First time poster here been lurking for a little while. And I must say there is a library of information here on the SOHCs - I love it, however, I cannot find an answer to my question...
So a couple months ago I bought a '74 cb550f in blue color. I have always wanted to take a part a bike and try to rebuild it especially an old Honda like this. It came with a lot of parts but not everything and not a title. I got it for 350$ so Im pretty happy. Anyway I finally have some time to get to the bike and I found a post on craigslist of a guy selling a bunch of parts that I need, however, the bike is a cb1000 from 1983... Will any parts fit directly onto my CB550? In my eye the chassis look very similar and so do many of the parts that I can tell from the pics.
I was looking at things like exhaust and headers (4-1), complete factory front end minus brake lines, wiring harness( concerned my wiring is shot as the seller of 550 said the bike was sitting for quite a while under a tarp), spark plug coils and wiring, locking gas cap, fork seals and more...
Pretty much any information you all could give me would help a lot as I am completely lost on how any of this would convert from the 1000 to the 550.
Cheers
Joe
