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2003 KX500 build (Progress Pics)
greylynn:
I got the moose Torque spacer and the V-force reeds installed. I had to cut the tabs off the intake boot, but other than that pretty easy. The intake/air filter boot on the opposite side of the pic is kinda sunk in because of the tweaking of the fit. This set up barely fits now and the intake shape has now changed....Think this will affect performance negatively?
I bought a brand new intake boot because the old one had some minor cracks in it that I didn't want to become major and the new one has a few tiny little cracks in it, I guess it's just kinda unavoidable with rubber. None of the cracks go all the way through of course.
I got all the plastics, sprockets, exhaust o-rings, new fuel lines, rotor and sprocket bolts for the completely seperate dune Excel wheels which should be here next week, and a bunch of other stuff in. I'm waiting for the wheels to get here before I put that stuff on so I don't have to remove anythingg else. Anyway here are a few pics. By next weekend I should have major progress....
Grey
I had to get this sprocket because the wheels are going to have gold hubs, black spokes, black rims and gold nipples. And the new chain is gold, so I thought it would look pretty!
It's going to have black front and rear fenders, green side and front number plates with black fork sliders.
There are a lot of other things on the way, Devol radiator guards, I think I want to make those black, new chain slider and rollers, Tm Designs flag holder, Pro Circuit Platinum 2 pipe and 304 silencer, and other stuff I can't think of right now lol, let me know what you guys think so far :)
Grey
delphipro5:
WOW goin all out! :lol: It's hard not to with the K5 isin't it! Just want it to look mint, even though it's gonna get covered in dirt! But the dunes are different than riding in the woods and mud like I do! :-D
Looks like you have the carb. pushed too far into the intake boot in that pic. I would not let that stay that way.... I have the tourqe spacer on my build too.... So I will have to look into modding the airbox mounts to bring it back like a 1/2" So that the airbox boot is not deformed and the carb. is not shoved too far into the intake boot also. I would monkey with that a little more if I were you. just a suggestion. :-)
The weld work on the mount is good work too, he did do a good job.
greylynn:
--- Quote from: delphipro5 on May 07, 2011, 03:58:48 PM ---WOW goin all out! :lol: It's hard not to with the K5 isin't it! Just want it to look mint, even though it's gonna get covered in dirt! But the dunes are different than riding in the woods and mud like I do! :-D
Looks like you have the carb. pushed too far into the intake boot in that pic. I would not let that stay that way.... I have the tourqe spacer on my build too.... So I will have to look into modding the airbox mounts to bring it back like a 1/2" So that the airbox boot is not deformed and the carb. is not shoved too far into the intake boot also. I would monkey with that a little more if I were you. just a suggestion. :-)
The weld work on the mount is good work too, he did do a good job.
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Thanks for the compliments, I'm going to figure something out to stop the deformed boot from happening, thanks for the imputs!
Grey
greylynn:
Well I checked the compression when I had a minute, It was 160PSI spot on everytime. When I took this pic I got off the bike and went to get the camera so it leaked a lil off. I think I am right where I should be 105-164 psi correct? The guy I got the bike from said it was barely ridden....He was going to make it a hillclimber, but never did.
I decided to also polish the swingarm with the brushed aluminum style look that Motorrad showed in a thread somewhere. I'll post some pics once I get a little further on that project.
Polar-Bus:
160 psi is perfect. That signifies a strong top end. Anything less than 140 and your loosing power.
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