Bending Reed Stop

cajones2

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I have heard of others bending out the reed stop. I ran across a post from Mr. Sled who mentioned it on a srx600 tuning setup: "bent out reed stop to 12.5 mm". I have a '99 600sx (760 big bore with triple hauck pipes) and was wondering:

1. How much should I bend the reed stop out?
2. How exactly do you go about doing that?

I am also going to do the reed notch too. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! (This site is awesome)
 
In the tech section there is instructions on how to notch the reed stoppers. Another way instead of notching is to just add a reed spacer.
 
I did read through that material about the notching. Pretty clever. But let's say if i did not want to notch the reed stop but only widen (or open them further) to increase the 100% opened position of the reeds allowing more charge to enter the crankcase. I wasn't sure of the best approach to "bend" them so they match....
 


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