Project "Deep Threat"

[Big Mike]

Needs to go to T'Fest '13 and see what it can do on the dragstrip! Awesome!!!

[TatTooL23]

And so what exactly is it? Or what was it? Or what was it intended for originally??

[rg97]

is that an RD350??? I absolutely love those screamers. i have a stock rd350 and a modified rd350 (now near 400cc) sitting in my garage. i want to put one in my 200x one day... it would be a dune machine

[Mr. Clean]

And so what exactly is it? Or what was it? Or what was it intended for originally??

This is an excellent read on what it is.

http://www.3wheelerworld.com/content...l-stuff-inside!

[yaegerb]

Mike, are you going to leave this baby as is or are you going to try and give it a little more ooomph (cylinder boring, piston, reeds, etc)?

[Vealmonkey]

There are some goodies available, but nothing like what once existed. Reeds of course. DG Gold heads. The pipes on these were sort of custom with the frame, but there are people who are presently making custom 2 stroke pipes. Of course porting. Different fuels. The hardtail more than likely dates it pre 81 and maybe earlier. Hi Performance frames, especially the hardtail would fit many a different powerplant. They sort of used one basic frame and just used different engine mounts to fit different engines in the basic frame. There were hollow chromoly rear axles available. There were 185s axles available and the real early frames used 90/110 rear axles. The rear brakes could vary depending on the year of the frame as well. My suspension r5/rd trike frame uses the rd front disc brake as the rear brake. Most didn't have a front brake. I've seen custom solid front ends as well as Hi Performances' own front suspension frame set up as well as Honda atc front ends adopted for use as well. Usually takes atc90 based rear fenders and mounts, but often used a fiberglass aftermarket rear fender. Have seen atc90 fiberglass copy rear fenders and aftermarket "wide" rear fenders as well as homemade fiberglass rear fenders. Paint jobs were wide open and ran the gamut from plain to downright show worthy. These frames were the early hot rods of the sand.

[yaegerb]

I did a little searching and found a few websites that sell performance kits for the RD400....bwahahahahaha

http://www.economycycle.com/servlet/...0-Stage/Detail

http://www.wilsonperformance.net/Services.htm

http://www.spec2.com/rd.html

[Cave Rider]

I have a brand new set of pro wedge 501 tires still with ohtsu labels on them if your interested. Up north ive got no use for them. Text me if you are interested, as im not on here much. pat-518 361 1670

[Mr. Clean]

I have a brand new set of pro wedge 501 tires still with ohtsu labels on them if your interested. Up north ive got no use for them. Text me if you are interested, as im not on here much. pat-518 361 1670

Thanks!!! I will be in touch!!

Spent a little time last night doing some work. It is in fact an RD400, and it has reeds. Set it next to a 70 and a 250r for size and height comparison.

[tri-Z ripper]

that's an awesome little piece of custom 3 wheeler history! looking forward to your end result! drag or dune?

[Big Mike]

I love that god damn thing, I want one now!!! That would so much fun to put some small slicks on it and do burnouts up and down my dead end street.

[Xowner]

nice pull start

[Mr. Clean]

Check this out on SLO c-list!! Appears to have been built with RD400 frame and not Hi Perf frame.

http://slo.craigslist.org/mcy/3110584579.html

[yaegerb]

Check this out on SLO c-list!! Appears to have been built with RD400 frame and not Hi Perf frame.

http://slo.craigslist.org/mcy/3110584579.html

That is pretty awesome. Wonder why they went with such a small kicker as compared to yours? I would think that would suck to start unless its electric and that's just a backup.

[TrickyDickII]

Nice score! I've always loved the sound of the RD. My Dad still has his first Tricky Dick's conversion at his shop which is a RD350. It's on my long list of things to restore.