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Marcus

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Hey everyone. Names Marcus as the username implies. About three weeks ago I got my 87 warrior from my uncle for free, it had been sitting the past 5-6 years. Got lucky all it took was some clean gas a battery and cleaned the bowl on the carb it fired right up!

Now I'm in the process of powder coating any parts I can aside from the frame.
I'm also looking into purchasing nerf bars, exhaust, new tires, front bumper, handle bars and most likely hand guards. Here's what I got so far for pictures. Nothing completely current as the swing arm is off and going through powder coat tomorrow.

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The day I rolled it out from its slumber

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Gave it a bath

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A handful of powder coated goodies(it's free so I could care less)

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My first real mod and its awesome!

Looking to order tires next. Was looking at the maxxis razrs but can't decide if I want to do 22-11-9 or 20-11-9 for the rear. My other dilemma comes in which exhaust to get. I love the way the yoshimura sounds but I've only got so much to spend which leaves me leaning towards the dg rcm2. I'll be stressing over this for weeks to come until I finally cave and order. Any opinions/suggestions are appreciated. I look forward to becoming an active member in this community.
 
Welcome!!! Man that's in nice shape to had been sitting for 6 years and you cant beat it for free. I got that same shifter, Sweet
 
Just left my local yamaha dealer. Picked up my swing arm bearing kit and ordered yoshimura exhaust. Ordering nerf bars and tires tomorrow. Then I'm sandblasting and getting the wheels powder coated either black or lime green... Leaning towards black as the safe bet.
 
Welcome and enjoy. You sound like how mine 99 got so far so quick!!! And youll love that Yoshi, Im running an older one and love how it sounds.
 
Hey another 1st gen member!
Best nerfs for this quad IMO are the DG alloy series
Don't powdercoat those goldies!
Take a heat gun to the plastics to get the oem red color back out of them!
Get the 20" rears they look better too
To get the full potential from that shifter delete the pull start cause that won't be comfortable, or get a stock blaster shifter and bend it like I did to mine. Works awesome!
WELCOME!
 
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Hey another 1st gen member!
Best nerfs for this quad IMO are the DG alloy series
Don't powdercoat those goldies!
Take a heat gun to the plastics to get the oem red color back out of them!
Get the 20" rears they look better too
To get the full potential from that shifter delete the pull start cause that won't be comfortable, or get a stock blaster shifter and bend it like I did to mine. Works awesome!
WELCOME!

I was gonna buy the black with red netting nerfs off eBay. I think they are "alba".
I'll try the heat gun this weekend. If that's the case ill probably pull all the stickers off aside from the yamaha/warrior ones.
I was looking at some holeshot knockoff tires like 260 for all four...I keep going back and forth on the wheels.......to pc or not to pc....

Swing arm came out of paint today. Looks brand spankin new!!!

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Welcome man, free quad AND its a warrior, schweet!

You getting the PC work for free too????

Keep the gold rims!! DONT PC them, it anything, sell em and PC some steels.
 
Welcome man, free quad AND its a warrior, schweet!

You getting the PC work for free too????

Keep the gold rims!! DONT PC them, it anything, sell em and PC some steels.

Hells yes it's free! We only do like 3-4 colors though unless a special comes in. Another benefit to my job which I haven't used yet is a fiber optic laser that I plan to use to cut skid plates from 1/8 smooth aluminum. Was going to use diamond plate but realized nobody's going to be able to see it.

I made a new thread for my progress in the build logs section see it here
http://www.yfm350.com/forums/showthread.php?t=29443


Before I got this quad my only other toy was this.

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That second pic was about 10-11 years ago lol I wish I still had it it the engine took a **** on me. Was a cb400f engine 6speed. Was a blast!
 
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would like to talk about some powder coating pm me please will pay
 
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