BONANZA PLUMBING KTM300 SX PROJECT : 2-STROKE TUESDAY

What does FMF KTM Factory Off-Road racer Dante Oliveira do on a weekend off? He and the KTM crew team up with Bonanza Plumbing to go racing on a Bobby Dawson prepared KTM300 SX two-stroke of course. On this week’s 2-Stroke Tuesday we take a closer look at the bike that won this years Wiseco World 2-Stroke Championship held at Glen Helen Raceway in San Bernardino California. You might be surprised on what modifications the team made.

You might be surprised but this machine featured no major internal engine modifications according to KTM off-road team manager Timmy Weigand . Due to his full schedule of off-road racing events Oliveira and the crew only had one maybe two days of testing on the KTM300 SX before he showed up to race it.

During the limited testing time Oliveira preferred the FMF exhaust combo of the iconic Gnarly pipe and Titanium 2.1 silencer.

This image does not do the APEX pegs justice, they look sharper in person! There might be scratches on our camera lens from taking this picture.

FMF and Hinson are team sponsors but the parts used are 100% available to the public. Notice that Oliveira was also running the OEM WP shock with modifications done by WP USA.

The triple clamps are factory race team issue only and one of the items on this machine not available to the public.

The stock bore and stroke was utilized along with OEM internal parts, nothing from the factory racing department, everything could be acquired at your local dealer when it comes to internal parts.

For the race a Dunlop MX34 tire and Dunlop mousse was used but unlike his off-road race bike that features an 18″ rear wheel set up they used a 19″ configuration on the 300cc two-stroke.

Just like on his race machine Renthal sprockets and a RK chain transfer all the horsepower to the rear wheel.

It might not look out of the ordinary but the levers are CNC machined out of billet aluminum with a slightly different design than OEM just for the race team.

Although it might not have all the secret parts we are used to seeing on a factory level race machines this KTM300 SX built by mechanic Bobby Dawson featured attention to detail that was second to none and just like the off-road race machines he builds for Dante Oliveira it ran flawless !

See everything that happened at this years World 2-Stroke Championship below: