Topic: Terry's "Endurance Racer project" slowly becoming reality, woohoo!

[seaweb11]

Terry, my question is "How the Fercin far apart are "petrol" stations in your neck of the woods?

Is Dakar in your future plans???

[Tim.]

Terry, my question is "How the Fercin far apart are "petrol" stations in your neck of the woods?

Is Dakar in your future plans???

No kiddin - that is one BIG arse tank.  What's it off anyhow?  My Honda Civic's tank isn't much bigger.

[Hop on a Honda]

I think the tank is for beer and the push bike peddals are missing.
Dave

[Terry in Australia]

Terry, my question is "How the Fercin far apart are "petrol" stations in your neck of the woods?

Is Dakar in your future plans???

G'Day Derek, the tank is a NOS alloy endurance racer tank, (maybe a Seeley, but I don't know for sure) ala the 24 hour racers of the 1970's, and is a genuine period aftermarket item specifically for a SOHC 750. It is huge, but has beautiful lines, so should enhance the looks of the bike.

Definately not just a "Cafe Racer", but a real race bike for the road, I hope, ha ha! Cheers, Terry.      

[scunny]

                                        BUMP
 no pressure, I was looking thru some old threads to refresh my memory on what I'm meant to be doing on my project and came upon this thread.
 how's the bike coming along ?

[Terry in Australia]

                                        BUMP
 no pressure, I was looking thru some old threads to refresh my memory on what I'm meant to be doing on my project and came upon this thread.
 how's the bike coming along ?

Thanks for the bump mate, well everything is here now, i received a box from Sean with the H/D studs so I can strip the top end of the K6 engine and fit the 836 kit and Mike's head etc, only problem I have at the moment is time, or lack thereof. I've got 6 oil coolers to do this weekend and I'll be lucky if I finish them, let alone turn a spanner on any of my bikes. Oh well, Christmas is only a couple of months away and I'll have a month off work, so if I'm riding it by the time I go back to work I'll be happy, ha ha! Cheers, Terry.

[scunny]

hopefully I will beat you on completion date, November 1st was my target but a man with too many sockets went too far, and trying to keep my wee project within the estimated and allowed for cost has delayed the........
did I mention it is someone elses fault 

[bill440cars]

 
                   Hey there Terry,     Looking good, can't wait to see more. I can well imagine that you are
      getting a bit anxious yourself. Also, good luck with your "Body Modification" (weight loss, that is).
         

                                                              Later on, Bill

[Hockers Choppers]

Hey Terry,
How's the bike? Get it running yet? How do the 29's work? I'm getting mine together, bout the same settup as Yours. What jetting are you running with the cr's?
Thanks,
jesse

[Terry in Australia]

Hey Terry,
How's the bike? Get it running yet? How do the 29's work? I'm getting mine together, bout the same settup as Yours. What jetting are you running with the cr's?
Thanks,
jesse

G'Day Jesse, well mate, I'm sad to admit that I haven't even looked at the racer project in months. I've been burning the candle at both ends with the K1 Kruiser, and it's legally on the road now, and apart from a niggling "High-RPM-under-load-misfire" which is slowly driving me insane, it's a cool ride, for sure.

I've gone and sent Andy a deposit for the K0 in Long Island, so as soon as it arrives here in Oz (I can't afford to fly myself to the US, but I'm paying Andy to fly a bike from the US to Oz, how ironic is that???) I'll be looking at what I can sell to pay for it before the wife realises what I've done with the families finances, so I'll be busy finishing off my restored K2, and fixing the leak in my restored F2 (complete engine strip required) so I can sell them and a couple of "projects" off.

You know how I said I wanted to have the racer project finished and on the road by Christmas, would it be too much to ask for an extension to say, next Christmas? Ha ha, Cheers, Terry.

[seaweb11]

Well Terry, my forks are off the K8 right now.....any headway on the brace?

[Terry in Australia]

Well Terry, my forks are off the K8 right now.....any headway on the brace?

