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Title: My 1989 Renew to Look Like an '88 then to a Reverse Trike from there....
Post by: TatTooL23 on July 10, 2013, 11:42:20 PM: i bought this '89 for a killer price. have always wanted an '88 and thought they were the best looking by far. so i am making it look like an '88 first. just refreshing things. powder coating a few things and so on. then the real point of the project comes once i have it as a clean everything good, replica '88.

heres how i got it. runs perfect, has v-force reeds, and an ESR center mount TRX5 set up. came with the airbox even though it isnt installed cuz of the center mount exhaust. has the original dash and everything is very tight. i really stole this thing! its very clean, no leaks no cracks no oil all over.

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Title: My 1989 Renew to Look Like an '88 then to a Reverse Trike from there....
Post by: sameltoe on July 11, 2013, 10:01:00 AM: Sweet little gem you have their!
Title: My 1989 Renew to Look Like an '88 then to a Reverse Trike from there....
Post by: Rupp250 on July 11, 2013, 10:23:44 AM: Looks like it is in good shape, should make a good project bike.
Title: My 1989 Renew to Look Like an '88 then to a Reverse Trike from there....
Post by: Deuce on July 11, 2013, 11:23:31 AM: Nice find and should be a good little project. I always loved the looks of the 88 and 89 bikes the most
Title: My 1989 Renew to Look Like an '88 then to a Reverse Trike from there....
Post by: DOUGLAS on July 14, 2013, 06:16:17 PM: good find
Title: My 1989 Renew to Look Like an '88 then to a Reverse Trike from there....
Post by: TatTooL23 on July 17, 2013, 08:38:51 AM: Just making progress each weekend on making it a solid trx before I bolt up a single rear tire. Love this thing

got my new rims and tires and new plastic to put on. They r maker fighting red. Very very nice I must say. I put all the decals on.

(http://i1060.photobucket.com/albums/t455/TatTooL23/118A451B-C7AF-4A7D-84F5-2984B1BD625B-4662-00000214C7AA13EF_zps9cdb4705.jpg)
(http://i1060.photobucket.com/albums/t455/TatTooL23/FCE9EAC9-4880-4C13-9B09-51CC284EA2C7-4662-00000214DCF93117_zps2f76d6d4.jpg)

(http://i1060.photobucket.com/albums/t455/TatTooL23/656A2492-B85F-4E10-AB9C-C3DDB353A111-4662-00000214ED3C5B1B_zps8310a572.jpg)
(http://i1060.photobucket.com/albums/t455/TatTooL23/EF4F3AE9-0C0E-49A4-BCFA-DB6610E8A487-4662-00000214FD947504_zpsf77c4480.jpg)
(http://i1060.photobucket.com/albums/t455/TatTooL23/215924B5-824D-48CE-9557-9F3EDDED17C6-4662-000002150767C8E3_zps4c2bacbe.jpg)
Title: My 1989 Renew to Look Like an '88 then to a Reverse Trike from there....
Post by: Deuce on July 17, 2013, 08:44:57 AM: Darn, those maiers are looking nice. If fullbore doesnt get their act together by the time I'm ready for plastics, I now have no hesitation about getting maiers
Title: My 1989 Renew to Look Like an '88 then to a Reverse Trike from there....
Post by: RepsolHonda on July 17, 2013, 10:03:24 AM: Very nice job, that frame seems in pretty good shape for the east coast, original paint?
Title: My 1989 Renew to Look Like an '88 then to a Reverse Trike from there....
Post by: TatTooL23 on July 17, 2013, 02:38:02 PM: Quote from: RepsolHonda;4266
Very nice job, that frame seems in pretty good shape for the east coast, original paint?

yes original paint. this thing was very very well taken care of.
Title: My 1989 Renew to Look Like an '88 then to a Reverse Trike from there....
Post by: TatTooL23 on July 17, 2013, 02:42:55 PM: here is the new plastic on and the new handle bar set up. small details to be taken care of next. (throttle cover, master cover, hardware etc...)

(http://i1060.photobucket.com/albums/t455/TatTooL23/d26dec3c83615300b25cd0f2379f1d12_zps830b2d1a.jpg)

(http://i1060.photobucket.com/albums/t455/TatTooL23/1a88e8710c9a95376d231c6ad4b66637_zps0cbbb517.jpg)

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Title: My 1989 Renew to Look Like an '88 then to a Reverse Trike from there....
Post by: Greg Huntley on July 17, 2013, 07:23:06 PM: Wow. Nice. Always liked the 88 best.....except for the atc250r of course!
Title: My 1989 Renew to Look Like an '88 then to a Reverse Trike from there....
Post by: Hawaiiysr on July 18, 2013, 03:42:04 AM: interested in seeing this as a reverse trike. watch out T-Rex
Title: My 1989 Renew to Look Like an '88 then to a Reverse Trike from there....
Post by: TatTooL23 on July 19, 2013, 08:34:42 AM: got the controls on the bars squared away. new hardware, and powder coated the throttle cover and sanded the "Honda" word to aluminum. also put on a moose master cover

(http://i41.tinypic.com/3483eb9.jpg)
Title: My 1989 Renew to Look Like an '88 then to a Reverse Trike from there....
Post by: 05450r on July 19, 2013, 10:37:50 AM: Looks good!!
Title: My 1989 Renew to Look Like an '88 then to a Reverse Trike from there....
Post by: trx88 on July 19, 2013, 10:53:31 AM: be interested to hear more about the throttle cover that looks sweet, did you just paint it all then tape around the letters
Title: My 1989 Renew to Look Like an '88 then to a Reverse Trike from there....
Post by: TatTooL23 on July 19, 2013, 04:15:09 PM: I sand blasted it, powder coated it black, then sanded the "Honda" down to aluminum. Here's a pic before I sanded it.

