picked up each one for 150 bones, both ran, no titles.
first the 86
it ran like crap, kick start was shot, obviously.. and the guy who i bought it from thought his paint job was "boss"
Lots of sanding cheap primer and rustoleum gold metal flake rattlecan
removed the airbox, replaced with a v8 breather chopped the muffler, taked up a 2 1/2 foot piece of conduit
redid the seat, fitted a smaller pipe packed with steel wool in the larger pipe, the exhaust was unbearably loud
slapped on a cut out X i printed up and shot over it with some clear to keep it in place and it turned out like this
overall it was still way to loud so i put the old muffler back on, it did 35 with the loud exhuast with crappy pickup, and 33 with the muffler and good pickup
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the 84 i bought from a friend, ran decent but topped out at 25
before i did any of the mods i had tryed before, i did the pulley mod, i ground down the inner pully half about 1/2 of what it was origionally, and the scooter still had great pickup and went about 32. very very happy with that mod. however i proceded to grind down the rest of the pulleys inner restriction. sluggishly the spree got up to a whopping 36 mph in a two block strech (160 lbs rider) however i did have to run to ACE and grab a bigger belt i think it was the 250 vbelt 3h wide, if you do this make sure you get the HEAT TEMP BELT its about 15 dollars more, but youll burn up a normal belt in no time and then your out the first 10 bucks you spent. i learned the hard way. furthermore if you dont really care about the look of it, cut a good section ( i did the top 1/2) of the trans cover off, it helps cool things down like crazy! and less belt slip.
i then drilled out a baffle in the muffler, which made it sound cool and gave me a little more slug in the start ( i would push off to get going) but i was hitting 40 on a 4 block stretch.
i rejetted only up to a 75 or 80 i forget, ported the intake manifold with a dremel, v8 air breather and the engine started bogging at 25. i took the air breather off and used a nice old school method of layering pantyhose 4 times over itself over the carbs intake and clamping it down with a hose clamp. it got better pickup, and i could do 42 consistently.
it was very fun but i wasnt working and wanted money so i sold it.
but painted it up like an old vespa before i did because the orig. paint was pretty bad
I loved those sprees and i hope to get my third one this summer
my friend who sold me the second one joke about the SpreeO (Dio powered spree)
when i can find a stock dio motor for 150 ill do it for sure, but untill then im thinking motor swap with an 8 hp 4 cycle snowblower motor and torque converter may be more fitting
have fun looking and i hope i may have helped someone if they wanted some more juice under their caboose
oh and im 22 i built the gold one when i was 19 and the other when i was 20, so dont give me crap about the professionality of things. i could really not care less.
thanks!
Aaron