G'Day Derek, not much mate, I bought this one (fits F/F1 and K7/K8 forks) at a swap meet recently, it's a German "Telefix" brace, very well made, (I've got Telefix clipons on the racer too) so I'll try to copy it for you, although I'm a tad worried about some of the clearances, which seem a bit thin.

Nice brace though, I wish I could cast them, rather than machine them, I could just use this one to make a mold? Cheers, Terry.

[jonbuoy]

Nice looking project there.  Is this your handiwork terri? 

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/HONDA-CB750-K2-COMPLETE-BOLT-ON-TURBO-KIT-CB-750_W0QQitemZ300083126923QQihZ020QQcategoryZ35230QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

[Terry in Australia]

Nice looking project there.  Is this your handiwork terri? 

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/HONDA-CB750-K2-COMPLETE-BOLT-ON-TURBO-KIT-CB-750_W0QQitemZ300083126923QQihZ020QQcategoryZ35230QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Ha ha, I wish! If I wasn't buying Andy's K0, I'd be bidding on that kit, woohoo! "Vroom, Vroom, KA-BOOM"!!!! 

[jonbuoy]

He he it would be a bit of a laugh at the stop lights!

[puppytrax]

Nice brace though, I wish I could cast them, rather than machine them, I could just use this one to make a mold?

On that subject, do you do any aluminum casting? I visit a giant swap meet in Carlisle PA USA once a year and talk with a vintage clock collector who casts his own cast-iron clock parts. (I bought a vintage punch-card time clock from him).  He told me once that one of his repro 12 inch [330mm] cast-iron clock name plates will actually shrink one-half inch [13mm] after cooling...so all his parts have to be molded correspondingly longer/wider...   

I haven't tried it myself, just curious as to whether aluminum shrinks more or less than cast-iron...

[750essess]

and apart from a niggling "High-RPM-under-load-misfire" which is slowly driving me insane, it's a cool ride, for sure.

I had a misfire like that, turned out the last set of plugs i put in were resistor type.

[Terry in Australia]

and apart from a niggling "High-RPM-under-load-misfire" which is slowly driving me insane, it's a cool ride, for sure.

I had a misfire like that, turned out the last set of plugs i put in were resistor type.

G'Day Mate, I was hoping it was only plugs, so I pulled out the NGK D7EA's and replaced them with D8ES (I think, they're the ones with the tiny electrodes for electronic ignitions) and it feels better, but the misfire is still there, I'm gonna try another set of coils next, and see if that helps? Cheers, Terry.

[cafe75-550]

Well Terry, my forks are off the K8 right now.....any headway on the brace?

G'Day Derek, not much mate, I bought this one (fits F/F1 and K7/K8 forks) at a swap meet recently, it's a German "Telefix" brace, very well made, (I've got Telefix clipons on the racer too) so I'll try to copy it for you, although I'm a tad worried about some of the clearances, which seem a bit thin.

Nice brace though, I wish I could cast them, rather than machine them, I could just use this one to make a mold? Cheers, Terry.

That looks familiar! I bought one off of e-bay not realizing they only fit the later models, managed to get a hold of a Tarozzi designed for the earlier forks. Still have the telefix if anyone wants one though...

[scunny]

bumpity bump bump, where is that BMW riding pornstar anyway.

[seaweb11]

Did your keyboard give you a shock when you posted scunny

[scunny]

nah, just saw the iconic stralian male turn up on the board and wondered if he's forgotten about it. to busy carving lines on his fat motorcycles.

[Terry in Australia]

Well I'm still riding high on being June's BOTM pin-up boy, but geez, the Endurance racer project isn't any closer, in fact, I might just sell off the parts, there are so many race replica CB750's out there now that I think I'd prefer a chopper............

Anyone interested in buying a set of wider Borrani rimmed wheels, 35mm Ceriani forks, Koni 7610 shocks, a genuine Egli fairing and a big arsed Alloy gas tank? Cheers, Terry.