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Chuck78 wrote: 09:30 pm Jun 19 2024 Clutch cable upgrade:
Per Art Simmoneau, a 2007 CRF250 clutch cable OEM Honda is an upgrade over the stock KDX clutch cable, and has a metal elbow with a teflon liner sleeve in it on the engine case side.
I've picked up a Motion Pro T3 SlideLight version for 2007 CRF250X models, which is their high end premium cable offering with a smoother sliding action. An even better upgrade.

Chuck78 wrote: 05:52 pm Feb 20 2025 If a Honda CRF250X cable is compatible with a KDX200H, I would imagine it could be made to work on the E-Series as well, but I don't know for a fact. If you can find a lot of listings that show 89-06 KDX200 as compatibility, then it probably will.
The stock Honda cable is a decent upgrade from the kdx, but the premium more expensive Motion Pro T3 Slidelight version is definitely very very much nicer than any of them.

Chuck78 wrote: 09:32 pm Jun 19 2024 Clutch Friction Disc upgrade:
Jeff Fredette and others have found that using Honda XR400R/CBR900RR/late XR250R clutch friction discs fit the KDX clutch basket exactly the same as OEM, but have 30%-40% more friction material surface area. Jeff Fredette uses the Made In Japan Vesrah brand VC-173 kits (contains 6 discs, he sells as a set of 7 to re-use the KDX clutch judder spring assembly, or he will sell a set of 8 if you are doing away with the clutch judder spring and running an extra clutch plate. The VC-175 Vesrah kit comes with 7 friction discs. The discs are the same when bought through Vesrah (Honda part numbers are slightly different for the two applications early XR250 / XR350R vs late XR250R/all XR400R), but the Vesrah individual friction disc part numbers are identical and have more surface area.

Chuck78 wrote: 07:04 pm Feb 25 2025 Maybe my numbers are off, my memory is foggy on that right now, ,& I don't have time to go dig through my parts and stack up a spare clutch basket to look, but if you remove the judder spring, you have to substitute in an extra clutch disc. Most people will say just leave it in, but to get rid of that parasitic drag and neutral especially when the clutches and engine are hot, I believe removing it and swapping in an extra disc will get rid of that. Maybe the last disc has to be an oem KDX disc however? Like I said, the details are not at the top of my cluttered brain right now! I'll be revisiting this here in the next month or two when I split the cases on a '99 220.