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- From: ramz@beta.lanl.gov (Thomas Rick Ramsey)
- Subject: Re: KDX200 Exhauset hop up - Poor mans Aftermarket silencer
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.180756.22927@newshost.lanl.gov>
- Sender: Rick Ramsey ramz@lanl.gov
- Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory
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- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 18:07:56 GMT
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- Previously, I wrote:
- >What year KDX 200? When I checked out the parts blowup on
- >my 92 KDX 200 silencer, I did not see any packing. A friend
- >told me there was no packing in the newer silencers (89-93).
-
- Over the weekend, I took the silencer on my 92 KDX 200 apart.
- Sure enough, there was some packing inside, which was soaked
- with oil. Cooper's description (cooper@kdx200.enet.dec.com)
- (aka DOCTOR KDX200) in a previous post was accurate, more or less. 8-)
- The front section is indeed where the baffles are. In my silencer,
- there are three plates with pass-through tubes. If you "cut the
- second plate out by cutting the main tube after it passes through
- the first plate" as Cooper suggests, then two plates will be
- eliminated. I didn't cut anything, but put everything back the
- way it was, including the soaked packing. My Kawasaki dealer says
- that the stock packing material costs about $12, but that any
- fiberglass repacking material may be used. The Kawasaki packing
- material is made up of two types of material; the inner part has
- very fine wire throughout, while the outer part looks like regular
- fiberglass packing. Both layers are very dense; I would have a
- hard time getting regular fiberglass to pack in so tightly. So
- I ordered some stock Kawasaki material.
-
- The silencer has 82 dba stamped into the body, and I'll have more to
- say about that in another posting.
- --
- Rick Ramsey ramz@lanl.gov Los Alamos, NM 505/662-2447 evenings.
-