My winter build

[Ruby Soho]

Well, its cold, not alot of riding going on anymore. maybe go out in the snow at night once or twice but thats pretty much it for me. So, i decided im going to dump a few dollars into my quad and make it more to my liking, my insperation came from Rootar's 416ex.

On the wishlist I have:

1. HMF slipon or any pipe
2. 450r Carb / Jets
3. Magnum Clutch Perch/Lever/Blockoff
4. 300ex Clutch Cable
5. Quadtech scooped hood
6. Seatcover
7. New Brake Pads
8. Akraix Graphics/Duncan Graphics
9. Powdercoat lots of parts
10.Plastic Renew on the rear fender
11.ceramic coat header
12.Grips
13.Nerfbar Nets
14.Front Wheels
15.CLEAN EVERYTHING
16.Black Maier Front Plastic
17.New bushings, bearings, whatever that needs replacement
18. Aluminum Polish on all aluminum parts
19. Possible frame gusset

Then after thats all complete i want to buy suspension.

I already started taking the parts off to be PC'd. im hoping for it to look like this when its completed (but of course i have tires, nerfs etc..)


What do you guys think? Ill post up pictures of how it comes along:blah:

[Honda#4]

That looks sick, keep us posted.

[Ruby Soho]

I'm really lucking out with the powder coat. My neighbor does it for a living and I had helped him out over the summer with stuff and he said hell do it VERY cheap for me, so I'm getting everything powder coated for next to nothing

[Honda#4]

IDK what ur budget is but instead of the black wheels maybe try and find some cheap red ring hipers for sale that would look better i think.

[honda8&3]

Originally posted by Ruby Soho

1. HMF slipon
2. 450r Carb / Jets
3. Magnum Clutch Perch/Lever/Blockoff
4. 300ex Clutch Cable
7. New Brake Pads
9. Powdercoat lots of parts
10.Plastic Renew on the rear fender
11.ceramic coat header
12.Grips
13.Nerfbar Nets
14.Front Wheels
15.CLEAN EVERYTHING
17.New bushings, bearings, whatever that needs replacement
18. Aluminum Polish on all aluminum parts
19. Possible frame gusset

Then after thats all complete i want to buy suspension.

I already started taking the parts off to be PC'd. im hoping for it to look like this when its completed (but of course i have tires, nerfs etc..)


What do you guys think? Ill post up pictures of how it comes along:blah: [/B]

[honda8&3]

Originally posted by Honda#4
IDK what ur budget is but instead of the black wheels maybe try and find some cheap red ring hipers for sale that would look better i think.

Ya definetly. Try to do more stuff that will help you in the long run. Don't waste your money on flashy items. If you're gonna race next year joe I'd say suspension exhaust, and maybe a powdercoat if you're getting it done cheap.;)

[Ruby Soho]

Originally posted by honda8&3
Ya definetly. Try to do more stuff that will help you in the long run. Don't waste your money on flashy items. If you're gonna race next year joe I'd say suspension exhaust, and maybe a powdercoat if you're getting it done cheap.;)

the wheels are getting pc'd. im not buying them haha

i plan on the suspension once i get a job when i turn 16. i have one waiting i just need to turn 16 and thats feb. so i can buy that then

[BlasterEaten250]

Originally posted by Ruby Soho

16.Black Maier Front Plastic How about silver front plastic?:D

Sounds like it's gonna turn out sweet

[Ruby Soho]

nah i got my heart set on black haha, the whole bike will be red/black

:p

[BlasterEaten250]

alright that's cool, good luck with it:)

[Ruby Soho]

heres some pictures of the beginning. im not aloud to completely tear it down untill our garage doors arrive so when they're in i can completely do it:p

i also re-located the battery into the airbox. came it good i just need to put silocon or something to seal off the edges and drill the holes for the connections.

