It sure has come on a long way since you last saw it Peter.
It's 140lb lighter and 6.5 seconds quicker over the 1320.
For the members that wern't around a few years ago, It was Peter that got the project started when he bought the bike on my behalf from a guy in Tampa Bay. He looked after it untill I could fly over to pick it up.
We then rode the bike up to Valdosta GA and ran it down the quarter as it was with Vetter windjammer fairing and hard bags.
It ran 18.25 seconds at 75mph.
It's now down to 12.9 at 116mph and still falling.
There are a few pictures of the bike as it was on this page.
http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php?topic=50847.225Here is a copy and paste of how it all started, the first post in the ill fated 2009 tour.
Just over 12 months ago I was arranging to visit relatives in the USA,
While talking about it on the forums I was offered a ride on a street ET bracket bike, a CBR600F3 belonging to member Mark (dusterdude) in the Street ET Nationals at Piedmont, NC.
Although I didn't fair to well, I really enjoyed the experience and looked at doing it again one day on a bike of my own.
I had been following the exploits of CB750 auto racer Chad Isley on Dragbike.com and decided that if I were to build a bike, the CB750A was the way to go.
In March of this year, such a bike came up for sale in Tampa FL. It was in full dresser trim but looked a good bike for the money being asked.
I asked on this forum, were any members in the area that could help me. Siter81 Ed and peterbylt Peter jumped in with both feet to help.
Within a few days, the deal was done and the guys looked after the bike until I could pick it up.
In the meantime, ace tuner and very good friend Mike Rieck set about collecting the go faster goodies that would be required to turn this docile tourer into a handy bracket racer.
Also on the scene, Jon Weeks who I met on Dragbike.com, a dragracing Honda auto specialist started looking for a particular set of carbs that would help the auto breath well. Jon also started to prepare a special torque converter that allows the bike to be wound up on the line while holding on the back brake to stop the bike creeping forward into the staging lights.
On the 11th November I flew to the US (well I sure as hell wasn't going to swim ) and met up with Peter and Ed. The next morning saw Peter and myself heading out of Tampa, bound for the AMA national finals in Valdosta. The idea was to run the bike as it was in full dresser trim, just to give us an idea of the same bikes, before and after times.
Although the bike had a slight missfire, it managed to return 18.245 over the quarter, I thought it would be quicker (around 16s) but the slight miss held it back a little.
I thanked Peter for his help and said our goodbyes, Peter headed back down to Tampa while I tried to find transport to get the bike up to Boston for it's make over.
Finding a van that I could hire one way proved impossible and I turned to the nearest forum member who I knew had transport. Enter Bellcow54, Bill Benton of Bent-on Racing in Atlanta. After working all day, Bill drove about 470 miles round trip to pick up my sorry a$$ and the Honda auto (what a guy ).
After spending a few days with Bill and his wife Pat, the time had come to jump on a plane and head north to Boston but not before Bill and I had talked some serious business.
Bent-on racing and Sam Green Racing decided to join forces to race the auto when it's transformation is completed and with that we said our fairwells.
I'm now at Mikes in Boston and was real pleased with the goodies that mike had in store for me.
Super light JE forged 836 pistons, Megacycle cam, and M3 tensioner and next weekend I'll get to meet Jon Weeks with the auto tuning goodies.
When the bike arrives, I'll strip off as much as I can to save Mike's time on the bike and that about takes me up to this post.
That's it for now until we post some pics, thanks for listening.
Sam.
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