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Re: CB 550/650 Daily
« Reply #225 on: November 02, 2017, 12:58:23 PM »
Quote from: Camrector on November 02, 2017, 10:31:27 AM
Exactly Don.
Longer Test ride went well. Valves and pistons are seating in and she is running very well. Jetting is very close as per butt dyno. Plugs indicate a tad lean. Air mixture screws are 2 turns out. So I’ll play with those a bit. I’m using stock size CB550 sprockets. She is at 2700rpm at 70mph in 5th gear.

Good to know, I'll check out what speed I'm going at 2700rpm. I do have altered sprockets, forgot what exactly.
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Re: CB 550/650 Daily
« Reply #226 on: November 07, 2017, 02:19:15 PM »
Got an oil leak from the shift shaft seal. Replacement ordered. Didn’t leak at all until test ride #2.
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Re: CB 550/650 Daily
« Reply #227 on: November 07, 2017, 03:06:52 PM »
Quote from: Camrector on November 07, 2017, 02:19:15 PM
Got an oil leak from the shift shaft seal. Replacement ordered. Didn’t leak at all until test ride #2.

What oil ya using?
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Re: CB 550/650 Daily
« Reply #228 on: November 07, 2017, 05:18:15 PM »
For break in I’m using Bel Ray EXL 10w-40
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Re: CB 550/650 Daily
« Reply #229 on: November 14, 2017, 07:13:43 PM »
Shift shaft seal replaced. More test rides and tuning tomorrow.
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Re: CB 550/650 Daily
« Reply #230 on: November 14, 2017, 08:22:40 PM »
Nice!
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Re: CB 550/650 Daily
« Reply #231 on: November 15, 2017, 06:49:07 AM »
Looking forward to the ride report.
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Re: CB 550/650 Daily
« Reply #232 on: November 15, 2017, 02:58:06 PM »
Good , shorter ride today. Seals are all good. Jetting is dialed in from my butts opinion. She freaking rips after 4500 rpms!!!! Top end power is pretty incredible for an old gal. The 77/78 Cb 750 carbs are great. Awesome throttle response. Went up one pilot size and one main jet size. Air screws 1.5 turns out. Solid
Only issue is the rear brake is a little soft. The old shoes looked fine so I didn’t install the new ones I had. I’ll change that here soon.
Other than that I’d say this build is wrapped up and done. Just in time for Buffalo Ny winter 😐 ;D
More Pics coming soon.
« Last Edit: November 15, 2017, 03:01:23 PM by Camrector »
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Re: CB 550/650 Daily
« Reply #233 on: November 15, 2017, 03:25:38 PM »
Quote from: Camrector on November 15, 2017, 02:58:06 PM
More Pics coming soon.

Word is that you have a talented photographer available to you.
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Re: CB 550/650 Daily
« Reply #234 on: November 15, 2017, 03:52:28 PM »
Quote from: Camrector on November 15, 2017, 02:58:06 PM
Jetting is dialed in from my butts opinion.

Affectionately known as the "Butt Dyno"!   

Since winter is fast approaching Buffalo, you could always ship it down here to TX, I would keep her cleaned and tuned!
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Re: CB 550/650 Daily
« Reply #235 on: November 15, 2017, 04:10:50 PM »
That I do Don. But she is the most expensive photographer in the world  ;D  ;D

StevO id be concerned for your safety riding around a bike with NY plates lol
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Re: CB 550/650 Daily
« Reply #236 on: November 15, 2017, 09:41:07 PM »
Quote from: Camrector on November 15, 2017, 04:10:50 PM
StevO id be concerned for your safety riding around a bike with NY plates lol
Word!
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Re: CB 550/650 Daily
« Reply #237 on: November 16, 2017, 02:28:23 PM »
Quote from: Camrector on November 15, 2017, 04:10:50 PM


StevO id be concerned for your safety riding around a bike with NY plates lol

Good point! 

But I have a collection of plates that could easily solve that issue...
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Re: CB 550/650 Daily
« Reply #238 on: November 17, 2017, 11:05:40 AM »
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StevO id be concerned for your safety riding around a bike with NY plates lol

Good point! 

But I have a collection of plates that could easily solve that issue...

