calebacm
Active Member
Finally getting started on this. God, I'm so sorry for the few of you that have seen my "idea" posts. I have a garage now so I can actually do this! Started taking my 1978 CB400T down to the frame today. Got all the small parts off now I need to start on the exhaust, engine and air box stuff. Hopefully that'll be done tomorrow. Maybe. I want to do something like Steel Bent Custom's CB400. Here's a picture of that!
Except I don't want mine to be white. And a couple of other things but this is my inspiration. As all of you know, the frame on the twin is HORRENDOUS. Grinder, meet frame. You won't be very good friends. I want to use DCC's hoop kit to create a good hoop for a short solo cafe seat. I also want to do an air box delete and use UNI filters, which will require rejetting (easy) and do a 2-1 exhaust similar to the one above. Then new shocks, custom wiring harness, hidden battery, etc. So the whole point is to lighten up the frame and get it to handle a little nicer.
As for the engine, I'm going to change some gears out to get some more torque at first and see where that gets me. If I'm not satisfied with that, we'll see where I go with it. I'm not too comfortable opening that up on my own so I'll get someone to help me with that. And by help I mean do it for me while I hand them tools and buy them beer.
So yeah! This is my first project with a bike and I need guidance! I'll be posting pretty regularly, I hope, with this. It'll be a weekend project thing seeing that I'm still in college and need to be a responsible student sometimes. I'll be buying parts sometime this upcoming week, I just need to decide what to get first. Any suggestions?
Thanks guys, stick with me, I want to make this thing one badass little twin.
Here are some pictures of the bike and where it's at now.
Except I don't want mine to be white. And a couple of other things but this is my inspiration. As all of you know, the frame on the twin is HORRENDOUS. Grinder, meet frame. You won't be very good friends. I want to use DCC's hoop kit to create a good hoop for a short solo cafe seat. I also want to do an air box delete and use UNI filters, which will require rejetting (easy) and do a 2-1 exhaust similar to the one above. Then new shocks, custom wiring harness, hidden battery, etc. So the whole point is to lighten up the frame and get it to handle a little nicer.
As for the engine, I'm going to change some gears out to get some more torque at first and see where that gets me. If I'm not satisfied with that, we'll see where I go with it. I'm not too comfortable opening that up on my own so I'll get someone to help me with that. And by help I mean do it for me while I hand them tools and buy them beer.
So yeah! This is my first project with a bike and I need guidance! I'll be posting pretty regularly, I hope, with this. It'll be a weekend project thing seeing that I'm still in college and need to be a responsible student sometimes. I'll be buying parts sometime this upcoming week, I just need to decide what to get first. Any suggestions?
Thanks guys, stick with me, I want to make this thing one badass little twin.
Here are some pictures of the bike and where it's at now.