Predator 212 on a 50 year old Honda dirt bike
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- Опубликовано: 19 фев 2023
- Check this out A 1973 Honda dirt bike that was converted to run off of a predator 212 motor from Harbor Freight !
Thought this would be a great little trail bike to ride around when scouting, or just to take to the lake or when you go camping.
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Dont listen to the haters. Its keeping the bike moving. Any motor is better than sitting jn a garage rotting.
Exactly what i thought! gets tons of compliments too even though its not original
Love that old bike. Looks fn real cool.
Ha thanks! I grew up dirtbiking as a kid with some old timers that rode these and I always appreciated the style
Nice build bro
Thanks dude!
Best looking one I've seen on the internet great job
thanks a lot i appreciate it!!
That turned out better than expected. Looks good. I like that chrome coat paint too.
Thanks! the chrome paint never comes out looking like real chrome but it has a nice metallic silver look that fits well here
You done good with it. Seems like a complete bike and not some weird Frankenstein predator swap a lot of them are.@@therowdyz
ha thanks yeah i tried my hardest NOT to do that haha@@rolandedrummer9723
That’s awesome now I need to find me a old bike to build one for myself
Should be pretty easy to find an old roller someone has sitting around!
Please don't U a nice bike and
Wreck it like this guy did .
Awesome job
Thanks Deborah!
Good job man. I put a 212 and torque converter in an enduro Indian frame and got a lot of hate but that was a blast to ride. Swapped in a Yamaha engine eventually and ride it all the time. Rather keep riding something and tinker around than give up because I can’t find/afford original engine parts.
Haha nice! And exactly my thoughts!
How bout a 440 duromax u think that would be sick too
Sounds and runs great!
Thanks Kenny!!
Awesome way to get a clapped out bike running again. Add a torque converter (cvt) with a juggernaut/torquezilla driver and it will really move.
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thanks! thats exactly what it needs haha
Dude you got to put a torque converter on that, it will improve torque while not losing speed.
bike tech here, the seat latches usually have a keyed lower portion for them too, v hard to find them original alot of them seem to be taken off for no reason.
Oh yeah a lock. That makes sense. Ha figures people probably ditched them when they lost the keys haha!
@@therowdyz i dont know how many bikes we've bought as shop projects that had keys and still didn't have the seat latch
It's an Elsinore dirt don't have
Any key locks. .
I have a 1979 Yamaha dt175 and is very similar to that bike. Lucky for me the two stroke engine is absolutely mint with low km but my front and rear suspension is shot and is difficult to find something to replace with. I plan on buying one of the predator engines for my mini bike which I blew the old engine.
Nice. Yeah thats the main problem with the older bikes a lot of parts wont fit. But yeah I have a mini bike with the same engine and its perfect and you can modify it as much as you want !
Cool project nice to see you cleaned it up good 👍🏼 even though that gas tank was beat up it was kinda sad to see the original paint sprayed over, people will spend a lot of money on an original Honda tank like that even though it was beat up and same goes for the rest of the bike really. Cant necessarily recommend doing this to an old bike but I have to say it is pretty cool
Thanks. Yeah I expected the ‘you ruined it’ comments haha. And yeah people say they’re valuable but yet none of those people will fork up any cash for it! 🤷♀️
hell yah man keep it up
Hell yeah thanks man!
What did they use to mount the engine to the frame? I have the same problem. I have a 71 Honda SL 100 and I’m trying to do the same with the 212 or 224.
this one was done by using spacers and really long engine bolts that are connected to a bracket almost like a car battery clamp. it wasnt the best way but it works. the best way is to probably weld brackets and a plate on to the frame to mount it to
Is the air filter location kinda annoying? Nice job, though. I love a simple bike.
no not on this bike because it has an aftermarket air filter
nice i would like a little more power use the 420 maybe.
Right I thought about that as well but you can modify these 212 engines pretty far. I have one at around 13hp and I know a few people that are pushing 20hp on minibikes or go carts
Where can i find your first video of mounting the preditor
Don’t have a video on that part unfortunately. There’s a decent video by Mike festiva about doing the same thing but it was basically done by using super long bolts… if wasn’t a very good setup to be honest I would recommend welding a plate to the frame
Hey Rowdys, is there any information on the reduction drive assembly ( manufacture ) that is mounted to the engine? Doesn’t look home-made. Thanks
its a plate from a torque converter and uses parts from a jackshaft i believe
@@therowdyz ok, thanks for replying, any updates on this project bike?
@@ericmiller9132 unfortunately it was traded to a rancher in northern arizona.. he is getting a lot more use out of it then i would, and i used the money to fund more projects haha.
What size is your chain and rear sprocket? I'm looking to build something similar with an old suzuki pe175.
it was using 40 chain but im not sure the sprocket size, it just depends on how you want it geared
Please don't ruin another good dirt bike. U could get
More for that pe 175 than
U think and find a different
Bike, or if you have the original motor rebuild it and
Have a real dirt bike.
Where did u get the brackets to install the motor
Just found random parts to make it work, it’s not very legit at all haha
@@therowdyz lemme get ur insta lol i wanna see how they look like 😅
U put a lawn mower motor in an ELSINORE, are U've just
Desecrated the most sought
After , iconic dirt bike ever made if I explained how crazy
This thay'd kick me off RUclips forever.
Trust me if the bike was worth any money I would have sold it for cash. The truth is that even people like you who claim this bike is so cool wouldn’t pay more then a couple hundred bucks for it. You probably think a 90s Honda civic is a classic car too right? Lol
where are you located
i need this done to my apollo rfz
@@GellyHamlett basically just figure out how to mount it securely and then try to line up the chain. i wouldnt recommend what was done on this bike it was prettyt sketchy lol
That Poor bike
yes sir she was rode hard and put up wet!
buy the real motor, restore it correctly
If you knew anything about these bikes you would know that’s almost impossible to find… and that wasn’t really the point anyways
@@therowdyz I know a lot about these bikes I hate to see him mutilated, but if that’s all you can do thats fair enough. Nice conversion,Enjoy your ride.
That honda is too nice to not restore. It deserves a samuri motor not some communist motor.
i agree! however parts are almost impossible to find and it would cost thousands to restore it. a lot of people say that but none of those people will fork up the cash and do it themselves!
@@therowdyz I understand as I'm flushing the bottom end of my Chinese commie slave child made bicycle engine right now.
You do realize you can get a 200cc 5 speed engine off Amazon now a days. You just ruined a perfect good bike.
Well I wasnt the one that did the conversion.. but also thats not really the point. The point is to have a super easy, low maintenance, cheap bike for beginners to ride on trails. This way I can let anyone ride it and not really have to worry about it.
We dont all have 300 dollars
@@therowdyz he could have
Bought 5 bikes for what he
Could got for that Elsinore
As as a roller instead of making a mess out of the
Most iconic dirt bikes ever
Made, it would have cost
Less to rebuild the original
Motor then it cost to buy a
Motor that isn't even a predator.
@@chrislollich6064 people like you have literally no idea what you’re talking about lol i would encourage you to join the real world and go build and sell a bike and see what happens.
@@inufficentfundz3379 those motors are complete trash. If you knew what you were talking about you would have never commented that