My first 250r 81

[90guy]

Yeah It appears to be in ok shape. I just traded a few things I had laying around some rims and tires and a few odds and ends. That 90 will never part with me it's whole life lol. It's my baby!

[badass350x]

Nice score Todd.

[90guy]

Thanks Jason! To be honest when I looked at it I thought it was a beat 250r with a hacked up pipe and a 83-84 top end on it. Lol I guess I was wrong

[christph]

On Airfoolers.com they have an old article with pictures where they test all the 1st generation pipes. Take a look at it and I'm sure you can confirm the name brand of the pipe.

[Bren_downe]

On Airfoolers.com they have an old article with pictures where they test all the 1st generation pipes. Take a look at it and I'm sure you can confirm the name brand of the pipe.

My link in post #5 "pipe dreams"

[manbearpig]

i have that same pipe on this bike





...and i love it. i completely restored the pipe and it doesnt make an abnormal amount of noise, but it exits under your butt instead of behind you so it sort of 'feels' louder. i feel like its more of a top end pipe than a mid range, but thats just me. my only complaint is that whatever you do, it'll melt your fender. i just run a crappy set of painted maiers and deal with it.

[90guy]

Thanks for sharing! I googled it and came up with your pipe restoration but had no pics anymore was curious on the re packing. Also heat wrapping the pipe and heat foiling the fender it'll still melt it? That's kind of a silly setup then lol.

[manbearpig]

my photobucket took a dump and i never went back and fixed the pictures.

this was a little more involved than just repacking. i had to grind the welds to get the cap off, once i got it off i found the baffle in 10 different pieces. i fished the inside end cap of the baffle out and used a newer baffle from a DG silencer to make a new baffle for this pipe. got that wrapped and fit into the pipe and braised the cap back on. blasted and painted the pipe and hung it in the rafters until a few months ago.

once i fit the pipe and saw that there was no way to keep the fender off of it, i didnt try any wrapping or foil heat sheilding. it looks really bad (IMO) and i have an ugly set of fenders that are used just for racing.

[90guy]

my photobucket took a dump and i never went back and fixed the pictures.

this was a little more involved than just repacking. i had to grind the welds to get the cap off, once i got it off i found the baffle in 10 different pieces. i fished the inside end cap of the baffle out and used a newer baffle from a DG silencer to make a new baffle for this pipe. got that wrapped and fit into the pipe and braised the cap back on. blasted and painted the pipe and hung it in the rafters until a few months ago.

once i fit the pipe and saw that there was no way to keep the fender off of it, i didnt try any wrapping or foil heat sheilding. it looks really bad (IMO) and i have an ugly set of fenders that are used just for racing.

Oh gotcha! I'm going to look into it a bit more. Being I like the pipe it's diffrent. But might just end up keeping it loud.

[90guy]

Well took it out to look closer at this beast. I was wondering ManbearPIg do you happen to have a picture of the seat mount on the back of the frame? I have no idea how that is suppose to be put together. I think I am missing parts there. I have a list of what I will be needing but will be a while before I can buy it.
I will need:
Plastics,
Front and Rear Bearing,
Air box cover,
Intake boot going to reeds
Intake boot going to the air filter
Possibly another exhaust system.

[90guy]

Well took it for a spin today after checking everything over. Way over filled with oil that looks like it had water in it! Big time Gray! Cleaned the carb up and dumped the old fuel. Checked the carb out. Its a 34mm Mikuni with a 340 main and a 45 pilot. Not certain where I should be at. Looks like some tuning time fun! This thing is a blast when it gets out of its hissy fit it has. Hold it wide open in first gear it sputters and dosent want to go hard but then all of a sudden it hits its power band and this thing hauls there is not enough gearing that's for sure It eats up all 5 no problem. Seems to rich to me on the bottom end. Any ideas?
And Paul, don't think I will pull the reeds or exhaust without having gaskets for it. The pipe dosent sound to bad riding on it just standing next to it idling.

[90guy]

Well no more riding till I can get my hands on the intake boot going to the motor. I have a big crack in mine. No wonder why the original owner said the carb needing cleaning. . But I decided since I pull that off should check out some intake porting on this bad boy!

[JasonB]

Don't know if it was said in here but the fl350 intake bolts up to the 300r big bore cylinders, I used one on my big bore 300 83R. Nce looking R though, everything has promise but the sawzall'd fenders. Good pick up!

[90guy]

Thanks for that info had no idea! Now time to find one! haha! Yeah this guy picked the wheeler up looking like this to pull his drag around the yard. Said when he saw the add it had nice plastics and all that. When he drove there to look at it the guy had sawzalled everything... Wonder what he paid for it.

[Rigaman]

I love these first gen 250rs. You scored on that one!