DC's 20 Day 86ATC200X TF08 BUILD!! Nerfs, Hoosiers, Durablue and other changes...

[Bryan Raffa]

hurry up only hours till you get it running and sink it in haspin's POND!

[Brockey]

I've been gone for a few days. DC your doing good buddy. Cant wait to see the finished product.

[tanks350x]

factor 50, awesome job DC

[84honda200s]

danm DC it looks great so far. im liking it man and im one to like black and red trikes.

who is going to get this bad boy i wonder.

[SYKO]

tank is in da box ready for pickup from billy!

[Dirtcrasher]

tank is in da box ready for pickup from billy!

Thanks bud, please let me know what I owe you and if I can just give Billy a check. I gotta find out what day Billy is going to arrive, I kinda screwed myself thinking I had a good temp tank.

Last night I removed the JB weld a previous meatball owner had patched it with. Underneath was a fkg MESS!! Holes everywhere and crack too! I don't have any coating crap so I braised them closed but then found to larger holes and cracks. I have 5 hours into this tank now with paint removal and braising and my acetylene is down to 200PSI in the tank. I tossed mineral spirits in the tank and I still have one small hole, dam redcote would work perfect I should have that stuff on hand. It's also way to humid to EDOG paint the tank so hopefully tonite will work.

Anyhow, I hope to get the tank good enough by tomorrow AM. I have to get this topend in so I abandoned the tank repair for now. I just don't have enough of an electrical service to run a 400 watt metal halide, 2 air compressors, an air conditioner and a vacuum so I'll get back at it tonite around 9PM or so.....

[badasskfx]

steveo keep your dirty hands of the new grips...LOL

[Dirtcrasher]

Up till 4am DEEPA is a saint.......................

No exhaust at 1PM, back outside now to try and finish. May have to send pics from TF, if I bring it........

BEYOND tired now.

[SYKO]

hey when you get your tank, you need to bring something to clean the petcock thread off with, I forgot to do that, my bad

[Bryan Raffa]

hurry up! Im a hour and half from haspin! see ya there!

[DeePa]

its finished, he finished it just before he left. He should already be at haspin. Just has to paint the tank and break it in. Ended up using a cobra headpipe and a supertrapp silencer for an exhaust pipe.

[Bryan Raffa]

guess we'll be rideing in a few min.......whoot.....

[Brockey]

Cant wait to see finsihed pics. Have a good time fellas.

[VenomRS4]

so........ How did it come out?

[Dirtcrasher]

Hey guys, got home today at 6AM after a 17 hour drive home

Thought I'd drop a couple pics of the 200X completed. Unfortunately, I didn't get to take a picture of it complete BEFORE I trashed it...






Well, it really didn't get trashed, just dirty......

I FORGOT the damned black scoops Brad made me so I overnighted a set on Wednesday. I just couldn't not NOT have scoops after all that work!!

The build was incredible guys. It truly was 20 days and in that week of riding, one bolt came loose because DEEPA forgot to tighten it I'm just joking, for some reason it came loose. But other than that it was great.

I was jetting from the second I got Syko's tank. Unfortunately, I think I got at about 75% of the correct jetting and that was begging and borrowing a drill set from Billy (sorry Billy, I'll find the 3 I lost) and Raffa hooked me up with a jet that got me by. Garage Boy iced the cake with race gas. That extra base gasket did not lower the compression enough so in a few days it's coming out and this will be a full on race gas machine. I'll have to order a ton of jets from Suddco too, once it got muddy there, I could no longer mess with the jets.

Raffa has a video on the 1st start up. You guys watched this whole build and the time frame it happened in. Everything aside from jetting worked flawless. The clutch, all the gears, steering, stopping, 1st kick starts, NO OIL LEAKS (calll me stone!!) - you name it!!

All I can say is I am a decent mechanic BUT there are ALLOT better guys than me!! If you guys learn to read, ask questions, READ THAT SHOP MANUAL!! and take your time, I KNOW you can get the same results. It hurts me to read the problems you guys have when I know your capable of much better That motor started 3rd kick but the lean jetting soon killed it. There is no way to do all those mods and have a baseline jetting to start with so I did the best I could.

In time I will get it spot on and keep you all updated.

HUGE THANKS to:

, Garage Boy (RACE GAS!!), Raffa, Seabass (bolt kit), Honda250SX (powder coating etc etc), Tecate-Z's friend (forgot his name but he helped with jets), Billy for drill bits and jets, Brad the guy with our AWESOME shrouds, Syko and my buddy Brett. If I forgot anyone I'll get ya later!!

The build is not done and in time I will beat 350X's, I PROMISE!!

OOPS!! See, I already forgot 200XMAN!! Thanks for the airbox, I'll bet there are more guys I forgot!!