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Edited Date/Time 6/5/2018 11:57pm
Can someone tell me what I'm looking at here on the side of the engine?

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trav389 6/5/2018 1:34am
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Oil cooler with a trick carbon guard/air duct
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kiwifan 6/5/2018 2:32am
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In before Peel, its a automatic oil cooled rear sprocket bolt tightener

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brycepdh 6/5/2018 2:37am
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kiwifan wrote:
In before Peel, its a automatic oil cooled rear sprocket bolt tightener
This is why I love vital lol, good one
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kb228 6/5/2018 2:58am
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Its an integrated octane booster for more power. Its how his bike accelerates so fast
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FRANK121 6/5/2018 6:56am
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Looks like it is attached to the radiator? Maybe to hold more fluid to help keep the motor cooled during long motos?
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FRANK121 wrote:
Looks like it is attached to the radiator? Maybe to hold more fluid to help keep the motor cooled during long motos?
First answer already nailed it, oil cooler which a lot of the bikes have now. The only thing they ever do to get more radiator cooling is to mount a fan on the backside but nothing else
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Buckit 6/5/2018 7:08am
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fox1nz wrote:
Um ok, doesn't look trick tho.
nice things are not for everyone.

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Roostermx58 6/5/2018 7:30am
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Buckit wrote:
nice things are not for everyone. [img]https://p.vitalmx.com/photos/stories/2018/05/21/fuller_pitbitshangtown2018_37_of_48_322180.jpg[/img]
nice things are not for everyone.

picture from pitbits - The factory Kawasaki team has moved their oil cooler around to a few different spots of the year but came up with this position and carbon fiber ducting last year. It's pretty trick. Michael Lindsay

https://www.vitalmx.com/features/Vital-MX-Pit-Bits-Hangtown,5976
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I wonder if someone makes this kit for the public?
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Every year.... everyfriggin year someone has to ask this over and over.


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kiwifan wrote:
In before Peel, its a automatic oil cooled rear sprocket bolt tightener
brycepdh wrote:
This is why I love vital lol, good one
Was it though
scottydogmx 6/5/2018 7:47am
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Mmmm, I thought ama were supposed to be standard apart from a bit of suspension? Lol
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FRANK121 wrote:
I wonder if someone makes this kit for the public?
Kawasaki sourced these parts themselves and they had to plumb the cases for it.
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kiwifan wrote:
In before Peel, its a automatic oil cooled rear sprocket bolt tightener
can confirm, Amazon is delivering mine no later than 8pm on the 13th
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#434 6/5/2018 8:00am
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bvm111 wrote:
Every year.... everyfriggin year someone has to ask this over and over. [img]https://p.vitalmx.com/photos/forums/2018/06/05/266005/s1200_73A28BA2_A4EE_43EB_8F2D_B2BC3F7C8E2F.jpg[/img]
Every year.... everyfriggin year someone has to ask this over and over.


Haha, yes every friggin year! And for the third year straight, I say that this mounting position is bullshit and as always someone will reply that I have no idea.. 3, 2, 1, GO

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#434 wrote:
Haha, yes every friggin year! And for the third year straight, I say that this mounting position is bullshit and as always someone will reply that...
Haha, yes every friggin year! And for the third year straight, I say that this mounting position is bullshit and as always someone will reply that I have no idea.. 3, 2, 1, GO
Previously, it was mounted behind the cylinder. I think where it's at now is better.
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kb228 6/5/2018 11:20am
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FRANK121 wrote:
I wonder if someone makes this kit for the public?
Twin air makes one. Costs $500.
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scottydogmx wrote:
Mmmm, I thought ama were supposed to be standard apart from a bit of suspension? Lol
Woohoo Production based,and its a pretty loose standard.
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omalley 6/5/2018 1:18pm
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kiwifan wrote:
In before Peel, its a automatic oil cooled rear sprocket bolt tightener
peelout wrote:
can confirm, Amazon is delivering mine no later than 8pm on the 13th
Does the bolt torque need to be calibrated for the cooler oil? Is there a “sprocket bolt torque-oil temp” table somewhere?
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#434 6/5/2018 1:21pm
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#434 wrote:
Haha, yes every friggin year! And for the third year straight, I say that this mounting position is bullshit and as always someone will reply that...
Haha, yes every friggin year! And for the third year straight, I say that this mounting position is bullshit and as always someone will reply that I have no idea.. 3, 2, 1, GO
GuyB wrote:
Previously, it was mounted behind the cylinder. I think where it's at now is better.
Thst‘s true! But now they funnel warm air from the water radiators to the oil cooler. They could do that by just mounting it parallel behind the radiator and by that have a much larger crosssectional area for the airflow (and achieve the same heat transfer with a small cooler). The only reason for this mounting position I can think of is weight distribution.
Maybe you could ask them to settle this age-old question once and for all?!?
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dsmith 6/5/2018 2:10pm
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your all wrong..it the flux capacitor
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It's hiding the nitrous bottle.
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make1go 6/5/2018 6:44pm
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was working on putting one on my 250f, easy to pick up aftermarket ones for scooters etc quite cheaply
plumbing is tricky,

think its a very good option for high rev small oil capacity 250f's.
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endo 6/5/2018 7:02pm
6/5/2018 7:02pm Edited Date/Time 6/5/2018 7:05pm
You're all wrong.... it's the GPS synchronized power band rewinder (GPSSPBR'r). Digitally calibrated to engage over jumps for that extra hit of "go-fast" upon landing. It's why Tomac is so much faster than everybody else.

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