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I'm very impressed with this bike.
A little fine tuning left and this thing will be incredible...
Now send it to FMF so they can copy it for the rest of us.
Please and thank you 😃
They can make them at any time.
What prevents them from doing so is the amount of orders they are likely to get.
Would you be doing a conversion or would this be for a KX500 standard chassis?
03 KX500
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Mine is for a KTM chassis with a KX500 engine in it with a one off custom pipe from Growler racing.
Needless to say FMF has no interest in making mine.
Since you have a stock chassis, FMF can make you one just like they did for Sean Collier's KX500.
All the guys at KX Guru Racing have begged FMF to make them for the masses.
But they are not interested unless you know someone who will be willing to buy 50 mufflers.
Here's some pics of Sean's
I'm surprised we couldn't collectively get 50 orders.
Its why I had to make my own...
Even at sub 4500 RPM's it performs the best.
I can't wait for some desert action on this beast..
Stock
AS3
PHI
Nothing says Commitment like drilling a hole through your custom one off pipe...
Smoke sucker!!
The bike runs amazing.
Jetting was tough due to the unusually small jet sizes required with this exact set up.
In fact I'm waiting for more jets to come in..
In the mean time I have prepped another carb just to be safe.
I have a few loose ends to tie up but nothing major.
The graphics should be here later this week or early next.
I won't be able to post any pics until after the magazine comes out from here on out
I have 4 gallons of fuel ran through it so it could be ready in a few hours once I get the graphics here.
Right now we are waiting for Daryl (MXA Editor) to give us a exact time and date for the photo shoot and test ride.
It's getting very exciting...
Can't wait to see the article/test.
Definitely a labor of love.
And lots of $$$$$$😃
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I see you are using those GPI rads, are they any good because i might want to give them a shot on my KTM 250 SXF that is running hot from time to time.
If you are having issues run a 1.8 cap, a MSV impeller, and use Royal Purple's Purple Ice.
Even with stock rads you should notice a significant difference.
If after that you still have issues then you have other troubles....
Pit Row
Prior to this E start, for decades now, I've sealed the OEM crank case vents on all of my bikes , and fitted upwards breathers and hoses to keep water out of the electrics - never had an ignition problem on any of my bikes, whilst plenty around me have had the typical rust on the electrics / crap in cases from water sucking, low case vents.
So, did you check the gears in the E start for 'true' - re my posting and video on about page 2 of this thread? I'm interested to see if those Quebecious have produced decent gears, yet? They sure as hell didn't give two flying f**k's about their quality, and their customers, when they first made these effing things.
But after checking mine there was no worries.
It seems to me that most of the complaints I heard about on the CR500's have been fixed on the KX500.
I did upgrade the Relay, case bolt length, and vent on mine but it has performed flawlessly up to this point.
I'm not sure how many starts I have done with mine but at least 50... perhaps a lot more as I didn't really count them.
I really appreciate your heads up as well as all the others I received from other users.
Let's just hope it stays that way.
I have spoken to a few other KX500 users and they have had no issues with theirs so maybe they have all the bugs sorted out.
On my vent upgrade I just bought 1/8" NPT thread fittings and it fits perfectly with no issues.
I used the banjo bolt and banjo because there was buggerall room to use a NPT elbow on the CR, down by the barrel and case. I also have little enthusiasm for such thread and fittings, and have plenty of 10 x 1mm fittings and tooling.
At least they appear to have rectified one serious issue, of many I found, but they don't give a flying f**k about early customers - customers that gave them money well in advance for what turned out to be dreadfully made products.
I trusted I was going to get a well made, thoroughly engineered product, but got nothing of the sort. In all of my years of producing products - decades - I have never produced a product / modification / job of anything but the highest standard and quality. I expected the same, but, received anything but that.
I did a lot of prototype jobs for a machine shop I worked at for a lot of years.
I also did a lot of rebuilding equipment that was 50 plus years old.
When done it has to work first time every time or you will loose a valuable customer and potentially many more.
I'm surprised that early support was so bad on these.
Perhaps we need to design and build a better, more compact system :-)
The photo shoot and test ride will take place in Mid November and likely there will be a 3 month gap until the article comes out
But if something comes up and I can update again I will.
Working on the graphics installation right now.
All I can say is Nic at DeCal Works hit this one out of the park.
I can't wait until the big reveal...
It's been a long build for me... Probably for most of you too
Sound check
That's beautiful
How much $😆
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