adventure_prone
New Member
Hello all.
Welcome to my first build, I'm a machinist and welder for the air force so I thought I'd try and put those skills to work in some sort of build. Picked a cb because the following on them is huge, it helps that I also picked this up for $500
So here she is in all her glory
the kid who owned it didn't really know what he was doing.
He got pods and a mac 4 into 1. Then complained that the exhaust had a leak (there was more exhaust coming out of the head than the muffler). He assumed it was just needing gaskets so bought them but never installed them. I shrugged it off just thinking I'll take 30 or so mins to put them in.. I test rode it, ran well surprisingly but the exhaust leak was so loud I only rode it down the block and back.. loaded it up and before I left town went to a guy he refered me too who collects jap bikes and parts.
Jason, the parts guys, turned out to have an entire pole barn full of anything and everything motorcycles. So I was looking for a cb750f tank to put on this bike but most were pretty rusty. Then I came along a cb500 twin tank (as seen on the ground in the picture above), I love the lines of it plus it is rust free, so I picked it up for $40 bucks. Will take a little tinkering to get it mounted on the
Started taking the exhaust off and low and behold the kid put the exhaust collars on backwards.
So I fixed those but now I'm getting a 3k rpm idle. My guess is he tuned it to run ok with the giant exhaust leak.. I took the carbs apart everything seems clean has a 100 main jets, which for pods and a 4 into 1 I don't know if those are big enough. Being new to carbs I sort of at a stand still until I do some research
the cb500T tank front is mounted the way I want it, need to weld a mounting tank to the rear of the tank and the frame still, then make a spacer to get the rear up higher, I want the bottom of the tank to be parallel to the ground. After that the tank, fender, and headlight bucket are being sand blasted. I'm going for a brushed look through out the bike, I think it'll look great.
Some other shots
This is with a 120 grit sandpaper, I think I'm going to go with something rougher still
Rolled it outside today, finished plastic blasting the tank so I popped it on to see if I'm want to leave it bare or paint it. I'm still undecided
I'm forever waiting on parts lol. I have the following ordered.
From cognito moto:
Triple tree top
Rearset brackets
Rearsets
Clip ons
Small battery
Electronics tray for under the seat
Headlight brackets
From dcc:
Tachometer
Cafe seat
Led tail light
Other randoms:
7 in Trucklite led headlight
New intake boats
Jet kit
Valve tappet covers
Still need to order a carb sync kit, but the couple places I've looked are sold out
Until the parts get here I'm stuck trimming of unused brackets trying to clean up the clutter on the frame.. trying to build this by the 4th of July to put it in the towns car and bike show, it's all Harleys here so it should stand out a bit
Welcome to my first build, I'm a machinist and welder for the air force so I thought I'd try and put those skills to work in some sort of build. Picked a cb because the following on them is huge, it helps that I also picked this up for $500
So here she is in all her glory
the kid who owned it didn't really know what he was doing.
He got pods and a mac 4 into 1. Then complained that the exhaust had a leak (there was more exhaust coming out of the head than the muffler). He assumed it was just needing gaskets so bought them but never installed them. I shrugged it off just thinking I'll take 30 or so mins to put them in.. I test rode it, ran well surprisingly but the exhaust leak was so loud I only rode it down the block and back.. loaded it up and before I left town went to a guy he refered me too who collects jap bikes and parts.
Jason, the parts guys, turned out to have an entire pole barn full of anything and everything motorcycles. So I was looking for a cb750f tank to put on this bike but most were pretty rusty. Then I came along a cb500 twin tank (as seen on the ground in the picture above), I love the lines of it plus it is rust free, so I picked it up for $40 bucks. Will take a little tinkering to get it mounted on the
Started taking the exhaust off and low and behold the kid put the exhaust collars on backwards.
So I fixed those but now I'm getting a 3k rpm idle. My guess is he tuned it to run ok with the giant exhaust leak.. I took the carbs apart everything seems clean has a 100 main jets, which for pods and a 4 into 1 I don't know if those are big enough. Being new to carbs I sort of at a stand still until I do some research
the cb500T tank front is mounted the way I want it, need to weld a mounting tank to the rear of the tank and the frame still, then make a spacer to get the rear up higher, I want the bottom of the tank to be parallel to the ground. After that the tank, fender, and headlight bucket are being sand blasted. I'm going for a brushed look through out the bike, I think it'll look great.
Some other shots
This is with a 120 grit sandpaper, I think I'm going to go with something rougher still
Rolled it outside today, finished plastic blasting the tank so I popped it on to see if I'm want to leave it bare or paint it. I'm still undecided
I'm forever waiting on parts lol. I have the following ordered.
From cognito moto:
Triple tree top
Rearset brackets
Rearsets
Clip ons
Small battery
Electronics tray for under the seat
Headlight brackets
From dcc:
Tachometer
Cafe seat
Led tail light
Other randoms:
7 in Trucklite led headlight
New intake boats
Jet kit
Valve tappet covers
Still need to order a carb sync kit, but the couple places I've looked are sold out
Until the parts get here I'm stuck trimming of unused brackets trying to clean up the clutter on the frame.. trying to build this by the 4th of July to put it in the towns car and bike show, it's all Harleys here so it should stand out a bit
