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Thread: Best Chinese Engine Company, ATC70 style engines?

  1. 04-03-2011, 06:27 PM #1
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    Best Chinese Engine Company, ATC70 style engines?

    I have been looking at getting a Chinese clone engine that will bolt into an ATC70. There is Lifan, Piranha, TB Bolt, G2 Moto, they are are priced very similar. Is there any company that is the best for getting parts or holds up better than the others?
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  2. 04-03-2011, 06:30 PM #2
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    Lifan is supposedly really good, wonderful quality for the money.
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  3. 04-03-2011, 07:54 PM #3
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    I love my Piranha 140 engine. Cost me 330 shipped to the door with carb and all electronics. I also have a GPX 125 with a inner rotor kit in my other 70 and that's just as fun but still needs some low end carb tuning.

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    I second the Lifan vote. I have one in my 200x and really like it.The guy that I buy all my parts from is a lifan dealer,has been in the atv industry for over 30 years and he claims that lifan has been making honda parts for decades. His explanation made alot of sense considering how small of a country japan is that they would outsource some parts manufacturing to mainland china
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    try to stay away from loncin. I had a distributer i was getting really good deals from so i bought a couple. They have been nothing but a headache. Also, stay away from rotary shift. All mine have this ( maybe thats why there junk, going from 4th to 1st too many times).
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    Quote Originally Posted by Macs View Post
    try to stay away from loncin. I had a distributer i was getting really good deals from so i bought a couple. They have been nothing but a headache. Also, stay away from rotary shift. All mine have this ( maybe thats why there junk, going from 4th to 1st too many times).
    I had 2 motors that did that as well, except if you were not careful you would shift it into reverse!
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    I just gave my Lifan 125 manual a good beating yesterday, and it took it and asked for more...


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  8. 04-04-2011, 12:55 PM #8
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    I am looking at getting one of these engines from TBolt. The YX series engines seem to offer more performance and repair parts than others. Is the Piranha a YX series engine too.

    http://www.tboltusa.com/store/piranh...17bd943850930f

    http://www.tboltusa.com/store/piranh...17bd943850930f

    http://www.tboltusa.com/store/bolt-u...17bd943850930f
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