Topic: need some help with 1976 honda cb 500t

[spew74]

I am new here and was wondering if anyone could point me in the right direction on the best place to find parts to cafe out my honda cb 500t. ie. seat. etc. also i want to put pods and run stright pipes. does anyone know what jets if any i will have to get for the carbs? thanks a lot.

[KB02]

Check out the Honda twins site: www.hondatwins.com

It's a smaller, newer site, but just for the twins.

[bill440cars]

        Since the 500T is basically a 450, you could also check out this one too. It's been around for awhile and has a pretty good amount of info and photos of member's bikes, to give some ideas.


               http://groups.msn.com/hondacb450dohc

[grumburg]

        Since the 500T is basically a 450, you could also check out this one too. It's been around for awhile and has a pretty good amount of info and photos of member's bikes, to give some ideas.


               http://groups.msn.com/hondacb450dohc

This site helped me a lot when I did my 75 500t restoration.

[tbpmusic]

I know something of 450's, essentially the same machine.

450's are amazingly tolerant of changes to filters, exhaust, and altitude, due to the principles of the vacuum carbs.
While the 500T's carbs are slightly different (they have slide springs and a jive accelerator pump-thingy), they're still basically the same carb.

As an example, back in The Day, I fitted a pair of 450's with Filtron filters (the precursors to Uni foam) and Hooker exhausts. Neither bike required any changes to the jets at all, and both had considerably improved performance.
Later, I moved with both bikes from Denver (over 5,000 feet altitude) to Indiana (about 600 feet), and again didn't have to touch anything.

So I would at least try it as-is for a little while and get a good plug reading first.
Also, FYI, while jets are changeable on those carbs, the needles are not adjustable.

bill2