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Offline toreadorxlt

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CB550 to match my car.... (Fabrication Heavy)
« on: March 13, 2014, 06:21:06 PM »
starting this build... got this thing for free for a welding job and it has sat for a long time in the shed. I thought it was a 750 this whole time, but found out tonight it was a 550, haha. Plans are to build it using my hot rod as inspiration. I Wanna keep the same color, and stripped out nature that my car has.



My buddy came to use my powdercoating oven, so I conned him into helping me move it from the shed the other night. I got it just like this without bars... so pushing was fun.


He gave me a fiberglass tail/seat section (for sale if anybody wants it). but other than that.. this is how i got it. starting on the tear down tomorrow.


heres my car...
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Re: CB550 to match my car....
« Reply #1 on: March 13, 2014, 06:42:06 PM »
Looks good!
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« Reply #2 on: March 13, 2014, 07:13:58 PM »
Your car is sick!
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Re: CB550 to match my car....
« Reply #3 on: March 13, 2014, 07:21:33 PM »
Nice car! Post a pic of the fibreglass tail section if you want to sell it.
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Re: CB550 to match my car....
« Reply #4 on: March 13, 2014, 07:23:31 PM »
550's make good hot rods!
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Re: CB550 to match my car....
« Reply #5 on: March 13, 2014, 08:06:47 PM »


this is the tail that i dont need....  I spend alot of time metal shaping and would prefer to build an aluminum one.


why i wont be needing it  8)
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Re: CB550 to match my car....
« Reply #6 on: March 13, 2014, 08:37:35 PM »
Looks like a 1975 CB550K1 in Candy Jade Green.
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Re: CB550 to match my car....
« Reply #7 on: March 25, 2014, 04:31:27 PM »
Got it stripped to a bare frame and bent up my hoop today. Would have welded it in but the bar is more important I guess. Or so my friends convinced me.


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Re: CB550 to match my car....
« Reply #8 on: March 25, 2014, 07:34:04 PM »
Subscribed!  The hotrod looks awesome.
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« Reply #9 on: March 25, 2014, 07:59:39 PM »
Got busy after the bar.  Welded the hoop together and tigged it in. Ground a few tabs off and made this quick mockup tail in the Pullmax.  (I didn't bother to planish out the shrinks...this is just a scrap piece of metal) The real one will be a bit lower bit this gives me some perspective.




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« Reply #10 on: March 25, 2014, 08:44:35 PM »
Thanks for all the comments on my car and other nice words.  It is a 1974 cb550. And the car is a 1930 pontiac.


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« Reply #11 on: March 26, 2014, 10:17:18 AM »
Love the oval rear window..much nicer then the typical Ford of the same year.
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Re: CB550 to match my car....
« Reply #12 on: March 26, 2014, 12:54:53 PM »
The car is gorgeous!  What a nice rare rod!

Looking forward to seeing your metal work.  God I would love to learn that...

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« Reply #13 on: March 26, 2014, 01:32:14 PM »
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« Reply #14 on: March 26, 2014, 04:49:09 PM »


Reinforced the rear shock area and tied it into the tube. Dykem on a piece of 1x2 was all I needed. Weld and smooth the outsides. I left the welds on the inside raw.

If I have a little time I might bang out a tail today. It's really simple to get compound curves and shrink metal I swear. I can do it manually but I shrink with my Pullmax style machine instead. I can put together a how to do it with hand tools if there's enough interest. 

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« Reply #15 on: March 26, 2014, 06:08:06 PM »
made a quick alumuinim form to get the shape I wanted.  Half covered it with paper.
where you need to fold the paper is where the metal wants to shrink

Thumbnail dies in my home built reciprocating machine handle that


After one round of shrink you can see how quickly it's taking shape. 


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« Reply #16 on: March 26, 2014, 08:03:22 PM »

Got greedy and should have annealed it halfway.  I didn't and it cracked. Oh well. I think tomorrow I make one of steel instead. A medium I'm more comfortable with


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« Reply #17 on: March 26, 2014, 08:33:00 PM »
Damn that was close.  I would give the aluminum another try. 
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1975 CB550F1 frame/CB650 engine hybrid "The Hot Mess" (http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php/topic,150220.0.html)
2008 Triumph Thruxton (http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php/topic,190956.0.html)
2014 MV Agusta Brutale Dragster 800
2015 Yamaha FZ-09 (http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php/topic,186861.0.html)

"There are some things nobody needs in this world, and a bright-red, hunch-back, warp-speed 900cc cafe racer is one of them — but I want one anyway, and on some days I actually believe I need one.... Being shot out of a cannon will always be better than being squeezed out of a tube. That is why God made fast motorcycles, Bubba." Hunter S. Thompson, Song of the Sausage Creature, Cycle World, March 1995.  (http://www.latexnet.org/~csmith/sausage.html and https://magazine.cycleworld.com/article/1995/3/1/song-of-the-sausage-creature)

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1973 CB750K2 "Bionic Mongrel" (http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php?topic=132734.0) - Sold
1977 CB750K7 "Nine Lives" Restomod (http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php?topic=50490.0) - Sold
2005 RVT1000RR RC51-SP2 "El Diablo" - Sold
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Re: CB550 to match my car....
« Reply #18 on: March 27, 2014, 09:12:50 PM »

Detabbed and smoothed tonight. Gonna add a few tabs that I'll blast out next week on my Cnc plasma


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« Reply #19 on: March 28, 2014, 08:06:55 PM »

More subtle than factory tabs made for bolt on passenger pegs incase anybody wants to hop on the back. If not I'll unbolt and these lower profile tabs will be the only thing on the frame. The plan is to make foot pegs on extended tabs to make passenger foot placement optimal


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« Reply #20 on: March 28, 2014, 10:36:31 PM »


Shaved the leg.


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« Reply #21 on: March 29, 2014, 05:32:56 AM »
Can I come up and apprentice for you?????

Nice work!

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« Reply #22 on: March 29, 2014, 10:46:50 AM »

Quote from: dagersh on March 29, 2014, 05:32:56 AM
Can I come up and apprentice for you?????

Nice work!

Gersh


Thanks man. If you're in the NH area swing by I'll teach you what I know lol


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« Reply #23 on: March 29, 2014, 12:20:01 PM »
Careful, I might take you up on that!
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1966 Black Bomber
1966 CA77 Dream
1967 Superhawk
1970 CB750K0
1972 CL350
1972 CB450/500 Custom
1972 CB500K1
1975 CB550F
1976 CB400F
1975 CB750 Future Restoration
1976 CB750K6
1976 CB750F
1976 GL1000


1968 Suzuki T500 Cobra
1990 BMW K1
2001 'Busa
2003 RC 51
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« Reply #24 on: March 31, 2014, 08:32:04 PM »

Quick video of the process I use to make a tail. This one is steel and came out fine. 1.5 hours time so far. I'll finish it Wednesday

Sandbag and mallet to quickly stretch the center. Pullmax on the edges that need to be shrunk. Then planishing hammer and party.

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