250-500cc 2011 WR300 Rebuild - Warp 9 wheels, powdercoat, hydraulic clutch

Those graphics will really compliment the black and candy apple PC.

The bike will look great If u have not found any good graphics u should check TapeSnake and design your own graphics

http://tapesnake.com/

Got the spring, kickstarter and engine mount plates back from powdercoat. Also mocked up the wheels to ensure they fit. The rear rotor doesn't fit so I'll reuse the floater. The front probably won't fit but we'll see. Anywho, she's starting to look like a bike again. The candy red matches the hubs well.

Ohhh thats sexxy dont scratch the rims when new rubbers going on.

I know - I'm torn with doing them myself vs. paying to have them done. Reality is they're going to get beat up eventually. Although the warp 9's are THICK. Mounting the airbox, carb, rads, bars, etc. today.

I forgot to get new grips and new brake pads. Need a new rear caliper pin as well.

Pay to get em mounted first time round if not for the rims sake do it for the perfect finished pictures sake.

^ That's pretty darn sweet! I may have to pick that up. I'm looking into some options for easier mounting of tires. That may be my solution.

Word to the wise - so yesterday I got pretty much everything squared away. I ended up snapping 2 bolts, one of the chain slider mounting bolts in the swingarm and the front bolt that holds the pipe bracket on. Having a REAL hard time drilling them out, even cracked an easy out in the mounting bold on the frame. In both instances I thought the threads may have been buggered, but it turns out that I should have just blown the holes out with my air compressor. I assume from the media blasting, both holes were filled with debris/powder. (The powdercoated did a great job plugging all the holes for paint), but the bolts bottomed out just before they actually got tight. In turn, snapping the heads off. Picking up some carbide drills tomorrow and we'll see how it goes. Goal is to drill them out, helicoil and install new bolts.

FYI - for anyone looking to pick up the Warp 9's, the front wheel fit perfectly (had to switch the seals from R to L). The rear fit fine HOWEVER the brake rotor is too large. Our bikes (the 11' WR300 at least) calls for a 220mm rotor.

Here's an updated pic as of last night. Rads installed (should have had the rad guards powdercoated candy apple !), fork guards, carb, airbox, etc...

The Zip Ty caliper holder and shark fin allow you to use the larger rotor. Got mine from Halls.

^ Thanks 454x - Calling Halls tomorrow

Dam thats harsh, are the bolts sheared flush or can you give them a litle hit with a hammer to squash the debri and grip the stump to unscrew? Perhaps use a center punch if not.
Good luck.

The front exhaust mount was sheared flush. The swingarm had a nub but couldn't get the vicegrip to spin it (maybe 1mm out), Ended up rounding it. After 2 days I finally got it, was able to install 2 time serts along with some jb weld to reinforce both. I'm not worried about the swingarm as it's only the plastic chain slider. The front one has me concerned as the pipe generally takes some hard hits which will transfer to that mount. Time will tell.

Have you centerpunched and drilled through the sheared stud yet? If youve not gone all the way through, drill it all the way through and slam penatrative spray in through the hole to blow out some debris and hopfully ease extraction, i use impact torx bits in a 1/4 drive ratchet to undo bolts stud extractors are brittle, if you cant use heat you can always gradually increase drill size untill you hit threads then chip the bolt threads out with a small flatblade screwdriver.
Then re-tap the hole.
Good luck and yup my front mounts taken lots o beatings but the rubber bracket helps reduce the stress on it.

Why not these graphics:
http://www.race-styles.com/show_ite...at=53&start=0&sortfield=name&sorttype=asc&nr=
http://www.race-styles.com/show_ite...at=53&start=0&sortfield=name&sorttype=asc&nr=

I got black rims too, and the trick to not scratch em up when putting new tyres on is to tape around the rim with duck tape or electrical tape and then put the tyre on as normally, then when your finished just peel the tape off.

As for graphics I like these, they would look great on your bike

Rabbi-have you thought about another front fender, like the Honda CRF or Suzuki RMZ. I put a 2014 RMZ450F fender on my bike, but I think the CRF fender on Josh 98's is better overall.

And I present - La Fonda!



The florescent light doesn't do it justice. She came out great. I'm going to hold off on the fork graphics and lower rad shroud graphics (i have them). Started her quick to make sure all is well and she fired up on the 2nd kick. Now waiting on some final zerk fittings, the zip ty shark fin and i'll be ready to ride.

Looks nice! I would add tires too, before riding.

Nah baby grind those rims make em 17-1/4 with 20's up front ghetto ma blud