http://a926.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/104/l_97fdf6faba72896a9425781440b770a5.jpg

http://a606.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/88/l_f5438e661ca6e7fbdbc26de6693da7d5.jpg

http://a234.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/19/l_42bb19cb037f432adda83d80f4b981b9.jpg

http://a408.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/47/l_c88439523017076c35bee5ef95e204a7.jpg

by the way, thats mikeB on exriders in the background:D :D

[honda8&3]

Looks pretty cool Joe. Mike looks like he rides the short bus with that helmet LOL J/K.:p :chinese:

[born2ride14]

do not use pc plastic renew! it is horrible! after every ride it looks like crap. try puttin wd-40 or tire shine on the plastics it makes em shiney but if the fenders are realy bad get a new pair

[Ruby Soho]

Originally posted by 300maniac
do not use pc plastic renew! it is horrible! after every ride it looks like crap. try puttin wd-40 or tire shine on the plastics it makes em shiney but if the fenders are realy bad get a new pair

i wasnt going to.

theres a tutorial somebody did on here that looks like it worked pretty good. im going to use that, and if it doesnt work i will buy new ones

[Ruby Soho]

heres more pictures from today. got the o.k to tear it all down.

the left balljoints will not come out of the damn spindle, and the pivot bolt isnt comming out either.. put some pb blaster on both and letting them soak.

[Ruby Soho]

#2

[Ruby Soho]

last one for now

[97WarriorRider]

I used pc plastic renew on my warrior and it turned out great..Just takes a long time..It will only look like **** if you dont do it right

[Pipeless416]

sounds like you're going to have a very nice rebuild. ours will look similar minus the graphics and black wheels haha. hopefully pictures of yours wont persuade me into getting a graphics kit because my new front end burried me :p .

[Ruby Soho]

yeah, i love your EX pipeless

today we removed the oil tank and some small parts aswell as some controls from the bars etc..

the sandblaster in my autoshop class sucks so i decided to break out the bench grinder to remove the paint from the small parts im going to get pc'd heres some new pics

[Ruby Soho]

#2

sorry for the picture being blurry

[Ruby Soho]

3rd

[Ruby Soho]

4.. awaiting my dad to help me cut out the pivot bolt. so for now theres not much i can do

[Ruby Soho]

last one for now

[ride_red666]

id get a full pipe if i were u, its better in the long run. take lots of pics when u tear it down it took me about 2 hrs to strip my old quad apart and about six to get it all together.

[Ruby Soho]

Originally posted by ride_red666
id get a full pipe if i were u, its better in the long run. take lots of pics when u tear it down it took me about 2 hrs to strip my old quad apart and about six to get it all together.

im going to get whatever i find on ebay thats a reasonable price haha. im on a budget so..

im tearing it down little by little, we did my friends mojave in about 2-3 hours completely stripped. but im awaiting the swingarm removal till i can pull the motor and such

[JimmyHoffa]

Here's my .02-

-Make sure the powdercoater IS NOT using the environmentally friendly pre-coat treatment. The zinc-sulfide prep stuff is crap. I had mine PC'd the tree-hugger way, and it sucks. I'd use epoxy enamel on bare metal. I had to do my a-arms that way because of the ball joints. The epoxy enamel I got from home depot is lasting a heck of a lot longer than the PC that I paid 50 times as much for.

-PC Racing's plastic renew is a joke. If you don't plan on washing your quad ever, than maybe it's okay. Other than that, do it my way and sand the plastics down to 1500 grit, steel wool them aggressively for a long while, and then buff them at about 12000 RPM with a 6" wheel and polishing compound. THAT'S a legit shine. Real plastic smoothness. No junk, no weird water-soluble solvents. Just clean, factory shine.

-Can you weld? I made a sweet spindle removal tool by welding a nut into the end of a short length of pipe, and threading a short bolt into the nut. Then, I could put the pipe over one spindle stud, and back the bolt out against the other. Then, flip it over to pop out the other one.


