tecate info.

[atom]

i am about to buy a tecate 3 for a steal (700 bucks!), but i am not fond of three wheelers, so i plan to put the motor in a tecate 4 chassis, permitting i can find one!, can i just put the 3 wheeler swing arm on the 4 frame? any info would help, and where to find parts, or tech info? thanks atom

[hardkoratvmxr]

ebay would be the best

[Birddogg]

What year is it?

[Butters]

tecates are pretty rare and hard to come by. so if you like them keep what you can get.

[blaster_rider68]

didnt they only make them for like a year or two?

[Tom TRX250R]

Yeah they only made them two years! I believe it was either 87/88 or 88/89. They were very quick supposedly faster than the 250R motor just not as reliable. That would be sweet to build one up but parts would probably be a problem

[Butters]

yeah i have always heard that they were the fasted 250 at the time.

[chazekxt]

the t4 was 87 88

[Birddogg]

They were fast but they didn't last. A friend of mine broke one in half. It was only about 2 months old.

[dork]

if you want a tecate 4 wheeler, then buy one with the t-4 motor already in it. they're counterbalanced and set up to handle the extra weight better.

tecates are getting rare these days, so don't go pulling motors out of running machines to make frankensteins. the t-3 motor anyways is pretty much the same as the 86 kx250 dirtbike motor, so find one of those if you want a motor. they had better porting in the cylinder.

also, the tecates came at a higher state of tune than the 250r's, so they were slightly less reliable if you didn't maintain it. but they weren't junk, they were the first to have a removable subframe, second to have a powervalve motor.