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Beefing up the crank & Gearbox in prep for 500cc.

Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2018 12:07 am
by RC45
Any ideas?

I want to pursue bumping up the displacement to 500cc and wonder how much of a weak link the crank and gearbox will be.

Re: Beefing up the crank & Gearbox

Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2018 1:31 am
by silverstrom
The only weak link I can think of in the stock gearbox would be the 2nd gear shift fork. Early bikes were plagued with failures. Lots of blown up gearboxes. The fork was modified on later bikes. There is a casting mark on the modified fork to differentiate it from the early weaker version. If you have an early bike with an unmodified shift fork it could make itself know pretty quickly with a high HP engine.

Talk to Ian at CRR. He would be the authority on a big cylinder NS400R. The biggest I know of is his 475 cc motor. His 475 kit makes 85 RWHP with stock (bored) carbs and Lomas pipes. I don't know if he has modified the clutch, but they are known to be reliable. There isn't much written about cranks being a problem, but you'd be rebuilding it with the best parts available and welding it anyway if you plan to make serious power, and for that motor, 85 is serious.

What is your plan? Something like this :smt003

Re: Beefing up the crank & Gearbox

Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2018 4:18 am
by RC45
That is a nice looking bike! But U am in love with the 3 cylinder NS500.

I have my eye on a DMR 500cc kit.

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Re: Beefing up the crank & Gearbox

Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2018 10:12 am
by Ade SYM
RC45 wrote:That is a nice looking bike! But U am in love with the 3 cylinder NS500.

I have my eye on a DMR 500cc kit.

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Hi Hope your well?

Can you give us more information on this kit like the availability - Cost etc?

Thanks

Ade

Re: Beefing up the crank & Gearbox

Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2018 11:54 am
by silverstrom
RC45 wrote:That is a nice looking bike! But U am in love with the 3 cylinder NS500.
That bike is a 3 cylinder. Notice how the upper pipe splits to 2 silencers under the tail. An homage I suspect to the NS500 which had 2 cylinders up and one down. The street bike required an airbox and necessitated the 2 down and one up arrangement to accommodate it.

Re: Beefing up the crank & Gearbox

Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2018 11:59 am
by silverstrom
Ade SYM wrote: Can you give us more information on this kit like the availability - Cost etc?
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Re: Beefing up the crank & Gearbox

Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2018 12:03 pm
by RC45
silverstrom wrote:
RC45 wrote:That is a nice looking bike! But U am in love with the 3 cylinder NS500.
That bike is a 3 cylinder. Notice how the upper pipe splits to 2 silencers under the tail. An homage I suspect to the NS500 which had 2 cylinders up and one down. The street bike required an airbox and necessitated the 2 down and one up arrangement to accommodate it.
Oh I know the split upper pipe to fake the V4 layout very well - I know this bike as well. If I wanted to have 4 pipes I could just use an RZ500 motor in a Honda fairing :)

This bike just fakes the V4, the fairing and pipe layout give that away. the "wrong" layout of the NS400 has been the biggest thing for me. I might try to a early Japanese privateer NS400 race bike that used race NS250 bodywork that was really RS250 bodywork.
Ade SYM wrote:
RC45 wrote:That is a nice looking bike! But U am in love with the 3 cylinder NS500.

I have my eye on a DMR 500cc kit.

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Hi Hope your well?

Can you give us more information on this kit like the availability - Cost etc?

Thanks

Ade
DMR Japan designed this kit about 7 years ago. It uses new casting cylinders and pistons. Also requires a bit of case machining and NSR250 parts adoption.
I have reached out to DMR a couple times over the years - and they don't export at all so I am working through a local contact to determine how much of the kit is in the kit, how much needs to be fabricated from scratch and how much is adopted from existing parts.

Either way this is a complete custom endevour that may take a while :)

As to cost, the basic kit is about $2500, and then the real work would start.

Re: Beefing up the crank & Gearbox

Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2018 12:13 pm
by silverstrom
What kind of power can the DMR kit make?

Re: Beefing up the crank & Gearbox

Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2018 12:17 pm
by RC45
silverstrom wrote:What kind of power can the DMR kit make?
With dry clutch, custom pipes and MC21 PGMII timing 100hp. Closer to 80hp or less with NS400 pipes and stock ignition/timing.

The DMR dry clutch kit is a pretty rare setup, that can be yours for the princely sum of $4000... LOL

Re: Beefing up the crank & Gearbox

Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2018 12:41 pm
by silverstrom
As usual, you have to pay to play. I assume you'd go all in and go for the max. Seeing your other projects you don't do anything just a little bit :smt003

Re: Beefing up the crank & Gearbox

Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2018 1:31 pm
by RC45
Yes - I do seem go off the deep end a little at times LOL

Re: Beefing up the crank & Gearbox in prep for 500cc.

Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2018 4:51 pm
by ns86
Anyone know how much their dry clutch assembly costs?

Re: Beefing up the crank & Gearbox in prep for 500cc.

Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2018 4:58 pm
by RC45
ns86 wrote:Anyone know how much their dry clutch assembly costs?


$4000 to $5000 USD and you still need to source parts and do custom assembly etc. These are not plug and play kits at all. They are simply assemblies some of the hardest to find parts to work towards a particular solution :)

Re: Beefing up the crank & Gearbox in prep for 500cc.

Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2018 5:06 pm
by ns86
I've liked their stuff for years and also want an NS500 type. A few you tube videos but always hard to find their parts for sale. I am watching closely. Spend on RC45

Re: Beefing up the crank & Gearbox in prep for 500cc.

Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2018 5:14 pm
by RC45
ns86 wrote:I've liked their stuff for years and also want an NS500 type. A few you tube videos but always hard to find their parts for sale. I am watching closely. Spend on RC45
Apparently early RS250 engine cases and clutch bits can also serve as a good donor starting point. Rather can cost $5000 the bits are probably rarer than a 27c coin lol.