I have been discussing with my girlfreind, we were both thinking that I was spending way too much time in the garage to rush my all fab XC racer project and that I have lost the fun of building slowly my stuff to my own specs. But the first race is coming, sooo I have found a good deal on a 06 and I think that two quads is a very good number, one on the table one to ride, insanity starts at four and more depending of the room in your garage.
Note that having one parked in the living room because of a no garage situation is still sane to me, two is crossing the line lol
It came with a trunk full of boxes 3 brand new stock shocks, sniper exhaust, racing tank, flexx bars, precision damper, 3 stadium shocks, all the sprockets ever made, 2 more chains.
It has a GT thunder XC link, first hand down on the single most popular suspension part. I did not even try it, I took it off right away, I had the measurements last winter and put it in an Excel graph. Not what I wanted.
I had drawn a no link swingarm mod intended for poor XC racers last year but never did it...until now !!
I have used my old beaten to death swingarm, I hate bling, but I'll keep the clean swinger for my trail quad later.
So I have made a no link link, huh ?!?
I have made a T out of 4130 tubing, reason is to place the 1/4 inch plates in the best welding spot possible.
Unfortunately I had a spring clearance problem, so I had to make a custom shock spring lock, but I took all the preload adjustment on my final spring, so the 3/4 in spacer came handy.
But from my calculations I needed a stiffer spring, and ... I was right, but my springs did not make it to my door, it require a 8 ish kg/mm spring, I ran a 5,3 last year on my modded CRF shock /link, I had a LTR shock that had a 8,1 spring, but the spacer that I have made won't fit the bigger spring, chopped another chunk of 1 x 4 Al and took another beer cutting a wider spacer...
I'm using the stock shock since the rear stadium had a blown seal, this is a OEM rear shock. Now the quad stands at 3/4 inch free SAG, SAG at 3 1/2 inches with my bacon on it and has still 8 1/2 inches of travel, I have rised my airbox 1 1/4 in and it may still hit it slightly.
Great thing, it require no revalve, OEM valving seem spot on, I get 2 turns on the rebound and a bit high on the comp, but I will see today in my test ride and tomorow I will race it and do whatever is possible to destroy it.
Hope you enjoy my different way of seeing suspension lol
Then late night starter clutch replacement, valves lash, decomp check, decomp was too loose (of course the starter clutch gave way), intakes were set to 0,010, I could hear them, batt relocation and shorai swap, number plates, sticker pulling.
I will try the front end as it is, I'm running out of time. It's 49 inches wide, so I put my rear spacers to match, but I'm afraid to stick between the trees...
My body is not ready, sadly I will be the machine's weak link, but this is another story !
Note that having one parked in the living room because of a no garage situation is still sane to me, two is crossing the line lol
It came with a trunk full of boxes 3 brand new stock shocks, sniper exhaust, racing tank, flexx bars, precision damper, 3 stadium shocks, all the sprockets ever made, 2 more chains.
It has a GT thunder XC link, first hand down on the single most popular suspension part. I did not even try it, I took it off right away, I had the measurements last winter and put it in an Excel graph. Not what I wanted.
I had drawn a no link swingarm mod intended for poor XC racers last year but never did it...until now !!
I have used my old beaten to death swingarm, I hate bling, but I'll keep the clean swinger for my trail quad later.
So I have made a no link link, huh ?!?
I have made a T out of 4130 tubing, reason is to place the 1/4 inch plates in the best welding spot possible.
Unfortunately I had a spring clearance problem, so I had to make a custom shock spring lock, but I took all the preload adjustment on my final spring, so the 3/4 in spacer came handy.
But from my calculations I needed a stiffer spring, and ... I was right, but my springs did not make it to my door, it require a 8 ish kg/mm spring, I ran a 5,3 last year on my modded CRF shock /link, I had a LTR shock that had a 8,1 spring, but the spacer that I have made won't fit the bigger spring, chopped another chunk of 1 x 4 Al and took another beer cutting a wider spacer...
I'm using the stock shock since the rear stadium had a blown seal, this is a OEM rear shock. Now the quad stands at 3/4 inch free SAG, SAG at 3 1/2 inches with my bacon on it and has still 8 1/2 inches of travel, I have rised my airbox 1 1/4 in and it may still hit it slightly.
Great thing, it require no revalve, OEM valving seem spot on, I get 2 turns on the rebound and a bit high on the comp, but I will see today in my test ride and tomorow I will race it and do whatever is possible to destroy it.
Hope you enjoy my different way of seeing suspension lol
Then late night starter clutch replacement, valves lash, decomp check, decomp was too loose (of course the starter clutch gave way), intakes were set to 0,010, I could hear them, batt relocation and shorai swap, number plates, sticker pulling.
I will try the front end as it is, I'm running out of time. It's 49 inches wide, so I put my rear spacers to match, but I'm afraid to stick between the trees...
My body is not ready, sadly I will be the machine's weak link, but this is another story !