Well guys, its an idea that we have been kickin around the shed for some years. To take a KLX650R engine out to 700cc with a home made 3mm stroker crank while still allowing it to rev with the STD chome bore or put the 2mm oversize bigbore kit on it and take it out to 750cc. Junior piped up and said "Dad if you pull this off I will race it at Condo next year. So its all GO. Yesterday I pulled two old KLX650R's out of the scrap heap and got them stripped down to a bare frame. Out of the 2 frames one is better than the other, I have sent both away to be sand blasted and crack tested then the one we choose to use as the race bike will be lightened as much as we can and the other will end up as Bike 3 for my son Mark who is 15 and soon to be inducted into the KLX losers hall of fame. Both frames we be painted in Kawa green to match the 2002 colours. I had a meeting yesterday with the guy who is machining the crank about how he plans on going about this task. He is going to weld up the lower half of the Big end bore hole and rebore it 3mm off centre which will give it a extra stroke of 6mm overall taking it from 83 to 89mm and 100mm bore. Cheers Fogo...
Last night I bought a set of forks and triple grips off a KX250F 2007 model out of the States for $400 and they are on their way. We plan on running a complete KX250F front end. I have been talking to a mob Overseas about purchasing a KTM690 2008 rally replica front fairing that we are going to graft onto the front of the bike. We want to get this part right as a lot of mods are going to be done and a lot of cutting, shutting and adding fiberglass. Then a final mould will be made of the finished product and all 5 bikes will end up with this front on it. Port and polished head 41mm FCR carb New custom header pipe Race cams out of Kermit to go in. We still run the 17 litre Acerbis tank so the fairing has to fit around that some how. Meanwhile we have 3 second hand engines on the bench to disassemble and salvage to best we can for one good Donk. Cheers Fogo..
It's official, you're weird Na, this is awesome, really keen to see what Mr. R can do to that crank. Cheers, Dan.
I think we would have to be really carefull trying to take weight off the crank and balance weight, get it wrong and it vibrate to bits. Engine blue printers would be the people to see, maybe the guys who do all the Go cart race engines. But no endless budget here. We are going for the raised barrel idea instead of getting a shorter conrod made from Corrillo. I might get a base gasket cut out of stainless by a water jet and raise the barrel 2 mm and mill 1mm off the top of the piston to get a round the stroke difference, that way the crank angle wont change too much I have been told, and it decreases the side load on the trust sides of the liner.
these might be different to the fairing your looking for as well just got to keep looking as its not in order lol fairing replica
The KLX has not got a single backbone frame so it wont fit. Hey guys, I need to send a base gasket to somewhere that can scan it and cut some new ones out in a water jet, out of different thickness stainless sheet. like 1mm , 1.5mm and 2mm. Anyone know somewhere that has a water jet that could do that?
The company I work for has a laser division. I have seen some of their work including laser etching and it is pretty impressive. http://www.rcrtom.com.au/index.php/our-business/energy/170-laser-cutting They have a workshop in Sydney if that helps.
once upon a time i knew a fellow that did just what you want to do he cut a one piece alloy base gasket, it worked a treat and he did it by hand tools. it was a Kwaka 500 tripple so alloy works well
once upon a time i knew a fellow that did just what you want to do he cut a one piece alloy base gasket, it worked a treat and he did it by hand tools. it was a Kwaka 500 triple so alloy works well
Well I have been looking for quite a while for someone to take it on, far and wide, when someone recomended a guy that lives on a farm about 20 klms away from me. I drive out there and was warned, what ever you do, dont swear, they are churchies. Righto, I drive up the driveway to an old farm shed and an old guy shuffles out to meet me. I tell him of my intensions and hand him the crank, he laughs and said, "just go and buy yourself a CRF450" I said Nah I'm too loyal to these old pigs, "yeah I can do it no problems but how much money ya got young fella" he said. Well I'm on a bit of a budget for this I told him. "Leave it with me, $500 bucks" I follow him into this dingey shed to see wall to wall Mills and lathes, some old ,some the latest technogy. One lathe you could have swung a tug boat prop in, the chuck was so big. So as I got into the shed he stops in his tracks and swings head around on his shoulders to eyeball me in a weird and hazey glance and I see this little spakle in the corner of his eye as he said, " years ago I used to be right into this crazy sort of stuff with engines" as he chuckles. He puts the crank on a work bench as he slides a pile of shit to the side and looks at me and says, Thats a guy who is into chain saw racing and I have to make a cylinder head for him from scratch. Ha. I have a new found friend. Cheers Fogo..
