Hello all
To help cure some winter boredom and to further my knowledge, i have decided to do a bottom up 550 engine build. But lets not just take a motor apart and put it back together, where is the fun in that. Lets give this all the bells and whistles! This will be a first for me digging this deep in a motor, so expect alot of bone head mistakes, and newb questions. Hell the whole venture could be a bone head mistake. I promise though to do my research before asking "where does this go?", to be diligent in my work, and listen to the communities wisdom. Hopefully this might help someone as well modify a 550.
Remember this is engine only. This motor does not have a home as of yet. My current build (which ill share shortly) is receiving Hondamans Gentlemen's Express motor (which there is a thread on). So i guess we could think of this as a compare and contrast as well.
So first of thank you and lets build a beast.
Plans: cruzinimage 61.5 pistons, megacycle 126-00 cam, MRieck 2.5/3 port job, all new valves, springs, etc etc, shot peen rods, send the crank to APE to lighten, and Fast by Gast gets the tranny. Carbs will be CR26s and exhaust TBD. Nothing though is really set in stone so if you guys have better ideas im all ears. The piston kit is already in my possesion, and i have dropped of the gears to Paul Gast to be race cut.
Our Motor: 77 cb550f
i picked this guy up from member Nicks2319 for $100. Nick is an awesome and solid dude, but not much was known about the engines previous life, except it had a tick. As soon as i got home i quickly began to tear it down, split the cases, bagged and labeled everything, then boxed it up to have Nils work his Vapor blasting magic on everything. Oh and like i said before dropped of the trans gears to Gast.
I have a ton more pictures but figured id start with these. Besides the exterior dirt, a chewed up cam chain tensioner, and a missing cam chain guide,(think we found the cause of our ticking) everything looked pretty good inside. Especially the bottom end. But if you guys see something please let me know.
So there we are so far.