My 82 R Project

[BLAZERONE22]

Well I started putting stuff back together today. Westcoast swingarm and shock, motor and the triples. Its starting to look real nice. :beer

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[hondaATCman]

Wow, lookin' nice!! How long did it take you to polish the motor? I was going to polish mine, but I dunno if I have the patience or not. lol

[BLAZERONE22]

Wow, lookin' nice!! How long did it take you to polish the motor? I was going to polish mine, but I dunno if I have the patience or not. lol


Well it took about a week, my oldest daughter did most of it. She's getting good at it! :D

[TrikerR]

thats coming along real nice...keep up the good work

[hondaATCman]

Well it took about a week, my oldest daughter did most of it. She's getting good at it! :D

LOL, I was hoping to get maybe a "few hours" but a week...hhhhmmmm :D :D I was going to paint it black with a Honda red frame, but now I am wanting the poilished look. I'll have a big debate now. :confused: Was it done with just a drill and wire brush, clear coat afterwards?

[smokinp]

was the frame sandblasted and then powdercoated or did you paint it? looks killer! ;)

[BLAZERONE22]

was the frame sandblasted and then powdercoated or did you paint it? looks killer! ;)
The frame was blasted and powdercoated canndy apple red and then clearcoated, the motor was media blasted and sanded by hand working down to a finer grit, then polished with heavy metal. it was a ton of work.

[82-8250R]

sweet!! we will compare bikes when i get mine finished im gonna have it sandblasted and painted a metallic blue with white fenders and a 2 tone metallic blue with white seat. will post pics soon, bought a tecate so im torn between 2 projects. 250r is almost done, tecate only needs a bore and piston.

[BLAZERONE22]

sweet!! we will compare bikes when i get mine finished im gonna have it sandblasted and painted a metallic blue with white fenders and a 2 tone metallic blue with white seat. will post pics soon, bought a tecate so im torn between 2 projects. 250r is almost done, tecate only needs a bore and piston.


Right on!!! Get some pics posted!

We installed the headlight and forks today, I also noticed I'm missing my snorkel for the airbox to the frame, if anyone has one let me know, I'll take it off your hands, I'll buy the whole airbox if I have to.

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[AirManCam]

Looking good blazer! Was that manny's old 250r? I'm sure it will look killer when your done like always!

[leprogle]

are those bars stock?

[coyote killer]

I have a snorkel from an 81 R if that will work....E-mail me at Matthew161320@aol.com ,,,if trailprotrailpro interested....

[BLAZERONE22]

are those bars stock?


Yep they are the stock bars, I had them podercoated also, came out nice. And Airman, that Manny's old R. finally getting around to doing something with it! :beer

[Xowner]

hey blazer catch me on aim i should have that air box you need

[trikerider2oo7]

looks nice...your daughter is good at polishing

[Jeb]

Blazer, that's looking nice! Is that a West Coast Swingarm and a DG head?


You can save yourself some work by stripping the paint off the cases with paint stripper. Then you go right to work with fine steel wool and aluminum polish. By using paint stripper you skip the sand or bead blasting so you don't have to sand out the blast marks.

I did a Tecate engine a few years ago. Just sprayed stripper on the cases, let it set 15 minutes and sprayed the mess off with the water hose. Let the water dry and repeat until the paints off. Then went right to work polishing. Up to that point it was no work compared to blasting and sanding. Unfortunately the polishing was and always will be work trying to get a mirror finish or close to it, just takes time. Also, my motor was completely disassembled.

[BLAZERONE22]

Yep Jeb thats a Old westcoast swingarm, I bought that before I owned the bike. lol I also have a 40 inch old durablue axle that I just installed this weekend.


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[BigGreenMachine]

absolutely sweet blazer, thats going to be one sick oldschool 250R. Great job on keeping the fat tire racers alive and kicking.

[vartiak15]

what color fenders are you going to go with? got any more updated pics?

