Riding the Most FEARSOME Quad Ever Built!
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- Опубліковано 5 чер 2024
- The Suzuki LT500R Quadzilla is the fastest, most powerful quad bike ever built. This 500cc 2 Stroke 4 wheeler has a fearsome reputation, and for very good reason. Would you be brave enough to transform a Zilla into your daily rider? In this video we meet Jon who has done exactly that!
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Every time I see one of these I wonder why Suzuki never made a liquid-cooled, power-valved RM500, it would have been every bit as good as the CR and KX500s I'm sure. Another great vid Max, thanks for posting!!
I had 2 of these and 87 and 89. Once again, your selection amazes me. I never know what you'll have to pull out of your hat. Thanks for the great videos.
Cheers Greggory, glad your enjoying them:)
we have a 87 Kawasaki takati 250 bored over to a 280 2 stroke and it makes this look slow
That motor sounds soo good !!!!!
That's why I love you're videos Max, always bringing different unique bikes and quad's, always quality from the MX master, Cheer's Max.
I appreciate that! Thanks Kevin :)
You have to get a banshee on the channel now max. 😉
thatll destroy the narrative of the monkey quad bein the "baddest"
Passion is contagious. I hope someone sees this, gets inspired and follows their own dream. Cheers!
totally agree, thanks for watching
I recently put a billet clutch in my buddies 1989 quad Zilla. It has gobbs of torque, is quite comfortable and nice to ride. Definitely a thumbs up machine for me. A toad legal Lt500 is super rare !
The fact you can make any quad street legal is the most amazing thing ever and wish you could do it here in Canada. There's some wicked Yamaha Raptor 700s over there built for the road! I have an old magazine page from DirtWheels about two Raptor 700s from there and one has a Yamaha R1 1000 street bike engine swapped into it! Absolutely the cleanest most mental quad I've ever seen💯💀💀💀 That'd be unreal to see in person
I had a rip on one of these when i worked in a motorcycle dealers in 1998,.. great video guys 🤟🏍💨🏁
Amazed that you would consider building it for the road! A very nice build, well done.
I highly modified one. Two motors, one built by CT racing. Man it had power, reliable and fast.
Best quad I owned so far.
Hit the dirt Brother!
Much love from Canada. I raced one of the beasts flat track as a teenager in the 90s. A 15 tooth front sprocket will get you to 90 MPH before you run out of RPMs
Sounds awesome, thanks for watching Jeffa :)
I have a 1987. Set up similar to this one. Love it.
I’m half way through restoration of an 87 500 Zilla & would love to see a vlog of one on the dirt. It’s what they was made for.
Build that bad boy and make one I'll watch it
Best MX review channel out there. Great range of machinery and challenges. Humble, attentive presenter. Great setting and footage. Keep it up 999Lazer👍🏾
thanks, I really appreciate your kind words :) Cheers Max
I had the DrQx 2.0 Pipe combo on my Zilla!
Love you and all of your videos, keep making them I enjoy it every time❤❤
Thank you Andreas! Will do!
Im in the statez and absolutely I can say thats the baddest ass Quadzilla I've ever seen in my life!! Congratulationz!!
Thanks really appreciated
I've never been able to get an answer to this question - why hasn't anyone ever put one of these motors into a motocross bike?
we made this video which is pretty close ...ua-cam.com/video/v6rGpiTzYGQ/v-deo.html
The lt500 is the bottom of the barrel as far as 500 smokers go.
Travis Pastrana has
Turns out its got a cr500 engine in it
Yep, cr,kx,husky 500s make a lot more power
So glad you’ve started featuring ATVs on this channel, hard to find good ATV content, keep it up 👌
What a weapon!! Great content as always! 👌
cheers:)
What an awesome machine he has!! The LT 250 Quadracer was a lot of fun to ride . Would love to try the 5 Hundo someday 👍🏼
Looking good Johnathan! Wish we could do that here in the states. Will be out riding with the Quadzilla God in about 8 days!
I dream to ride them dunes bud maybe one day
Epic!! More quads!
One of these engines in an RM(Z) chassis would create an RM 500. That would be sick!
Got me some Elka stage 3 race shocks on my yfz 450 and i love em
My favorite quad of all time! Thank you for doing this video
Glad you enjoyed it!
