Illville's 1998 Warrior to Raptor project, just for fun

Hey guys, picked up this 98 warrior about a month ago, it is my second warrior as i purchased an 87 a couple month prior to this but sold it to a buddy and found this a week later. I was also given a complete 95 warrior that was disassembled so i had a ton of parts to work with. After my buddy Dr Gerbik gave me an extra set of raptor 350 plastics he had layin around i decided to upgrade the look a bit. So i will post up pics from start to finish when i have time thanks for looking :atv:

The rubber boot to my carb tore while i was at the dunes so it was the perfect excuse to tare it down and start some mods

found a cheap ebay helmet and really liked the color so i wanted to go with a little blue on the quad

stripped it down a little freshened up the frame painted the head and installed the Banshee front shocks.

Damn it looks sweet with the stock plastics! Looks good with rappy ones thou, are they 700r? Nice job on the swinger, the welds look superb:tup:

painted the wheels, plastics and A arms

Detailed the head, installed the new Tusk bumper, mocked things up

nice!

Had to cut the rear end out because the swingarm sleeve was rusted to the bolt and was so close to the frame we couldnt get a blade between it lol

finally got the new rear swinger in, all bearings were cleaned and greased along with the zerts, also swapped the big banshee hubs to the new rear end

Of course had to see what it will look like with the plastics

87warrior917 said:

Damn it looks sweet with the stock plastics! Looks good with rappy ones thou, are they 700r? Nice job on the swinger, the welds look superb:tup:

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Thanks thay are Raptor 350 plastics. Wish i could take credit for the swingarm welds but that swinger was actually on the 95 warrior i was given as a parts bike, Score!

damn man! beautiful build!! i'm watching close! i gotta ask...what is the other quad with the monster graphics?

warriorrider01 said:

damn man! beautiful build!! i'm watching close! i gotta ask...what is the other quad with the monster graphics?

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Xtreme 90 man that front end is sketchy

warriorrider01 said:

damn man! beautiful build!! i'm watching close! i gotta ask...what is the other quad with the monster graphics?

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Thanks bro, The other quad is one i put together for my son, its a Baja Storm 125, Basically an Xtreme Typhoon clone( got it for $300), but i re did it with a new Lifan 125, 300EX shocks, 2 Brothers Exhaust and some other goodies, my boy loves it.

beastlywarrior228 said:

Xtreme 90 man that front end is sketchy

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Front end feels fine and handles great, but yes obviously not the best way to widen your stance and puts alot of strain on things.
Dont worry extended arms are the next thing on the list after i get this thing back together. :tup:

What did those raptor plastics run ya? and how were they for mounting? did they match up fairly well?

controlledchaos said:

What did those raptor plastics run ya? and how were they for mounting? did they match up fairly well?

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The Raptor plastics were prtty much a free hookup from my buddy Brian (Dr Gerbik) as far as mounting the back is fairly simple a lines up for the most part, I will have to make to brackets for the front to secure them properly but it wont be anything major, ill post pics when i get them done, Still waiting for my Raptor seat to come in.

looks nice man when you find out what cc that stroker is are you parting it in this rappy

lookn pretty sweet!!

Cool cool . Its somethin different.

With the stock black ones on it looked good too.

bones said:

looks nice man when you find out what cc that stroker is are you parting it in this rappy

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Thanks, after I get the other motor figured out I was thinking of using but the motor I have now is in great shape and runs perfect so I'm in no hurry. We shall see