[BLAZERONE22]

I'm thinking about sticking with the red fenders, but my daughter is trying to talk me into white, I think white would look pretty cool on there. Here's a couple pics, this is about as far as we've got on it. This R is going to be my oldest daughters trike, she's been busting her butt on it all summer doing prep work and polishing and a bunch of the assembling. She's getting pretty to be a great hand in the shop and she also loves hearing your comments here on the board! :beer

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[vartiak15]

looks good. nice heat sheild

[350x'inNY]

Man.... and I thought MY 82 250R project was looking nice.... oh well! Definitely some full blown attack and pure racing setup! Mine I'm setting up primarily for the woods/fields on the farm. MR ATC and I worked on my 82R this weekend...Took off an aftermarket pipe and went back to stock....put a IMS tank on it, PRM Baja Bar on it, Progressive Fork Springs, replaced the air box with a sealed one (someone cut holes in the other one), rebuilt the carb with a Keyster kit (thanks waterpumper), put on new front brakes and front hub. Ordering a Hi-Flite desert seat... you got a rustfree seat pan around??? I have a comple set of AZ tires, rims, axle extenders, and hubs coming from eBay. I too have some H-Trac's like those.

Ideally, I am going to have it so I can swap it within an hour from a MX bike to a racing bike... Change rears to flat tracks, put on cut open air box cover, DG pipe like yours, tooth up front sprocket/chain, either swap jets, or use a spare carb I''m picking up with Boyson reeds from a 86R. What are you using for a rear shock?? Bill (MR ATC) keep hounding me to get one fabbed from WORKS shocks...

Bruce

[BLAZERONE22]

Man.... and I thought MY 82 250R project was looking nice.... oh well! Definitely some full blown attack and pure racing setup! Mine I'm setting up primarily for the woods/fields on the farm. MR ATC and I worked on my 82R this weekend...Took off an aftermarket pipe and went back to stock....put a IMS tank on it, PRM Baja Bar on it, Progressive Fork Springs, replaced the air box with a sealed one (someone cut holes in the other one), rebuilt the carb with a Keyster kit (thanks waterpumper), put on new front brakes and front hub. Ordering a Hi-Flite desert seat... you got a rustfree seat pan around??? I have a comple set of AZ tires, rims, axle extenders, and hubs coming from eBay. I too have some H-Trac's like those.

Ideally, I am going to have it so I can swap it within an hour from a MX bike to a racing bike... Change rears to flat tracks, put on cut open air box cover, DG pipe like yours, tooth up front sprocket/chain, either swap jets, or use a spare carb I''m picking up with Boyson reeds from a 86R. What are you using for a rear shock?? Bill (MR ATC) keep hounding me to get one fabbed from WORKS shocks...

Bruce

Sounds like your bike is coming along great! I;m still searching for a darn airbox though, Its nice to see someone else spending money on a old 82 aircooled. Are you going with the 200x frontend on yours? or sticking with the fat tire? I'm sticking to my stock rear shock. I might upgrade in the future though.
I'm kicking around the idea of putting a desert seat on also, might have to check into that.

[3Razors]

Absolutely amazing! I really love the attention to detail. Great color combos to. We did a resto on an 82 awhile back. We chromed the tank which made it look really killer.

[BLAZERONE22]

Absolutely amazing! I really love the attention to detail. Great color combos to. We did a resto on an 82 awhile back. We chromed the tank which made it look really killer.


Thanks 3 Razors! Chromed the tank! Nice :beer Do you have anypics of the bike? I'm kicking aorund the idea of having mine powdercoated Candy aple red like the frame, my powdercoater said he could do it. just takes $$$$$


I got the front tire on there tonight so its offically a roller! :Bounce :Bounce

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[BigGreenMachine]

Chroming the tank would be sweet. Something cool that I've seen done was on a metal motorcycle tank. They took a wire wheel on a grinder and made wavy pattern in the metal with it and then clear coated it. So it looks like chrome with a wavy effect in it.

White plastics would look very nice but I'd have to see the red on it to know what I would prefer...Blazer it has to be fun doing this for your daughter and deciding on what looks best. Best of luck on finishing up the bike.

[3Razors]

I have a polariod of the bike we did. It had powdercoat gray frame, red velvet seat, white fenders, chrome tank and components. Mostly it was a sand dune bike. It was like 80 bucks to chrome the tank. I will try and scan a pic. Did you buy that DG gold head on ebay? I sold one on there awhile back and wonder if you bought it?

[vartiak15]

how did you go about powdercoating the bottom tripple? did you have to take off the rod(w/e its called)???? i need to no i want to have mine done in red for my 200x project!