In Brazil
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In
1985, Yamaha consolidates further its roots in Brazil, ushering in the
Manaus Free Trade Zone, the Yamaha Motor Amazon, its second plant, further
enhancing its ability to meet the domestic market. The change comes
in good time, given the need to produce models of larger displacement,
which required parts with higher technological value.
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RD350LC against model started to be produced in 1986.
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Article
in internal communication magazine @ YAMAHA Japan
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YAMAHA
NEWS N°9 1986
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YAMAHA
NEWS N°10 1986
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YAMAHA
NEWS N°4 1987
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Salão
Brazil '84
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April
'86: first test of RD350LC 1YH from Brazil with European style
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With
a front black wheel from blue RD350F2
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With
lateral panel from RZ350 (Canada or Australia)
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August
'86 pré-série RD350LC 1YH from Brazil with different brake
disks from serial production
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End of '86,
YAMAHA MOTOR DA AMAZÔNA start to sold the RD350LC in Brazil. The
RD 350 LC/R were built and sold in BRAZIL until '93 bringing the last evolutions
of the 350 in the world: the twin headlight fairing model (completely closed
like first HONDA CBR 600) which was launched in '91. Production stopped in
'93 but the last models were sold in UK until '95.
The
Brazilian 350 LC/R had a compression ratio of 5:1 (instead of 6:1) to match
with the quality of fuel in Brazil which contains approximatively 20% of ethanol
that is explain the low power of 55 HP. They didn't get the modification introduced
in Europe with 1UA/1WT model so the kept the 31K cylinders + carburettors without
power-jets.
This
55Hp power is with Brazilian fuel so in Europe it's close to 59HP but on '92
to '95 YAMAHA full line up of UK, the power and torque were never given ! On
'92 full line up of Italy, YAMAHA claimed 59.1 HP @ 9000 RPM with 4.8 MKg @
8500 RPM (like '83 to '85 31K engines) instead of the classic 63 HP & 5
MKg @ 9000 RPM !
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'86
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1YH
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Beginning
of sale in Brazil with partial fairing and not perforated brake disks (RD350LC).
Full fairing available as an option. |
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'88
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1YH
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New
model with full fairing (RD350R). |
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'89
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1YH
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New
model with perforated brake disks (RD350R). |
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'90
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1YH
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New
coloring (RD350R). |
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'91
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4CD
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New
models with new full fairing with twin head lamps (RD350R). |
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'92
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4CD
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New
coloring (RD350R). |
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'93
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4CD
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End
of sale... |
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All
brochures
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All
publicities
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August-84
MOTOSHOW
(Brazil)
RD350LC2 31K
presentation
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Setember-86
DUAS
RODAS 135 (Brazil)
RD350LC 1YH
TEST
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March-87
DUAS
RODAS 141 (Brazil)
CBX750F
vs
RD350LC 1YH
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June-87
DUAS
RODAS 145 (Brazil)
CB450TR
vs
RD350LC 1YH
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February
-88
DUAS
RODAS 152 (Brazil)
RD350LC '88 1YH
TEST
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'91
DUAS
RODAS 171 (Brazil)
CBR450SR
vs RD350R
Export
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'91
DUAS
RODAS 189 (Brazil)
RD350R '91 4CD
TEST
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'92
DUAS
RODAS 190 (Brazil)
CBR450SR
vs RD350R
'92 4CD
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In
Europe
The
Brazilian RD350F went on sale in Spain & Italy in '88.
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Since
'88, in ITALY, in order to respect the quota of imported bike from Japan,
YAMAHA Belgarda imported it motorcycles from Brazil: at the beginning
the RD 350 F2 (2UA model with different colorings from Europe like against)
and later the twin headlight RD 350 R.
Translation
of the upper text:
"You
have two ways to buy the best motorcycle. You buy here a Yamaha RD350
fully national or go to Europe and buy a Yamaha RD350 imported from Brazil"
This
model was exported to Spain & Italy and YAMAHA motor da Amazonia is
clearly proud of it !
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Then the RD
350 R twin headlight were sold in UK from '92 to '95, in Spain,Italy & UK.
The European models had Restricted exhaust
(with restrictions washers in the exhaust downpipes) with different
carb setting on carburettors with power-jets. I read in WHAT
BIKE MAGAZINE from January 95 : "Cynics say the restriction's there in
the first place because the worn out seconhand tooling the brazilians use can't
turn out engine parts with tight enough tolerances to produce peak power reliably
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Look papers
of an ITALIAN RD350F2 2UA and from a SPANISH
RD350F2 2UA.
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Note that
"RD 350 R" means twin headlight model in Europe but it was a
classic (apart the colorings) RD 350 F2 with
single rectangular front light for '88 to '90 as we can see on this '88
Brazilian publicity.
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Spain
'90
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Spain
'92
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Extract
from YAMAHA
'92 UK FULL LINE UP
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Extract
from YAMAHA
'92 Italian FULL LINE UP
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Extract
from YAMAHA
'93 UK FULL LINE UP
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Extract
from YAMAHA
'94 UK FULL LINE UP
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Extract
from YAMAHA
'95 UK FULL LINE UP
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All
models in Europe
State
Highway Police of Rio Grande Do Sul in Brasil using RD350LC !
