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TOPIC CHANGE! While this has all been going on, I've been fighting to get my rotary-powered Datsun 280z ready for the first hillclimb event. For those who are unfamiliar with hillclimb races, I have some raw race footage from last year on YouTube: 2015 Hillclimb Season (Driven Daily's Modest...

I've soaked and cleaned the pistons a few times, but those rings don't seem to be coming loose. I'm considering taking them to a friend with a lathe to have the rings machined until they weaken enough to fall out, at this point.

Keeping the hub and re-lacing with 17" wheels. Sorry, keeping all the brakes as-is. It's much simpler than measuring hubs, making/ordering spacers, and possibly converting to disc brakes. More work than I have time for, right now.

It's not really one or the other. The two kind of munge together. One gets 17" wheels, the other gets 18" wheels ... otherwise, just consider it a double-bike-refresh. That was extremely helpful, much simpler than I was expecting. I'll probably want another set of hands when I put it back...

... and so it begins.

He seems to be the resident expert on all things honda-twin. You're making me almost want to tear down my cl360 engine when I'm done with this. These little things are so dang simple. I think I'll have all my parts this weekend, so the plan is to have it all together on Monday. I'm not really...

Bad. I'd call them atrocious, but a fingernail barely catches on them, so I'll just stick with 'bad' for now. I'm hoping someone has sorted out what kind of bearings fit in there, and what machining to do to the head/cover? I suppose these could be run with a polish, as the journals on the cams...

Several hours and several broken tools later, the instructions in the FSM have completely failed me. The recommendation to rotate the engine in order to remove the cam gear were nothing short of infuriating. I need to buy a few offset 10mm wrenches, apparently. Didn't even know about them...

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Ordered. After pulling all of the left covers, the kicker engages the seized engine! That's partly good news. The bad news is that both the kicker and electric starter fall all over themselves when they try to move the crank. There's a whole lotta mystery oil soaking in, and I'm just giving the...

Ordered a square-style easy-out, as I've never had the best luck getting the concentric style to work on stuff like this. The hole is cleared at least, but I'm betting some porcelain bits ended up inside the cylinder. Ceramics are pretty much the worst possible things to have rubbing between a...

I dug into the cb360 (my girlfriend's) and started some fact gathering. The kicker spins, and it spins the rear wheel if in gear. From that, I can tell that the transmission spins freely. There is no valve popping sound, so I can assume the clutch isn't engaging the engine, so I tried pulling...

Totally missed my typo (fixed now). I can barely squeeze a 170 on my GSXR, that'd be practically unrideable on a ~30hp little thing like this.

That's generally the plan, leave the bike alone as much as possible. Just run it as Honda intended. I've ridden a few friends' stock 350's and 360's, and while they're just good bikes all around. I definitely enjoy a more trimmed-down bike though, especially when the engine is as power-limited...

... and then there were two. My girlfriend has been interested in getting her license for awhile. Now she has an excuse, and a bike (birthday present). $300 and 3,000 miles on it. Some disassembly required. I just gave her a can of PB Blaster and told her to go to town on every bolt on the...