Maintenance & Technical > KX500 Original
Castor Based Premix - who's using it?
streetsleeper:
Thank you for your replies Foxx4Beaver & Umberto. I think it's fellers like you that keep sites like this alive. Always willing to welcome a newcomer, and from what I've read full of years of experience and knowledge that you're happy to pass on to people like myself.
I fully understand why you don't ship to Mexico. Everything is difficult here and it hasn't been helped by the controversy over the wall - gotta go all of a sudden, to catch my eldest (he's 7) at the Christmas skating rink...
Quickly, I've attached a photo of the day I went to view the KX. That's the bloke I eventually bought it off, and the condition of the bike after he attempted to clean about 10 years of muck off it, also what I believe is a KDX200 exhaust. Couldn't upload a video but you'll be glad to know that I've had her running - in the kitchen. Blimey, (cough, cough) even my eyes are watering!
Heniz:
That exhaust mounting is mean...... or as we call it in New Zealand. Chur brother Rangi as. haha
Shame about the shipping in Mexico i know its bad enough when we have to pay large shipping fees to get stuff to New Zealand and have to wait weeks sometimes months for it to arrive but 95% of the time it does turn up unless it gets held up at customs and we get heavily taxed for it.
As far as premix oils go Maxima Castor 927 smells great but does gunk up the powervalves quite rapidly but lately ive had great success using Castrol TTS. Its cheap and it does the job and alot of people comment saying it smells like im running race gas but im just using standard 98 octane pump fuel (different to the Ron rating used in the states).
Bike looks like it will be a great runner with a good clean and a tidy up hope you got a good high pressure water blaster! :evil:
streetsleeper:
Heniz -I guess that's Maori?
Yep, shipping to New Zealand must be expensive.
There's a company in your part of the world (Australia) making billet crankcases for KX500 now. They're called TSR and have a facebook page. Someone on here has bought a pair - it's an interesting thread.
Regarding Castrol TTS, well it's great stuff. nearly all of us bought it (in the UK) when it was available, but I'm pretty sure they've changed the name. Can't remember if it was mineral or semi synthetic, do you know? I've bought some mineral oil here called Castrol "Go" - but that won't mix with the castor oil I use. The other one I've got is a fully synthetic called Repsol Moto 2T Competición, which will mix.
There's a new feller on here from the Antipodes called sandgroper in Western Australia, hence apparently, the name he chose.
alexander-vmann:
well as long as we are talking about oil again :-D anyone ever tried millers oils in their kx's? they have this fancy dancy nano-technology that they claim can get up to 7% increase in power due to less friction. i think that would be interesting to try out in the gearbox. they also have a two stroke motorcycle oil that meets the highest jaso and iso requirements but without the nano-technology, so i have no idea if it actully reduces the friction over any other oil
alexander-vmann:
here's a two stroke oil that claims up 26% reduction in friction over ''standard engine oil'' http://www.millersoils.co.uk/products/kr-2t/662
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