Ok here we go,

I have both a warrior and a blaster, My personal favorite for tight trails,racing,jumping and matinence is my warrior. Yeah the blaster is fun to play on but it doesnt slide on the race track like my warrior does, i can stay in front of my friends Z400 on my warrior on a small track for around 5-7 laps, I can only run about 3 laps on the blaster without getting passed and its even piped. Yeah its snappy but you have to work on it alot more than the warrior and its not very good for a big person. The warrior has reverse, and electric start. And after the wreck i just had on it and only bent the rim i love it, get the warrior.

-eshe-

 

If you want to do MX get a 400ex, if you want to do trails get a Warrior, blaster is "young person" bike if you ask me. It can be fast but the suspension and brakes suck. Blaster is GOOD for the money, but if you can afford better go ahead and get it and save some money in the long term. Everyone with a blaster aspires to a bigger faster quad, about half the warrior owners do also. Warrior owns trails, 400ex the MX track, Z400 takes the middle ground but is faster. BTW it takes around 800 dollars to make a warrior as fast as a Z400.

 

Depends on where you ride.....

Flat out and dunes, the Blaster.

For trails where you need more grunt, the Warrior; although, I'm taking my Warrior to FSW and it should be able to get me from point A to point B without too much difficulty. If your mostly dunes and flat, I'd go with the Blaster.

 

Why do you limit your choices to just these two????

Warrior by the way,,,I dont fit on a Blaster.

 

i think that by lookin at what he wants to do - racing jumping and fast ridin
so i think a blaster still fits the bill better then a warrior

 

They are both great quads for the money. I have a Warrior and my brother's wife has a Blaster. They are both big fun-factor quads. Both can be made faster for a little bit of money or both are great fun they way they are.

I think the question between the two is whether you want 4 or 2 stroke. Reverse or not, and which one is more suited to your body.

Besides it's more fun to build your own machine than to buy say a Z400 and brag about it. I like having a unique machine that is built to my tastes. When I'm done my Warrior will have 30hp and Works shocks. It won't be worth half the money I invested into it...but who cares, we are not in it for the money it's all about the fun!

Ride them both and pick the one that is more fun...can't go wrong with that![img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif[/img]

 

i can't argue with that its all about the fun factor

 

Hey masc, the 30 hp is fun as heck. Feels about like it used to at full throttle when your just putting around at half throttle and about 3-4000 rpms. Then when you get on it, the tires spin, the front end comes up, and the fun starts. Gotta consider when you replace the stock bumper, skids, remove the lights, and replace that insanely heavy muffler you probably save around 30lbs, that makes it a 360lb machine, which isint to bad, and 30hp moves it really well. Will murder a 400ex because they stand straight up, meanwhile you motor on past. Go ahead and get the 15 tooth front sproket though, unless you get the 450 cam you have enough torque that the stock 13 tooth would make 1st gear a waste. The stock motor was just down on torque and needed that super low first gear.

 

And I hear all the opinions that say reverse is not needed but I ride in Washington and that means trees and tight trails. I love my reverse and haven't been on a ride yet where I didn't use it. I looked at the 400ex prior to buying my Warrior and it got the nod because of the reverse gear. I have over shot turns on trails and put it 15' off in the brush and just backed out....

 

Oh yea, if the z400 were available when I had the cash I may have bought it.... (it's got reverse[img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif[/img])