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Kawadougie
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1.0 mm Thick Head Gasket Report
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June 01, 2005, 03:08:10 PM »
I don't know if anyone else has tried it but I recently swapped out the head gasket that comes with the Cometic gasket kit (0.2mm) with a thick 1.0 mm gasket from Kawasaki. Stock gasket thickness is 0.4mm. My main interest is woods riding and I found that it softened the hit slightly on the bottom end but it still pulls nicely from the mid to top end. Exactly what I was looking for. It also runs appreciably cooler now. Kick starting is much easier also.
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Brett
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1.0 mm Thick Head Gasket Report
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June 01, 2005, 05:50:47 PM »
I just went the opposite way and with new piston+rings, retimed powervalve and is definately harder to start with my weight.(60kg)
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SupermotoFan
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February 10, 2007, 01:33:02 PM »
Sweet.
Thanks for the update.
This kinda confirms what I was looking to do in my thread "Quite possibly the stupidest question ever..."
SupermotoFan
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Re: 1.0 mm Thick Head Gasket Report
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February 10, 2007, 08:12:20 PM »
Don't worry about asking seemingly stupid technical questions as it's much more stupid to NOT ask and mess something expensive up.
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doordie
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Re: 1.0 mm Thick Head Gasket Report
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February 11, 2007, 12:30:54 PM »
I only want to say,be carefully with detonations/pinging if you really us all power from
low rpm.
Read all threads about Squish and Compressions and make your own conclusion.
Just my 2 cent
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