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Re: CB550K3 Project - Brat
« Reply #25 on: May 20, 2018, 02:43:49 PM »
Front on and new IKON shocks in place. Starting to look like a bike again  :)
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Re: CB550K3 Project - Brat
« Reply #26 on: May 20, 2018, 02:51:53 PM »
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Re: CB550K3 Project - Brat
« Reply #27 on: October 02, 2018, 12:20:22 AM »
Ive made lots of progress but not really had time to update my page. 

Rear wheel polishing and rebuild.

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Re: CB550K3 Project - Brat
« Reply #28 on: October 02, 2018, 12:23:54 AM »
Controls before and after
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Re: CB550K3 Project - Brat
« Reply #29 on: October 02, 2018, 12:29:27 AM »
Found this old skool carb shop on my travels.  Had boxes and boxes of carbs and bits all over the place, but they guy new exactly where everything was when asked.  Manged to get some replacement vacuum port screws for my carbs as the old ones were all chewed up.
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Re: CB550K3 Project - Brat
« Reply #30 on: October 02, 2018, 12:31:58 AM »
Delkevic exhaust arrived and put on.  A little bit fiddly getting it all lined up but nothing too difficult.  Would have preferred to use the original fancy end flanges with the fins on but they aren't used with this system.
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Re: CB550K3 Project - Brat
« Reply #31 on: October 02, 2018, 12:33:35 AM »
Coils and HT leads cut to length and attached.  Heres the current state of play. 
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Re: CB550K3 Project - Brat
« Reply #32 on: October 02, 2018, 12:36:59 AM »
Not too much to do at the moment - im waiting for my battery/electrics box to be 3D printed and also waiting for a load of stuff to come back from the being chrome and yellow zinc plated, so been messing around with a few paint schemes.  Here's what im thinking, charcoal grey and silver, with an orange pin stripe!
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Re: CB550K3 Project - Brat
« Reply #33 on: October 02, 2018, 04:06:27 AM »
Colors look good together.

I think you'll find it far ore comfortable to ride your bike with clip-ons if you install some rear sets.  ;) Reaching so far forward then having your shin hang straight down is not a natural position.
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Re: CB550K3 Project - Brat
« Reply #34 on: October 02, 2018, 03:09:05 PM »
Yeah I wasn't originally planing to use clip-ons but they just make the bike look so much better than normal handlebars.  I have long arms so will see how it goes, but yeah might have to look at getting some rearsets.  Ive just sent my old rear brake arm to be chromed too  :-X

Speaking of clip-ons, the only way I could get them to fit without hitting the tank was upside down!
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Re: CB550K3 Project - Brat
« Reply #35 on: October 03, 2018, 08:49:46 AM »
With long arms and/or torso, clipons are less of an issue, but you should swap from the stock pegs to rearsets.  Otherwise you lower half is aligned for more upright riding and you will be bending your back more to reach the clipons.   Rearsets will position your body in a forward lean so that it is more natural to just reach for the bars and not be bending your back more. It also allows you core to support your body better.
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Re: CB550K3 Project - Brat
« Reply #36 on: December 11, 2018, 04:01:42 PM »
Lots of shiny things back from the platers!  Im really happy with how well they came out, especially the yellow zinc on the carb bits.  Before and after below.
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Re: CB550K3 Project - Brat
« Reply #37 on: December 11, 2018, 04:08:07 PM »
Carbs before:
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Re: CB550K3 Project - Brat
« Reply #38 on: December 11, 2018, 04:10:36 PM »
Carbs during:
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Re: CB550K3 Project - Brat
« Reply #39 on: December 11, 2018, 04:19:52 PM »
Carbs after:
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Re: CB550K3 Project - Brat
« Reply #40 on: December 11, 2018, 05:22:19 PM »
Wow!
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1975 CB550K1 "Blue" Stockish Restomod (http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php?topic=135005.0)
1975 CB550F1 frame/CB650 engine hybrid "The Hot Mess" (http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php/topic,150220.0.html)
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)

Sold/Emeritus
1973 CB750K2 "Bionic Mongrel" (http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php?topic=132734.0) - Sold
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: CB550K3 Project - Brat
« Reply #41 on: January 02, 2019, 08:13:47 PM »
Finally got my electrical box 3D printed...  Took a total of 55 hours of printing to get through it.
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Re: CB550K3 Project - Brat
« Reply #42 on: January 03, 2019, 12:25:36 AM »
She's alive!  After a year of blood, sweat and tears I started the old girl up today!  Couldn't get anything out of her at all for the first few minutes, but then noticed that the kill switch was off!  After correcting that she fired straight up.  Here's the second start below.  I never heard it run before but to my novice ears it sounds like its running pretty well.

Carbs were bench sync'd using ball bearings and the current settings are 105 mains jets, 42 idle jets, needles one clip up (however the needles are the E2350F ones from the 500 as opposed to the 550), pilot screws 1.5 turns out, and float heights of 14.5mm.

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Re: CB550K3 Project - Brat
« Reply #43 on: January 03, 2019, 10:13:55 AM »
Nice job.  I like that printed electrical box.  Can you post a shot of it installed with your electrical components installed and wired up?
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1975 CB550K1 "Blue" Stockish Restomod (http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php?topic=135005.0)
1975 CB550F1 frame/CB650 engine hybrid "The Hot Mess" (http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php/topic,150220.0.html)
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)

Sold/Emeritus
1973 CB750K2 "Bionic Mongrel" (http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php?topic=132734.0) - Sold
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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