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Drag Racing a husqvarna left kicker???

Bigbill

Bigbill

Husqvarna
Pro Class
What do you think? I was a drag racer in my younger days. I built engines too. My '98 husky 250wr was really fast. I'm thinking 12 seconds in the quarter mile if not better. My left kickers were quick too.

If we installed motorcycle tires and balanced them. Build the 2t engine, maybe balance it, added a better clutch, a better top end pipe it should fly.?..

What else would you do?. 250cc ? 390cc? 430cc ? 500cc ?

Just thinking of taking it to a local legal drag race track.
 
hmm, the swedes 2 strokes were not big on horsepower, they were into crafting great powerbands and torque. made for fast bikes, but horsepower wins drag races, right?
that being said i ran my air cooled 500 as a 4 speed for awhile and that bike was hard to beat when i was a teen in our local dirt road drags. i would launch it in second as hard as i could without looping out. loved how that bike would hold tire off the ground in 3rd and 4th..those itc shocks are good at putting the power to the ground when the damping is right (way more rebound). bike surprised me and many others how well it did against open class mx 4 stroke bikes, they had a very hard time against it and could only beat it maybe half the time.
for what you are saying bill im sure there are better motors for dragging. it was fun tho to have people stare at that thing sitting there shaking around idling on it kickstand for 30 seconds pow....pow pow....pow...powpow..when most people i rode with didnt have bikes with kickstands or even the ability to idle very long but sure liked making fun of the metal tank, dual shocks, air cooling. sure sucks to make fun of a bike then lose to it..

i think if you had to drag a 2 stroke swede, its a 500 hands down, nothng else comes close.
 
Stock it was very fast. I beat a gsxr600 with it till he let off when he realized I was beating him. I know how fast my car was and the bike felt really close to that speed.
 
ok true story two guys one a good friend the [83 suzuki GS 750E kreaker exhaust K&N cartridge filters and rejeted ] other an ol moto racer who's name i knew [83 KX500 forks as hi as you can gettem in the clamps a short chunk of bar stock to replace the shock the widest 18" street tire that would clear the chain and the tallest gearing that would fit]they raced 5 times the KX won every time hi 12.90s@ just under a 100MPH my friend hi 13.00 @ 105ish DIRTBIKE did a test once CR500 vs 500 interceptor and got similar numbers dirt bike WINS there are youtube vids on this
 
for shits and giggles, heres what a STOCK 99 kawasaki zrx will do in the quarter mile..
Top Speed
141.1 mph
1/4 mile
11.135 sec. @ 119.775 mph
Horsepower
96.3 @ 8300 rpm
Torque
70.1 @ 5500 rpm
0 - 30 mph
1.7 seconds
0 - 60 mph
3.2 seconds
40 - 60 mph
3.17 seconds
60 - 80 mph
3.68 seconds
90 - 100 mph
4.62 seconds
60 - 0 mph
129 feet
30 - 0 mph
27.4 feet

this is a bike that weighs about 540 or so in stone stock form. so you are doing really well with a stock 98 250 running 12 in the quarter
 
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