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Post by 2strokd on May 22, 2011 21:44:33 GMT -5
We just picked up my wife Erica,s first scooter tonight ;D! Its a sweet little 2004 Vento Zip, or a clone of one . Either way it was a steal from a friend of ours. We went over and paid cash and she road it home as i fallowed on my Cobra. It needs some TLC but not much at all really. Mostly cleaning up and going through checking loose connections and screws. Adding missing ones here and there, and taking off or changing what she didnt like. The mirror for instance, it was this ugly chrome one that just didnt look right at all on it. We added one of Skeedr,s old mirrors for and we like that. She didnt want the rack on the back, but i think i am going to try and talk her into letting me mod it for a grab bar to make it easier to load and unload into a truck. It is bone stock so i figured this would be the perfect 49cc stock to unstock build kinda like Brents 90cc thread but not near as detailed. Of course first thing we plan on doing after the little things are fixed is tuning the CVT. It is stock as well so it shall be interesting . Here are some pics of my wonderful wife on her new ride ;D! She loves it! Shes so proud and happy to have her own scooter . We plan on entering her in NASRA,s bracket series too! So thats going to be just awsome! It fits her well My favorite one
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Post by 90GTVert on May 22, 2011 23:10:09 GMT -5
The whole family is on 2 wheels now. That's cool!
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Post by 2strokd on May 23, 2011 0:44:19 GMT -5
The whole family is on 2 wheels now. That's cool! Yep, we are really happy with our rides too :scoot: :scoot2: :riding: :wheelie: . Thats pretty cool. Lol, they are all stock or real close to stock too . Nothing brings a family closer than wheels :riding: ;D
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Post by 190mech on May 23, 2011 9:10:35 GMT -5
Nice looking scoot!How many miles on it?
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Post by Thebatman on May 23, 2011 10:19:59 GMT -5
Clean looking scoot... Good find
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Post by 2strokd on May 23, 2011 10:24:56 GMT -5
The od says 5,800 and its broke so who really knows? I really like it so far tho. lol, I probably started it 5-10 times yesterday just because it starts so easy! Its wanna of those scoots you can just look at the start button funny and it will start. Just barely tap that sucker and shes fired and running while you wonder if you even touched the button?. I do need to figure out what regulator this thing likes? I changed it out for the friend we bought it from a few months ago and it ended up doing the same thing after a few weeks. It will blow the headlight and taillight from too much voltage when you rev it.
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Post by 2strokd on May 23, 2011 10:25:44 GMT -5
Thanks TheBatman :cheers:
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Post by 90GTVert on May 23, 2011 10:35:23 GMT -5
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Post by 2strokd on May 23, 2011 10:52:03 GMT -5
Thanks
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Post by Fox on May 23, 2011 12:58:58 GMT -5
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Post by 2strokd on May 23, 2011 14:05:14 GMT -5
Thanks so much for the offer Dave but we have the parts covered already thanks to another great member with a parts unit ;D. Thats another great reason this forum is the best you will find! I have a new scooter and in less than 24hours after posting, 2 members offer, make that 3 members offer help ;D ;D! What a great place :cheers:
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Post by 2strokd on May 23, 2011 17:24:26 GMT -5
Did our first mod today to the Zip. We might just call the lil bugger "Zipper", not sure yet? Im letting Erica take her time . It was taking off funny like the clutch was hanging then gripping way too hard. I wanted to pull the cover for an inspection and clean-up anyway so we did. It was just plain ole dirty. It had a set of stock 6g (30g total) rollers in it with the stock vari shim, or "restricter washer" in it still. We ended up cleaning everything up real nice and going with a mix of rollers to give us 26.5 total weight. I put one of my shaved vari faces on as well to keep the belt all the way in "first" at a stop. We moved the vari shim to the outside of the vari face as well. This needs to be done to prevent the vari from being loose with the nut tightened all the way. It is a shim after all . We decided to leave a set of stock clutch springs in it to make sure we had the belt in first when the clutch engages. It works good. Here are a few pics. This one is after a bunch of cleaning and its still nowere near done Stock vari and weights with the vari shim. Notice its a big spline crank? Wonder if its 10 or 12mm piston pin? Rear pulley and belt. Im sure its been replaced, it has a 788 and these normally come with 780,s. Stock vari next to my shaved face. Notice the belt mark? Still plenty of room for improvement! I made sure to mark the vari for belt travel with these simple mods. I can say im not to sure about the vari face being shaved? I will have to put the stock one back on to see but it seems to shift funny with this one? I will post back with results on that ASAP. Other than that it is smoother all around in shifting. It seems to have more top-end but we really didnt push it yet. It likes the slight weight drop in rollers!
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Post by 90GTVert on May 23, 2011 17:59:19 GMT -5
Nice update. It's weird modding a stock trans after being used to modding the CVT on scoots with more power huh? I know with mine it seems like you don't get the gains you would normally see when you have more revs and/or horsepower.
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Post by 2strokd on May 23, 2011 18:04:17 GMT -5
:disco: its been awhile thats for sure . Interested in what ET,s a stock mina can produce with a light rider on a light scoot. Im guessing 15,s maybe 14,s? What do you think? We might pull the head gasket and switch heads if it has the "bad style" with the extra band in it? Other than that it will be bone stock.
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Post by 190mech on May 23, 2011 19:58:20 GMT -5
Its got the inner cover final drive,gears are cheap and easy to find!! :thumb:
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