Thats what I am going to do this week. take my pipes to the shop and weld, both where broke. Also a cranker is a huge amount of maintance. you have to tighten every nut bolt and what not after every weekend. The list of stuff I had to do after one weekend.
Replaced the backing plate and cushins
replaced the inner outer hubs
replaced the lock up
replaced the clutch
replaced out put shaft nut and washer
need to weld both pipes
need to weld my fuel tank
needed to jb weld my left carb brcause they where bored to 41.5 and cracked around the inlet and had a small leak ( found that because I am anal about keeping things clean)
remount my plastics becuase it ratelled every nut and bolt out and the plastics fell off
Also we call it leakenstine becuase the dam thing leaks fluids you did not even know it had.
Some of the repairs where not all from one weekend and my be from a longer period of time but thats the mataince you have with these things. You can see vidio of it on my myspace page the link is below. I was racing a 480 YFZ with a 20hp shot of nos and he was spraying.
It is better to find a used one then to build one due to the $10,000 price tag to build one. I was able to get mine for right about $8500 for the bike and all. Thats after I bought other stuff for it.
sorry for the sloppy spelling iI need to go back to the 5th grade LOL