Yah it does get overwhelming with everything, and its a $hit ton of maintainence on my raptor, just for example all my billet parts are nice but as soon as i trail ride and get muddy, and as i ride for a few hours it all dries and ends up scratchin parts...so i end up cleanin it all up with a small pressure washer (car wash similar) and just this takes a good hour and i stand it up on its back and stuff

I end up polishing all my billet parts and cleanin my airbox out and air filter cuz its wide open..... it takes hours just to maintain it for each good ride session i have........

just a note...my raptor eats a full tank of gas in like 3 1/2 hours.... its insane cuz i use 100 octane.. its just mad work to keep this thing goin but i do it cuz the awsome trail rides pay off....and make up for it all!!![img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif[/img]


yah that motor.....heh thats pretty cheap, maybe i shouldnt have told u bout that lol[img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-blush.gif[/img]
its (dealer cost)

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yea that raptor motor i think needs some redesigning... maybe better PARTS!??? just go for the yfz with the trouble and hassle with the raptor plus the cost of owning 1 jsut trade it!

 

You will lose your *** if you trade your Raptor to any stealership. I would just put a Grizzly 660 battery on the Raptor, fix some of the minor problems and then go race some of those YFZ's.

 

Wtf [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-shocked.gif[/img] I would trade that z400 before you do that raptor.

 

i like how you have one nerf bar net black and the other blue!!!!! haha

 

yah its been redone since then, and i have black nets on the AC Propegs, i just havent gotten around to getting pics yet....

I just exploded my left tierod today with the end and everything, as i was jumping over a huge tree that was down on the trail.....

like 85 bux to fix as i am going to do that, and ride the raptor 1 last time to Wayne National Forest this comming weekend then its going to be cleaned up and sold, i am strippin alot off of it and the dealer has agreed 4700 as a trade in, so basically i will loose my *** on my previous motor work as it is f*cked up now anyway.... and i will be selling my IMS Bumper, ALL GYT Skidplates that are brand new, GYT NIB Sidecovers, all 260 dollars in Billet parts, my CF GYT Mufller, my UM Alum Airbox that i just put on, my GYT Header is goin, the Trail techs are goin, and i should get enough to pay most of my credit card off ( i used it to buy the parts)

and trade the raptor with the AC Propegs, Shocks, Sidewinder sprockets, Axle, Tag T2's stock muffler, header, and a ProFlow....
Alba Graphics w/seatcover...DG VPro Bumper DG Arm Guards, Shock Covers, XCR's on douglas .190's all around.....

I am going to buy the new 05 Z400 as i sold my 03 to my brother in law....so here we go again!
I missed the bike anyway as the raptor has given me not much more then problems and a killer ride in between the troubles!

The 03Z is still problem free as it still runs great, we ride almost everyday and that thing is quite beasty, now that my motor is screwed he blows me away especially on top, where i used to kill him! I am burning a quart almost every hour and a half its insane!!!

This will be FUN! LOL

I dont think i want to do a YFZ because its a yamaha and has been out only a year and am not to familiar to problems and things of that sort as i would be jumping in on something that i know not much about! I am not doggin the YFZ by any means but i have had a bad experience with my raptor in the last 2 months!!!

I ride trails and thats about it....i need reverse for the most part, and i think i would get beaten up on the YFZ, i would get way to fatigued riding standing all the time cuz the seat is farrrr to uncomfortable...a nd the PipeLine that i ride is really rough! I am 6'0 230lbs.....im in shape but not well enough that im going to go out and hit the MX Track full on with the YFZ LOL!

Hope u guys get where im commin from and if u knew everything i have been through with this 04 yamaha you would feel the same i am sure!

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