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Trouble is I fade out after a while.... sucks worse......oh yeah, Period.

Funny this comes up from time to time. In 02 I rebuilt my 88 KDX pretty much from ground up. I put over a grand into the bike after many years of good service. I rode her hard again for a couple of years until I found a smoking deal on a new 04. I sold the 88 to my brother and bought the 04. After the break in on the 04 we lined them up for a race on a long gas line road. My brother flat smoked me on the old 88. Pulled me right from the line and beat me by an 1/8 mile before we quit. It took a pipe, reeds, RB carb and head mod for me to finally beat the stock 88 (except for DG pipe)

Glad to see the interest in this topic. I have to say all this talk of fade out on the aircooled model is a little over the top. Sure it runs a little better on a cool day but even after 30 minutes riding there is very little difference. And just to make everyone shutter I have always used plain old Castrol mineral oil without any problems. This is why I love (yes love) this bike. I have searched far and wide but I just can't find a power rating for the C models. Can anyone help.

Another thing that makes the C series bike run better from what I can tell is the needle that they use. I posted this a while ago, any thoughts?

m0rie wrote:Looking at the CDave needle decoder got me thinking about another topic that was posted recently where an owner was complaining that his 88(?) 200 had more power than his new H series 200. When I converted the needle code for a stock 88 back into a Keihin code it came out CCJ which would give a more MX like powerband than the BFQ needle that a H series 200 comes with. The CCJ is also pretty close to the recommended CGK for the 89-94 KDX's with stock carbs. With that info it makes more sense that stock to stock an 88 might have a better powerband than a 95+ KDX 200.