Steve only has 2 registered bikes. 
His plates are using Dzus fasteners so he can swap them quickly and cops can't tell the difference between one old bike and another.



*disclaimer  I may have made this up, but it's probably true.
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Re: CB 550/650 Daily
« Reply #239 on: November 17, 2017, 12:15:03 PM »
I mean I can’t ride all my cb550s at once, why do I need all those plates!?
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Re: CB 550/650 Daily
« Reply #240 on: November 17, 2017, 04:32:17 PM »
Quote from: CBGhia on November 17, 2017, 11:05:40 AM
Quote from: Stev-o on November 16, 2017, 02:28:23 PM
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StevO id be concerned for your safety riding around a bike with NY plates lol

Good point! 

But I have a collection of plates that could easily solve that issue...

Steve only has 2 registered bikes. 
His plates are using Dzus fasteners so he can swap them quickly and cops can't tell the difference between one old bike and another.

That BS, I have 3 registered bikes, Joe!  Does Vermont count?!!
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Re: CB 550/650 Daily
« Reply #241 on: December 04, 2017, 11:11:49 AM »
All done and running beautifully. Carbs are dialed in. Jetting was very simple on this one. Up one size on the pilot, up one size on the main.

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Re: CB 550/650 Daily
« Reply #242 on: December 04, 2017, 11:29:45 AM »
The bike looks terrific, Cam.  A real sleeper.  I like the many subtle mods, especially the seat.

I think you have the fastest 650/550 in Upstate NY, having beaten GV and Nick in completing the build.
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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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Re: CB 550/650 Daily
« Reply #243 on: December 04, 2017, 12:04:01 PM »
Thanks Don! If Nick can get a few days free to figure out his efi mod, we will race!! Lol
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Re: CB 550/650 Daily
« Reply #244 on: December 04, 2017, 02:20:40 PM »
Quote from: Camrector on December 04, 2017, 11:11:49 AM
All done and running beautifully. Carbs are dialed in. Jetting was very simple on this one. Up one size on the pilot, up one size on the main.



Nice job, Cam.  Nominated for BOTM....

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Re: CB 550/650 Daily
« Reply #245 on: December 04, 2017, 02:49:55 PM »
Cam, that looks very very nice.  Hope you can get the rear brakes sorted quickly.  Have you sanded the drum? Roughing up and breaking any glaze that may exist on the drum and the shoes could improve things.  Worth trying and riding 50-100 miles  and using the rear brake to break it inmight be worthwhile.  Then throw a new set of Ferrodo shoes from Vintage Brake on if they do not improve.  Any glazing should come off easy enough with some coarse sandpaper...even if they do not look glazed it cannot hurt them.

Anyone have a metal fork brace replacing the fender mounts with some high carbon steel twice as thick as the stock fork brace built into the fender.  Have it chromed and then rivet it to the fender.  Or rivet it and then chrome the fender and its mounts/fork brace.

Would be interesting to see what a bone stock rebuilt 550, 605cc C.I. build, 605 dynoman, and a 650/550 hybrid stacked up on the dyno and then on a mountain road with lots of curves.
The dyno graphs and lap times for the course with the course being ran 3x to reduce variation.

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Re: CB 550/650 Daily
« Reply #246 on: December 04, 2017, 03:28:44 PM »
Seconded.
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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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Re: CB 550/650 Daily
« Reply #247 on: December 04, 2017, 04:49:30 PM »
Thank you guys
Especially Dave and Dave. I humbly accept Don!
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Re: CB 550/650 Daily
« Reply #248 on: December 04, 2017, 11:04:24 PM »
Beautiful looking bike.
Please explain the "2700rpm at 70mph" . is that a typo or do you guys go all out on gearing them down (or up as we say here) ?
My 650 would be doing about 5500rpm then.
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Re: CB 550/650 Daily
« Reply #249 on: December 05, 2017, 01:49:19 AM »
Scunny- Thank you! I used the stock CB550 gearing (17/37). Not sure how I will like this long term.
I’ll put some more miles on it and decide. A 40 tooth rear sprocket would get me very close to stock cb650. I will say I enjoy the cruising smoothness, and the power band is right there if I need it.
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