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Maintenance & Technical => KX500 Original => Topic started by: BDI on April 29, 2007, 07:53:25 AM

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Post by: BDI on April 29, 2007, 07:53:25 AM
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Title: Re: kx250/500 pipe project
Post by: hangtime on April 29, 2007, 12:30:30 PM
If you would be willing to part with one, I would like to buy one. Then we must find the guy who destroyed the dies and whack him. :wink:
Title: Re: kx250/500 pipe project
Post by: kx666 on April 29, 2007, 03:21:40 PM
how hard is it to make new dies? you have all the dementions...  :?
Title: Re: kx250/500 pipe project
Post by: MadKaw on April 29, 2007, 04:57:59 PM
wonder if you could use the dementions and make it out of carbon fiber, coat the inside with ceramic coating for heat protection and make it work?
Title: Re: kx250/500 pipe project
Post by: gwcrim on April 30, 2007, 06:47:17 AM
Why the f^#& would someone destroy dies for anything?
Title: Re: kx250/500 pipe project
Post by: demographic on May 01, 2007, 06:49:58 AM
Quote from: BDI on April 30, 2007, 11:10:15 AM
Quote from: gwcrim on April 30, 2007, 06:47:17 AM
Why the f^#& would someone destroy dies for anything?
well If you are not using the dies the stamping company wants $1800.00 a year to store the dies. With the death of the two stroke kx500 the company that makes the pipe no longer has a interest in doing so.At that point the dies start costing money to own and the metal they are made of is worth more than the die itself so off they go to be recycled

I know this might sound like a daft question but how much space do the dies take up?
Title: Re: kx250/500 pipe project
Post by: alan on May 01, 2007, 11:33:52 AM
d**n, I will store them for you! :lol: :lol: :lol:
Title: Re: kx250/500 pipe project
Post by: maddoggy on May 04, 2007, 06:21:43 AM
bdi, great looking welds. are you using stainless wire or something else?
Title: Re: kx250/500 pipe project
Post by: alan on May 04, 2007, 06:29:15 AM
That is some really nice work!  :-D :-D :-D
Title: Re: kx250/500 pipe project
Post by: kxs in oz on May 07, 2007, 07:34:58 PM
Hey BDI i am building a dave thorpe replica SR500 1990 the one he raced in the world GP would you sell me one of those pipes the bike is a kx250 1990 with kx500 motor fitted plus outher trick parts thanks simon
Title: Re: kx250/500 pipe project
Post by: demographic on May 08, 2007, 05:30:07 AM
Quote from: kxs in oz on May 07, 2007, 07:34:58 PM
Hey BDI i am building a dave thorpe replica SR500 1990 the one he raced in the world GP would you sell me one of those pipes the bike is a kx250 1990 with kx500 motor fitted plus outher trick parts thanks simon

kxs in oz, I have just e-mailed you some information and two photos that I think you might be interested in..

The e-mail title is
Dave Thorpes SR 500.
These are small versions of the photos I have sent you and as far as I have been told is the bike that Dave Thorpe owned, it used to have only four gears but now has five and gets used for hillclimb sprints.
Thats why it has sticky tyres and a big front brake disc.
You can't really see the many welds on the small picture but they show up on the big pictures I have sent you.
The bloke was selling it a while ago but I was skint so didn't even ask how much.

(http://img.photobox.co.uk/11066817f6210cd52d196d9c27922434ef1de91bdd5f365a095ba3a4.jpg) (http://img.photobox.co.uk/40458802691fe2d633da5312ba97ff73ee6ddb7b102cc2a19fad39ee.jpg)

Regards Scott.
Title: Re: kx250/500 pipe project
Post by: kxs in oz on May 08, 2007, 11:21:59 AM
Hi BDI i am using a kx250 1990 and kx500 1990 on motor
Thanks for the pics on the sr500 demographic but the bike i am looking for info on is a 1990 perimiter frame 250 with a 500 motor in it but that motor looks cool all sand cast that would be nice to have