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Offline D-Ral

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Re: Olivia's Face lift. 78 CB550 build.
« Reply #375 on: May 02, 2014, 06:41:19 AM »
Ok, right on. I guess I was hoping for a mega cheap-super-awesome hidden website with ludicrous deals or something. It'll be a guessing game trying to jet this thing so I'll need a bunch and I figured my local honda dealer would charge me a fortune. But I will check there.
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Re: Olivia's Face lift. 78 CB550 build.
« Reply #376 on: May 02, 2014, 06:59:58 AM »
Quote from: D-Ral on May 02, 2014, 06:41:19 AM
Ok, right on. I guess I was hoping for a mega cheap-super-awesome hidden website with ludicrous deals or something. It'll be a guessing game trying to jet this thing so I'll need a bunch and I figured my local honda dealer would charge me a fortune. But I will check there.

No need to fret buddy. I know Sigma has a intire jetting kit for our hondas. 75$. No guessing game required. Lol
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Re: Olivia's Face lift. 78 CB550 build.
« Reply #377 on: May 02, 2014, 07:10:30 AM »
Thanks, dude :)
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Re: Olivia's Face lift. 78 CB550 build.
« Reply #378 on: May 02, 2014, 07:11:12 AM »
Quote from: RustyOlive on May 02, 2014, 05:40:16 AM
The rain held off enough last night to be able to take Olivia down to Tim Horton's on Lakeshore and Leslie (toronto) ... for Thursday night Bike Night.
Decent turn out for being early in the season. Can't wait till the hot summer nights when hundreds turn out. :)

I bet Olivia turns some heads.
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Re: Olivia's Face lift. 78 CB550 build.
« Reply #379 on: May 02, 2014, 07:11:37 AM »
Thanks, dude :)
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Re: Olivia's Face lift. 78 CB550 build.
« Reply #380 on: May 02, 2014, 07:13:05 AM »
Quote from: CB750 Cafe Racer Fan on May 02, 2014, 07:11:12 AM
Quote from: RustyOlive on May 02, 2014, 05:40:16 AM
The rain held off enough last night to be able to take Olivia down to Tim Horton's on Lakeshore and Leslie (toronto) ... for Thursday night Bike Night.
Decent turn out for being early in the season. Can't wait till the hot summer nights when hundreds turn out. :)

I bet Olivia turns some heads.

Lol. Ya. She steels the show every time. Hahaha.
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Re: Olivia's Face lift. 78 CB550 build.
« Reply #381 on: May 02, 2014, 08:29:23 AM »
Fenders , I dont get why people dont run fenders. This part of the world it rains about 9 months a year, so when I see no fenders I get a lil crazy. besides no fender, your Bike is the Sh*t! I miss my 550
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Re: Olivia's Face lift. 78 CB550 build.
« Reply #382 on: May 02, 2014, 08:43:38 AM »
Quote from: bikerbart on May 02, 2014, 08:29:23 AM
Fenders , I dont get why people dont run fenders. This part of the world it rains about 9 months a year, so when I see no fenders I get a lil crazy. besides no fender, your Bike is the Sh*t! I miss my 550


Thank you for your opinion.
But I didn't like the look of fenders on my bike. Test fitted a set and looked stupid. In my opinion.
And I don't ride this bike in the rain. This one is for fun. Not my daily.
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Re: Olivia's Face lift. 78 CB550 build.
« Reply #383 on: May 13, 2014, 06:57:43 AM »
Don't think I posted these...
Last thursday night I went to the Ontario Norton Owners club meeting. Great bunch of guys. Had a fun night meeting some new faces. Even Olivia was a hit with the Britt boys. They snap a couple photos of us rolling out. I'll be sure to come back again soon.
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Re: Olivia's Face lift. 78 CB550 build.
« Reply #384 on: May 14, 2014, 07:59:56 PM »
Gosh i love that bike.
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Re: Olivia's Face lift. 78 CB550 build.
« Reply #385 on: May 16, 2014, 05:51:49 AM »
Lol thanks man. :)

 
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Re: Olivia's Face lift. 78 CB550 build.
« Reply #386 on: May 16, 2014, 05:53:48 AM »
Brap.

