KX Riders
Maintenance & Technical => Kx Frankensteins => Topic started by: suicyde on August 01, 2012, 05:23:32 PM
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Here is some pics of my build, some here thought you might enjoy.
I started with a set of bare cases, bead blasted, decked, and meticulously cleaned.
(http://i371.photobucket.com/albums/oo153/hondawasaki/2011-08-15_18-22-15_777.jpg)
installed a fresh set of ceramic bearings
(http://i371.photobucket.com/albums/oo153/hondawasaki/2011-08-15_18-22-28_153.jpg)
Fresh seals, ceramic crank bearings
(http://i371.photobucket.com/albums/oo153/hondawasaki/2011-08-15_18-22-39_409.jpg)
balanced and trued crank, fresh Kawi rod
(http://i371.photobucket.com/albums/oo153/hondawasaki/2011-08-15_18-22-12_277.jpg)
Larry modded head
(http://i371.photobucket.com/albums/oo153/hondawasaki/2011-08-15_18-22-54_292.jpg)
new plate
(http://i371.photobucket.com/albums/oo153/hondawasaki/2011-08-24_15-56-28_79.jpg)
coated windowed wiseco
(http://i371.photobucket.com/albums/oo153/hondawasaki/2011-08-24_15-56-44_48.jpg)
v-force3's
(http://i371.photobucket.com/albums/oo153/hondawasaki/2011-08-24_15-59-32_934.jpg)
rewound ignition
(http://i371.photobucket.com/albums/oo153/hondawasaki/2011-08-24_15-58-08_129.jpg)
trans installed
(http://i371.photobucket.com/albums/oo153/hondawasaki/2011-08-24_16-20-07_561.jpg)
crank installed
(http://i371.photobucket.com/albums/oo153/hondawasaki/2011-08-24_17-26-02_220.jpg)
complete engine
(http://i371.photobucket.com/albums/oo153/hondawasaki/2011-08-25_18-41-33_9.jpg)
the b-side
(http://i371.photobucket.com/albums/oo153/hondawasaki/2011-08-25_18-41-46_533.jpg)
candy apple green powder
(http://i371.photobucket.com/albums/oo153/hondawasaki/2011-07-28_11-11-56_790.jpg)
Forks mounted
(http://i371.photobucket.com/albums/oo153/hondawasaki/2011-08-27_10-49-34_296.jpg)
engine cradled
(http://i371.photobucket.com/albums/oo153/hondawasaki/P1030537.jpg)
(http://i371.photobucket.com/albums/oo153/hondawasaki/P1030538.jpg)
(http://i371.photobucket.com/albums/oo153/hondawasaki/P1030539.jpg)
pipe mounted
(http://i371.photobucket.com/albums/oo153/hondawasaki/P1030541.jpg)
(http://i371.photobucket.com/albums/oo153/hondawasaki/P1030540.jpg)
swinger etc installed
(http://i371.photobucket.com/albums/oo153/hondawasaki/P1030542.jpg)
here is an old completed pic
(http://i371.photobucket.com/albums/oo153/hondawasaki/P1030550.jpg)
Ive been working on getting a few bugs ironed out, it currently has a longer swingarm, and a longer airfilter mounted up. soon to get a few more mods.
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Just out of curiosity, what ceramic bearings did you use?
I'd love to see the looks on peoples faces as the tri rigger blows past them :-D
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Wow that engine is a SNUG fit ! Especially the spark plug ! Who fabbed that pipe ? Thats a NICE job ! No problems with kick lever clearence ? I almost took on a Tecate 500 project before my kart, but finding clean Tecates for sale here in New England is tough. All the ones I looked at were clapped out POS
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Jesus...that thing is just bad ass!!!...awesome job,it looks like it came from the factory that way.By the pics,it looks like you decided to keep the thumb throttle?.
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I can't imagine what terror and s**t eating grin a person would have smacking the throttle on that!
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Just out of curiosity, what ceramic bearings did you use?
I'd love to see the looks on peoples faces as the tri rigger blows past them :-D
the bearings are from world wide bearings, hybrid, steel races with ceramic balls. Its been fun, but its still not up to snuff for me to say its done.
I can't imagine what terror and s**t eating grin a person would have smacking the throttle on that!
Yeah its a little overkill for sure, but its not as crazy as you might think.
Wow that engine is a SNUG fit ! Especially the spark plug ! Who fabbed that pipe ? Thats a NICE job ! No problems with kick lever clearence ? I almost took on a Tecate 500 project before my kart, but finding clean Tecates for sale here in New England is tough. All the ones I looked at were clapped out POS
The frame has to be notched for the spark plug to fit, the kicker hits the fender, CPI built the pipe, and most 30yr old 3wheelers are junk, this one was no exception
.Jesus...that thing is just bad ass!!!...awesome job,it looks like it came from the factory that way.By the pics,it looks like you decided to keep the thumb throttle?.
tecates came with a twist, I personally don't like 'em. that one is off a quadzilla.