-I have an FMF Titanium 4 that may be up for sale... It's the hi-flow header and the can. I'm trying to get a 450r over winter, so the go-fast parts for the 400 will all be up for grabs soon. Let me know if you still need a setup.

Good luck.

[Ruby Soho]

the guy im getting the powder coat from does it for alot of people aswell as his own quad and truck. i will talk to him on his process thanks for the heads up.

like i said before i wasnt going to buy pc plastic renew, i meant renew my plastic the way you said.

yes i can weld, but only steel our welder is like a 50 year old stick welder haha

thanks for the ideas

[Ruby Soho]

here are some pictures of the airbox

[Ruby Soho]

Two

[mikeB]

Spray paint.. MY idea=P

[JimmyHoffa]

Alright man. What happened there? Just curious... Did your shock linkage break or something?

[Ruby Soho]

happened where? the airbox?

if so.. no it was fine, but i relocated the battery box inside of the airbox to remove it from the side of the subframe

[JimmyHoffa]

Ah. Yeah. Sorry. My brain broke. I forgot you said that and I thought someone had sicked their pet tornado on your airbox.

[Ruby Soho]

haha yea.. it looks like crap on the bottom from the silicon, but it came out nice and the sides/back it looks fine. beats having a ton of wires on the subframe though

[Ruby Soho]

heres an updated picture, and the cracked swingarm.

all thats really left is the belly skid, the swingarm and motor. everythign else is removed

[Ruby Soho]

and the swingarm..

[Ruby Soho]

and an updated picture

[97WarriorRider]

What the hell did ya do to the swinger?

[Ruby Soho]

MX.

im pretty sure it cracked because the (sitting on the quad) left swinger bearing was gone, and the aluminum eventually elongated causing about half inch of play in it, and with that play in there and jumping fairly large jumps (on stock suspension) cracked it.

im hopefully buying a houser swinger, and will modify the new pivot bolt to be greased aswell as the houser being greasable i shouldnt have problems with that anymore

[red_rider_069]

Originally posted by Ruby Soho
nah i got my heart set on black haha, the whole bike will be red/black

:p dude ur compying me lol.. black on red looks sick but my plasticsa are red.. and im gonan chaneg the seat

[red_rider_069]

Originally posted by 300maniac
do not use pc plastic renew! it is horrible! after every ride it looks like crap. try puttin wd-40 or tire shine on the plastics it makes em shiney but if the fenders are realy bad get a new pair i just cleaned my quad last with armorall it works :D

[Ruby Soho]

got the motor pulled. underneath that damn thing was a TON of dirt and mud, i drilled some holes in the skid to prevent that:p

picturessss

[Ruby Soho]

number tttwwwooo

next is strippin the frame for some pc!

[Honda#4]

Get ur motor cleaned up a bit when you get a chance, looks a bit dirty, otherwise your making great progress cant wait to see it completed.

[Pipeless416]

nice grand prix! :D our garages have another thing in common lol.

[trx400EXtreme]

sweet, looks like its comin' along great. hopefully i'll have a little suspension overhaul by the time christmas gets here.

[Ruby Soho]

Honda#4, yea thats going to get cleaned throughly while the frame is out getting pc'd, i already cleaned the mounts/bolts.

Pipeless416, haha yea, thats pretty cool how we both have one of those aswell as the EX's sitting in our garage's:p

trx400EXtreme, that should be cool, ill hopefully have my suspension the way i want it before its warm again:cool:

[Ruby Soho]

heres a small update..

got the black maier race cuts, the msr clutch perch and lever, grips, tusk pb blockoff, the seatcover and some other small stuff.

found a few swingarms, should be buying one shortly.

cleaned the motor, not done cleaning it yet but its getting there, cleaned the frame too. that should be getting pc'd red after xmas.

some pictures of the motor cleaned

[Ruby Soho]

made a bracket for the airbox.. not done yet

[Ruby Soho]

and lastly the motor up close

[Honda#4]

Lookin really good there, glad its going ok. I cant wait to see it done, sucks that u cant ride though but atleast you get to work on it.

