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Look what came today!
Scored some cb750 cylinders/liners on Ebay for $46 shipped, those should be here any day now as well. Now I just have to buy the 836cc kit for cb750’s and tear this down to drop off at a machinist. Anyone know of any machine shops that have experience with motorcycle engine work??? I could really use some informed reccomendations here.
hell yeah!
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Yay! Now you’ll be fast like the rest of the cafe crew =p
Well, it’s been some time since I did anything with this thing or updated the thread so here’s a little update.
I scored an AWESOME deal trading some parts for some parts, and ended up with the correct cb750 front rotors for the dual disc front end (I am currently using two cb550 rotors which are 1/2" too small in diameter) as well as a set of pre-1975 CB750 carbs!!! the carbs are perfect for the hybrid motor I’ll be building in the spring using the cb650 cases and cb750 liners with an 836cc overbore kit meant for the cb750.
In addition to this, I have ordered bar a few parts from amazon.com
-bar end mirrors
-motion pro push/pull throttle set (low profile to ditch the bulky stock stuff)
-dirtbike clutch lever/perch (also to eliminate the bulk of stock)
-mini 12v gel battery and hardwired charging system (to hide all electronics under the tail and have a plug-in port to connect to a charger/tender)
-grips
-mini-swtiches (going to replace the stock bar-mounted switches with my own setup using mini waterproof toggle switches and a push-button mini switch for starter and horn)
If anyone has any experience with motorcycle engine builders/machine shops, let me know…I have to find somewhere to build the hybrid motor for me
Fast by Gast on Grand Island
Looks awesome! Let me know if it ever goes up for sale.
Awesome project, wish I had the time to build a bike
I plan to be burried with this thing basically lol…If I sold it I’d have to get north of $4-5k for it after what I’ll have invested. with the hybrid motor and the other updates I plan on doing this season I’ll be near $3500 invested including purchase price
the rest of the parts I ordered have all come in!
You can see how much the new throttle and clutch setups clean up the bars and minimize everything…just what I was hoping for! I’m on lunch right now and started swapping the rear suspension but already ran into a minor snafu with needing different bolts. no big deal I’ll hit up the depot later or something. Stay tuned!
well, I started tearing the bike down yesterday and started stripping all the paint and body filler off the tank to address the gas leak at the seam.
besides that I figured out that the shock mounts are slightly different and I’m gonna have to do some minor mods to the mounts to use them (no big deal)
didn’t get as much done as I had hoped but o well, I’ll wrench some more this week and next weekend
Back at it wrenching today…
Made up an electronics tray to get all of the ugly stuff hidden under the seat bump.
cut up the original electrics tray to use the mounts for all the goodies, then welded them to my tray
you can see the mini-battery I picked up in the pics, everything tucks away nicely
The plan is to run without the stock sidecovers, I’m going to make somewhat of a compartment in the triangle area to put stuff in like my wallet, keys, phone, a little toolkit I’ll put together, and a baseball cap to keep the helmet hair under check. I’m going to make mesh style sidecovers from scratch for the sides in the triangle portions to dress things up
for the sidecovers I want to do something like this:
I also painted the swingarm black, I wasnt feeling the silver anymore. I’ll also be painting the wheels black.
I have some serious wiring to do as the harness is badly modified by previous owners. I still have to make new clip-ons, figure out switches for lights and horn and starter button, and then measure to order shorter cables for clutch and throttle. UGH, I hate realizing how much is still left. I need to finish it and put some miles on it before june to iron out any potential issues before I ride to mid-ohio vintage motorcycle days in July.
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“it’s temporary”
“Ummmm Chris isn’t in here? Well this is awkward!”
HAHA!
Looks good lol. Is my tank/tail dry yet? 
stupid paint.
Bumping this for Nick…
Your tank is all done!
What we started with:
What we ended up with:
And now I’m gonna blow my nose and take a shower. My poor garage…so dusty lol.
FUCKS YEAH! thanks dude, you rule.