My 85 250R build thread

[pantera1975]

Prob gonna be slow but anyway Heres the machine The pic with the fenders on upside down is now the others are from last year and earlier when it ran. Its a pretty nice machine. All OEM plastic on it. The guy that had it bought it new in 85 and ice raced it til 97 since then it sat in the basement of his condo. I bought it 2 years ago and sized the motor. When I pulled apart the motor I'm glad it did size because of the rest of the questionable things in the motor. Got a new regulator,cdi and coil from BDT today. The chassis bearings are all pretty good on here so I'm gonna powder coat it all original colors, get some new rear tires and keep the stock front,use all the gold wheels and renthal bars. PSI racing hi rev pipe. When I have the money gonna have BDT rebuild the entire motor and put on a 38mm A/S carb. Prob a stainless bolt kit too.

[pantera1975]

Got my 85 all tore down atleast the red and black parts to powdercoat. Should be pc'ed next week. Sent the motor to BDT to have it completely rebuilt.

[Downrangecop]

Sweet. Know how big a pain in the trailprotrailprotrailprotrailprotrailpro the build is, but it's worth it to do right. Good luck!

[pantera1975]

Im gonna trail ride this machine and theres water and mud here so I need the box. I have a 330 esr on my other 250r and a 38mm a/s with the full air box its tight but not bad for working on it. Bad dog toys motorsports http://www.bdtmotorsports.com/ and PSI used to be about 30 minutes from me here in Wisconsin and now is in Utah I think they are in to snowmobiles for the most part. They made 250R stuff in the 80's. http://www.psicarbs.com/snow/sledBigAir.php

[pantera1975]

Got my brake parts, different rads, levers,swing arm,hubs and lower fork tubes painted today. Also I ended up getting a new pivot bolt and bearings,clutch lever and cable off ebay. Monday my motor is being shipped from BDT, all new bottom end,clutch,89 upgrade,crank,billet exhaust flange,39mm pwk for my 330 and put on the 38mm on this build,new v force reeds,stator,cable and red hose kit. Got the frame back a couple weeks ago from PC stainless bolt kit.
$2400 for bdt motor,carb hoses
$250 bdt cdi,coil,ac regulator and harness
$200 for Powder coat
$125 bolt kit
$150 clutch lever,pivot bolt and bearings, clutch cable from hellbound racing
$1500 for original machine in april of 2010.
The odd and end things Ive gotton for it over time it needed prob $300 and still needs the calipers rebuilt.

[atc007]

Damn nice buddy.. tractor biz must be treatin you good!! Seriously,,your builds are top notch,,tractors and bikes. Thanx for sharing! Will be watching!

[Marty]

You will not be disappointed with the skills from Carlos at BDT Motorsports. He is very knowledgeable and has many years of experience with those motors and knows how to build reliable horsepower with those 250r's.

[Xowner]

Where is the psi pipe?

[pantera1975]

Sitting here not in the pic. I had bdt build me a 330total last nov did a nice job.

[Xowner]

Put some pics up of it, I wanna see it. Never seen one before.

[110 atc]

Why the gold on the fork tubes? My tubes looked like crap and I just polished them out to a mirror finish. It's a little more work but worth it. I also have a old PSI pipe but don't use it because it is so damn loud.

[pantera1975]

All I got for pics of the pipe Ill take more laiter. I thought I'd try gold on the fork tubes. IMO I think it looks good. They were reall gouged from its past life as a ice racer. So I used body filler to fix them up and shot them with Base/clear gold I mixed at work. I use the prophet gun with out PPG paint mixing bank and took pictures of the swing arm gold to get a very close match.

[110 atc]

Is your PSI pipe chromed? It looks cool. Mine is just painted black. I've thought about sending it out for ceramic coating.

[pantera1975]

Its plated but pretty rusty down by the front wheel.

[pantera1975]

Got my motor back from BDT.Turned out nice.

[pantera1975]

Put my forks together tonite. I like the gold sofar.

[sinsayers]

Very nice man, that is going to be one sharp ride.

[pantera1975]

Got it up on wheels to start on the rest.

[pantera1975]

Got the motor set inand working on the RADS

[yaegerb]

Looking great!

[pantera1975]

SOme more progress pics. Still gotta put on the harness when I get it, and do all the brakes. I think I'm gonna put on stainless lines.

[Marty]

All I have to say is nice trikes especially the one with the mugen gold colored forks, congratulations on a well built machine.

[Moby G]

Very nice job...they both look great.

[atc007]

Perfect work as always man!!!! What a treat!

[bkm]

Great job man. You have two beautiful children and two beautiful bikes. What more could a guy ask for?

[Keith Salyer]

Very nice use of the gold accents.

[pantera1975]

I really like the gold fork on my 85. Personally in general I don't like gold. I'm painting my swing arm metallic silver and hubs metallic blue on mu 1986 ATC.