We are glad you are all enjoying the build and thank you for your comments and interest. I am excited too and maybe I will get a test ride on this machine when it's completed.
Here are some details from Pops on the frame:
Yes, I think its a Cafe Racer, my style anyway. Building a frame is a real brain exercise, which is what I like. I've started putting in the girders in between the frame tubes, thats going to make a big difference in stiffness & looks. Also have a idea on how to connect headstock to engine for super racer look. I can't use a drawing program so I cant show you a picture of how the tank will look, maybe I'll try to sketch it and take a picture.
And on the engine:
The oil comes out of engine on the lower right side cover, in a #4 line, and yes the filter, cooler goes in that line. Then back into the main engine gallery on the left side to oil the crank & trans, then out of the main gallery on the right side to a #3 line to the head at the end of the camshaft, which has been gun drilled to oil lobes & bearings. Most internal oil passages in case & head have been plugged, no oil to head studs or stock filter, (also removed). The cam cover is not sealed as yet to allow engine to be spun over with starter to prime and fill oil system & check oil pressure (at the head).
He also said:
This might be of interest to people on DTT site. This is the fellow I got the copper head gasket from, good quality, shipped & packed well.
www.coppergaskets.us
I'll have some better pictures of the frame in a few days when it looks more like a motorcycle.
And here is another picture update showing the struts in the top tubes. And more info from my father:
Heres the latest photos, you can see a little better what its going to
look like. The tube with the hole in it is to get the upper rear motor
mount bolt in and out, only way I could come up with keep brace where I
wanted it.