There are many types of ATV nerf bars on the market right now, and it can be hard to choose which one is best. For Project Wide Open YFZ, I chose the AC Racing Pro Peg nerf bars for a couple of reasons. The first was for the new foot pegs that come included with it. They are much bigger than stock pegs.The AC pegs also have more rows of teeth and bigger teeth, plus a kickup on the end to help hold your feet in place. Another advantage is the built-in heel guards. These look a LOT nicer than the stock ones, and also make it much easier to remove them since they aren't a separate piece. If you are riding competitively (and if you are shopping for nerfs, you probably ARE), all these features can mean a big advantage for solid footing.

Another thing I liked about them was the netting. Unlike some of the other brands, the netting does not attach to the frame. This allows you to use the stock belly plate or any plate that has fins on the side if you want, plus it makes the netting much easier to install.

All those features, plus how great they look, made my decision to go with the AC nerfs much easier.

The first thing you need to do is to remove the bottom front motor frame-mount bolt on both sides of the frame. Next remove your footpegs and heelguards. The footpegs are held on with two bolts and can be removed easily. The heelguards have a couple more bolts that you need to remove to detach them from the frame. You don't have to remove the metal reinforcements from the heelguards to do this step. Just detach both of them from the frame and take them off as one piece. Once you have those removed on both sides you are ready to start installing your new pegs. I recommend you do the left side first; it will make it easier in the end.

The black mounting tube is the first thing that needs to go on. It installs where the footpeg used to be. Only tighten the bolts enough to keep it there - trust me - you will want it as loose as you can get later on. With that in, place the footpeg of the new nerf slide right onto the black mount.

The next step is to attach it to the frame with the bolt and spacer supplied. Make sure you use the shorter of the bolts that are given to you. For the next thing, I found that I had to tighten up the bottom of the black mount so that I didn't drill into it.

To help hold on the nerfs, you are supposed to drill a hole through the peg and the black mount and put a bolt in there. I eventually drilled the hole out with the correct size (3/8”), but first I used a center punch to give me a place to start and drilled it out with a smaller drill bit because it was hard to get started on the round surface.

After that is drilled, you can put in the longer bolts supplied to hold it on. Loosen the bottom bolt of the black thing back up after you are done drilling.

With this done and everything still loose, you can do everything for the other side.

Make sure that the male and female ends fit tightly together. When trying to install the bolt to the frame on the second side, you might need a second person to kind of twist and pull on it while you put the bolt in. Don't worry if the nerf is at weird angle when the bolt goes in - it should go back into place once the bolt is in.

With both sides on you can start tightening bolts up. Start with the frame bolts and then the rest of them. If you tighten them before this, you probably found out that the stuff doesn't fit correctly.

With all that done you can now start putting in your netting. The netting is very easy to install once you figure out which direction it goes, because all the end straps won't reach if you have it the wrong way. They give you instructions of how to weave the nets through the little mounts, but I created my own way so that the tails of the net came out on bottom instead of top.

This set of nerfs looks and works awesome. If you don't want to go with the full-on set with pro pegs and built in heel guards, AC also makes a couple other versions. One includes the pegs and not the heel guards, but they are moved down and back ½” like many of the pros and racers have changed to. They also make a nerf on its own, no pegs and no heel guards on them. Pick your favorite net color - blue, black or red.

So, no matter what you want for nerfs, AC racing is a great choice of products.

$309.95 per pair

www.ACracing.com
2273 E. Via Burton St.
Anaheim, CA 92806
714-808-8330

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