homemade parts!!!! and jimmy rigs!

[MTDman11]

ok guys so here you can pretty much describe and show pictures of your homemade parts and jimmy rigs! my only one is holding an fmf sst for a blaster together with window cocking. works great!

[RATPACK Z400]

here,s a 400ex steering stablizer that broke in buddy,s wreak and I cut down and rethread to fit in the front of the quad instead of side on my quad.

[MTDman11]

sweet man. does it still function properly?

[RATPACK Z400]

Yeah you just got to clean and lube more do to the dirt and dust getting on shaft.if I had pics got homemade skid,s on bottom (men at work sign) on belly, held on with metal electrical conduit braket,s.and I built the gusset,s for it saw in mag and copied the paint has duled and chipped do to no clearcoat and layer,s of paint was in hurry to go to the AZ cinder,s!

[honda400ex2003]

exhaust shield, it says yes its fast no you cant ride it. i made it myself, steve

[chargercalvin]

nice guys, i like the sign skid plate im planning on doing the same thing, i already have the sign and everything. im starting construction on my grabbar today. i'll post pics when im done, prob the end of this week.

[John451]

I like making parts for quads and bikes. i make wheelie bars for quads and one for a dirtbike, that one replaced the fender and was angle iron with a piece of diamond plate welded ontop. i've made a couple 12 o'clock wheelie bars and a bunch of extended grab bars to bang the back down, a dirtbike skidplate, a couple front bumpers, a suicide shift for a quad with the clutch mounted on it, a reverse lever for a 300ex that you push with your foot instead of using the hand pull, a regular shifter, and a few ice racing fenders. im big into metal fab. work and stuff llike that plus im an atv and dirtbike mechanic and rider so that adds to the incentive. for now im going to only post a pic of the fender because i dont want to spam the thread but if you want i can post pictures of specific things.

[YOURADHERE]

Ive got a couple of those. Here's one Im waiting to test out. Started out as the stock Dunlop tire on my Z like this....


http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w25/YOUR-AD-HERE/dun_07_kt_331_fro.jpg


And ended up like this...


http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w25/YOUR-AD-HERE/z4c%20stuff/DSC00348.jpg


http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w25/YOUR-AD-HERE/z4c%20stuff/DSC00347.jpg




Here's one I just finished last night. Its a dashplate/camera mounting point on the bars.


http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w25/YOUR-AD-HERE/z4c%20stuff/DSC00466.jpg

http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w25/YOUR-AD-HERE/z4c%20stuff/DSC00467.jpg


http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w25/YOUR-AD-HERE/z4c%20stuff/camera2.jpg


http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w25/YOUR-AD-HERE/z4c%20stuff/camera1.jpg



And a small test video on the setup

http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w25/YOUR-AD-HERE/z4c%20stuff/th_MOV00465.jpg (http://s172.photobucket.com/albums/w25/YOUR-AD-HERE/z4c%20stuff/?action=view&current=MOV00465.flv)

[hondariderdylan]

homemade sand tires, i like it:cool:

[Young_Gun1]

you should mount the camera on rubber so that it doesn't shake to death
no real need for sound there either

[YOURADHERE]

Camera has a rubber grommet where the knob screws into the bottom and I put a peice of rubber hose under it for extra support/vibration dampening. As it is though I think it does well. Im gonna fab up something to protect it a little and should have some footage from Little Sahara next weekend.

[RATPACK Z400]

why not not sholder on head mount? the quad bounses up and down alot when riding? but cool! nice tires by the way. heres another quad i did for kid on $200 budget ,custom spacers,paint,got running,new tires,new seat.

[RATPACK Z400]

heres another.monster theme quad cut fenders took pieces used them as air scoops painted frame ,wheel spacers so it was not so tippy rode so much better ! handling improved

[RATPACK Z400]

this is what it looked like! and not running.

[John451]

Ahh dam i found wheels for that 4 zinger at the dump with those same tires on them... I was gona take them but they were 3 lug..

I adapted a whole banshee swingarm/axle/breaks to my old blaster. Took a lot of machining. But much better breaks and wider:devil:

[RATPACK Z400]

Got pics?

