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Any chrome shops you guys know of in the Vancouver/Portland area?

Yeah I kind of had a feeling it would be best to do that…

Not sure why this posted twice, sorry about that guys. It said my browser connection failed and when I refreshed, it had my topic unposted. Admin please feel free to delete the duplicate thread if nobody responds in it.

A couple months ago I found a set of CPI pipes for a very good price in my area and I bought them for a new build once I have the dough. Does anyone have any experience or recommendations for removing chrome from 2 stroke exhaust without screwing up the pipes?? If I can do it at home or something I’d prefer that to taking them to a chrome shop and having them remove the plating. The chrome on these is peeling pretty bad and I want to convert them to raw steel if possible. Any input is appreciated guys, let me know what you think. Thanks

A couple months ago I found a set of CPI pipes for a very good price in my area and I bought them for a new build once I have the dough. Does anyone have any experience or recommendations for removing chrome from 2 stroke exhaust?? If I can do it at home or something I’d prefer that to taking them to a chrome shop and having them remove the plating. The chrome on these is peeling pretty bad and I want to convert them to raw steel if possible. Any input is appreciated guys, let me know what you think. Thanks

When you say they’d be high, I'm assuming you’re talking about price? Also, can you explain a little bit more about wheel offset? What offset are the stock wheels?

Ok, this may have been covered before but I have searched and have not found anything. Does anyone know of an a-arm manufacturer that makes stock width a-arms that have replaceable ball joints? The ball joints on my stock arms are shot. I don’t want to widen the banshee with +2 arms, I ride some tight trails where it would be too tight of a fit. I know that I am sacrificing some performance by not going +2+1 long travel, but I like the stock width more for what I do. I have ridden banshees with +2 arms. Also, I don’t want to buy OEM arms on eBay if I can help it, since I’d like to be able to replace ball joints in the future if this is possible. Anyway, if anyone knows of arms that have replaceable ball joints that are stock width, or know of a manufacturer that would make some custom arms, please let me know.

Looking for a pair of nerf bars that are compatible with my IMS Roll Pegs. Preferably without built-on heel guards, I’m not a fan of heel guards that make the kicker area cramped. Any suggestions are appreciated, thanks guys

Awesome that’s what I was hoping to hear. What wheels and tires are you running? (Size, number of paddles, etc.) Gonna run haulers but wanted a good idea of how many paddles and what size would be best

I should add that I mostly ride Oregon dunes so lots of trails/tree shots

Is it a bad idea to put a stock length swingarm on a Redline ported 421 serval cub with sniper pipes? Making 90+ hp, this quad will be ridden primarily on dunes, but now and then on dirt/trails. I’ve always liked the handling capabilities of a stock swingarm but not sure how it will be with paddle tires. I’d really prefer not to stretch it out too much it at all

How do these stock swingarm conversions compare/hold up compared to a new chromoly arm? Any input on this? Thanks

Awesome, that’s what I was wanting to know, thanks

Not referring to chain adjustment, I was meaning how do you actually secure the carrier if there are no pinch bolt tabs on the housing. Looks like my question was answered below though

This may be a stupid question, but I noticed on the JJ&A website that there are no tabs for the pinch bolts on their housing…how are you supposed to tighten/secure the carrier? Do you have to fabricate and weld tabs on yourself?

Rather than dropping $600-1000 on a new chromoly swingarm, I would like to see if anyone makes kits to convert the stock swingarm chain adjustment to the round house Honda style adjustment? Is there a kit anyone recommends? And how did it work out? Planning on staying stock length, just would prefer to upgrade the chain adjustment to round house style. Thanks

What is your eBay store name?

Revisiting this topic and wanted to see what you guys thought about this. Is a steering stabilizer worth the investment when riding mostly dunes, or is my money better spent elsewhere? Mostly wot duning and some casual drag racing

Looking for recommendations graphics kits for new plastics. Now that you can’t get OEM graphics kits, what do you guys prefer? Not into cheesy kits with skulls and such, looking for something classier, along the lines of OEM style, or somewhat similar. Don’t know if I trust eBay kits but I have no experience with them. Thanks for any input

Wow, so it looks like the shearer had a very similar power and torque curve but made overall better peak hp and revved higher. Interesting to see that dip in the upper rpms with the snipers

So I’ve heard. Not questioning you at all when I ask this, I just don’t know. What makes the CPIs better? And out of CPI and shearer inframes which would be a better pipe for dunes?

Good to know. I read that the snipers have to have a bigger engine to work well but I’m glad to hear they should work well on a 4mil stock bore

Has anyone ran sniper inframes on a 4mil stock cylinder with an aggressive dune port? Just want to know how they would run. Other mods are 33mm PWKs, VForce4 reeds, advanced timing, noss head, running 110 octane with CPI sb inframes now

I will look into that for sure. Is the rear end much narrower than up front?

Same. It drives me crazy when I see people say they want to “upgrade” from OEM parts but then go buy the cheapest chinese junk they can get their hands on. Just cause it says “billet” doesn’t always mean it’s an upgrade 🤣