Maintenance & Technical > KX500 Original
MONUMENT TO THE 2-STROKE 2000 KX500
1989kawasaki:
--- Quote from: delphipro5 on February 05, 2011, 11:31:00 AM ---Good job, that is definitely a good thing. If you had one of these bikes still all stock, still in the crate, you could pretty much name your own price for it!
I love the classic 2-stroke Kawa?s and get great enjoyment from riding a standard OEM KX500. The same way I like riding in a Model-t at the owl?s head automotive museum! :lol: Great rides, all. But, time moves on along with technology, not utilizing that technology on the KX500 would not only eventually relegate this great 2-stroke platform to the annals of motocross trivia. But would also be a sad mistake. :|
I have no problem with the ?purists? but I plan on going in the opposite direction.
O.E.M. stock.......yawn! :evil:
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ok you like after market stuff on your bike(s) , thats perfectley ok. but my mission was to make my 89 look like it did in 89
delphipro5:
Not here to alienate any one. to each his own.
delphipro5:
After more thought I am thinking maybe 100LL AV may be the answer. I can prob. get it locally and store and use it rather easily. I NEED to figure this out because I have my Carb. at Dick's racing and I NEED to specifiy which fuel I will be using so they can jet it accordingly. How would I go about telling them I plan on using AV fuel? will they be cool with that? Also I am sending my head to Larry Wiechman to have his Comp. Re. done and also the head work, so I will need to specify with him also the fuel used so he can machine it accordingly. Down to the wire now so I need to figure this out this week by Wed. :?
delphipro5:
So I took off my stator cover just to take a look, and I tested the coil resistance and found that blk/wh-blk/yel = 318.4 ohms and red/wh-blk/yel = 10.3 ohms. So I think it is out of spec., what do I do about that?
Also the gasket was leaky so it is a little corroded
that kind of blows.
same thing with a few of my head bolts but they dont look too bad.
Here are some shots of my head and cylinder, what do you think?
At least that looks like it is in good shape, it has a lot of carbon but that will come right off. And what do you think does the cylinder look glazed at all? I think it looks pretty good. :-P
hughes:
That cylinder looks very usable. Check around all port edges for any plating to be chipping away. I think a light hone job and you'll be go to go with that cylinder.
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