Thanks for your nice words I appreciate it!
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Great job! You have to post some videos of that on the dunes. Bet it's a blast to ride.
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THAT IS f**kING AWESOME!!
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Beautiful work!!!
Now I understand your user name.
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NICE!
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I can say i've swung my leg over a few modded out tri wheeled death machines along the way. But not one of that caliber...I am a bike guy through and through
but i will say that machine is beautiful. Not to mention quite dangerous in the wrong hands.
Nice job
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I worked for a Kawasaki dealer years ago, and the owner raced Tecates' on the dirt oval at Loudon NH back in 84 and 85. He raced the "200cc" class, and what he did was yank the 250cc engine and was putting in 84 KX125 engines. Anyone who remembers the BRUTAL power of the '84 KX125 would attest to that combo kicking the crap out of any other 3 wheeler in the class. Racers were purchasing a brand new Tecate, a brand new KX125 and Gary (the owner/racer) would build the race ready package. He built like 4 of those 125cc Tecate's >
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Dragged it out to take some current pics.
(http://i371.photobucket.com/albums/oo153/hondawasaki/DSC_8166.jpg)
(http://i371.photobucket.com/albums/oo153/hondawasaki/DSC_8167.jpg)
heres the new intake.
(http://i371.photobucket.com/albums/oo153/hondawasaki/DSC_8169.jpg)
(http://i371.photobucket.com/albums/oo153/hondawasaki/DSC_8168.jpg)
And the extended swingarm
(http://i371.photobucket.com/albums/oo153/hondawasaki/DSC_8172.jpg)
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This is just another one of those things that everyone should have in their garage for that "bad day" cure!! :evil:
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The more I see, the more I like it.
Thanks for posting..
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This is just another one of those things that everyone should have in their garage for that "bad day" cure!! :evil:
If your bad day cure is scaring the s**t out of yourself, than yes! :-D
The more I see, the more I like it.
Thanks for posting..
Thanks man!
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Thats beautiful.
I love those second gen. Tecates.
They are a blast with a 500 in them wish I hadn't sold my 85 last yr.
http://www.atvriders.com/images/kawasaki/2009-tecate-fest-kxf-250-atv/2009-kawasaki-tecate-fest-3-wheeler-kx500-engine.jpg
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Hey, was that pic taken in Florence or Winchester Bay?
(http://www.atvriders.com/images/kawasaki/2009-tecate-fest-kxf-250-atv/2009-kawasaki-tecate-fest-3-wheeler-kx500-engine.jpg)
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That was at Winchester bay. at our last Tecatefest
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If I'm going to the coast, Winchester Bay is my favorite spot.
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"Yeah its a little overkill for sure, but its not as crazy as you might think."
Yeah right! I can just hear the snicker followed up by, "Go ahead and take it for a ride"
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That bike is very cool!
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once again by request heres a video. This takes place at "sand mountain" Little Sahara, UT today 8-12-12
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=5BhhIKdwvUM
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That was awsome!
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Beautiful!!!
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Hey! How come it took those other guys so long to get to the top?!?!?!? Nice vid! Great bike!
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d**n... awesome vid.. thing runs like a raped ape.. any motor specs? :evil:
what hill is that... thing is LONG...
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d**n... awesome vid.. thing runs like a raped ape.. any motor specs? :evil:
what hill is that... thing is LONG...
Thx, what kind of specs are you looking for? you have more specs than should be legal to own!
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d**n... awesome vid.. thing runs like a raped ape.. any motor specs? :evil:
what hill is that... thing is LONG...
Thx, what kind of specs are you looking for? you have more specs than should be legal to own!
Yes I do... But always curious what people are running. especially when it walks FAST quads like THAT!
port timing? Jug lift? head design, CC's etc etc... what ever your willing to give up...
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The hill is at our local sand dune area in little sahara OHV, its called sand mountain. Its quite the comp hill.
As far as specs, I'm not going to be much help. Stewart set up the cyl, although I never ran it before I pulled it apart, the plating was coming off, and was scoring the piston. so I had Paul send it out and have it replated, and the piston coated. Larry set up the head. I ended up having paul machine the crank webs, install a new rod, and balance the crank.
I used a different crank, trans, and cases than my orig motor. I also finished out the set of ceramic bearings. It originally had about 80% of the bearings ceramic. The carb is a packard 44 lectron with an oversize bowl, and the pipe is a handmade cpi. Vforce3 reeds.
I'm thinking when it needs a top end its pinsanalut time!
I have a few more vids up, did you guys find them?