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A couple gifs to show the changes.

After market guys will have a new lease on life with this.

Here yall go

LOL! I get it... just too many ppl questioning the 327. Hell, that was great Chevy engine.

Anyone remember back to the 2000 GNCC where Wattsy rode every displacement made by KTM at the time?

If the 327 has the grunt of a carb'd 300, perhaps that would explain the plus 27cc. Yet will be smooth as butta', like the TBI's. Kawi really needs to not have the MX version need re-flash updates for an aggressive response. Although it's been reported that spicier jetting makes the Beetah 350 more tiring. Anyway, there needs to be enough to appease the ole BITD 500 boys.

One of the issues the 2T's are going to have regardless of how much power they make (and being undersquare only exacerbates the issue) is useable RPM. For equivalent HP, 2T has 3-4k less RPM which means it's generally going to produce more torque but useable RPM is a huge benefit to a 4T...you can get higher RPM out of a 2T but you start getting into shorter stroke engines that don't have the low end power needed. I think for a 2T to really be competitive you need to have a substantial tech leap to make that happen. All...

Sorry if I'm coming across as a know it all asshole- not my intent. Was just trying to share some knowledge. What you shared is all true- but that is mainly focused on 4 cycle engines. When you look at data about "engines", the default "engine" everyone assumes is the dominate 4 cycle format of course. Not our niche but common racing 2 strokes. The most important parameter to performance of any engine is volumetric efficiency. So while bore and stroke certainly have massive effects on power character and power band, they will still always be second to VE in...

Gotta be careful with the torque / low end grunt thing....what a lot of guys think is low end torque is really just engine inertia. Look at a XR400, impossible to stall and sets the gold standard for low rpm, it's very undersquare relative to all it's peers....it has a HUGE flywheel, lots of reciprocating mass but has less torque than all the MX bikes that stall if you look at them wrong. How this Kawi rides is really going to depend on a) where the power is produced but more importantly b) how much flywheel weight they've engineered into...

I just got back from my local dealership and they had no idea what I was trying to put a deposit on. After I made them look it up they said they "didn't know if they would be ordering any ". I left my number and walked out...

My Maico 320 was 76mm x 70mm, for 318cc. It was quite the vicious engine, until I played with various PV springs, made a PV spring Pre-load adjuster ( it was a Exhaust Diaphragm PV) and, Machined up a Much heavier Brass flywheel weight for the Motoplat internal rotor Ignition I fitted after the bloody SEM ignition flywheel flew apart. But this is a Modern Engine ( the Maico was already ancient in '89/90) , so, I'd hope / expect it's something like what you, Last2Stroke have put as a guess. The Beta is 78 x 73.6, if I remember...

Maybe if Trump owned a peanut farm he'd be held more accountable.

I have an 77 XR 75…. First year of the 5 speed.

And then precede to crap on said journalist as a hack. Vital eats their own and never seems to be satisfied, yet wants the sport to grow. I like Lewis Phillips, and I don’t think he had any bad intentions on this one.

This is what I have found, much like a 450, 2nd gear will wear you out, 3rd chugs good then little clutch and you flying

I’m actually running a 50 now to corner in third. Aside from a super tight 180 I can run third gear everywhere with the occasional shift to 4th on long straights