@@999lazer back in the mid 90’s my neighbor had one he is about 10 years older than me but we were buddies i will always remember him firing it up and i would run to the door to see a flash of him flying past my house and thinking whoa that was so cool lol! 😆 he said he could remember a guy that lived up the road from us that had a brand new one in the late 80’s
Awesome video Keep them coming 👍
Thanks Don :)
Absolute WEAPON 😍 I'd love a go on one of those! Closest I've been is a couple of blasts on a Yamaha TriZ through the forest on the shore of Bassenthwaite Lake. That was an animal 😁You have to get one on and try the three wheeled monster
Yeah man keep doing old school 2-stroke quads
Performance Bikes magazine back in the 90's featured a quad with an inline four cylinder 500cc Krauser two stroke engine, which I think was from a GP sidecar. Don't think it was road legal though.
Think I've still got that article somewhere.
It was a Philips ATV, built in Bristol
@@ianevans9438 I might still have a copy too. There were some scans online a while back but they seem to be dead now.
That’s beautiful. Belongs in a museum. 👍🏻
Nope it belongs on the road to be used....... Although it is museum quality👌🏼
I've dailied worse than that. That LT is beautiful. Hats off to the owner.
The Quad Zilla looks and sounds awesome 👍.
I had a completely stock one I purchased as a salesman an Nicholson's in Ann Arbor, MI... I paid for it on my Amex. Pure Heaven! Traded it for a Bedroom set just before I moved to Commiefornia. Once in Commiefornia I found a nice used Trinity Stage 4 and had it shipped to me. Didn't have the low end the stock had and I eventually traded it. Considering taking the plunge again as I've never had anything as much fun as these beasts! In-between I got a 1986 Honda TRX 250R... one of the BEST HANDLING quads ever and I loved it, but the tranny grenaded and I sold it off. Now I have a Raptor 660 and 700... they're decent handling machines, but I miss the handling of the TRX most, and I did NOT buy the Quadzilla for Handling... I bought it for raw power!
I raced a built 500 quadzilla! I was 14 racing up comp hill in Pismo California. I could hardly kick it over
Absolutely gorgeous quad
Awesome machine!
Bit of a shame he never hit the power band. He said it was a bit light in the front end so I would imagine it would lift the front when giving it a good handful. That's what we want to see!
I can't believe that is road legal. We're pretty casual about many things here in NZ, but there is no way this would get registered on the road in NZ.
Great content again Max. You certainly dig out some cool stuff. Keep it up.
Thanks, To be fair I think you have to be a little crazy to want to ride one on the road, but we loved it :)
Tang-tang-tang. That thing is nuts! 👍😎
it sounded lovely, thanks for watching Glen :)
Bike looks Awesome Jon
Thankyou that's very kind of you
Keep it the good work lazer
Thanks, will do!
This is literally the best sounding ltz ive ever heard. The only one ive ever heard that doesnt sound ridiculously lean on the bottom lol
You need to try a banshee 350 sounds are unbelievable
a mate had one of these quads . he'd have his bike washed and putaway by the time i rolled up after our ride .its fast .
I Romberg when they came out ! I was working at Wiser Cycle in Ogden Utah ! The very first one we got was torn down and top end😂 rebuilt, head milled and head dome reshaped , pipe, and porting on cylinder!!!!!! That smoked the stock LT 500!!!!!
That is cool. I have an aluminum frame CR500 that is street legal. Super fun. I rode Pikes Peak on it.
Now that sounds fun I'd love to watch pikes peak racing
@@LT500RGOD It was fun but I did it on a regular day, so I had to be a good boy and go slow. Still well worth it.
That's so nice I'd love somert like this built not brought tho awesome stuff best quad I've seen in a long time
Really appreciated thankyou
My brother had an 89 one a fair few years ago. It was an animal. It would keep with my CR500 from a start. Bought it from a bike shop by Darwen and he sold it to his mate from by Chester. Hopefully it's still around.
Nice quad. Bud i will take the Banshee all day every day
I had one for 5 years it did 92 . It’s a true banshee killer .
Beautiful
Ian Ffitch, in NZ, has a GSXR 1000 motor in his LTR, "Rocket" Ron Kirkman stuck a Blackbird motor into his Honda quad (he may have turboed it) and someone has a WRX quad and another bloke put a helicopter turbine into one. Nuckin futters.
I really like that quads are road legal in the UK and love this build, standard, but better.. Smells nicer, too, I bet.
I would love to see a quad war with ‘Zilla vs. Banshee on the track. Piloted by bike racers😂😂😂
hit the dirt on that beauty! Thanks!
My mate has a banshee on the road over in scotland, its a monster
I still have my Honda 250R still looks almost brand new and I enjoy riding it more than any of my quads!
Yep hit it I will never forget that bike😮
Awesome machine 😊
cheers, Jonathan did an awesome job with this build :)
Super cool 😊 ! !!!!!
