{"id":13096,"date":"2014-08-28T08:53:57","date_gmt":"2014-08-28T13:53:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/?p=13096"},"modified":"2016-05-05T15:12:54","modified_gmt":"2016-05-05T20:12:54","slug":"79-yamaha-mx175-impulse-buy-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/2014\/08\/79-yamaha-mx175-impulse-buy-2\/","title":{"rendered":"79 Yamaha MX175 &#8211; Impulse Buy #2"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"cott-article__copy-img\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/IMG_5964.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/IMG_5964.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_5964.JPG\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Another good one popped up on craigslist for $350.<br \/>\nAdam and I decided to buy it together.<br \/>\nDrove 2.5 hours to the tip-top of hickville NJ.<br \/>\nWe ended up getting it for a fair price of $300.<\/p>\n<p>In case you didn&#8217;t know&#8230; Yamaha made &#8220;MX&#8221; versions of the DT. If you walked into a Yamaha dealership in the 70&#8217;s and wanted to buy something 2-stroke to play with in the dirt, you had a few different options:<\/p>\n<p><strong>DT<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">motor tuned for balanced power through the rpms.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">modest suspension<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">dual sport tires<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">daily rider type bike<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>MX<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>DT motor tuned for off road riding. Possibly put out a little more HP but can&#8217;t find any definitive info on that.<\/li>\n<li>Early year MX&#8217;s (69-73) it would be a DT1-MX or AT1-MX (MX after the model). These were bikes where you&#8217;d walk in the dealer, tell them you want an MX, and they would modify a DT\u00a0by taking the lights\/gauges off and add a couple performance parts (tires\/piston\/carb\/pipe\/possibly a GYT kit) to make it\u00a0an MX.<\/li>\n<li>Later years (74 &#8211; 82) MX models actually came from the factory as a MX. Like a MX175 (MX before the model). Similar to the early years, it had no lights, gauges, and some performance parts like the exhaust. According to the Clymer manual, these had a better exhaust that would be upgrade from the DT pipe.<\/li>\n<li>According to parts list, there was a lighting kit option that you could add on that looked similiar to the IT lights.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>IT<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>As close to a YZ as possible.<\/li>\n<li>Basically a street legal YZ with lights.<\/li>\n<li>Probably de-tuned a tiny bit compared to a YZ?<\/li>\n<li>Only made starting in the late 70&#8217;s &#8211; mid 80&#8217;s.<\/li>\n<li>No oil injection.<\/li>\n<li>IT stood for &#8216;International Trials&#8217;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>YZ<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Full off-road race bike.<\/li>\n<li>Higher compression motor.<\/li>\n<li>Aggressive gearing. Race suspension.<\/li>\n<li>No lighting coil or lights.<\/li>\n<li>Not possible\u00a0to make street legal.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There&#8217;s not a lot of info out there about all this stuff and Yamaha made so many variations to all these bikes that its been hard to find out all the little details.<\/p>\n<p>One thing that&#8217;s interesting about the MX version, is that the VIN number states it&#8217;s an &#8220;off-road&#8221; bike. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.merrittmotorcyclesalvage.com\/yamahaidentification.htm\">This is the VIN website to look it up.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The MX and YZ both say &#8220;off-road&#8221;. The DT and IT says &#8220;dual-sport&#8221;. So I guess based on that you wouldn&#8217;t be able to title and register the MX version? Even if you tried to do the VT registration trick?<\/p>\n<p>Anyway&#8230;<br \/>\nAdam is going to try and put the 79 MX175 motor and pipe in his 75 DT175. The newer motor is more powerful and 6spd tranny.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m going to use the front end for my CT1-175.<\/p>\n<p>Should be interesting.<\/p>\n<div class=\"cott-article__copy-img\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/photo-12.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13097\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/photo-12.jpg\" alt=\"photo 1\" width=\"1632\" height=\"1224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/photo-12.jpg 1632w, https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/photo-12-1100x825.jpg 1100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1632px) 100vw, 1632px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"cott-article__copy-img\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/photo-22.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13101\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/photo-22.jpg\" alt=\"photo 2\" width=\"1632\" height=\"1224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/photo-22.jpg 1632w, https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/photo-22-1100x825.jpg 1100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1632px) 100vw, 1632px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"cott-article__copy-img\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Screen-Shot-2014-08-28-at-9.51.54-AM.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13099\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Screen-Shot-2014-08-28-at-9.51.54-AM.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2014-08-28 at 9.51.54 AM\" width=\"1177\" height=\"883\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Screen-Shot-2014-08-28-at-9.51.54-AM.png 1177w, https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Screen-Shot-2014-08-28-at-9.51.54-AM-1100x825.png 1100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1177px) 100vw, 1177px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"cott-article__copy-img\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Screen-Shot-2014-08-28-at-9.52.05-AM.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Screen-Shot-2014-08-28-at-9.52.05-AM.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2014-08-28 at 9.52.05 AM\" width=\"1178\" height=\"884\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Screen-Shot-2014-08-28-at-9.52.05-AM.png 1178w, https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Screen-Shot-2014-08-28-at-9.52.05-AM-1100x825.png 1100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1178px) 100vw, 1178px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another good one popped up on craigslist for $350. Adam and I decided to buy it together. Drove 2.5 hours to the tip-top of hickville NJ. We ended up getting it for a fair price of $300. In case you didn&#8217;t know&#8230; Yamaha made &#8220;MX&#8221; versions of the DT. If you walked into a Yamaha [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13146,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[156,235,224],"tags":[192,191,194,193],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13096"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13096"}],"version-history":[{"count":37,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13150,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13096\/revisions\/13150"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}