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I have one on my 650 X2 right now and truthfully, I don't see much of a difference with it. It is a little longer than stock so that would help with porpoising. Most all old school ride plates are 1.5 inches longer anyways. Something to do with the IJSBA rules ofthe day. Now adays the ride...

I have been following you build and you guys sure did do a great job! Not to be the negative nacy here but did you add any extra eposy to the cases for "insurance" opurposes?

That's good to know!

Here is the info guys: Kawasaki part number W99995-416 I tried Ron Ayers but they couldn't order any. Try www.bikebandit.com or another online microfiche dealer/order place. or here per PM from Fletch: "Covercraft still makes a cover for the X-2..."...

I am 27, will be 28 in March. Hard for me to think of it but I was only 6 years old when the first X2 was released in 1986....

Anyone have water routing recomendations for the 1100? I have a stock manul and see how it is routed by the book. I was going to switch to premix for mine and do away with the cooling to the front stator cover ditching the bearing in there as well. That bearing killed a stator on me! Is this...

My X2's feel a lot heavier than I remember them being when I was 22 loading them into a truck bed. The again 5 and a half years of being lazy, getting out of shape and gaining weight myself have made them "feel" heavier....

I always siphon out my old gas the next year and run it in the lawn boy. Smells like you are at the MX races.... well the MX races ten years ago :( I am gonna miss two strokes...

I have the part number for them from Kawasaki. I bought one from Ron Ayers but then they refunded me my money back. You may be able ot get one from somewhere. I bete there are more than a few setting on a shelf somewhere. I have one from years back I bought from Kawasaki when they had a...

X3 I suppose you could just buy the 701 chamber and use the head pipe it has on there already. A 650 guy somewhere would probably want the chamber, it looks to be in good shape.

Well I am moving south... bummer is not much snow and I like snowboarding... Yeah those amoebas are scarying me about riding down there. To be honest with you guys, I never winterized my skis the first few I owned... Can't really say how it affected their reliablilty because I usualy didn't...

Fog the cylinders!!

Straps provide holes but on my old ski, it never had straps. I had a few places along a strake where it was hit and damages. It doesn't take much, that foam will soak up water just to make your life miserable. Shawn, that hull looks liek a good canidate for hull mods :)

Dealing with fluid flows is a complex study. Flows can go from laminar to turbulent due to a slight change. I took two cources called fluid videos. For an hour each week we would watch videos on fluids. The coolest one was when they would use high speed cameras to take slow motion video of...

I chopped up an X2 hull for the garbage and it had water logged foam :( I have seen people cut the tray out for scuppers and rear exhaust tubes. I guess that is your best bet. If you do tear your ski apart, there are several holes inside the engine compartment where they fill the hull...

They make software called computation fluid dynamics, CFD. Basically designed to simulate fluid flows. I know some finite element analysis, FEA software packages can model things. Good luck.

MX Action did a page about how it has been ten years since the first Yamaha protoype 4 stroke race bike was made. More R&D has been put into making the bikes lighter. Look at what a YZ 226 weighed in 1999 versus now. Edwin what took you so long to respond? I am a little disapointed. I...

I had two courses in my 9 years in college where we cast aluminum. The first class we did a lost mold casting jut like the guy in the video. Only we didn't wet the sand and pack it too tight around our styrofoam. The aluminum is poured in and melts the sytrofoam so fast the sand doesn't fall...

Gary, glad to see you made it over here. PM me your mailing address, I have a few other papers for ya. Nothing too impotant but you may want them. DBR

I am sure you could make some kind of adapter plate to mount to the exhaust manifold, then be able to bolt up a different type of pipe. I have also looked at the Factory Pipe Products tripple pipes for an Ultra 150 or STXR 1200. They use three billet manifolds that bolt up to the engine...