MODENA ENGINES: NEW COLOURS FOR THE KK2 MODEL (FROM 2023)

December 2023 update

The Modena Engines KK2 engine was produced in 2019 thanks to the design work of Aspa which, as far as the activity in the karting sector is concerned, until that year had specialised only in the production of shifter engines. This specific model took shape on the construction base of the predecessor MKZ, which had a very particular and original technical concept for the karting sector (to learn more, read "Under Examination | The KZ 2016 of Modena Engines"). In 2019 the KK2 had softened some rather extreme technical solutions of the MKZ (for example the angle between the axis of the reed valve pack and the axis of the cylinder, with the latter being decidedly "tilted backwards"), but it had not distorted the basic concept. With the advent in 2023 of the more conventional new Modena Engines model called KK3 which we examined in our "Under Examination - KK3 Shifter, The Flagship Engine (Approval 2023) of the Modena Engines Range", Aspa decided not to make further refinements to the KK2, but simply to introduce new colours. In fact, three different colour options are now available, with the addition of blue and red to the initial black that characterised some components such as the head cover, the pressure plate, the intake manifold plate and the emblems on the sides of the cylinder. In the present day, the KK2, while presenting its own architecture, shares several internal components with the new KK3 which has become the flagship model of the Modena Engines range.