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Raptor.. does it have to be tipsy ?

Old Dec 28, 2004 | 10:18 AM
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I put YFZ450 shocks on mine and 2+ 1 up A-arms.
This charnged the handling night and day. I still need an axel to finish the project though.
A good set of shocks even on stock a-arms i've found can help alot because the ATV doesn't want to roll into the turns as much.
 
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Old Dec 28, 2004 | 11:06 AM
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The biggest change fot the money is adding 2.5 inch durablue spacers to the rear of the bike. You probably won't need to do much else if you are a recreational rider. Just doing this will change the bike bigtime.

You can get these at rockymountainatv.com for about $80.
 
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Old Dec 28, 2004 | 04:31 PM
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Thanks Master, will do that. Is there anything else I can get for about 200$ or so that would help on top of that ?
 
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Old Dec 28, 2004 | 04:49 PM
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Hey all. i have 200$ to play around with with my rappy, and i think im going to get spacers. Do you think i should get rears and fronts? or just rears? i dont do ANY jumping at all. Thanks in advance.
 
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Old Dec 28, 2004 | 05:26 PM
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Get some Gorilla flush mount valve stems for the front for about 20 bucks, then flip the front rims around. Adds several inches width on a Raptor.
 
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Old Dec 28, 2004 | 06:06 PM
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Originally posted by: ShadyRascal
Get some Gorilla flush mount valve stems for the front for about 20 bucks, then flip the front rims around. Adds several inches width on a Raptor.
Thanks shady, i see you did it on your raptor, and it looks pretty good, where did you get these valve stems?
 
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Old Dec 28, 2004 | 06:20 PM
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Ordered them from someplace online. I think if you put gorilla flush mount valve stems in your search engine or even on ebay you'll find them. It was maybe rocky mtn or ronnies, one of the bigger places. [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif[/img]
 
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Old Dec 28, 2004 | 06:29 PM
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Check out these guys at
speedtrapmotorsports.com
Ive bought lots of their spacer kits, these things are indestructable.


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Old Dec 28, 2004 | 06:31 PM
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Is it these? Or these? Those r the only ones i see. thanks for help so far, i need some flush ones tho bad.
 
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Old Dec 28, 2004 | 06:35 PM
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Never mind, i found them online, thanks!
 
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