Olivia's getting mad love bro.
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Re: Olivia's Face lift. 78 CB550 build.
« Reply #387 on: May 16, 2014, 06:07:52 AM »
Quote from: eastyork1977 on May 16, 2014, 05:53:48 AM
Brap.

Olivia's getting mad love bro.


Hahaha.. She sure is.. :) love it!
And to think she used to get so much hate mail from people that said the build can't be done, she'll never be rideable and fall apart... Hahaha. Good thing i don't take criticism literal 
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Re: Olivia's Face lift. 78 CB550 build.
« Reply #388 on: May 16, 2014, 06:23:14 AM »
Eff the haters.

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Re: Olivia's Face lift. 78 CB550 build.
« Reply #389 on: June 24, 2014, 02:06:28 PM »
WOW!! Its been a long time since I posted anything here.. LOL.. been having to much fun riding the bike this season..lol

heads up TORONTO riders!!  HAHAHHA... if your looking for something to do Saturday mornings.. coming on down to Rise Espresso at 107 Mutual St. Toronto around 10am every Sat. for Rise&Ride. My buddy Dominik and I are trying to create a fun relaxed setting for bikers to enjoy a good coffee and great place to meet other cool minded motorcyclists. =)

last Saturday was our first meet. 14 bikes showed up and we all had a great time. Looking forward to more and bigger. =) 

some photos from last weekends R&R at Rise Espresso.
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Re: Olivia's Face lift. 78 CB550 build.
« Reply #390 on: July 18, 2014, 07:21:30 PM »
Hey RO, I looked through the build but couldn't find any details on you headers, what did you do to get that finish? almost looks like patina, really fits the bike well!
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Re: Olivia's Face lift. 78 CB550 build.
« Reply #391 on: July 18, 2014, 07:58:10 PM »
Quote from: PGF550F on July 18, 2014, 07:21:30 PM
Hey RO, I looked through the build but couldn't find any details on you headers, what did you do to get that finish? almost looks like patina, really fits the bike well!

Hey man.
The headers are from an old set of Mac 4-1 exhaust I had. Made a few minor alterations to the cyclex pipe to fit the header. I used a simple wire brush wheel on the angle grinder to clean up the pitting in the chrome. 
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Re: Olivia's Face lift. 78 CB550 build.
« Reply #392 on: July 18, 2014, 09:20:02 PM »
Hey man. I saw your bike last night parked along queen East along with other bikes. I knew it was yours because of the big tire in the back. Looking good.
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Re: Olivia's Face lift. 78 CB550 build.
« Reply #393 on: July 19, 2014, 03:18:05 AM »
Quote from: Honda550k on July 18, 2014, 09:20:02 PM
Hey man. I saw your bike last night parked along queen East along with other bikes. I knew it was yours because of the big tire in the back. Looking good.


Oh yeah. Bunch of us hit up Castro's Lounge ever Thursday night. You should join us!
Also ever Saturday am. We meet at Rise Espresso 10am and on. For coffee and low key hang out. We got a great bunch oh guys to hang out with. Come on down to that some time too. 107 Mutual Street.
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Re: Olivia's Face lift. 78 CB550 build.
« Reply #394 on: August 07, 2014, 05:18:49 AM »
Hi Guys,

I'm working on my own cbr600rr transplant onto my 550 frame and wanted to run my spacer design past you guys who have done this before.

I am using 1979 sport alloys, so I have a 5 bolt pattern doing to 6 bolt pattern on the discs.

I have prototyped the entire thing using my 3d printer and have my disc spacers already at the machine shop. 

I'm now double checking the clearance on the new axle and spacers.  I am assuming that I should have the axle just slightly undersize on length so the spacers are compressed onto the bearing in the wheel?  ( I had looked at changing the wheel bearings to take the old axle, but couldn't find one with the correct OD to fit the wheel hub)  What do you think?









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Hey RO,

I sent you recent message about your front end conversion.  Can you share the step by step details as to what your machinist did.  Did you swap the stock stem into the CBR triples? 

