This is gonna be awesome!!

[duneracerweston]

OK so ive decided to do a complete tear down and rebuild of my warrior and heres the goals of this project

1 redo valve seals to eliminate the smoking issue
2 paint and hydro dip the frame white carbon fiber
3 powder coat a arms and swinger metallic blue to match my stem
4 re gusset the frame and rebuild rear sub frame to be removable and taller
5 relocate the upper shock tower to except 16"raptor 700 shocks
6 clean up and polish and paint some parts
7 change all shocks over to front 700r shocks and a 01 rappy rear
8 and i may change the carrier over to a honda style but unsure yet maybe stretch it still undecided may do some more motor work too

 

[beastlywarrior228]

I like your idea for the frame, i wonder how well it will hold up

 

[duneracerweston]

It will Imma amazing welder I'm going to design the sub b frame like97' raptor has for his raptor on a diet

 

[beastlywarrior228]

The problem with hydrodipping a frame is you have a lot of nooks and crannys you can miss and itll be hard to do the inside

 

[duneracerweston]

I was just gonna do the out side of the frame rails and not worry about all the nicks and crannys

 

[beastlywarrior228]

Im gonna do a rebuild too. Im gonna do the honda carrier, pc black frame, swinger, hubs and lower arms and i think in gonna try chrome pc on the uppers. Im gonna get the 446 goin too and id like to do an adjustable subframe to make it a bit taller

 

[duneracerweston]

Ya that would be cool to I plan on tearing it down Friday

 

[duneracerweston]

Got a few questions for yall do yall know the wheel base of a yfz450? And for the people with 660 rear shock how long is it from eye to eye when it is fully extended?

 

[duneracerweston]

Anyone have input on this? Ideas?

 

[ryder133]

Sounds really cool I have no idea for anything else though

 

[beastlywarrior228]

Why are you wanting it to sit so high

 

[rappy'97]

Nice. Can't wait for after pics!

 

[duneracerweston]

Beast what you mean? Imma change all the shock mount s so it sets at normal ride height Imma Reese the sub frame because I'm6 2 and it sets to short for me

 

[duneracerweston]

Well wall e is stripped to the bone frame weight is 46.0lbs and this is going to take awhile to complete pics to come along with more info

 

[duneracerweston]

OK so as previously stated im going to re engineer the front shock mounts to except 16"raptor shocks and i did some measurements and with the shock being 16.125 long and 4.625" of travel and a length of 11.500 when at the bottom of its stroke that (with the optimum shock mount location) gives it a total of 13.125" of travel!! but there's a catch the tie rod ends only allow for 13,5 of travel so its a really really close fit no room for error but this is gonna be sick!! heres some pics

front at the top of the stroke

front with 2.5" sag

front at soon to be bottom of stroke

front and rear shocks at bottom of stoke 3"ground clearence

 

[ryder133]

Can I has?

 

[87warrior917]

Be carefully with your hiem joints. Bottoming them out will tear them up sooo fast.

 

[beastlywarrior228]

X2 i learned that fast with my yfz shocks

 

[duneracerweston]

That's not a issue it's the tie rods that are the limits to the travel

 

[duneracerweston]

Ok so here is an up date 3 days of busting my butt and this is howfar we have gotten

:all parts are in rough cut and not finished: