DR-Z400E road legal

[CrazyFrog]

I got better fuel economy after pipe, airbox and needle mod, on my SM.
Currently 26km/L in touring mode.
Average 190km to reserve on std 10.5L tank.

Good choice, by the way.

I was wondering when we'd hear from you Tony........
And how the hell do you manage 26km/litre, what carb are you running? What's ya secret, tiny jets? We all know you are capable of givin it the berry occasionally!
Mines the Keihin FCR carb and is a tad hungry with the airbox mods, and needle on 5th clip, and a 162 main jet, which I think is still running a bit rich. I think I'll try a 157 next. Factory setting is a 142.5 with no airbox mod, standard pipe.

[Tony W]

I was wondering when we'd hear from you Tony........
And how the hell do you manage 26km/litre, what carb are you running? What's ya secret, tiny jets? We all know you are capable of givin it the berry occasionally!
Mines the Keihin FCR carb and is a tad hungry with the airbox mods, and needle on 5th clip, and a 162 main jet, which I think is still running a bit rich. I think I'll try a 157 next. Factory setting is a 142.5 with no airbox mod, standard pipe.

Hi there Crazy.

Mine has the Mikuni with the factoy jetting.
The needle has been raised by .75mm (only because that was the smallest washer I could find in the shed !)
The needle raising cured a very mild fluffing the engine had on light throttle at cruising speed after I had done the pipe and box mods

Noone told me my Mikuni carb was crap until I read these forums !!! so I guess it must be...?! and I will adjust my riding accordingly.

I would advise you to go back to factory jetting and test your way up from there.

Cheers

[Tony W]

Forgot to mention that I run 16/41 gearing on 17'' wheel and 16/43 on 18'.

IMO they are undergeared for distance riding, after performance improvements have been made.

I would guess this is way taller than than most are running.

[buggsubique]

yep, I'm 15/44 for adv riding which gives a tall and luggy first gear on ruff stuff. 15/48 for trail oriented adv riding gives a workable range and then maybe a 14/48 for pure trail riding.

[Oscar]

Yep, completely the same. I think the Kawasaki even comes with a made by Suzuki badge from memory.

Good luck with the sale and hunt for one.

The KLX has a different (slightly louder) muffler for some reason.
I swapped one onto my DRZ.

[zeRax]

NO

the KLX is not the same!!!!, it has green plastics! ;D

yea it does have suzuki stamped on it :P manufactured by suzuki corp

[Morcs]

Engine Case armour is seriously recommended...

[Devil]

Engine Case armour is seriously recommended...

Only when you're riding it

[buggsubique]

or when your name is Zerax and you have to lower your rear susp so much that the stand causes the bike to fall over in the wind... joking Z.

But yeah, the cases are very thin and the gear lever has very sharp edges worthy of filing into a curve!

[MXNUT]

Ideally youll be getting the FCR rather than the less exhilarating Mikuni which the SMs and I think the 06 onwards E's come with (might be wrong there).

All E models come with the FCR carb.

on stock tank I get about 16km/L. I run the FCR, custom header and barkin loud yoshi pipe with an open airbox and I'm like a schoolboy with the right wrist. Very responsive but thirsty. I did the DB1k on it and carried a 10L jerrycan on the rear rack as I only have a stock 9 or 10L tank. Never sucked it dry but hit reserve at around 135-150km depending on the terrain.

Also I run it on 95 or 98. Makes a real difference in response.

I get between 150 -170 Kms to a tank before reserve.
Am running 15 / 44 gearing which is the standard for the S model.
Minimum fuel octane rating for DRZ is 95.

Mines the Keihin FCR carb and is a tad hungry with the airbox mods, and needle on 5th clip, and a 162 main jet, which I think is still running a bit rich. I think I'll try a 157 next. Factory setting is a 142.5 with no airbox mod, standard pipe.

I am running a 150 main jet with the baffle removed from the standard muffler and the air box rubber snorkel removed. I have owned an older DRZ with a pro circuit pipe on it and the mods to the standard pipe and rejetting of carb etc give the same power gains and can readily be put back to standard if required.


There have been no changes at all since the 2003 Model ( other than graphics/colours ) which had an uprated cam chain tensioner and a better quality rear shock with both high and low speed compression adjustments and different seat foam.

[Meekey_Mouse]

Hey...Haven't had time to read the thread but I'm sure I'm basically gunna say the same as every one else

Done over 2,500kms myself on mine... So now done over 3,600kms all up.Mostly on road use but has done off road as well. Awesome bike. One thing is if the speedo is playing up, it could be the battery. We got a 42 degree day here and my speedo went wonky ( wouldn't show my speed unless I was sitting at same kms for 30secs or so) then the whole bike died and wouldn't start... replaced battery and now all is well again

Getting motard wheels for it this week, so looking forward to being able to lean it over on the road

[bart]

Funny about the gearing. I was running 15/41 on standard wheels, and found the engine lugging too much at low revs. The gap between 4th and 5th is just too big. Now running 14/41, but find this a bit low for long road work.

On road wheels, I have run 15/39 without too many problems.

Off road, I can't beat the standard 14/48

[NordieBoy]

There have been no changes at all since the 2003 Model ( other than graphics/colours ) which had an uprated cam chain tensioner and a better quality rear shock with both high and low speed compression adjustments and different seat foam.

They have seat foam?
Since when?

[bart]

They have seat foam?
Since when?

Mine feels like about 5mm of foam wrapped around a 4 by 2 plank of timber. Lucky I've got plenty of padding attached to me.

[buggsubique]

I was still scratchin my arse a week after the DB1k, haha