3 Wheels 65 HP....do it!!

[Darius1502]

I think my next project must be something with the KX 500...

I mean look at this stock:

Late 80's engine is still the fastest **DONT TYPE AROUND THE WORD FILTERS** in the world!! Eat crap YFZ 450....Big 80's two stroke tech. will still destroy you!!

The KX500's liquid-cooled 499cc two-stroke engine features the Kawasaki Integrated Power Valve System (KIPS), and pumps out nearly 65 horsepower for incredible off-road speed and acceleration. Powerful disc brakes in the front and rear rein in those ponies, and fully adjustable suspension components provide more than 12 inches of wheel travel.

[Jeb]

And from what I've heard in the past it's an almost drop-in for an 86 KXT 250 Frame.

[NOS_350X]

What are the hp numbers for other 80's 500's?

[Pigga]

haha yea i always give my freind crap about my 200x('s) destroying his blaster, and he "says" hes buying a YFZ 450 and then i showed him that movie of the 500r killing the YFZ. and i told him dont make me do it... and being the Trike hater that he is. he still thinks a pimped out YFZ cant beat the 500r but if i can get a hold of one of these motors i think it would shut him up :)

[Darius1502]

You damn right he would.

Hey Jeb..there is a guy in Texas at area code 254 selling an 86 Tecate for $1200. It runs and he has new original plastic too. Is that by Dallas?

I don't want it...too much time spent on this stuff as it is. Someone else might.

[MassTrike]

Ive started my conversion with a 84 kxt frame, let me tell ya, theres a lot of re-configuration to do, especially with the front down tube, i had to cut it shorter and wishbone it higher than it origionally was to fit the exhaust. its a project that got put aside for a while due to the flow of trikes that poured into here, good deals latley. Sadly it wont be ready for TF, maybe next year. Also to those interested I might be selling my Franks +2 tecate swinger!

[1984kxtTECATE]

Well sounds like I need to get a KX 500 engine and convert my 84 T3 project.

[70binder]

i know where you can get your hands on a liquid cooled (i think) 650 yahama street bike, down at the end of my road for $500

[1984kxtTECATE]

i know where you can get your hands on a liquid cooled (i think) 650 yahama street bike, down at the end of my road for $500

That would be sweet, but sadly I never filled out the W4 Tax form so I got to fork over some money to uncle sam :mad:

[Jeb]

Darius, 254 was broken out from the old 817 area, which is now Ft.Worth and immediate suburbs. 254 is the rural areas west and south.

PM me the number. I think I know where this KXT is.

[Derrick Adams]

What are the hp numbers for other 80's 500's?

I know the 85 500R made 48hp stock. That's my next trike conversion.. :D

Darius, lets see if you can build a converted and fabricated bike as well as you can restore those stockers!! You may end up with my dream trike. :p

[Darius1502]

Derrick...I am not the wrench and torch master. I could'nt even figure out my own carb..ha ha!!

Serioulsy one day I will do it. Once day I will build a Tri Z 450F and take a Tecate and dump a KX 500 engine in it.

[ATC crazy]

Just google the phone number and the exact address will be displayed (except for cell phones)

I would love to get my hands on a XR650R motor and put it in a trike (like the street legal ATC650X in PA that was in Dirtwheels)

[Darius1502]

Did you guys see this article:

http://www.files.3wheelerworld.com/MagScans/Laeger500R.pdf

Beautiful picture at the beginning...just awesome!! Now tell me why we can't do that with a YZ 450F...?

[toyota200x]

That article is so awesome. I had no idea that a company made a conversion. We should ask Lagaer to make a kit to convert the new cr 250r's. That would be rad.

[Darius1502]

No doubt...I mean in the 80's people were doing it all the time. This article was from '88 so literally all the bad news with the CPSC has already occured.

I think someone on here with the technical know-how needs to do one modern dirt bike and then save the specs and put together a custom order kit.

[Billy Golightly]

Err....Someone...*ahem* will soon be aquiring what is believed to be an old laegers kit...but I couldn't tell you who....

[Derrick Adams]

I tell you what I saw the other day, that interested me. I was researching some CR500 stuff for my conversion and found all the info to install the 500 engine in the late model CR250 aluminum frame. Boy now that would be an awesome trike! 500cc aluminum framed, inverted forked trike with 12" of suspension!!!

[MTS]

haha yea i always give my freind crap about my 200x('s) destroying his blaster, and he "says" hes buying a YFZ 450 and then i showed him that movie of the 500r killing the YFZ. and i told him dont make me do it... and being the Trike hater that he is. he still thinks a pimped out YFZ cant beat the 500r but if i can get a hold of one of these motors i think it would shut him up :)
just to let you know, KASEY's 500r is highly modded 90 hp+ beast...... :D :beer

[Derrick Adams]

Err....Someone...*ahem* will soon be aquiring what is believed to be an old laegers kit...but I couldn't tell you who....


I think that's cool, except those swingers are waaayyy long!

[MTS]

I think that's cool, except those swingers are waaayyy long!
yea but they still get the front end up with a +12 swinger...thats nuts

[Derrick Adams]

just to let you know, KASEY's 500r is highly modded 90 hp+ beast...... :D :beer

I'm going to need confirmation from Kasey on that one. I think 90hp is stretched quite a bit. Considering it still has a pipe in the stock location. I think I read somewhere 75, but even that may be stretched from the truth. We may never know!

[MTS]

I'm going to need confirmation from Kasey on that one. I think 90hp is stretched quite a bit. Considering it still has a pipe in the stock location. I think I read somewhere 75, but even that may be stretched from the truth. We may never know!
i talked to him and he said 90 last time he had it on the dyno, but now hes got a bigger carb :D :beer

[NOS_350X]

I'm going to need confirmation from Kasey on that one. I think 90hp is stretched quite a bit. Considering it still has a pipe in the stock location. I think I read somewhere 75, but even that may be stretched from the truth. We may never know!

Well thats an inframe Dragpipe custom built from hmm, i dono i think trinity(sp?), or CT hmm I dont rember.

[Darius1502]

90...geez!!

[Derrick Adams]

I'm not saying that's impossible, I'm just saying I seriously doubt it. I mean, do you know what kind of modifications you would need to do to an engine to make 90hp? Even if it is a 500! Kasey rides that thing everywhere, and all the time. 90hp engine would be a time bomb, and no way reliable enough to ride, other than in a straight line.

At least that's the way it would seem, to look at other bikes that are modified to get huge horsepower.

[Jeb]

I think someone on here with the technical know-how needs to do one modern dirt bike and then save the specs and put together a custom order kit.

I'd love to try that. I just need an investor! :beer

...and no liability!

[MTS]

I'm not saying that's impossible, I'm just saying I seriously doubt it. I mean, do you know what kind of modifications you would need to do to an engine to make 90hp? Even if it is a 500! Kasey rides that thing everywhere, and all the time. 90hp engine would be a time bomb, and no way reliable enough to ride, other than in a straight line.

At least that's the way it would seem, to look at other bikes that are modified to get huge horsepower.
it is FAR from a stock motor and as for stright lines, it is mostly riddin in the dunes so there ya go :beer

[cr500=3wheeler]

I think 90+ might be pushing it a little bit , but hey what do I know. With 90+ hp hes gonna need a longer swingarm!

[83185s]

90hp?? thats easy..drop a gixxer in there!! lol..jk..uhm did suzuki make a trike? if so..its gixxer 600 or 1300 hayabusa time!! lol..you cant tel me a hayabusa engine on a trike wouldnt be bad ace..that would be so killer man! or it would kill a man..either way..rock on!