Inexpensive quality valve guideS?

KontoBoy · Post by **KontoBoy** » Fri Feb 24, 2006 9:07 pm

I was looking for replacement valve guides today--best price I could find was $29 per kit (one kit for each valve) for OEM replacements. Seems expensive to me, and it's only a 4 valve head for an XT350.

Anyone have a better source? I can't imagine laying out $600 for 20 guides for the YZF head.

Kontoboy

dragracer1951 · Post by **dragracer1951** » Fri Feb 24, 2006 9:09 pm

I normally just make my own
Alum Ni Bronze works a treat

KontoBoy · Post by **KontoBoy** » Sat Feb 25, 2006 3:10 pm

I'd be better off leaving the old ones in than making my own.

Kontoboy

dragracer1951 · Post by **dragracer1951** » Sat Feb 25, 2006 4:04 pm

Uh Oh....

willi · Post by **willi** » Sat Feb 25, 2006 7:57 pm

KontoBoy wrote:I'd be better off leaving the old ones in than making my own.

Kontoboy

I THINK DRAGRACER IS TRYIN TO TELL YOU HE CAN MAKE THEM.

dragracer1951 · Post by **dragracer1951** » Sun Feb 26, 2006 10:29 am

I can and do. Stuff like that that needs to be fitted to a motor, I don't buy, I make it so I can get a proper fit. But they must be reamed in the head as the press into the head alters the ID of the guide. You then need to recut the seat and relap the seat and valve

KontoBoy · Post by **KontoBoy** » Sun Feb 26, 2006 8:46 pm

Well, for the XT350 I just went ahead and bought a set of 4. (I let me wife buy them for me as a birthday gift--not the kind of thing she's pick out on her own!)

Jim--I'm not ready to do the top end on my 750 yet--when I am, how many months of advance notice will you need?

Kontoboy

dragracer1951 · Post by **dragracer1951** » Sun Feb 26, 2006 9:30 pm

Ten...
at least...

canappa · Post by **canappa** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 6:34 am

Jim, how much it cost to make 20 fzr 1000 exup valve guide, and time to have them ready?

thx
canap

dragracer1951 · Post by **dragracer1951** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 8:19 am

Lemme think on it