Motor looks clean to me. When I clean my motor I use a somewhat long toothbrush to get in the cracks and in between the cooling fins on the motor, just a little tip for yas.

[Ruby Soho]

another small update:

christmas rolled around and i got the plastic, clutch, pb blockoff, grips, and seatcover.

gusseting the frame friday or saturday, and getting it powdercoated monday i believe.

also bough a swingarm off ebay which should be here thursday. when that comes back its time to re-assemble!

[Ruby Soho]

plastic:

[Ruby Soho]

grips

[Ruby Soho]

clutch perch/lever and parking brake blockoff

[Ruby Soho]

and the seatcover..last pic till the frame gets gusseted

[Hondamaster5505]

awesome, i cant wait to see the finished product!

I also cant wait till i start my tear-down

[procircuit406ex]

Looks good! You will love that perch, I know I love mine!

[Honda#4]

Parts are looking good, take note that the bolts for the perch strip very easy one of mine did lucky enough i found a bolt that somewhat fit. My lines finally are gonna ship today but the axle is still on backorder.


What swinger did you buy?

[Ruby Soho]

i found a good deal on a stock one. so i ended up going with that, i couldn't find an after market one that was a decent price and was in good enough shape.

thanks for the tip on the perch!

btw make sure you get pics of your front end and all that good stuff im dying to see it :p

[Honda#4]

I have a thread started so whenever you have time you can look, it will be updated from time to time.

[mat1977]

Originally posted by procircuit406ex
Looks good! You will love that perch, I know I love mine! X2

[Ruby Soho]

heres pics of the gussets

[Ruby Soho]

last picture for now.

tommorow im bringing the frame/subframe to the guy whos powdercoating it. ill get pics of it when i get it back:devil:

[97WarriorRider]

What kinda welder did ya use?

[Ruby Soho]

my old mans 1950's stick welder.

its very hard to use, and i was weary of using it on the frame. i wish we had a wire feed:ermm:

its not to pretty but im willing to sacrifice that for strength

[Honda#4]

Welds look great, keep up the good work.

[tar]

Originally posted by Ruby Soho
my old mans 1950's stick welder.

its very hard to use, and i was weary of using it on the frame. i wish we had a wire feed:ermm:

its not to pretty but im willing to sacrifice that for strength

You won't notice it so much when it gets powdercoated;)

[trx400EXtreme]

Originally posted by Ruby Soho
my old mans 1950's stick welder.

its very hard to use, and i was weary of using it on the frame. i wish we had a wire feed:ermm:

its not to pretty but im willing to sacrifice that for strength i would kill to have a wire fed welder, or any welder for that matter lol. btw great looking welds. looks like everythings coming along fine.:cool:

[Ruby Soho]

thanks for the compliments guys.

my swingarm should be in thursday, its coming with a pivot bolt aswell, my last one ended up in a million tiny peices in the dust pan:p

so as of now its onto polishing and cleaning every little part, checking on bearings and painting the stock arms the factory silver. reason for that is they looks terrible now and i wont have a front end for atleast 2 months so the stockers go back on for now, and i wouldn't want them to ruin everything:o

ill keep updating as everything comes in and what-not. and then ill get pictures of the going back together process:devil:

[wizzade]

Looking good


Originally posted by Ruby Soho
i wish we had a wire feed:ermm:

Your better off stick welding it than mig welding it. A mig weld isn't as flexible as a stick weld so it will have a better chance of of breaking.

[Hondamaster5505]

we have a mig welder :D

Its really nice to have for making long, straight welds.

[BigBore24]

looks like you are moving along quite nicely. I know those pivot bolts can be a b***h, I had to cut mine out with a torch and luckily didnt melt the motor. whats the advantage of a 300ex clutch cable?

