Recently bought a Baja 150 and Baja 90 from a local PepBoys. Cheap, but fun. Now that we've been riding them for a while, I'm wondering what I can do to them to up the performance a little, if that's even possible on these cheap quads. I especially interested in what can be done to the 150, as when my older daughter is not riding it, that's the one I ride. My younger son rides the 90, so I'm not in too much of a hurry to mess with that one. :-) Any links to any info on these quads would be greatly appreciated.

 

which 150 did you get ? extreme or recreation?

 

Yeah, I probably should have mentioned that, huh? It is the recreation one, the automatic.

Also, I've been reading some of the threads here and at other places, and they all mention a governer on the 90 that can be disconnected. They all say it's under the rear fender opposite the pipe. I've looked there on my 90, and I don't see anything like that. Did they get rid of it in newer builds?

Does the 150 (recreation) have a governer I can disconnect?

 

the baja 150 rec does not have a rev limiter on it. a couple things that you can do is put some spacers on the rear axle, it seems a bit narrow. go to a liter tire the stocks are really stiff, unless you ride in rough areas. the engine is a gy6 and there is a lot of gy6 hop up stuff out there

 

Thanks. Do you have any links to the spacers, tires, or hop up stuff for the gy6? Any suggestions on what places to look?

 

just do a surch using gy6 engine, you will find plenty of stuff out there

 

What about oil? I know that I am supposed to change the oil after the first 20 miles or so to get out all the break-in junk, but what oil should I use? The manual seems to suggest 10W-30 for my client (I live on the central coast of CA), but the guys at Pep Boys where I bought it said they put in 5W-30. And, I've seen differing opinions on synthetic vs. regular. Any ideas?

 

I would change the oil right away, just a reguler 10-40, put about 10 hours on it, then go to a 15-40 synthetic oil