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Offline sandblaster

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Re: 2001 KX500 Kawasaki Supermoto
« Reply #615 on: August 06, 2015, 11:57:21 AM »
Don't need these..



I want it to be like this.... but cleaner  :-o

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Re: 2001 KX500 Kawasaki Supermoto
« Reply #616 on: August 06, 2015, 12:27:26 PM »
Quote from: sandblaster on August 06, 2015, 11:57:21 AM
Don't need these..



I want it to be like this.... but cleaner  :-o



+1....I see you received your package from CCS, it's the best! Make sure to use the proper bit/drive rotation as I see you have experienced  :-o

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Re: 2001 KX500 Kawasaki Supermoto
« Reply #617 on: August 06, 2015, 12:41:54 PM »
Oh yes, I have a nice assortment of reverse burrs  :lol:
But going slow and changing the cutting angle goes a long way to not having a problem.
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Re: 2001 KX500 Kawasaki Supermoto
« Reply #618 on: August 08, 2015, 01:17:41 PM »
This is all for now.
Still gotta weld up the compression reliefs so no sense getting carried away.

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Re: 2001 KX500 Kawasaki Supermoto
« Reply #619 on: August 08, 2015, 02:26:13 PM »
Ooohhh ahhhh
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Re: 2001 KX500 Kawasaki Supermoto
« Reply #620 on: August 10, 2015, 02:38:23 PM »
Quote from: sandblaster on August 08, 2015, 01:17:41 PM
This is all for now.
Still gotta weld up the compression reliefs so no sense getting carried away.



I guess it's too late to say "Don't lower the bottom of the main exhaust port."


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Re: 2001 KX500 Kawasaki Supermoto
« Reply #621 on: August 10, 2015, 02:39:41 PM »
Quote from: Larry Wiechman on August 10, 2015, 02:38:23 PM
Quote from: sandblaster on August 08, 2015, 01:17:41 PM
This is all for now.
Still gotta weld up the compression reliefs so no sense getting carried away.



I guess it's too late to say "Don't lower the bottom of the main exhaust port."




Nope, haven't touched it  :-D
In fact I have to cut the top of the exhaust port back to the stock specs as it has been welded up.
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Re: 2001 KX500 Kawasaki Supermoto
« Reply #622 on: September 06, 2015, 08:46:55 AM »
Something huge showed up last week..
There was no "M" markings but if you know what to look for you can see the "M" touch on it...



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Re: 2001 KX500 Kawasaki Supermoto
« Reply #623 on: October 03, 2015, 03:09:00 PM »
Quote from: sandblaster on September 06, 2015, 08:46:55 AM
Something huge showed up last week..
There was no "M" markings but if you know what to look for you can see the "M" touch on it...





I'd sure like to know more about that carb
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Re: 2001 KX500 Kawasaki Supermoto
« Reply #624 on: October 03, 2015, 05:49:24 PM »
Me too  8-)
I know it is a 44mm Lectron with a cool choke set up on it.
I gotta get it on my bike one of these days...
I doubt I have enough port timing to make full use of it but we will see..
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Re: 2001 KX500 Kawasaki Supermoto
« Reply #625 on: June 12, 2018, 04:23:47 PM »
Well... It's been about 6 years since I built this bike when catastrophe happened..
I was climbing a dune and misjudged the amount of speed it would take to just barely clear the top so I had to wind this baby up and leave it there for about 10 seconds... I made it to the top when I heard a rattling sound... I shut the engine off and got towed behind a side by side a few miles back to camp in the deep sand.

I just let the bike sit in the garage for the last several months because I thought that I had ran it too lean and smoked the piston...
Well... the piston was smoked but not from being ran too lean...



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Re: 2001 KX500 Kawasaki Supermoto
« Reply #626 on: June 12, 2018, 04:25:15 PM »
As soon as I saw it I had a feeling I knew where that small bolt had come from...



In one of my "How To" threads I specifically say that if you use a VF2 reed that you need to take all the bolts out and use thread locker on them.
Apparently the Blue I used wasn't enough... So next time I will use the red...  8-)

So here my baby sits in need of some love...  :lol:



After I get some fork cleaner in town tomorrow I will rinse out the bottom end and get it prepped for a test top end.
Yes.... Test top end....  :evil:
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Re: 2001 KX500 Kawasaki Supermoto
« Reply #627 on: June 12, 2018, 04:51:14 PM »
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Re: 2001 KX500 Kawasaki Supermoto
« Reply #628 on: June 12, 2018, 05:05:16 PM »
I do... but when I built this engine I didn't  :-D
But I can assure you that I will get one for each of my K5's..
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Re: 2001 KX500 Kawasaki Supermoto
« Reply #629 on: June 13, 2018, 07:09:01 AM »
When is the KTM/KX500 scheduled to be up and running?
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