I broke down and ordered the 488 kit and camshaft from FST last night.
I think the bill was about $698. Today I will go to Yamaha and buy the gaskets I will need and set up an appointment to have the machine work done. Ill let everyone know what I end up spending on it and how the Performance gain is.

FST told me that he wouldnt spend the extra 350 and wait about 6 weeks of down time to get the crank done for the extra 12cc's it would give me.

 

Awesome, ill look forward to reading it, so would you say that buying a new 08 wolverine is a good idea because that's what im going to do!


keep inspiring stock riders to break on through to the other side.

 

I love my wolvy 450 and i dont think i would buy any other quad if I had it to do over again. But I wish yamaha would have made it a true 500 to start with(but then again I would probably be ordering a 550 kit for it then, lol)

 

awesome, Im looking forward to hearing your feedback from this mod. It will probably be in my future too.

 

Sweet, Are you going to install a larger carberator or change out the air box?

 

<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote>Originally posted by: yotatrailrunner

Sweet, Are you going to install a larger carberator or change out the air box?</end quote></div>

No I dont think Ill change carbs yet and noone offers a different airbox at this time.

I went to Yamaha yesterday and bought race coolant and more oil to change it when I do the BBK. I also bought the only 2 gaskets that I might need if I split the cases so an additional 56.00 in parts brings the total to $754 spent so far.

They told me that if We can machine the cases without splitting them then I can pull the head and cylinder off of the wolvy without even removing the engine from the frame.

 

Well your bike look's awesome already, im really excited to get mine and follow some of your leads.

 

Looking forward to hear from you on this, I was also thinking of trying that mod.

 

So I hear that the wolverine's motor has only 2 valves, does anyone know if its possible to just change the head to replace it with a 4 valves head ? Or, could we just simply put a raptor motor in there, would it fit with the tranny ?

 

well you could probably replace the head with a 4 valve head, if you can find a piston made for a 4 valve head with the same specs. You could put the raptor motor in there but then you would not have 4x4 because the motor and trans are in one piece.