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Title: My 1989 Renew to Look Like an '88 then to a Reverse Trike from there....
Post by: Vader on July 19, 2013, 09:06:36 PM: Quote from: TatTooL23;4250
Just making progress each weekend on making it a solid trx before I bolt up a single rear tire.

Some people will give you crap about your idea. But I'm very interested in your project seeing how I have every combination of 250R except this kind:encouragement:
Title: My 1989 Renew to Look Like an '88 then to a Reverse Trike from there....
Post by: TatTooL23 on July 19, 2013, 10:57:17 PM: Yeah I know they will but its all only bolt up stuff. No cutting or bending. Just a simple swap.

I have +2 +1 a-arms to bolt up and red stainless brake lines and I'm putting a sway bar on the front so that when its got one rear tire it can't pitch to the outside when in a corner. The wider arms will make it more stable and the sway bar will hold it flat, plus just having the elkas upfront, it should really work well. But it is going to severely overwhelm the single rear tire power-wise for sure. Which will be cool to be able to throw it into a slide whenever u want/need.

It will for sure be different. I am by no means saying it will handle great and be perfect. This is completely an experiment and guess. I am doing it because I can and because it has not been done yet. So it will be cool and it will be done properly. Just another toy to mess around with and turn heads.
Title: My 1989 Renew to Look Like an '88 then to a Reverse Trike from there....
Post by: sameltoe on July 19, 2013, 11:37:25 PM: Are you going to use a missle kit? Or fab one?
Sweet ride btw!
Title: My 1989 Renew to Look Like an '88 then to a Reverse Trike from there....
Post by: TatTooL23 on July 20, 2013, 12:15:31 AM: I am using a missile kit.
Title: My 1989 Renew to Look Like an '88 then to a Reverse Trike from there....
Post by: TatTooL23 on July 22, 2013, 08:00:37 AM: when i got this it had the center mount ESR TRX5 pipe and silencer. so there was no air box on it as the silencer is under the seat. so 2 things, i wanted an air box and i wanted a silencer in the stock location out the back, because the Missile kit rear fender has a bump out that is made to go around the silencer.

so i now put on a full CT exhaust system with a show chrome pipe, and i also got an aluminum air box. i powder coated the air box black and put a K&N filter with an outerwear on it. in the instructions with a missile kit it says that u may have to modify the bottom back of the air box because of the tire maybe hitting it. so this aluminum air box i got has a very steep angle to the back of it, almost following the subframe rails. so this should also clear the rear tire once it is a reverse trike.

as i was test fitting the missile rear fender, it also hit the radiator overflow bottle on the TRX. it is mounted to left side of the subframe. i assumed i would just have to cut the missile fender to go around the bottle, or run no overflow. well with some research i found that u could mount a polaris predator over flow bottle to the side of aftermarket TRX250R aluminum radiator shrouds, which the TRX already had on it. these were aluminum and i wanted them black also. so i measured and drilled the holes for the predator overflow bottle, then sand blasted the shrouds and powder coated them black, then mounted up the new overflow bottle. now i can remove the stock overflow on the subframe and dont have to trim the missile fender at all.

i also got all the fender braces on finally, so that is all very solid and not bouncing around at all. and i went ahead and bolted in the front elkas. still have to do the +2+1 lodestar a-arms i got, but it was just very tempting to do the shocks because it was fast to swap out. oh and i took the ugly nerf bars off it.

so nest will be the a-arms and the durablue sway bar. then it will be ready to have the missile rear end swapped!

heres some pics:

exhaust
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air box
(http://i43.tinypic.com/ay378l.jpg)
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overflow
(http://i43.tinypic.com/29c3wbl.jpg)
(http://i44.tinypic.com/wk0ozp.jpg)

elkas
(http://i43.tinypic.com/30tkyn7.jpg)
(http://i44.tinypic.com/avgaxk.jpg)
Title: My 1989 Renew to Look Like an '88 then to a Reverse Trike from there....
Post by: jcs003 on July 22, 2013, 08:08:03 AM: lookin good.

john
Title: My 1989 Renew to Look Like an '88 then to a Reverse Trike from there....
Post by: Bowtie316 on October 04, 2014, 04:03:23 PM: Whatever happened to this build [MENTION=253]TatTooL23[/MENTION]? Did you get the missile kit? how did it work out?
Title: My 1989 Renew to Look Like an '88 then to a Reverse Trike from there....
Post by: mennis1971 on October 04, 2014, 08:03:39 PM: Does anybody remember back when dirtwheels made a BW 200 into a reverse trike? The results were disappointing to say the least.