Hey guys!

Crazy question time:

I'm turning my KLX into a woods bike that just happens to be street legal so that I can take it and my KTM250XC out with my dad and be able to swap back and forth and still have fun doing some trail riding. The first thing I have done were the 0.46 fork springs and the 6.0 shock spring and I'm amazed at the difference! Next I'm planning a quicker throttle and an extended tank. My 2-stroke has a nearly 3 gallon tank, and while it's a thirsty 2-stroke, it's still good for almost a 2 hour race with me working the controls. I'd like to get the range on my KLX up a bit so I've been looking into tanks.

Looks like the Clarke tank is a good option at around 2.7 gal.

The IMS KLX300 tank can fit with modifications to get a bit more capacity. I don't care much for the look of the older shrouds I'd have to run, but IMS has been sponsoring me for a while and I would much rather run their product, which brings me to my question:

Does anyone know if a 2009 KLX tank would fit on my '06 if I ran the '09+ radiator wings as well? (and would those wings even mount?) If so, that would give me a 3.0 gal option, which would be great! However, I don't want the forward sloping seat of the new bike for heavy off-road use. I've heard that the '06 seat can fit on the '09 bike? Does anyone know for sure if that's possible? I did try a few searches and didn't come up with an answer... sorry if this has been discussed...

Thanks for the help!

 

Sorry, can't help with your '06/'09 fit questions, but does the '06 seat slope less toward the front than an '09 seat?

If you're tall enough, look into a Guts Racing tall seat.

 

It looks like IMS uses the same tank for the 300 and the 06/07 250's. It says that you would need to use the shrouds for the 250 to make it work. I don't know if the 09+ uses different mounting points for the plastics compared to the 06/07. I like the Acerbis on mine-it's been VERY durable and offers great protection for the rads.

 

I have a 2007 klx250s my dad wrecked and I ended up buying a 99 klx300 frame and fitted all the 07 stuff to it. The 07 tank ended up being bent pretty bad so I found a 09 tank and plastics on forum here and fitted them. The seat from 06-07 to 09-newer is different. I cut bottom of my 06 seat to fit 09 plastics no problem pretty easy deal. The shrouds from 06-07 to the 09
bolt up different on tanks, tank bolt holes are in different location. Tank fits no problem tho. I ended up with a 2001 kx250 seat on mine because I am going for more of a mx look on mine. It will fit with some minor alterations.

 

A guy here had a KLX300 with a CRF250 tank in it.. I never saw it up close, so I don't know how well it fit.

- He said he heated nuts and pressed them into the side of the tank to be able to mount the KLX shrouds