My son and I did a little work this weekend.....

Blaze

Blaze

The Jeeper Reaper
Joined
Aug 9, 2005
Location
Wake Forest, NC
Had this thing for about a year, bought it not running and looking really rough. Was so cheap I couldn't pass it up. Still needs some tuning, been out of 2-strokes for a while now so trying to remember things. It runs pretty good now, still has a little hiccup off idle, but it is getting there.It's a Yamaha Blaster 200, .04 Wiseco piston, Boyesen reeds, Uni filter, rejetted, etc. Pretty standard Blaster stuff. It is fast and fun.

It looked like crap though. The previous owner beat the snot out of it and then painted it black and it was all peeling and various shades of black, purple, white, and silver. Also had stickers randomly all over it. My son loves it so I told him we would repaint it and he could pick out the colors. Yesterday we tore it down and sanded down everything, primed it, and ran to Home Depot to pick out some paint. He went with a General Lee orange with a gloss black frame on it. The pictures make it look better than it is, the plastics are very beat up, but looks 100% better. What can you say for a cheap rattle-can resto and a few hours. This is the first project that my son and I have actually completed in the new shop, so we had a great time. Just ordered a new seat for it and am going to get some black Yamaha decals for the tank cover, maybe a couple small stickers for the rear plastics.

Before:
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After: A proud Chase and his machine
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he's got that million dollar smile on his face, worth whatever you've got in it!!
 
Looks great! I imagine that is a fun ride for him AND you.
 
A good ole Blaster. What a fun little four wheeler that will pin you back and blister the tires when you turn them loose. Had a lot of fun with a blaster back in the day. Looks good and I bet he loves it.


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I grew up on a Fourtrax 200, 4-stroke. Impossible to pull the wheels without putting effort into it. When I got this one running good I took it around the neighborhood, easily pulled the tires in first and scared me a bit because I wasn't expecting it. Did the same in second and third gears. This thing will scream. I haven't really let it loose yet because I've been running in my neighborhood and my helmet is at my grandfather's house.
 
Nice work. Aren't they the most power to weight ratio on a quad? On trails, a track, or terrorizing a neighborhood, it's hard to beat a Blaster on the fun factor.
 
Very cool! I love those kinds of projects.
 
That's awsome I grew up on a blaster great to see another generation getting out side and nit siting on the couch playing video games

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Lee, we definitely will, once things dry out a bit.

And Josh, he definitely does that a lot too. :lol: My sons do it a lot less now that we moved to this new house with some more land though, one of the reasons we came out here!
 
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