CB450 71 Cafe AkA DraGon

Hi everyone,

I start that build around 1 year ago, I just tought some people could use some of the errors I've make.

So here it is from the beginnin, please, keep your tought coming !


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Thanks!

Here's the first pic when I once got the bike.

Then, start the real job:

Motor out:

Dirty carb:



Cleaning and rebuilding carb:
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While eating chips and salsa :D HUMmmMM!: [img]http://lh5.ggpht.com/_1D_up_JQCqc/SsARKgya8mI/AAAAAAAABhE/Ek1rVzVNoII/s800/DSCN2090.JPG

BTW those carburator are for sale,





After I start to clean every motor covers to get them ready for paint. You'll see, I'll post every tried that I've make (Polishing and different paint color, yep... cost me looootssss of stripper... and beers...



Oxided cap:



Cleaned and polished:





but still not to my taste...


OLD piston:
Fried ring:




Master rebulding:
Yuk!:

New kit:
Old and new:
YUK YUK!:

Blasted head and cap:

Painted silver... but not for long final choice: black :
Painted cylinder:
Final choice for head:
Look dusty but trust me... its awsome:

First try for valve cover red:
Nice but don't want red with the black engine on the head.

Final choice for the valve cover, silver:



and now lower engine covers: wit some touch of red... I had to redo the whole honda stator cover with honda in black... just to tell you I had to try it 6 time so I can have that result... first red, then you cure the paint, then black and your remove the black from the red with your nail, cure for black, wet sand everything, clearcoat, then you cure the clearcoat, then wetsand and buff to get the gloss. Final result:

On silver:
Oil filter cover:




Now some new stuff to end my post for right now:
New handlebar:
BTW the handlebar is for sale since i'm doing a cafe 25$
New kill switch:
New Dyna-s Ignition:

New STD piston kit,

BTW those are for sell, the whole kit, I want to go 74mm racing piston with VM32 carb.

So... ouff... its all for today, i'm out of heerrreee..

Let me know what you guys think!!

Nice work so far. Really like the red on silver. Looks like you got your work cut out for you. Have fun with the cancer on that bike.

SrgtBear said:

Nice work so far. Really like the red on silver. Looks like you got your work cut out for you. Have fun with the cancer on that bike.

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Thanks but, what's up with the cancer thing? I don't get it.....

"Cancer" is a knickname for rust that is untreatable. So bad it has corroded the parts beyond repair.

VonYinzer said:

"Cancer" is a knickname for rust that is untreatable. So bad it has corroded the parts beyond repair.

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Haha ok i get it now... no cancer on it at the end you'll see... i use some evaporust how kill the damn thing

Hey guys, What you think about those


Not the final one.

I just received my Mikuni VM32's with flanges

Looking good so far. You've put a lot of work into those covers and it shows.

keep it up.

ian

Nice work.

Wow Doing great on this bike. Good job man! Keep uss posted.

bikeboy said:

Looking good so far. You've put a lot of work into those covers and it shows.

keep it up.

ian

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Thanks Yep lot of test on those.

I hope I took the right way

Cl350k3guy said:

Wow Doing great on this bike. Good job man! Keep uss posted.

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Thanks!

Do you think that the lower ring of the speedometer should be red, black glossy or flat black?

Ok so i'll continue my post a little,

Here some new part again for my project:

Dunstall mufflers:
;D



New flashers with smoked lens= sexy!!!


Black clubmanbar:
New grip:


Ok now its time for the seat...

Fiberglass:

Here's what I used:
Lots of floral foam glued together with epoxy... I don't suggest that for next time, because expoxy is hard and could'nt cut the foam precisly because of that...




Shape


Final shape:

See the line because of epoxy?!

Epoxy is evil for that kind of work... just use something else .



Fiberglass layer:





And YES i'm doing that in the kitchen... I have such a wonderfull wife!!!!!

BTW I use the Epoxy Resine instead of Polyester Resing...

Epoxy smell nothing VS Polyester... .

I used the stuff from them: http://www.hl-plasto.com/Default.asp working great.

Now do you guys have a suggestion for filling the fiberglass?

Here's a picture of the frame now.

Installation of the mount for the CX500 tank:
Easy one, just use all tread with lock washer like other post.




Now the naked frame with seat and tank:

Painted:


I was suprise how that paint is sticking... really, hit it with hammer and now cracks or chips.

I use that stuff : http://www.canadiantire.ca/AST/browse/4/Auto/AutoBodyRepair1/AutoBodyPaintProtectants/PRD~0473707P/Peinture%2Bignifuge%2BVHT%2Bpour%2Bch%25E2ssis%252C%2B312%2Bg.jsp?PRODUCT%3C%3Eprd_id=845524443316225&FOLDER%3C%3Efolder_id=1408474396676101&bmForm=form_locale_change&bmFormID=1279634072822&bmUID=1279634072822&bmLocale=fr_CA

The satin black color.

Now painted frame with shock:

Not sure about those shock might get a set of argon...


And this is the picture of that DAMN ?&*)?&*(%?&*( swingarm...


I think this is the hardest thing I had to face during that project since now... Motor? Not a problem... swingarm? Hell of a bitch!

Bolt was stuck had to hammer it out with a sledge hammer!! took me like 2 days to have it out.

And I had to machined the inner bolt because of the bronze busing... bold was to tight!.



Check the installation and now play in the rear swingarm...

Damn I hate it! haha.

When the swingarm move at the first 10 time the outside bolts were moving to... but now its fine.

The swingarm is tight but a little hard to move... should it be smoother than that?

Let me know!

Thats it for today guys!

See you around.

Hello sir, I was curious as to where you found those turnsignals? They are totally rad.

Weknow said:

Hello sir, I was curious as to where you found those turnsignals? They are totally rad.

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Those are nice hein I found them on sportingforless, I know that speedmotoco.com have some of those to, but they are cheaper at sportingforless. They have a few model,

Smoke with brushed aluminium, and smoke with polished aluminium and they have the same in amber instead of smoke.

You are really putting the hammer down and making awesome progress. Looks great, Way to go!
Stik

stik70 said:

You are really putting the hammer down and making awesome progress. Looks great, Way to go!
Stik

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Thanks... yep I spend the time that needs to be spend great bike take a good amount of time... money and beer... ho ... and ACDC Rock ON!

I'll but a good high compresion piston kit from THR. At the end that will be a good looking bike... and a beat when you'll twist it

Hi guys,

Heres some more stuff for all of you.

first of all i received my gauge from my father... they are AWSOME!!!

I'm redoing them tought because of small detail

Here comes the pic:





Black or red??



Yeah yeah i know the window is dirty

And today I've worked on my battery eliminator from a capacitor 20 000 uf 16v.

Can someone tell me if that will work fine? I heard that yes but if you have experience let me know.





And on thuesday I received my spoke set, and coil:
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Spoke set quality looks very good, they are from thailand and made in thailand as well .

COIL:




Cost me 40$ for both delivered to canada good deal isn't it?


That's it for tonight girlz!!

And I'm Ouuuuttaaa herreee!