- Location
- The Land Northward (Bountiful), Utah
Well after I got all our baby bills paid off I picked up another project.
I'm secretly building this to get one of my best friends into dirt biking so I'm rebuilding it on a budget so he can get into a cheap and reliable bike for very little money.
This is a 2002 Suzuki DRZ400E
So it has kickstart and electric start but not all the emissions and street legal stuff as the "S."
It also has the better carb, the flat CR or FCR carb by Keihen.
It's been street legaled with a Tusk enduro lighting kit. It also came with a K&N reusable air filter.
So first things first:
Oil change and air filter service: wasn't very dirty at all. The previous owner was a girl who rode it on the street to and from college.
I totally hate the stock DRZ headlight so on goes a Polisport headlight.
It did not have the stock cable driven speedo so a Trail Tech endurance computer and a used Scott's Stabilizer is next.
It already had a nearly new Pro Motion O-Ring chain and sprocket set so that got a deep clean and oiling and stayed.
I tried valiantly to revive the battery,
but it was toast so a new one went in. (Also: who zipties in a battery? Well apparently the former owner lost the stock tie down so they thought these skinny ones would work).
Next I checked the valves and timing chain. I was pleasantly surprised to find them in pretty nearly perfect so I didn't even have to mess with them. (If I remember right .200 intake and .300 exhaust).
It also appears to not have an autodecompression intake cam (I did some research and I guess this is a good thing as the auto decompression cams tend to fail on these bikes).
I'm secretly building this to get one of my best friends into dirt biking so I'm rebuilding it on a budget so he can get into a cheap and reliable bike for very little money.
This is a 2002 Suzuki DRZ400E
So it has kickstart and electric start but not all the emissions and street legal stuff as the "S."
It also has the better carb, the flat CR or FCR carb by Keihen.
It's been street legaled with a Tusk enduro lighting kit. It also came with a K&N reusable air filter.
So first things first:
Oil change and air filter service: wasn't very dirty at all. The previous owner was a girl who rode it on the street to and from college.
I totally hate the stock DRZ headlight so on goes a Polisport headlight.
It did not have the stock cable driven speedo so a Trail Tech endurance computer and a used Scott's Stabilizer is next.
It already had a nearly new Pro Motion O-Ring chain and sprocket set so that got a deep clean and oiling and stayed.
I tried valiantly to revive the battery,
but it was toast so a new one went in. (Also: who zipties in a battery? Well apparently the former owner lost the stock tie down so they thought these skinny ones would work).
Next I checked the valves and timing chain. I was pleasantly surprised to find them in pretty nearly perfect so I didn't even have to mess with them. (If I remember right .200 intake and .300 exhaust).
It also appears to not have an autodecompression intake cam (I did some research and I guess this is a good thing as the auto decompression cams tend to fail on these bikes).
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