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1.0 mm Thick Head Gasket Report

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Kawadougie:
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.  :D

Brett:
I just went the opposite way and with new piston+rings, retimed powervalve and is definately harder to start with my weight.(60kg)

SupermotoFan:
Sweet.

Thanks for the update.

This kinda confirms what I was looking to do in my thread "Quite possibly the stupidest question ever..."

SupermotoFan
'86 KX500

demographic:
Don't worry about asking seemingly stupid technical questions as it's much more stupid to NOT ask and mess something expensive up.

doordie:
I only want to say,be carefully with detonations/pinging if you really us all power from
low rpm. :-o
Read all threads about Squish and Compressions and make your own conclusion. :wink:

Just my 2 cent :|

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