Elan Comfort Mod

[Nytroman]

Seat was getting to be in bad shape, cost me $150 to repair wifes seat. Thought I would take a different approach on mine. Room for beverages and some extra mixed fuel or a lunch. Now not such a low rider to sit on.

 

[Polarblu]

Miss those old girls!! Mine used to back fire and catch my crotch on fire!!! 15 years ago screwing with things!!

 

[teeroy]

Seat was getting to be in bad shape, cost me $150 to repair wifes seat. Thought I would take a different approach on mine. Room for beverages and some extra mixed fuel or a lunch. Now not such a low rider to sit on.

I see the front shocks are gone, does it help it lay over in the pow? awesome sled....I love it.

 

[elan300ss]

Seat was getting to be in bad shape, cost me $150 to repair wifes seat. Thought I would take a different approach on mine. Room for beverages and some extra mixed fuel or a lunch. Now not such a low rider to sit on.

If your elan is a 250 twin,I was wondering what carb setup you used? carb size and jets,ect....

 

[overkill131313]

I flipped my 250 twin to a 28mm mikuni and started with the specs from a mid 80's elan...... when I went to a 300 I went to the 32 or 34mm and I think I used the spec from an 81 citation 4500 and did some fine tuning after that......I even had an old adjustable bowl on that old girl.......then I pulled all that out and put in the blizzard 7500 plus 340 liquid RV with dual carbs and twin tuned pipes......that was the best improvement till I had a slight crash and was off work for 15 months......not so good of an improvment! lol those dam elans are really tippy at 70-80 mph LOL

 

[Nytroman]

I see the front shocks are gone, does it help it lay over in the pow? awesome sled....I love it.

Ya 1980 flickable

 

[SLEDBUNNYRACING]

Guaranteed it can outrun my non-running Massey Whirlwind.

 

[Nytroman]

Ha Ha, probably not back in the day. I'm stoked to be going to look at a '78 blizzard 7500 Rv this week to add to the addition, they sound wicked. Going to be selling off a dozen or so this fall, just cant find the time for them all anymore

 

[kenvb]

whatever works, these old sleds are still running 40 yrs later on original motors. I just took off the original belt from my 74 Elan 294 ss last yr..

 

[elan300ss]

whatever works, these old sleds are still running 40 yrs later on original motors. I just took off the original belt from my 74 Elan 294 ss last yr..

Those original belts were awesome,I'm sure that rotax 12hp motor was the best made,I've had too many elans to count over the years and yet I've never had to rebuild a carb or motor yet.

 

[kenvb]

my son said the elan quit on him last sunday, he towed it in with his quad to his garage, turned out then original vacuum line finanlly broke, dam Ski-doos anyway, 38yrs and the fuel lines rot off ??? who do I complain too about that?

 

[elan300ss]

The only problem I find with the twins they tend to overheat in the warm weather,I removed the linkplates also,all they do is tear up the track edge,dropped the suspention down to the second holes,big difference in travel and the ride.
a video on my 75 300ss
75 elan 300ss - YouTube

 

[kenvb]

thats a hell of a idea.will show these to my son..we are looking for a spare track just becuase of that reason, wear from those plates have frayed the track.

 

[Nytroman]

Just put another elan together with a 28mm carb, it was an electric strat motor so rewired it all. Runs fine but at an idle quits after a couple seconds. Thought carb issue, after messing around pulled one of another sled and the same. Swapped plugs, opened and close up points gap no difference, took out intake spacer and moved carb boot right upto cylinder. Thinking bad crank seal? Or still poor spark at low idle. Compression is good, pulled decompressioner apart all good, unhook all wiring and no change. Any ideas????

 

[Nytroman]

Got it figured out. Running good now