickest machine in this pack and can almost go anywhere they do.
Yeah, I love my Blaster. For woods blasting thrills it cannot be beat. Who needs more weight?
Steve
Your blaster also has yz engine if I'm not mistaken...so yea..not much of a comparison. And we are talking raptor 250, not the insanely top heavy raptor 660.
Mine is KTM powered actually, but still has the lovely 298 Lbs character of a Blaster.
My son and I have been able to inexpensively approach the 40+ hp of the KTM with his Blaster so it is a fair comparison. He also has a 30+hp DT200 liquid cooled Blaster which surprisingly shows no real advantage over the aircooled motor other than a bit more low end torque which we can duplicate with intake filling.
We have a bevy of Blasters at the old range and a Banshee as well:
Here is the DT200 powered Blaster in snow:
So when we are used to playing with 30-40+ hp in a 300 Lbs machine, why would we ever want to go to a paltry 15 hp in a Raptor 250? I get this hp figure from the CT Racing website:
http://www.ctracing.com/raptor_250.htm
They are claiming their pipe will wake up a Raptor 250 to a "whopping 20hp!" Wow.
A $60 head on a 17hp Blaster will wake it up to 25hp. Add a $150 pipe for nearly 30 hp.
Space the airbox lid open and you will go over 30hp.
Grind 1mm off the top of the exhaust port will see you into 35hp.
Fill the intake reedbox with epoxy and you are darned near 40hp.
All for less than $250 investment. No boring, no stroking, stock carb.
Can you do that with a Raptor 250?
CT Racing say they can give you parts to get "nearly 30 rear wheel horsepower" for $925.95
Steve Best
Hp is nothing when you cant get it to go around an mx track. I have both quads, I know what Im saying when I say that the raptor 250 handles 10x better than a blaster.
Hmmm, Hp is nothing? (sounds like the guys saying "size doesn't matter"!)
Another 25% more hp has always been a big deal,
but you are right, handling is important.
And it is 90% rider in the end.
I haven't ridden a Raptor 250, but have ridden several of the new 450 Quads. I loved them, and the handling was much better than my modified Blaster. 10x better? Hmmm,probably not. They were smoother and longer travel and easier to hang on to. So how do we do when we ride? I hang in there. Which is pretty good for the old and heavy dude that I am. I do not get left behind and occasionally pass one of the 450s. I don't get out in the lead very much, but then, they are all half my age, and they are 450s.
Did I mention I have less than $1000 tied up in my Blaster?
The Raptor 250 may be a great machine, but it isn't a 2 stroke.
It won't have the same screaming power.
It is a 20yr newer chassis. I'd hope it would be better.
I am biased. Sorry. I'm hooked on oil...
Steve
The thing i dont understand is why arw you allowed to bore an stroke a raptor engine but not allowed to do any internal mods to the blaster except for porting, hmm just says again the 2 stroke is better when you have to have a larger displacement 4stroke to run with a smaller displacement 2stroke competitively
I like the raptor 250, BUT it feels smaller then a blaster to me! So just give me a modded big bore blaster!