[97WarriorRider]

Im leary about using stick welders on frames too for the fear of burning them up..but in the end it turns out ok..Cant wait till this summer though when I get my combination welder : )

[Ruby Soho]

Originally posted by BigBore24
looks like you are moving along quite nicely. I know those pivot bolts can be a b***h, I had to cut mine out with a torch and luckily didnt melt the motor. whats the advantage of a 300ex clutch cable?

I think actually its the 250x cable, because it is longer therefor you don't need to run it through the exhaust headers and instead you can run it around them and never melt it. Which i have done and my current clutch cable is very stiff:scary:

[440challenger]

Looks good,thats exactly where i put my guessets last week. i would guesset the top too. Ck out my thread

[born2ride14]

welds look fine

[Ruby Soho]

Originally posted by 440challenger
Looks good,thats exactly where i put my guessets last week. i would guesset the top too. Ck out my thread

i noticed the little weld on the bracket that holds the steering bar up was cracked, it looks like a bad weld in the first place honestly.. so we fixed that up and matched that on the other side

the frame is out, and tuesday i should have pics of it

[Ruby Soho]

spent a few hours cleaning parts, heres a picture i took of what 15 minutes and some polish can do for a nerf bar:p

[Honda#4]

Footpegs seem a bit dirty or rusty but the nerfs look great.

[Ruby Soho]

the pegs just have dirt on them, i have to take them off the nerfs and clean them but i was dying to polish something:D

next is the wheels, and im going to gunk the bottom end of the engine.. the frame comes back tuesday so nothing can be dirty!

p.s thanks for all the compliments guys

[honda300EXtreme]

looking good man,,, should turn out real nice


hey i have plenty of parts here that need polishing,,, so if ya get bored let me know :p

[Ruby Soho]

well for a small fee maybe we could arrange something....:devil:

haha its kind of a pain but i like the outcome so i'm willing to polish anything and everything that can be haha

[honda300EXtreme]

me too its a pain in the *** but it can make a world of difference,,, i cant even tell ya how many hours i have in polishing,, and i have alot more to do


and how much we talkin :p

[Ruby Soho]

lets see.. i need probly around 750$ to completely finish my quad so...

Hows 700$ sound, and I'll polish every part ya got!:devil:

[honda300EXtreme]

let me sleep on it,, and ill get back to ya on that.... :p


anyways,, nice rebuild ,, it will be a awsome machine when your done...

[Ruby Soho]

haha alright just let me know:p :p

thanks.. i'm doing this hole thing on a budget so im hoping it'll turn out nice

[tman12345]

cool build, can't wait to see it finished

[Honda#4]

any updates?

[Ruby Soho]

im waiting on the frame to come back, my frame has been blasted and im pretty sure its been coated, but hes doing it along with my friends mojave frame and i guess its a real pain and it wont come off, so hes working on it and he said monday we'll get it back.

i got the swingarm thursday heres a picture of it

http://i5.ebayimg.com/07/i/000/cd/c5/6600_1.JPG

[Honda#4]

looks good

[Ruby Soho]

yeah.

i can't wait to get the frame back, its going to make a world of difference

[Honda#4]

Now if you only had the suspension I have or in general you'd be ready for QOTM.

[hondarider101]

Originally posted by Ruby Soho
clutch perch/lever and parking brake blockoff

i was gonna order that same thing from rockymountainatv and the ladie that i spoke to on the net said "its made only for dirtbikes not for atv's and is not recomended for use on a atv" so i didnt order on so lmk how it works out for you.

thanks

[tar]

Originally posted by hondarider101
i was gonna order that same thing from rockymountainatv and the ladie that i spoke to on the net said "its made only for dirtbikes not for atv's and is not recomended for use on a atv" so i didnt order on so lmk how it works out for you.

thanks

That's not true..a lot of people run blockoffs including me without any trouble

[416exfreak]

I use a PB blockoff. Ive never had any form of problem. That lady was probably on her way to lunch or something.:ermm:

[Ruby Soho]

Originally posted by Honda#4
Now if you only had the suspension I have or in general you'd be ready for QOTM.

haha yeah, I wish i had your suspension setup its so nice:p

and the parking brake blockoff is used on quads all the time.. it doesnt do anything besides get rid of the parking brake setup and just covers up where that bolts on..