My favorite Suzuki! As a guy that grew up in rural Canada, Quads were everywhere! The Yamaha BanZilla😉,the Suzuki QuadZilla, and the Yamaha RapperZilla 660 tho 4stroke We're always beefing! The Yamaha BanZilla😉always won! Love the QuadZilla tho!
I built one of those engines, all new with a wiseco and put a compression release in head. It would run even with my cr500 in favorable conditions for the quad.
Do you know anything about the biggest 2 stroke ever produced? 1981 Maico Mega 760. Would be very nice if you could find one and make a video about it. There is almost no information about it. 👍
I’m not a quad guy but that’s really cool
its definitely a head turner on the road. We had loads of people stop to ask about it when we were filming:)
That’s a cool swing arm
Thanks
That thing is definitely built
Wicked 👍🏻👍🏻😍
Cleanest zilla ive ever seen
love it, but here in Australia you could never get it registered for the road
The quadzilla is most at home in the dirt of course I want to see it I have ridden one before and they are so much fun
Very nice ATV! Why don't you do a dirt shootout with a Banshee and a Cannondale quad? Special 2T versus Special 4T ATVs.
what a beast
imagine that power in a trx 250r..thats what I'm going for..obviously more than a stock zilla does. They started making billet cases for them to. Im gonna figure out howto street legal my 250r.. I know it can be done some how.
Nice one
Thanks for watching
Put one of these in a TRX-250 Chassis to ride in the deserts of Southern California.....What a DUNE machine. Wayne
I am surprised to hear that they are hard to find parts for in Europe considering CMSNL is in Netherland's and have a lot of parts for vintage bikes. Was the LT500R ever available in Europe when released?
I've got myself a wtec Quad with a fully restored 1991 ktm dxc engine (code checked on the net) with massive front end happiness and loads of power
sounds awesome :)
That thing is….. just…. Beautiful 😢
There weren't many here in the US either good on ya 😂 we can have trikes here but no quads on the road 😂
Absolutely I wanna see you hit the dirt on a quadzilla
It's much quicker and easier to list the things that are stock on the bike 5:12 is the frame stock? Because other than that I see that maybe the push bar the headlight the seat maybe maybe the cables the grips 5:22
What fuel are you running?
How about a street legal Yamaha IT 490. would be a cool Episode.
Should put the 700cc 2 stroke in a banshee that would be scary 😮
It’s more like if carlsberg did quads for the road wot a belter
haha, it sure is :) thanks for watching.
does it no break the road noise limit like most 2 stroke
Yes
Absolutely I want to see you hit the dirt on a quadzilla
My buddy had one when we were 16 after they were already banned. His dad made him sell it. It was pretty insane to ride.
I’d love to see the Suzuki up against the yam on the dirt…. Bring it on💪
Waiting for him to go above 3000rpm but it never happened must still be running the engine in
I never heard of them being called Quad Zilla, there were plenty of 250cc around here when i was growing up, i don't recall ever seeing a 500CC though. Johns quad is freaking cool. looks amazing.
They've always called em quadzillas. You non rider
Just 😍
That’s 😎mind,I can’t even imagine how much he must have spent to get it like that but like he says he isn’t really going to bump into many but even if he does there going to be like,oh man 😢.There is plenty of banshees about which are cool but this is next level for sure.I think yous touched on the road legal matter briefly and hit the nail on the head,people always say oooh it will be a nightmare and not worth doing but I made my cr 125 road legal and it was actually not that hard to do at all and in total only really took about a month in total and that was just because waiting for papers,it was only a few hundred quid altogether including road legal tyres.Mine has just a date time mot mind but I only done it so I could insure the bike incase it ever got taken and so I could keep it going as I don’t actually use the bike it’s far too clean so I just take it around the doors to keep things moving.
Top video as always 👍🏻
Street legal 4 wheeler....f**k yeah
Maybe around 1990 at Lydden hill...an Australian guy piched up with Rg500 motored quad at supermoto...😂😊
that must have been awesome to see :)
These little busy winding roads you probably cant get it wide open
I've had dozens of bikes & quads but never bought a quadzilla because most of them for sale always had blown bottom ends..
You guys should get a zilla and a banshee and have a shootout. Love that big bore content.
that's the plan :) thanks for watching.
Yessss!! Looking forward to it! 😁
Banshee wins easy
Yeah but would still be a good video. Lol
Nah brother you need to ride a banshee I’ve ridden both and I still prefer the banshee the power band is just insane at least in my opinion.