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.
Lengthening frame
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.
New top tubes bent and tacked in. Also slugged these tubes to the existing frame.
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.
Had to add flanges so I can remove the exhaust as they had to bend around the frame.
Banged out a metal gas tank to fit between the seat and engine
Electronics tray
Have to remove the engine from the side so I made all the left side engine mounts bolt-in.
Retro'd a projector I had laying around into the stock housing
Lost 2 leds in the halo when I pinched the strip gluing the projector in
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.
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.
I'll just share some pictures to get it to where it is now.
Lengthening frame
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.
New top tubes bent and tacked in. Also slugged these tubes to the existing frame.
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.
Had to add flanges so I can remove the exhaust as they had to bend around the frame.
Banged out a metal gas tank to fit between the seat and engine
Electronics tray
Have to remove the engine from the side so I made all the left side engine mounts bolt-in.
Retro'd a projector I had laying around into the stock housing
Lost 2 leds in the halo when I pinched the strip gluing the projector in
That's most of the fab work. Have a few things left to make. I skipped over some small stuff here and there.
[YT]DvZMPqvlYP8[/YT]
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.
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.