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Brentadour:
Is anyone building 550 engines out there. I want a bad ass 550. I dont know what stock horse power is, but I would like some more punch out of my bike. Nothing crazy, but close. The equivalent of the cb750s 836 kits.

-Brent

MRieck:
That's hard...really hard. Alot of compression, big cam, big valves, big headwork etc....

SteveD CB500F:
You used to be able to get 605 kits for the 500.
I seem to remember that they had poor reliability probs (or maybe it's just poor memory probs...)

Ibsen:
You can put in a 650 engine in the 550. It should fit right in.

Glenn Stauffer:

--- Quote from: Brentadour on April 01, 2005, 08:37:41 PM ---Is anyone building 550 engines out there. I want a bad ass 550. I dont know what stock horse power is, but I would like some more punch out of my bike. Nothing crazy, but close. The equivalent of the cb750s 836 kits.

-Brent

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Some suggested reading material:

http://sohc4.us/?q=node/142

http://sohc4.us/?q=node/140
http://sohc4.us/?q=node/141

Rob Lloyd provided these articles a while back.  If you come across any more CB550 performance tuning information, please let me know where to find it so I can add links to the SOHC4 site.

--Glenn

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