Selling my over restored Screamer. Has more NOS parts than restored parts. I have well over $4000 into it, believe it or not.
Has these NOS parts: Fuel tank, gas cap, petcock, seat, West Bend 820 motor (hard to find the correct left hand rotation NOS motor), drive and driven clutches (Hard to find the correct high RPM clutches), fenders, fender stay, sprockets (hard to find the correct 54 tooth rear), bearings and retainers, grips, kickstand, drive belt, brake drums and backing plates, pegs, jackshaft assembly, clutch cover, wheel spacers, etc, etc, etc.
It also has new stickers, including the fender stripes, ID sticker with the correct original serial number on it, and the frame stripe. I haven't installed the stickers and thought I'd leave that to the new owner.
The paint was professionally sprayed with high quality auto paint, but needs a little touch up from assembly. All the chrome was redone, but the bars and bar clamps have pits and should be redone for a show quality bike. The entire bike was sandblasted before paint, and was primed with acid etching primer.
Rear sprocket was chromed. Buying the parts and finishing this has been a four plus year project. $3000, which is cheap for a bike that had a super high quality restoration and mostly NOS parts.
Only 580 Screamers were ever made, so it's the rarest A/C ever made. These were race only bikes to compete with the Black Widow and Speedways, but they were way faster and quicker than those bikes.
Needs a few more parts to complete, like brake cables, correct levers, and that's about it.I have a used front brake cable that can be used.
Sorry I can't post pictures. Please PM me to get pics. Probably the flashiest mini bike ever made, since it has leopard print seat, chrome tank, huge bass boat metal flake clutch cover, purple stickers, and lots of chrome.
Arctic Cat Screamer mini bike Restored
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Re: Arctic Cat Screamer mini bike Restored
Alan,
Great looking bike. Very nice job. I am curious as to the racing aspect of minibikes. I realize that guys will race anything with an engine ( lawnmowers to barstools LOL) but there were organized races? Dirt , asphalt, oval , drag ??? Just wondering as a kid the only racing was on the street and away from the cops Ha
Good Luck with the sale
Kevin
Great looking bike. Very nice job. I am curious as to the racing aspect of minibikes. I realize that guys will race anything with an engine ( lawnmowers to barstools LOL) but there were organized races? Dirt , asphalt, oval , drag ??? Just wondering as a kid the only racing was on the street and away from the cops Ha
Good Luck with the sale
Kevin
Re: Arctic Cat Screamer mini bike Restored
Hey Kevin, I never saw them race, but they raced minis in my area. They raced on a motocross type of track. I think it was mostly to give racers' kids something to do, and fill in spaces between the big races.
This is the second Screamer I have owned, out of three, and I bought all of them locally. I think mini racing stopped about the time this bike was made, in 1972. I remember reading Mini Cycle Magazine when I was a kid, and drooled over the Screamers and Rupp Black Widows. Both of those bikes were the ones to beat, but the Screamer was hands down faster than the Widow, since it had an 8 horse 820, and the Widow had a 4 horse Tecumseh 4 stroke. There was also the Speedway Silver Shadow that was built as a competition only mini. All three of those bikes are extremely rare, and the companies only produced enough to qualify for competition, which I think 500 was the required amount.
If a kid could manage to hang on to the Screamer, it would win every time, but anyone who let their kid ride one was either crazy, or really didn't like their kid, since the suspension was as bad as it gets, and it had way more power than it should ever be allowed to have. Top speed on this bike is around 65 mph. Throw in a rough track, and a couple corners, and you could plan on stitches a the emergency room.
Arctic Cat advertised the Screamer like this: A specially equipped competition mini bike, the SCREAMER, is Arctic's entry into the high performance mini bike field for 1971. The Screamer, only available on a limited basis only, is powered by an eight horsepower Chrysler two stroke engine. Other competition features include a snowmobile type torque converter, chrome gas tank, and a dyno tuned free flow exhaust system to deliver maximum performance for competition.
Information on mini racing is pretty tough to find, so I can't give you any links. Many of the top motocross racers back in the old days started out racing minis.
Thanks for the compliments. I built this one as something I was going to keep, and ride, but it got out of control when I found a few very rare NOS parts. Got real expensive, real fast. Now it's a bike that is too nice for me to justify putting gas in the tank. I bought another Screamer, and I plan to build it as a rider, and keep the build cost to a minimum. Gonna build an 820 dual carb kart motor for it, and see if I can break a couple bones.
When I was a kid, I had all kinds of toys to out run the cops, but the cops knew me well, and it got to the point where they didn't bother to chase me, and just sent me tickets in the mail. Some of those tickets they sent me weren't even me that ditched them. Apparently I wasn't the only bad kid in my area.
This is the second Screamer I have owned, out of three, and I bought all of them locally. I think mini racing stopped about the time this bike was made, in 1972. I remember reading Mini Cycle Magazine when I was a kid, and drooled over the Screamers and Rupp Black Widows. Both of those bikes were the ones to beat, but the Screamer was hands down faster than the Widow, since it had an 8 horse 820, and the Widow had a 4 horse Tecumseh 4 stroke. There was also the Speedway Silver Shadow that was built as a competition only mini. All three of those bikes are extremely rare, and the companies only produced enough to qualify for competition, which I think 500 was the required amount.
If a kid could manage to hang on to the Screamer, it would win every time, but anyone who let their kid ride one was either crazy, or really didn't like their kid, since the suspension was as bad as it gets, and it had way more power than it should ever be allowed to have. Top speed on this bike is around 65 mph. Throw in a rough track, and a couple corners, and you could plan on stitches a the emergency room.
Arctic Cat advertised the Screamer like this: A specially equipped competition mini bike, the SCREAMER, is Arctic's entry into the high performance mini bike field for 1971. The Screamer, only available on a limited basis only, is powered by an eight horsepower Chrysler two stroke engine. Other competition features include a snowmobile type torque converter, chrome gas tank, and a dyno tuned free flow exhaust system to deliver maximum performance for competition.
Information on mini racing is pretty tough to find, so I can't give you any links. Many of the top motocross racers back in the old days started out racing minis.
Thanks for the compliments. I built this one as something I was going to keep, and ride, but it got out of control when I found a few very rare NOS parts. Got real expensive, real fast. Now it's a bike that is too nice for me to justify putting gas in the tank. I bought another Screamer, and I plan to build it as a rider, and keep the build cost to a minimum. Gonna build an 820 dual carb kart motor for it, and see if I can break a couple bones.
When I was a kid, I had all kinds of toys to out run the cops, but the cops knew me well, and it got to the point where they didn't bother to chase me, and just sent me tickets in the mail. Some of those tickets they sent me weren't even me that ditched them. Apparently I wasn't the only bad kid in my area.