[hondarider101]

thats what i thought i was like how would it be different?

[Ruby Soho]

i dont know what the lady was thinking but I wouldn't have listened to her:p

[Honda#4]

The only problem is on the bottom of my arms by the balljoints the chrome plating chipped so now I gotta find a chrome platter some place. I'd like to get my lowers PC'd.

[Ruby Soho]

yeah, they still look good none the less.

im shooting for houser or burgard +2 arms with either 450r shocks or some decent used aftermarket shocks and a g-force axle. ill be saving for those parts in about a month and a half when i get the job:p

[Honda#4]

I'd get houser with like Works triple rate shocks, the g force axle is a great choice for the money.

I think LT houser arms are the same price as the std travel arms IDK, you would be suprised at how fast you can turn with +3 arms OMG!

I took my desert tank of today so now my quad looks like an actual MX quad.

[Ruby Soho]

i could only imagine how well that must handle

go snap a picture of it! id like to see it without the tank

[Honda#4]

I will tomorrow if I got time.

[Honda#4]

Here's a newly updated pic of the quad. It really does look alot better without that nut buster tank on but it did stretch my seat a bit I think, plus my gas tank plastic is on one side but the other side wont even go on cuz my bro rolled it so the plastics are all shifted but it all holds.

Hope you like it?

[Ruby Soho]

looks awesome!

once all your parts are completely together put that thing in QOTM. itll get my vote for sure:p

[Honda#4]

I'm trying to get my parts but for some reason it's been awfull, I keep emailing K&K but I never get no emil back they never keep me updated and im getting very flustered about it. I ordered my parts before christmas actually on the 14 of Dec and it's been an emailing war, they said my axle was on backorder which I didnt mind but they said on the 27th that they shipped out my lines and so far I havent seen nothing.

Sorry for the long post and yes I will enter when the 400ex only comes on I entered last time in the open and that was a mistake.

[Ruby Soho]

little update..

should be getting the frame back by the end of the week, hes having trouble with the other frame and i dont get mine bakc till the other is done too.:(

but some good news

my friend talked to Titan MX and im going to have custom graphics made for the new black plastic.. should look trick!

[CRich[814]]

looking great.


#4, the 400 looks 100x better without the tank.

[Honda#4]

Yea it does but one side of the plastics dont line up,and my vent tube doesnt stay on the cap at all you can pull it off.

You could say I put my quad on a diet, it lost 30lbs

This build looks sweet, i cant wait until it gets finished.

[rollie]

looks awesome so far!! cant wait to see what it looks like when its all done!

[97WarriorRider]

Rudy..have you gotten your frame back yet??

[Honda#4]

any new updates?

[Ruby Soho]

ive been in florida for the past week or so

my frame is done and at my friends house right now

ill get tons of pics of putting it back together when i get home!

[Honda#4]

Ahhh spending some time in a warmer climate now thats the way to go. Stupid cold weather. Cant wait to see the pics.

[Ruby Soho]

Originally posted by Honda#4
Ahhh spending some time in a warmer climate now thats the way to go. Stupid cold weather. Cant wait to see the pics.

yeah its great

82 degrees, the suns out

but im coming home to the cold connecticut tommorow:(

[Honda#4]

Has to come to an end sometime.

[Ruby Soho]

thats true

i hear its going to be a whopping 10 out hahaha

[NPelletier]

looks good so far mna, keep em coming:D

[Honda#4]

Well Joe I got my axle still waiting on the lines though sad part is I can't even work on my quad. Old Man winter is starting to piss me off.

