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Thank you. I like square engines too. Maybe I mis-read it, but isn’t the stroke larger (longer) than the bore on this 327? Making it under square? I may be confusing myself at this point lol

Still, I’m thinking it’s waaaaay less than a 450…?

The “moment” is affected by other spinning mass…other than just the crank, that is. The clutch assy, counter-balancer, transmission pieces…etc. and the starter has some mass, too, tho…only spinning at times that don’t play into this. They stack the gears and shafts differently in modern 2Ts. I’m just guessing here; but, compared to the 4T, I’m guessing this has a potentially lower cg & MOI and they played with that during testing.

I twisted the absolute shit out of the throttle yesterday evening on my 150SX.Buddy bought a 2017 TC125 and i took it for a test ride. I had so much fun that took my 250SX straight back in the garage and grabbed the 150 to turn some laps. I was feeling really dialed in yesterday for some reason. That thing will rail some shit when you leave it pinned!! No more 4 strokes in my lifetime. Selling my YZ250F and going back to 2T's was the way for me.

Well, I did hear that it's Pride Month.

Apparently dirtbike magazine was the first to build a kx327. The fact that they also picked that number must mean thats the biggest you could get from the stock kx250 engine. They took a 2003 kx250, used the stock crank, and modified it for +4mm stroke. Then they bored out the stock cylinder and used a 74mm wiseco piston. That got them to 327cc. https://dirtbikemagazine.com/kawasaki-kx327-two-stroke-project/ Listening to weeges interview with the kawi guy he said the vision is to create more models of 2 strokes in the future. I’m sure that means a kx250, because if you can go up...

I wonder if Rich Taylor will sue Kawasaki when they build the EKX

So much misinformation about that partnership from 2003-2005. Suzuki co-branded models with Kawasaki and vice versa. The DRZ400 was rebranded as a KLX400 (but was suzuki manufactured). Both bikes were identical apart from plastic color. The KX250-F was rebranded as a RMZ250 (but was kawasaki manufactured). Both bikes were identical apart from plastic color. That was basically it for the bigger bikes.

New updates on the engine side. Rebuild the right case and installed the transmision and crank. All new bearings and its currently waiting for the left crank case as I did mill 3,5mm on the face of the swingarm pivot in order to move the engine to the left side and align front to rear sprocket. After doing that, there is an space of 7,5mm in the right side between the case and the swingarm, the plan is to make either an spacer or a new complete bushing plus 7,5mm in order to fill up the space. The plan is...