[MTDman11]

hey guys i like em =] uhhh what is the point of an almost bald tire for riding in sand?????

Originally posted by RATPACK Z400
Got pics?

yup, ill post some up around 10:40 after nitro circus.

This is about half way through the conversion. We made our own shock mount, but it screwed up the geometry and made the rear sit high.
http://i271.photobucket.com/albums/jj126/Hondamaster5505/new%20quads/blaster2.jpg



So we modified the stock location to fit the blaster shock, and it was perfect. It has stock rims/tires in this picture, and you can see how wide it is. It's about +4 all total, and it had much better brakes.
http://i271.photobucket.com/albums/jj126/Hondamaster5505/new%20quads/banster.jpg
http://i271.photobucket.com/albums/jj126/Hondamaster5505/new%20quads/banster2.jpg

[John451]

Originally posted by MTDman11
hey guys i like em =] uhhh what is the point of an almost bald tire for riding in sand?????

lol its a front one and if u try to use a front tire with tread in the sand it slows u down so much so you want as littlle side tread as possiblele and the way he did it he saved about $80 by using tires that are like the ones sold for sand but alot cheaper and they problably work better. They sell some sand ones with no tread. They basicallly act like rutters.

[RATPACK Z400]

yeah man not bad ! looks like blaster I had but mine was newer but long and wide like yours I put swingarm extention on rear durablue axle frontspacers it looked sharp,only thing I didnt, like was no power,that thing couldn,t climb nothing got 400ex after then Z .hey the tierod(get entire set up) from 300ex fit Blaster if you ever have problems with them switch to 300ex rods yamis tierods suck!

Originally posted by RATPACK Z400
yeah man not bad ! looks like blaster I had but mine was newer but long and wide like yours I put swingarm extention on rear durablue axle frontspacers it looked sharp,only thing I didnt, like was no power,that thing couldn,t climb nothing got 400ex after then Z .hey the tierod(get entire set up) from 300ex fit Blaster if you ever have problems with them switch to 300ex rods yamis tierods suck!

Dude, thanks for the advice but the blaster is long gone lol. I've moved on to bigger and better things (400ex and banshee) but I definitely miss the old girl.

[YOURADHERE]

Originally posted by MTDman11
hey guys i like em =] uhhh what is the point of an almost bald tire for riding in sand?????


A smooth tire in the sand allows for more floatation and less resistance. The center rib allows you to still have some steering. Skat Trak sells a tire like this for about $80 each.


I finished them and had them mounted on wheels yesterday.

http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w25/YOUR-AD-HERE/z4c%20stuff/DSC00475.jpg

http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w25/YOUR-AD-HERE/z4c%20stuff/DSC00476.jpg

[John451]

/\/\ haha sick i was hoping you had nice shiney offset wheels like that set aside for them

[RATPACK Z400]

Hey john , was that done with grinder if so what wheel ,diamond/metal/wire?

[John451]

Originally posted by RATPACK Z400
Hey john , was that done with grinder if so what wheel ,diamond/metal/wire?

Me john? and was what done with a grinder?

[John451]

this is an example of some of the meta polishing i do.. this one didn't come out so smooth because it had a bunch of dings and divets in it from a crashh and it was going on one of my bikes so i just wanted to give it a little shine. I can pretty much do it to any motor cover or case.. I polished a whole motor for a guy once, the cylinder, head, igniton cover, clutch cover, and the center cases. and the triangle support anti vibe braces too. The bike lookekd nasyy but the camera i took the pictures of it with got smashed.

[EXinMB]

not the most amazing homemade fix ever but i really wanted to ride and i blew the head gasket on my 440ex and couldn find just a single head gasket for 89mm piston and have it shipped soon enough so i took a stock honda 85mm head gasket and took a die grinder and made it 4mm bigger. worked for a while that was last fall and im replacing it already maybe not the best mod ever.

[honda400ex2003]

I have made a gas can holder for the back, a spark plug rack, strap rack, and a bungie rack. I went through the denniskirk one day and looked for stuff to make in metals class in highschool. they all work great especially the gas can carrier i made. I sprayed it with rhino liner and have 4 u bolts holding it on the subframe. I just put it back on today. steve