[Ruby Soho]

thats good you finally got it.

yeah winter sucks.. i get my frame/parts back tomorrow so ill have TONS of pics soon

[Ruby Soho]

got my parts back finally!

i only have pics of the frame, ill get pics of the little parts that are all black tommorow

[Ruby Soho]

subframe

[zdowell]

looking bad ***. wish i wasn't in college right now. My quad is collecting dust back home and I never get to ride. Sand dunes this spring though!!!

[Honda#4]

Wah!! totally killer that will be lookin pretty bad *** when you get ur done, got my axle on yesterday forgot to take pics being cold out but will try today.

[Pipeless416]

Originally posted by zdowell
looking bad ***. wish i wasn't in college right now. My quad is collecting dust back home and I never get to ride. Sand dunes this spring though!!!

i know the feeling :o . what dunes are you going to? and ruby soho, that looks great. i cant wait to see how it all turns out.

[zdowell]

going to the little sahara. Think we will make it there in about may or june. Should be so real fun. Long as it not to busy.

[Pipeless416]

Originally posted by zdowell
going to the little sahara. Think we will make it there in about may or june. Should be so real fun. Long as it not to busy.

oh yea, i remember stealing your thread in the dune section lol.. sorry.. but anyway, you'll love it there. great trip for us midwesterners.

[Ruby Soho]

and the quad comes to life again:devil: :devil: :devil:

http://a396.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/6/l_3f9c11550f6c9119bb60552fb146d96b.jpg
http://a579.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/34/l_96dfe4ea5b5bdc59d442e15a72bc864a.jpg

[Hondamaster5505]

thats gonna be SOOOO sick.

I always loved the red and black. They go together so nicely!

[Honda#4]

Finally I see progress, looks great with the black plastics I've never seen a red like that before though,what color is it? like candy red.

I left ya a comment on myspace also but im sure you noticed my quad as the profile pic.

[trx400EXtreme]

nice. looks like it's comin' right along. :macho

[Pipeless416]

dangggg!!!! looks incredible :cool:

[Ruby Soho]

its fire engine red, i love it

heres some pics with the swingarm added.. tomorrow the oil system and all main parts will be done and possibly the rear end, im waiting to pu some pj1 stock grey on the stock arms for now so they dont like like crap till i get some +2's

[Ruby Soho]

last one till tommorow

[mikeB]

This red is just INSANE!

If i had to pic a frame color. DEF be in a top 3 of color choices!

[Honda#4]

Damn it's lookin good Joe, I think I better do something with mine pretty quick otherwise yours looks better mine hands down.

[lawdog800]

Lookin SWEEEEEEEEEEEET!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Ruby Soho]

today got the rear suspension on, subframe, wiring, intake and exhaust, oil cooler/tank and all that good stuff. not much left but heres the process from today

http://a739.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/14/l_cf3a0ac94761ca2772e857e6d07ea4da.jpg
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and yes, i know. the rear fenders need to be cleaned:devil:

[Honda#4]

I'm really jealous now!! BTW love your air box bracket.

[Ruby Soho]

haha yeah, i need to trim the bolt on it, but since the battery is in there i needed a bracket. not as good looking as an aluminum one but i figuired i could spend money in better places

today i should be putting the rest of the rear end on, finishing the wiring, the little plastic stuff and tank on top, getting the steering stem on and the front brakes, and wiring all the controls up to the bars

then im going to paint the a-arms with a stockish grey so they dont look terrible so those will go on in a few days, dont wanna rush it:D

but i can put the plastic and all that on in the mean time and see how it comes out

[97WarriorRider]

Its looking great...Did you paint the front plastics?

[Ruby Soho]

nope those are maier race cut

[hondarider101]

any more new pics and are you gettin blk back plastics?

[Ruby Soho]

nope, just the red rears and im having graphics made that will blend them together.

i may mod some red 450r rear fenders on.. that would look pretty cool, heres the latest picture i took

http://a595.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/100/l_d0436608786e9a91b4fa2593496d4f02.jpg

[Honda#4]

I want that frame!! LOL. Rear looks good but not wide enough, you've been really haulin *** with this build i'm really suprised.

