Houser YZ450 rebuild

[wilbur116]

I've been wanting to post some pics of this rebuild for a while, so here a couple for now.

[wilbur116]

front

[korniev]

Looks like it is gonna be a nice build! Hope you match the colors of your plastic and graphix with everything you have so far!!!

[outacontrol]

nice!

[figair]

Thats is HOTTT, Great JOb

[figair]

is that a 03yz450f dirtbike motor?
If ti is, you will have the baddest machine around!

[wilbur116]

It's an 04' YZ450 dirt bike motor. Pretty much the same as an 03' with better clutch cable routing. Yamaha didn't start to mellow out the YZ450's till 05'.

Thanks.....

[TWISTED DINLI]

looks REAL good. what color plastics are you going to put on it? graphics?

[racerx573]

What exhaust is that? I need to get a new one, my TC shorty is way too loud.

[TingTingTing]

looks good.

[250Renvy]

That's some pretty sick looking paint.

Post some pics and details about those arms and swinger accents - chrome or just paint/powder?

[wilbur116]

The exhaust is a stock unit (04' YZ450) that I fabed to fit and powder coated the can. I used the stock Ti header and made the mid pipe section very smooth flowing by taking out out the sharper bends that the bike chassis required. I also cut the tip off because it was a bit to long.
I ran quit a few different exhausts on the bike this motor came from. I liked the stock unit the best. It had a smoother power curve and more top end over-rev than the others. It is also not as louds as the others. Probably one of the quietest race quads I've heard, and still sounds good.

[wilbur116]

The swingarm and the bottom A-arms are all powder coated, exept the yellow pinstripe is vinyl. The two tone colors are gun metal grey wrinkle finish and the other is silver metallic with clear coat powder. The top A-arms are real chrome.

[wilbur116]

another of the swingarm

[wilbur116]

A-arms

[wilbur116]

The fenders are white fullbores. Full fenders, no race-cut. My friend in the graphics biz printed me custom graphics that I designed. Check out his web site www.igimage.com . I'll post pics of them in a couple days.

[400exMO]

wow that ba!
is it just me or does anyone else think bikes look better without plastic?

[wilbur116]

Naked quads? Ya sure if thats what your into.

[alex450racer]

thats an all around great bulid! Congrats

[wilbur116]

The belly of the beast.

[wilbur116]

Finished product...

[400exMO]

that's a sick build. do u have any more pics of it?

[250Renvy]

You should enter that in the quad of the month.

[mx1791]

thats so sick

[TWISTED DINLI]

Originally posted by mx1791
thats so sick

X2

do you have anymore pics?

[wilbur116]

I thought about doing quad of the month, but their does'nt seem to be much of an award anymore. I might though.

[Ripitupfilms]

what kicker it that yz250?? also what year is it off of

[wilbur116]

The kick start lever is for a 96' YZ250.

[Glamis400ex]

Very nice indeed. Very Clean... Congrats.

[xrxmxcx]

what kind of skidplate is that?

[wilbur116]

Ahhh! Somebody finally noticed the skid plate. It is 100% hand crafted out of 1/4" plastic by me. I made the mounting brackets on the frame as well as the bumper. It covers the lower bumper, the grease fittings on the lower a-arms and even the lower chain roller. It is attached by 6mm countersunk stainless steel bolts. Thank you for noticing......

[Dave_989]

is that a custom air box???? what boot did u use???


ps: i give u two thumbs up on this thing!!! i love the two tone powdder coating!!!!

[Ripitupfilms]

i was just thinking. dont take this in a negative way at all. it would look alot better with 1 piece maier race cut in the front or some fullbores. just my thoughts and opinion.

[wilbur116]

The airbox rear half is a stock 400ex box. The front is custom fabbed and riveted on. The boot is for a suzuki ltr500. I made an adapter at the carb to fit to the boot.

[wilbur116]

The intake boot.

[wilbur116]

Originally posted by atvracer9m
i was just thinking. dont take this in a negative way at all. it would look alot better with 1 piece maier race cut in the front or some fullbores. just my thoughts and opinion.


I'm defitely not offended. I don't mind being different. I know race cut fenders are "standard issue" and thats fine. I've never really been one to conform.

[K_Fulk]

Those skid plates are works of art.

[coots450r]

Hey hands down you build a nice quad.

[400ex_rider13]

Quad of The Month for sure!
I love your quad! Amazing Job!
A master piece!:blah:

[wilbur116]

Had some swingarm twisting issues so I boxed in the center section with x-bracing.

[wilbur116]

And obviously had to re-powder coat it. Went with a little different design this time, it goes with the graphics better.

[spanky101]

wow, looks great man! where do you ride at, im from the youngstown area of ohio... not too far from you!

[wilbur116]

Originally posted by spanky101
wow, looks great man! where do you ride at, im from the youngstown area of ohio... not too far from you!

Race some CRA, some dist 11, and I guess dist 12 is running quads again now. Practice at Briarcliff, Sheck's, and a killer private track here in Mansfield.

[josborn]

Briarcliff?? That track is weak.

[wilbur116]

Originally posted by josborn
Briarcliff?? That track is weak.

Weak indeed:D

[josborn]

Hey there wilbur, you running any of the D11 Spring Series that run quads? I'm taking care of the series awards and product for the quad classes. AMS, COCR, Fast Traxx, and I are holding rounds of the series that do run quads. Check out mxtrophies.com, those are where the series awards are coming from. Working on giving away a couple lonestar axles, MSR NXT Jerseys and Gloves, Spy Goggles, a couple sets of Razrs, and of course lubes, spider grips, t-shirts, discount certs etc. They're running Quad A/B, and Quad C this year in lieu of the old 2 stroke & 4 stroke.

I just got a D5G LGP on rent from Cat for the next month or so. Track is actually not too bad on the moisture side, I though it would be worse. The dozer is sweeeet, very much like the one I used to originally build the track. So, the changes should be ridiculous. Just curious what would you change? Sorry for the hijack!

[kawiefan]

I must say that is a sick quad