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What is it?
Posted: June 19th, 2008, 6:10 pm
by Joshwfl
I talked to him on the phone, he told me it's a 4 stroke 400!!!!
It looks like an 87-88, but is it a 250?
http://tampa.craigslist.org/mcy/725689506.html
Posted: June 19th, 2008, 6:16 pm
by Uzi
The kicker doesn't look right for a 500 and the hole in the silencer looks too small to be a 500 also. But thats not to say that someone couldn't have cobbled those parts onto one. That pipe look a lot like a 500 pipe but its hard to say with out seeing the front because the older 250 had a high style pipe like that too.
Posted: June 19th, 2008, 6:26 pm
by Joshwfl
Uzi wrote:the hole in the silencer looks too small to be a 500
Exactly what I was thinking.
Posted: June 19th, 2008, 9:57 pm
by Ported&Polished
I don't think it's a 500 because the kicker looks to curved for an early 500. That pipe is definetly a pc or fmf, and looks to neck down to much to be a 500 also.
Posted: June 23rd, 2008, 4:10 pm
by Joshwfl
I just talked to him again. He said "a few guys came to look at it and said nooooo way". So, I think it might be a 500, and I'm going to Tampa look at it right now. He said, "make an offer, I want it gone". I'll let y'all know when I get back
Posted: June 23rd, 2008, 5:59 pm
by Joshwfl
It's definitely a 500 and I own it now. I offered him $200 and he took it!!!!!
It has good compression, I'm tearing into it as we speak with a twelver to see what I have to work with.
Posted: June 23rd, 2008, 6:03 pm
by ISBB
sweet find.
Posted: June 23rd, 2008, 8:07 pm
by Joshwfl
Top end is clean and recently rebuilt, the cylinder still has nice crosshatch and a Wiseco .060" piston, no holes drilled though.
I'll flush everything tonight and start her up tomorrow.
Not too sure about this hack job though.
Posted: June 23rd, 2008, 8:19 pm
by ISBB
looks like jbweld to fix a cracked case... eff it if it doesnt leak run it till it blows up
Posted: June 23rd, 2008, 8:22 pm
by AlisoBob
Posted: June 24th, 2008, 7:55 am
by dannygraves
if he did... where is all the SAND!?
BTW Bob, where are the bigD sand crankcase pics?
Posted: June 24th, 2008, 7:57 am
by dannygraves
VERY nice find... '88 is a wicked year too... that should be a quick mamba jamba
Posted: June 24th, 2008, 8:24 pm
by Uzi
Thats an awesome find for $200. I knew that kicker looked funny in the other picture
Is the exhaust funny too or was it just a camera trick in the other picture?
At any rate for $200 you can afford to fix a few things right
Posted: June 25th, 2008, 5:09 am
by Joshwfl
I'm not sure about the exhaust, there are no markings. It looks like a stock 500 silencer, only half as long.
