FZR600 engine in a Blaster quad frame

r.s.hutchinson

Active Member
I've been showing progress on this over on a Blaster specific forum but joined here and thought I'd share as well.

I'll just share some pictures to get it to where it is now.

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Lengthening frame

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I then picked up another blaster with extended swinger, a-arm extensions and all hydro brakes that I swapped to mine and resold it. Those parts are on in the following pics.

Engine in.

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New top tubes bent and tacked in. Also slugged these tubes to the existing frame.

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Beginning of the new exhaust. I didn't want to lose any ground clearance since I am riding trails with this so I sent the exhaust out the side above the frame rails.

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Had to add flanges so I can remove the exhaust as they had to bend around the frame.

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Banged out a metal gas tank to fit between the seat and engine

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Electronics tray

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Have to remove the engine from the side so I made all the left side engine mounts bolt-in.

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Retro'd a projector I had laying around into the stock housing

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Lost 2 leds in the halo when I pinched the strip gluing the projector in
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That's most of the fab work. Have a few things left to make. I skipped over some small stuff here and there.

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Now on to making it look good. Going with black/white frame with blue pearl and majestic blue. I do all my own painting and powdercoating too.

Majestic blue swinger. Looks almost black in the dark. Very deep blue in the light. I like it.

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Polished the steel axle, hubs and sprocket in the blue, carrier in white with blue pearl. It's difficult to get the pearl to show in pictures but it really stands out in person.

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Coated the calipers in gun-metal with a little blue flake. Hard to see, should have had more in it.

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Powdered the rest of the blue parts.

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Took everything off down to the frame so I can blast and put some color on it.

I really went all in with the Pearl in the clear...

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It's much more pronounced in person but I kind of got the blue pearl in picture.
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Finished up the bumper. Added the corner pieces to protect the rad from rocks, logs etc.

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Finished up my wiring today and filled with oil and coolant and got it running. Now to just make a tie-down for the battery and fill brakes with fluid while I wait for my throttle and cable to come in. I need to order a parking brake block off to finish the rear brakes. The gauges I'll mold in to the tank cover if I can when I get to the plastics.

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My battery I bought a while back I was going to use for this is no good so I'll order another. Engine isn't charging so I tested it out and seems to be the old and known to fail regulator is bad so I ordered an upgraded one of those as well. Figured I'd better not take the chance on an old one incase it blows the TCI which is expensive.

So in the meantime I finished up all the wiring and am working on the tank cover and gauges.

Cut the speedo and indicators off the cluster
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And what I'm left with
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Heat gun to the old tank cover I cut in half and started bending it. Taking shape nicely, little fiberglass work needed to go around the filters. Still thinking on how to mount my gauge in there so we'll see where that goes.


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Rad guard powder coated

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Skid plate

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I've finished the tank cover. Only thing left is to powder coat my rear caliper and bleed it and the bike is 100% done.
 
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