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Offline 65Ch3v3LL3

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Re: 79 CB650 Cafe with modern upgrades
« Reply #75 on: May 17, 2015, 01:05:29 PM »
Guys my project isn't dead but it has been severely delayed. My engine builder put my engine on the back burner while I was in Afghan and now he owes me work and I'm having a tough time getting him to get it done. I'm at the point that we need custom made valves cut for the heads and since he is the one that has gotten it this far I really want him to finish it. Hopefully I can keep putting pressure on him to get it finished up. I also came home from Afghan and went back to college full time so that has consumed a lot of my time. Rest assured though that with the parts I have already purchased and the money I have spent that this thing will get finished at some point. Once the engine is actually all back together I will do all the EFI conversion on the engine stand where it is easier to work on. Then the frame modifications will begin.
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Re: 79 CB650 Cafe with modern upgrades
« Reply #76 on: May 17, 2015, 03:01:48 PM »
Welcome back mate... ;)
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Re: 79 CB650 Cafe with modern upgrades
« Reply #77 on: May 17, 2015, 03:15:23 PM »
Thanks. I check in on the site from time to time. I've just been super busy with school and setting up my new shop now that I'm home. It will get done, just not sure when.
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Re: 79 CB650 Cafe with modern upgrades
« Reply #78 on: October 03, 2015, 01:08:05 PM »
Any progress in your build mn ? Really interested to see how you upgrade the charging system on this cb650 they are known to have really bad systems.
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Re: 79 CB650 Cafe with modern upgrades
« Reply #79 on: November 26, 2015, 05:29:28 PM »
anything to update? I am interested in doing something similar to my 1980 cb650.
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Re: 79 CB650 Cafe with modern upgrades
« Reply #80 on: December 07, 2015, 11:39:34 AM »
I'm joining the pile-on.  Any updates??  Specifically, have you worked out the modification of the CBR600RR stator to upgrade the 650 charging system for the fuel pump/EFI set up?  I wouldn't mind upgrading my 650 charging system if the mod is not too outrageous.
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Re: 79 CB650 Cafe with modern upgrades
« Reply #81 on: January 26, 2017, 02:49:30 PM »
BUMP.  Chevelle, have you revived this project??
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Re: 79 CB650 Cafe with modern upgrades
« Reply #82 on: October 09, 2018, 05:13:02 PM »
Well guys it’s been forever but sometimes life gets in the way. Engineering school took every spare moment I had and every spare dime I had too. I’ve now graduated and I’m now a Mechanical Engineer. I’ve finally got my shop in order and I’m getting back on past projects. I’m currently building a CM400 for my fiancé but I plan to get back on the 650 soon. It might be the longest project ever but it isn’t dead. Here a snap of the mock-up on the CM400.
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Re: 79 CB650 Cafe with modern upgrades
« Reply #83 on: October 09, 2018, 08:47:04 PM »
Congrats on the degree..
 I think that 400 is screaming for  about 3 inches of rear stretch..
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Re: 79 CB650 Cafe with modern upgrades
« Reply #84 on: October 10, 2018, 05:15:46 AM »
Quote from: 754 on October 09, 2018, 08:47:04 PM
Congrats on the degree..
 I think that 400 is screaming for  about 3 inches of rear stretch..


Agreed Frank!
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Re: 79 CB650 Cafe with modern upgrades
« Reply #85 on: October 17, 2018, 11:38:44 AM »
carbs are on upside-down on the cm400!
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Re: 79 CB650 Cafe with modern upgrades
« Reply #86 on: October 17, 2018, 05:59:50 PM »
Quote from: sinister902 on October 17, 2018, 11:38:44 AM
carbs are on upside-down on the cm400!
Think that makes them "downdraft"  ;D ;D ;D
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Re: 79 CB650 Cafe with modern upgrades
« Reply #87 on: January 14, 2020, 10:13:24 AM »
Stumbled upon this thread. Any updates on the bike?
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Re: 79 CB650 Cafe with modern upgrades
« Reply #88 on: January 14, 2020, 01:06:54 PM »
He might be overseas again.  I'd love to see an update, too!
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Re: 79 CB650 Cafe with modern upgrades
« Reply #89 on: January 14, 2020, 02:31:45 PM »
was following this for a bit, the porting looks really good....
but guy has been last active october 2018... hope all is good with him
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« Reply #90 on: January 16, 2020, 09:05:01 AM »
 Porting looks good but you have to be really careful with that exhaust guide boss. There is much material between the boss and the valve spring pocket....you can break through easily.
 100 HP is a very, very big number for that size engine.....good luck.
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Re: 79 CB650 Cafe with modern upgrades
« Reply #91 on: January 17, 2020, 09:37:37 AM »
Quote from: MRieck on January 16, 2020, 09:05:01 AM
Porting looks good but you have to be really careful with that exhaust guide boss. There is much material between the boss and the valve spring pocket....you can break through easily.
 100 HP is a very, very big number for that size engine.....good luck.
agree, was talking more about the Inlet side,
and yes, 100hp claim made me smile,
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Re: 79 CB650 Cafe with modern upgrades
« Reply #92 on: January 17, 2020, 10:14:12 AM »
Quote from: turboguzzi on January 17, 2020, 09:37:37 AM
Quote from: MRieck on January 16, 2020, 09:05:01 AM
Porting looks good but you have to be really careful with that exhaust guide boss. There is much material between the boss and the valve spring pocket....you can break through easily.
 100 HP is a very, very big number for that size engine.....good luck.
agree, was talking more about the Inlet side,
and yes, 100hp claim made me smile,

But JWilde was able to do 80 mph in 2nd gear on his CB350! LOL!  Yeah, 100 hp is a lot to ask even for a fully upgraded 650 motor. 
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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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2005 RVT1000RR RC51-SP2 "El Diablo" - Sold
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