I picked up a new toy yesterday. It's a Baja Motorsports Dune 150. I currently have a Tomberlin Crossfire 150 that belongs to some family friends. The Crossfire I got fixed up and running for them. They keep it at my house because I have room to ride it on my property, I've got a post about the Crossfire already. The Dune I got is pretty much the same thing except for a few differences, this one I bought for myself.
It's an off road buggy. 150 cc engine, CVT transmission, hydraulic brakes, parking brake, reverse unit, coil over shocks all around and brand new tires. It also has had the seats removed and some larger seats from a 1995-01 Geo Metro added, that sounds funny I know but they are much better than the original seats.
The Crossfire and Dune are like Chevy and GMC, basically the same but a few things are different like overall height, the front end and the decals and roll bar foam covers, the Dune has 1 rear like the Crossfire but it also has front disc brakes and a reverse unit.
All the mechanical stuff works great, transmission, reverse unit, both hydro and parking brakes. The intake boot is dry rot and cracked, the carb had gas go bad in it, it's shot, I've learned that the hard way with the Crossfire. It runs great, i swapped the intake and carb from the Crossfire and it runs like a bat out of heck. Here are a few pics.
The plan is to go all out with this thing. Eventually I'll strip it down, have it sand blasted and get it either repainted or powder coated. Then I'll beef up the engine, I'll get a stroker crank, flat top big bore piston, big bore cylinder, ported head with bigger valves, high torque cam, solid aluminum intake, big carb and a UNI air filter. That will increase the power and torque and the size from 150 cc to 180cc.
Then I'll beef up the CVT with both the stage 1 an 2 kits and upgrade the electrical system with an 11 pole stator and the other upgrades so I can add some cool stuff.
The cool stuff is to include and LED light bar on the top, 2 small LED cubes on front, probably a small LED light bar for the back and an LED cube for each side, plenty of light for trail blazing and tearing it up in the dark. I'll also look into adding Bluetooth speakers for tunes, possibly a power outlet, I have an idea for a gas tank that includes using 2 fire extinguishers and building custom mounts for the GEO seats. They are actually nice and I think probably perfect for this thing, just need to be mounted properly. I also found some sweet shocks for the front with external reservoirs like FOX Racing shocks. I'm also thinking about having the floorboard and whole underside sprayed with Line-X after adding some thicker steel plates for rock protection, like skid plates on trucks.
It will be a slow build but that's the idea. Just make it cool, crazy, off road toy and I think I'm going to name it "Thing 2".
What do you guys think?
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