It appears that you used the stock hubs and machined adpaters to fit the CBR discs at the correct space for the radial brake calipers.  Did your machinist create a new axle from scratch to fit the stock hub?  If so, do you know how he went about it?  Or did he modify the hub to fit the CRB axle?

I'm trying to map out a front end conversion for my next project.  The more I think about it, the more I want to maximize front end feel, handling and braking.  At first I was going to use a Joker triple, then I thought of doing a GL1000 front end swap.  I ended up doing that on my current project to maintain a period correct look.  On my next project, I am trying to improve performance, and I'm okay with going mongrel on it.

Don

Hi Don.

I'll do my best. Unfortunetly I didn't take a lot of photos when I had the front end apart.

I did not have to swap stems. The CBR600RR stem is right lenght. I bought the tappered bearing kit from allsballsracing.com . The forks fit like glove!

I had the machinist whip up a new axle. Same o.d. as the i.d. of the 550 hub bearings. The axle is machined at one end to fit the lower axle mount on the cbr fork leg. The other end of the axle has a thread on spacer to fit the other fork leg. (Make sence? )

Once the axle was made. The wheel was put in the forks and placed dead center. Measured out the space between the forks to the bearings. Made slip on spacers to hold the wheel centre.

Next. Measuring the distance between the centre of the caliper to the hub surface is how we came up with the disc adaptors thickness.

Using the the original "through" hub bolt holes. Was able to bolt down the discs/adaptors with just longer bolts than the stock ones.

Down fall is. Had to ditch the speedo drive off the hub. Therefore loosing the stock analog 550 speedometer. So I bought a Acewell digital gauge with speed/tac/singals/hi-low beams/netural/oil light on in one.

Also. With running two quad piston calipers. I had to run a front break master cyclinder/leaver off a 2006-2008 cbr600rr. She stops on a dime I tell ya!! Hahaha.


Hope that all makes sense? Hahaha. Few photos to maybe help..=
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Re: Olivia's Face lift. 78 CB550 build.
« Reply #395 on: August 07, 2014, 10:15:24 AM »
Jhelgesen,

I like what I see, but perhaps you can start a separate build thread to detail all of the other mods (frame, tank, wheels, etc.)?

It appears you harvested several parts from a 79-ish 650?  If so, why not the motor, too?  I'm curious, but definitely start a separate build thread.
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2008 Triumph Thruxton (http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php/topic,190956.0.html)
2014 MV Agusta Brutale Dragster 800
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"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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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: Olivia's Face lift. 78 CB550 build.
« Reply #396 on: August 10, 2014, 09:32:13 AM »
yeah, didn't want to hijack Olivia.

Thread started here
http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php?topic=140102.0;topicseen
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Re: Olivia's Face lift. 78 CB550 build.
« Reply #397 on: August 12, 2014, 03:29:47 PM »
hey sorry for the late reply. I actually don't come on the forums as much as I used to. sorry.

however. quickly running over your post. looks like you have it all figured out. looks good man.

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Re: Olivia's Face lift. 78 CB550 build.
« Reply #398 on: August 21, 2014, 04:31:26 PM »
Hey Cam,

Just saw your latest tuning video on FB.  Olivia sounds better than ever. 

Rain? Seriously?  Haven't seen any of that stuff for a while here.

Don
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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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1977 CB750K7 "Nine Lives" Restomod (http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php?topic=50490.0) - Sold
2005 RVT1000RR RC51-SP2 "El Diablo" - Sold
2016+ Triumph Thruxton 1200 R (http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php/topic,170198.0.html) - Sold

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Re: Olivia's Face lift. 78 CB550 build.
« Reply #399 on: August 21, 2014, 04:56:16 PM »
Quote from: CB750 Cafe Racer Fan on August 21, 2014, 04:31:26 PM
Hey Cam,

Just saw your latest tuning video on FB.  Olivia sounds better than ever. 

Rain? Seriously?  Haven't seen any of that stuff for a while here.

Don


LUCKY!! We've seen our fair amount of rain up here. lol
thanks.. yeah. been having some rpm issues all summer. But I think I finally have it licked. lol. live'n learn eh?
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