Help me What year is my Tecate, Does it have a KX motor ??

[sportvette]

he said that he bought it off a guy and westcoast does not make them anymore.

[Tyler 54]

Man, that sucks. there is no hope. Oh well from what I can see of the West coast Swingers, I wouldnt even buy one unless it was ATLEAST a +3 or 4..the +2's just don't look as if they add a hole lot. There for I would never pay for what people want out of them. Besides I like my polished Stock swinger as far as looks go. Its kinda like my Right Shroud, It has some Extremely small cracks in a different pots, I will glue them. I will never pay what it costs to get a different one until my brakes clean off.

[sportvette]

i bought a cal-fab +2 for big bucks. it seems to be the favorite and i am glad i came across the few parts that i got.

[Jeb]

WestCoast hasn't made ATV products in quite sometime. They make watercraft performance stuff now.

I bet whoever got that 86 KXT westcoast swingarm got it from the same guy I got my Tri-Z Swingarm from and a brand new 84 KXT swingarm. I wanted that arm too, but it was already spoken for. had he not got it, I would have! I have the Z arm on my trike still and the 84 Tecate arm I sold like a dummy. He had several Honda Arms. I would like to have one of them now.

They were all NOS.

Now that I re-read the posts above, It must not have been the same guy. I thought the 86 arm I missed out on was only +2. I'm glad I didn't get it, I wouldn't have been happy with +5!

IN MY OPINION.... +2 is just right. It helps to keep the front end down without sacrificing turning.

[Jeb]

... But He insisted it is a "stock pipe" so I said hell yea, and bought her up. :-D

More power to you! What a goof the seller was!

What does that sticker say on the side? It does look like a DG silencer to me. It kind of looks like my CT silencer on my Z. Which who knows? CT probably got them from DG back in the day!

[Tyler 54]

Haha yea, I asked him what the sticker said, but All he answered is that its stock, so Oh well. so plus 2 is just right??? I guess I'd have to feal it on my bike. Which, I have never heard my bike run. I'll be asking plenty more questions if it doesnt run :-D

[Jeb]

+2 is just what I like. especially on an 84/85 KXT. I know yours is 86/87 but they are a little longer out back. I personally don't like the looks of a long swingarm. and they have no practical use in my opinion except for going in a straight line.

[86waterpumper]

The oldschool racers ran a +2 always. That is enough for me All the remaining westcoast arms were bought by some guy in a huge lot, and sold on ebay together, didn't get any bids, or meet the guy's reserve, so he split them up. It was the same batch that Catfishwhisker bought his 200x arm from I think. At any rate, westcoast won't return any emails, so I called them awhile back, and that was a dead end too.

[sportvette]

any information on the JP racing air filter covers that i had posted pictures of? has anyone seen these around? is JP still in existence?

[Curtis-Tecate3]

JP Racing is long gone. John Perry was the owner and ran the west coast shop. Factory Kawasaki racer Steve Mendenhall opened up an east coast division of JP. I have already contacted Steve aboout tecate stuff and he has nothing at all left from his racing days.

FYI. JP made quite a few interesting items back in the day. I saw an ad for aftermarket Tri-Z triple clamps to correct the geometry for specific types of racing etc.

Curtis.

[Jeb]

They also are famous for the Aluminum Tri-Z "airbox" fuel tank that is on the 86 Z mods article on 3WW.

waterpumper, thats the guy I got my Z swingarm from.