J/W how your gonna get it off the table when you get more stuff on?

[Ruby Soho]

haha it feels good knowing people like my quad and how im making it:)

and as for getting it off.. same way we got it on back in november

my friend mike whos been helping out with the build grabs one nerf, i grab the other and we move it off:D

[Honda#4]

Yea I like it alot, wish I had mine rebuilt now so I could test out my axle, imagion that bought $1600 worth of stuff and I can't even ride it, all because my dad wants me to take my quad into the stealership.

[Ruby Soho]

if i was in your shoes, i honestly would go nuts haha

why would you need to bring it in?

[hondarider101]

i would try and put 450r fenders on it. looks good.

[Honda#4]

I am nuts, i'm never myself when I don't have my quad to rip around on gotta settle for my snowmobile and thats not even close to the fun I have on my quad. And my dad thinks thats the only way to fix it, he doesn't know about the services from other companies besides honda, and I dont think he knows I can do it either but I know I can, he darn nere watched me jet my quad when it was 12:00 at night and I had absolultly no light to work with.

But he's gonna pay for the rebuild cuz i'll be damned if I will spend 500 bucks on labor.

[Ruby Soho]

are you re-doing the engine?

[Honda#4]

Yep sure am, I would like to make it a 416 with a JE piston running 11:1 comp ,Hotcam Stage 2,CRF Cam chain, and Cosmetic gaskets, but I doubt i'll get that stuff.

I don't have the slightest idea on what there gonna do to it or what they'll put in it but I will give them what I want above.

[Ruby Soho]

your quad would be amazing with that engine.

i think you can do it yourself. top ends are cake. it really isnt worth paying a shop to do it.

good luck with whatever road you end up taking

[mikeB]

Yea. gettin the quad on and off that table isnt that hard. Kinda a pain to do but it beats workin on a concrete floor.

Free table = Easy & fun to work on.

[Honda#4]

Thanks Joe for the boost in confidence, well with this online small engine program I am taking it covers 4 stroke motors as well as 2 stroke ones so I'll see what that's all about, but I do have a repair manual and it looks pretty straight forward i'm just afraid of getting the timing all off something like that.

After it gets rebuilt I might have to look into a full exhaust. We'll see but for now as far as parts I want, I need MX tires then I'd like to sell my nerfs and bumper and pegs to get all IMS/Roll stuff.

[Ruby Soho]

timing is simple, do you have a clymer manual?

and mike. when are you coming over to help with getting it off the table?

heres some new pictures.. should be complete tomorrow night

http://a800.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/23/l_e12552e1f0a58fd1ceb66b3ff5663ac7.jpg
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What kind of swingarm did you end up getting?

[Ruby Soho]

just a stock one from a 2002, it was real clean and looked good so i said what the heck.

i plan on fabbing a custom one in may or so

[Honda#4]

I have a Haynes not a clymer.

[Ruby Soho]

well, its 99% done. just need a longer live wire and need to connect the starter to the starter relay, put on the body skid, chain and adjust the bars etc, and put on the POS stock pipe (which i dont wanna do...) and shes done

heres some pictures!

http://a747.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/24/l_5bbfbc15c282b49c9ae399d4ead2560a.jpg
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[Honda#4]

Now that looks good, now if you got black A-arms and black swinger plus the black plastic thats gonna a killer lookin quad.

Great job.

Maybe in a few months I might sell my pipe and get something else not sure yet but maybe a HMF, if your interested in it I'll keep ya informed.

[Ruby Soho]

i was thinking that but i liked the grey mixed in with the black/red

the new front end will be black thats for sure.

[Honda#4]

Did you atleast get it started yet?

[Ruby Soho]

not yet, im at school right now so when i get home it will be:D

[Ruby Soho]

heres a video of walking around it

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[Brauap]

That is nice, you just should go with the 2 tone, IMO. Also, what songs in the background?:devil:

[Ruby Soho]

tear away by drowning pool haha