Maintenance & Technical > KX500 Steel Frame Conversion (SFC)
2003 KX 250 SF Conversion
umberto:
Thank you motopunk! I'm having a blast building it.
zz3gmc:
Bike looks great! I would weld another mount to the sub frame for the silencer. Thats alot of silencer hanging back there for one mount. I have 2 mounts on my bike. Also you should beef up that lower mount for the pipe. 500s vibrate quite a bit and that "Z" shaped bracket may fail. A upper pipe mount for a 05-07 KX250 may work there since they are pretty long. The 03 frame also has a mount for the expansion chamber by the subframe to frame junction. I would make a mount there also since the CR pipe has a mounting point there. Not nit picking just offering some suggestions to more solidly mount the pipe.
umberto:
Thank you for the input zz3gmc! Without your help I wouldn't have gotten this far for sure. I'll take your advice and beef up my mounting. i haven't had a k5 for 30 years, so I wasn't sure how much vibration is normal for one.
Foxx4Beaver:
so what color(s) are you thinking when buying plastics, backgrounds and decals/graphics?
umberto:
I was thinking about using the 2014 KXF front fender and number plate in green, 08 KXF shrouds in green, and stock side panels and fenders in green. I think I'll leave the fork guards black. I had a really good experience at Decal Works last time, so I think I'll go back with their graphics. I really like how edgar_kx3 did the yellow backgrounds on his, so I am going to borrow that from him.
I like this graphics set, but with KX 500 where it just says KX.
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