Maintenance & Technical > KX500 Original
Making the K5's power more usable??
Dutch-K5 Fan:
--- Quote from: bigbellybob on March 14, 2008, 10:28:46 AM ---that's insane 17,000 for forks 1,000 for a rotor. what was the cost of the hole bike 100,000+?
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Thats wy the AMA ban Factorybikes, there's to much difference.
Today's AMA and MXGP bikes aren't cheep. The first crf450 was $1000.000,- I believe.
dutchie
Dutch-K5 Fan:
Nobody any good ideas????
Doordie's G2 throttle looks good.
:cry: Am I so difrent than? :-D
Dutchie
KX500freak:
i know this .. just blast the thing..
k5 power is fully useable @ all times,
i got my mx turned into sumo
nothing,s more a blast to ride
even my sophisticated road k5 isn,t that brute :evil:
the rougher the better :-D
Polar-Bus:
--- Quote from: Dutch-K5 Fan on March 14, 2008, 06:55:35 AM ---The many ways here to make the k5 faster.
Are there tips to make him more usable :? :?
http://www.mxworksbike.com/1989%20RC500.htm
This is a nice article from geboers about his 89 RC500.
That power would be great!!!!!
Dutchie
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A Steahly 15oz. flywheel weight, and the Moose torque spacer.
Turned my KX500 from "wild and snappy" off the bottom end, into a smooth, controllable beast that has eye watering top end and speed.....
A flywheel weight also lenghtens the peak rpm's from the added spinning engine mass..... try one you will love it!
Mick:
The two factory teams, Kawasaki and Honda, had widely differing views on making usable power. Which can be seen today in the two 500's.
Honda chose to reduce reciprocating mass and use cylinder porting and head shaping to deliver power. Kawasaki's factory bikes, in the US and Europe, increased reciprocating mass and lowered compression to do the same. Kedrowski's and Larroco's SR500's all had much heavier cranks than what ours are. With little changes to the cylinders original design.
You're never going to get your KX to run anything like Goebers non power valved, steel sleeved Honda. But you can add a thicker head gasket and flywheel weight to your KX and make it run similar to Kawasaki's factory machines.
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