Topic: 550 bobber attempt

[COMB2]

I used the stock arm and chopped the top off. Had an old bike and chopped off the pedal crank. Weld them together and smooth out a bit. Went to the local bike shop got a pedal to screw into the crank I weldded on. I ended up using just the center part of the pedal. I took off the grippy part of the pedal and wrapped a piece of flat stock to go along with the theme

[MoMo]

Good luck trying to tune that bike with those pipes and also get used to shorter valve life, no back pressure is not a good thing..

Mick

Plus........Don't know where you live but around PA it is also illegal...Larry

[fastbroshi]

  Have you been inside the carbs yet?  Those jets shown on DCC aren't correct for your carbs. 

[COMB2]

  Have you been inside the carbs yet?  Those jets shown on DCC aren't correct for your carbs. 

Humm I asked in a post here and that's where I was pointed too. Unless I miss understud

[COMB2]

Btw why they wrong?

[Raef]

I don't know the part #'s and those may just be stock photos, but the jets in the photos are not jets for those years of cb 550 carbs.

The main jets are press in with a o-ring and slows are very long, they screw in and have a long skinny tube on one end

Mark

[Raef]

btw i dig the build

[COMB2]

Yep the jets were wrong. Guy at the local shop dug thru a couble sets of old carbs and found some bigger ones.
Anyway just rode it for the first time yesterday. Pipes aren't very loud.


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[COMB2]

not sure why there is 2 vids but they are the same thing

[cdoggy81]

Very cool ride!