Thought I would share a few pictures of my daughter's LT80. She will have her first race on the 16th of July. 1996 LT80, AC racing Nerf bars and front bumper, 14/26 sprockets with 428 conversion, Mid-West Mini chain tensioner and front long travel shocks, MSR bars, ITP wheels wrapped in holeshots, 2.5" spacers on all 4 corners.

 

Nice little unit.. How old is you daughter? Iv never heard of atv races for kids. Im my area the insurance is so high no one will even do a adult race. Those spacers look a little iffy to me. Thats allot of torque and twist on those long studs

 

She is 7. There is a 90cc class that she will run in. I was worried about the spacers when I first put them on but I have talked to several people that run them on the little quads and have no problems.

 

Cool...

Still don't trust those spacers.. hit one with a hammer and see what happens. You have 200-300lbs relying on those. They take a hit the wrong way and bend or snap that may be more than your little one can handle.

 

As long as everything is tight, the spacers are pretty strong. Strong enough for a stock motors speed IMO.
Back when my kids raced the LT80's, I had spacers on all 3 machines. Never a problem with the spacers.
It may be a lil harder to steer for the lil gal tho.

 

Yes normal spacers are strong.. Hose are a stud extension putting a tremendous amount of strain on that little stud.. Their is a reason you do not see that type on bigger machines or even veh. every little bump is putting strain on the stud to the point over time it will start getting hair line fractures in it and fail.

 

Yea, that's what I used. Not those big round things.
When tightened, there is more surface area contacting the hub. Makes it like a 1" bolt.
Then between all three being tight with the wheel on, it'll break the hub long before a bend will happen with the spacers.

 

BTW, how did the race go?

 

5 bikes per heat, supposed to be 13 quads. She was in the first heat, 5 quads. 3 were stock, 1 was questionable, 1 was an Apex. My daughter got 3rd. The top 3 from each heat were supposed to advance. 2nd heat only had 3 quads, 3rd heat had 1 quad. They changed their minds and took the top 2 from 1st, 2nd, and the 1 from the third. She was still happy, but couldn't understand why she didn't get to race again. I was proud of her never the less.

 

Fantastic! Glad she had fun.
The rider in the 3rd heat...owners son??? LMAO