Topic: Project "Superstreet" - 1977 CB750F

[BennyBlown2v]

Bought this bike from a guy in my car club - got it for a STEAL - and decided to fix her up.  When I bought her she ran, but had an exhaust leak somewhere.




4-2-1 Supersport exhaust, woo!


All three two wheelers lol...


Low rise euro-style bars (SV650 bars) - 27k original miles.


The gang.


Stripped down.

Example of how easily the rust/grime is coming off - only about 10 seconds with a dremel worth of work right there.


Tail light I'll be using.

Prepped, primed, and painted the two side covers today!  Took my time and wet sanded, tried to get it as good as I could for rattle can.  Here are some progress shots.  Will get finished shots when its all dry on Friday.


Plastic welded.  The epoxy on there just wasn't cutting it, had to reattach both upper tabs and of course fix that big crack.


The front where that crack used to be after bondo, before much sanding.


Finally primered and wet sanded.


Three coats of color, haven't cleared yet.


Opposite side cover with clear, its so shiny it gets washed out by the flash lol...

I'm gonna hold off on painting the pillion (tail fairing thing) because to fit my tail light I'm going to have to trim + make a bracket so no reason having to paint it twice.

Detailed plans:

Carb clean/synch
Tuning
New tires for the spring (modern sport touring tires)
Rebuild brakes/new pads/hoses/fluid
Repaint/repair body work (in progress)
Polish/clean all the light surface rust and coat in protective sealant

I'm pretty excited for this thing, and plan to just fix her up, get it running really well, and ride it to and from class and around town - maybe do some touring on it as well.  The theme I'm going for is modern street bike influenced, but keeping some the classic elements intact (like emblems).  Not going too radical, like a bobber or cafe racer - don't care much for either of those styles.  Of course, being me, I'm going to drag race this thing next year.  I hope to hit at least high 12's.

So far I've plastic welded all the cracks in the plastics, replacing the epoxy and bondo which had just continued to crack.  Also, decided to ditch the rear grab bar, turn signals, and tail light. Gonna put a more modern integrated LED tail light on it from an R6S. I'm gonna mount it to a bracket which I'm making to fit onto the rear pillion. Should look pretty slick and I think front signals I'm gonna do some little LED stalks and move them up onto the headlight mount.

That's all for now, more updates to come shortly

[Freaky1]

Very nice, looks like one of those bikes that's not too nice to rip apart and change some things around. I have a '77 F also and am within weeks of having it on the road. I went somewhat more radical, I plan to post some pics soon. I'm using almost the same taillight as you, mine is mounted differently though. One small heads up, I planned to put the LED turn signals on the front also but abandoned that idea as the wiring is a huge pain. The front turn signals have three wires and all the LED signals I found only had two. Never will I say it can't be done, but I found it too much of a pain, FYI.

[BennyBlown2v]

Thanks!  Yeah, if this bike hadn't been painted (poorly at that) before I wouldn't have bothered changing stuff around, and would have just restored it with factory parts.  I'm not too worried about the wiring, heck I even have the running lights on my R1 wired up as turn signals, and running lights, at the same time heh.

[Freaky1]

I'm rewiring the entire thing with no turn signals, that's how I solved my problem!

[Terry in Australia]

As far as the 27K original miles go, you do realise that that engine isn't original, yeah? Also the left sidecover isn't an F2 item either. Cheers, Terry.  

[BennyBlown2v]

As far as the 27K original miles go, you do realise that that engine isn't original, yeah? Also the left sidecover isn't an F2 item either. Cheers, Terry.  

I realized that much, yes.  It's an E code marked block and trans.  There are other little bits and pieces that have been replaced on it from junkyards. Never said it was a perfect example of a numbers matching clean, restorable, piece.    I'm not exactly a Honda purest  

[Flying J]

Never said it was a perfect example of a numbers matching clean, restorable, piece.    I'm not exactly a Honda purest  
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then i would suggest you leave this forum.
just kidding, bike is looking good. I always like to watch what people do with F bikes.

[BennyBlown2v]

Waiting on parts to get here in the mail, then I'll put her back together!  Going to paint the exhaust black because the chrome is starting to go and I'd rather not pay to replace it haha...  Probably end up putting a smaller can on it, as well.  Waiting on some bumper stripper (plastic safe paint stripper) in the mail also to strip the paint off these plastics.  After painting the side covers I realized why they weren't adhering well is that there were 4 layers under the layers I shot on there and they were peeling up under my new paint.

Tank turned out great though! Will snap some pics later, hopefully will have the whole bike "done" this weekend so I can at least ride it for a bit, then start some other mods

[mgbgt89]

Sweet man. We'll have to go riding sometime. I just converted and bought a yamaha .. We can be twins now.