SRX500_129
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should'nt this post be a sticky-post ?? !!
i think so! 


SRX500_129 said:This is just bullshit, how can you say this??? starts with 001001 , but not all of them listed here actually starts with 001 ! why are people making up stuff about 8R9 ??? in the orginal SRX500F manual will you see the truth, it confirm what i said about the case!
arsticsrx:
well, how can you tell that this numbers you re listing up actually are not homemade ???!!!
SRX500F82 said:The SRX 500 #8R9 Pipes with Can looks the same to me when i compare them. As the Vmax 540 #8U9 Pipes and Can. The only difference is that it seems that the 500 pipes are maybe tuned better. It have a metal ring welded inside before the Header Pipe section. Just like the SRX 440 -81 Pipes have. And the vmax 540 Pipe Have not that kind of ring inside it.
What info. ?SRX500_129 said:I have some new info about the 1974 mod Sno Pro . edited in the main post.
there will come some more about that machine I hope
Thanks, RJH. I wish this topic/thread, was on vintage sleds "aka" vintage anything, but YAMAHA.RJH said:1st..Yamaha One…
The Yamaha sleds have always been good…the guys sitting on the SSR’s could simply not figure them out….You see…..Yamaha engineers design it right…but they seem to go astray buy the time they hit production.
Others mentioned the GPX sucked…we won everything at major racers with it in 74. In 340 stock..I had problems with the factory T-Jets..it took 3 laps to catch and pass them. Mod stock was the same..the only thing bad…was they made me run circle m’s went thru many sets.
We ran the 340 is mod at races that allowed that…we finished 2nd overall in 400 and 3rd overall in 440. However – Yamaha did give us a 440 mid way thru the season.
OK – the SSR. You see – race thinking has morphed into a ..well..not the way I think direction..theses past decades…hmmmmm..I wonder why Polaris factory is so fast..old Bender…. Cat – Hibbert…ovals..Wahls dad…ya see. The new guys just don’t get it.
We drove Larrys factory SSR one weekend only. I was told..you tell the engineers – you are having a hard time getting use to it..as the boss new I could make it rock..but – he would loose face..ya see.
Anyway..to this day..I have not driven a 440 engine that made more HP then that factory SSR. E.G./ MXZX 440’s
The jetting was near perfect
I had to let off waaaaay too soon to turn…as the weight would not transfer. The engine was lowered – but it should have been raised. My 76 springer would have smoked it on a ½ mile. Could have been fixed.
The suspension was a drag race skid…it needed way more pressure up front..and some sag in the back.
The clutch..OMG..it ripped at the belt – could have fixed that.
We were confident – we could have put it up front..but politics prevented that.
What a crime…
Last year a guy did just what you are saying. Marc Pomasl Used a repop SSR with an 81 SRX motor in it and did very well! I know he beat them all at least once!Gorkon said:Thanks RJH: Way cool stuff. I am curious about a few things though, what do you mean by "The new guys just don't get it"? Can you expand on that at all?
All of these problems sound like easy fixes today given the technology we have available. The SSR's, including the repops should flat out rock, yet I have heard that Rotax is the one to beat these days in vintage? That surprises me as I recall if ever I glanced over my shoulder to see what was there, it was either a T-jet or a twister and NEVER a rotax! Got beat by one cat all season and he was protested and found to be cheating heavily, mine truly was stock! But during pre-race tuning, my 338 was pulling rotax 440's, never mind the 340's!
I'm sitting here imaging my 79 SRX motor done to the nines dropped into a repop SSR with a wahl bros skid and all the latest goodies being damn hard to beat! Think I'm getting chub just thinking about it!
The problem then would be the old fat guy on board slowing it down! Thanks again. G.