hey everyone..first ill start off with a little bit about myself..
My name is Dustin and im from Glenville, PA which is situated near the Maryland line in central PA. Im currently a radiography student at Penn. school of technology (the x-ray program). My story goes like this..i started building a turbocharged vw golf at age 15. I sold that and bought a honda hurricane @ 18. After modding hurricane significantly, i sold it to fund my turbocharged bmw project. Being a college student, i couldnt afford to continue modding the bmw (already 15k into it), so i parked it.
I really missed having the hurricane so i got back into the market for something cheap, reliable, and easy to mod...aka, a honda! Ive got a pretty extensive background in building engines, tuning, wiring, welding, and anything else mechanical so i was searching for a 'fixer upper'...and it just so happens that my friend's older brother had a 74' cb750 he wanted to sell for $500. Let the fun begin!
after removing the king/queen seat, lugguage rack, back rest, engine gaurd, ape hangers, and lights...i was left with this!
i lowered the front and mocked up drag bars along with removing some unneccessary crap...which got me here:
Then, i soldered new plug wires on the old crusty coils and proceded to rewire the entire bike. all of the handlebar controls were removed and switches were mounted in the center 'dash' to control hi/low beams, blinkers, and horn. I also mounted an LED for the nuetral light.
After all that, i didnt like the way the stock gas cap looked/worked. I was looking for a classic 'bobber'/'rat' style so i decided on a raised filler neck with a simple harley vented cap. i ordered the bung and cap, and proceded to TIG weld the two together. The metal was pretty thin so i used the 'pulse' function on my TIG to get the job done. came out pretty nice! Then i sent the tank, exhaust, and a few other bits to my neighbor for sandblasting.
got everything back from being blasted. the tank came out pretty good. i primed and sealed the bottom and im getting ready to do some bodywork on the top half.
with everything coming to a standstill waiting on parts, the next logical choice was to work on getting the bike running properly. i tore the carbs apart, cleaned the crap out of them, lubed up all the moving parts, reassembled, bench synched the slides, set the main idle stop, and synched the choke assembly. These were the dirtiest carbs ive ever seen and i think they cleaned up pretty well. ive got new fuel line and bigger main jets on the way to prepare her for velocity stacks..
some things that i dont have pictures of...
-bar end blinkers were installed along with black grips and black throttle assembly
-exhaust had a quarter sized hole that i TIG'ed shut
-entire exhaust was painted with 2000* flat black paint
-cb500 fork tubes on the way to lower the ride height
-rear was lowered around 3-4"
the ultimate goal here is to SLAM this thing (lowered 3-4" all around) while giving it a bit of a bobber/rat look. ive only had the bike for about a month and ive got maybe $800 into it..i think im doing pretty well so far!
