Hot Rod Troy
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Re: DWMS RACING CB550F SUPER REVERSE PORT! PRO STREET HARDTAIL!
Damn that looks kick ass. What do you have planned for the seat?
Damn that looks kick ass. What do you have planned for the seat?
DWMS RACING CB550F SUPER REVERSE PORT! NEW ENGINE COLORS AND PHOTOS!
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Rip-It-Up
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Re: DWMS RACING CB550F SUPER REVERSE PORT! PRO STREET HARDTAIL!
Just got done reading the majority of this thread. Cool build! Can't wait to see how the reverse port works out. Your running the intake through the exhaust port right instead of reversing the head? Seems like a flow nightmare. I haven't seen how much meat is in these heads for bigger valves. I assume your going to hog out the exhaust for an intake valve and use an exhaust valve on what used to be the intake side right? Can't imagine an intake valve taking the heat from running as an exhaust valve, at least not for very long. Are you going to do any work redesigning the ports? This thing probably will run worse than an old flathead with larger exhaust ports than intake. I have to admit I'm intrigued. A small turbo would certainly help this thing scavenge but would create problems all it's own. At any rate you have balls for taking this on. Thats alot of reverse engineering and fab work.
Just got done reading the majority of this thread. Cool build! Can't wait to see how the reverse port works out. Your running the intake through the exhaust port right instead of reversing the head? Seems like a flow nightmare. I haven't seen how much meat is in these heads for bigger valves. I assume your going to hog out the exhaust for an intake valve and use an exhaust valve on what used to be the intake side right? Can't imagine an intake valve taking the heat from running as an exhaust valve, at least not for very long. Are you going to do any work redesigning the ports? This thing probably will run worse than an old flathead with larger exhaust ports than intake. I have to admit I'm intrigued. A small turbo would certainly help this thing scavenge but would create problems all it's own. At any rate you have balls for taking this on. Thats alot of reverse engineering and fab work.
joeyputt
The green flag sets me free
Re: DWMS RACING CB550F SUPER REVERSE PORT! PRO STREET HARDTAIL!
Thank you all Brothers!
To answer a few of your qustions...
Brother Hot Rod Troy I am going to build a cafe style seat but it will take me a couple of weeks to complete with the material I am using, I want it to be a surprise! Hahahaha!
Brother Rip-It-Up thank you for taking the time to read through this thread! Most everything that you mentioned is what I am doing to the engine, when I get it totally done I will add photos and more details.
I am adding an underbrace and some other pieces for extra support.
Thank you all Brothers!
To answer a few of your qustions...
Brother Hot Rod Troy I am going to build a cafe style seat but it will take me a couple of weeks to complete with the material I am using, I want it to be a surprise! Hahahaha!
Brother Rip-It-Up thank you for taking the time to read through this thread! Most everything that you mentioned is what I am doing to the engine, when I get it totally done I will add photos and more details.
I am adding an underbrace and some other pieces for extra support.
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i am sorry to say that we do not... actually i no longer even have a chromer myself (when GM cut alot of busn they work with early in 2010 my buddies busn was one of them cut... they chromed door handles and trunk latches) they are now all closed up. i used to sneak stuff in with them once in a while but now i have nothing... we have a chrome powder but it looks more like polished alum if that, def not chrome... chrome wheels and a chrome frame would be the shit!
i am sorry to say that we do not... actually i no longer even have a chromer myself (when GM cut alot of busn they work with early in 2010 my buddies busn was one of them cut... they chromed door handles and trunk latches) they are now all closed up. i used to sneak stuff in with them once in a while but now i have nothing... we have a chrome powder but it looks more like polished alum if that, def not chrome... chrome wheels and a chrome frame would be the shit!
joeyputt
The green flag sets me free
Re: DWMS RACING CB550F SUPER REVERSE PORT! PRO STREET HARDTAIL!
Brother I would like to first thank you for that link to britten, he was a true craftsman that built world class equipment and I was not aware of that website so again thank you.
This bike started out as a nice stock restoration, then I decided to go with a cafe build but after deciding to go with the reverse port, rims , and inverted front suspension that I did it started getting away from the classic cafe style that I love and started leaning more towards a pro street style so that is one of the reasons I decided to go with the extended rear suspension and finish her in a pro street look. I want to build a boardtrack racer after this one and then I will build what I consider to be a classic cafe racer.
As for the seat yes it will look suspended in the air with no visible framing at all, the framing for it is very simple but a little hard to explain...the tube from the neck to the back of the tank is 1" and I left it open at the rear of the tank, I am going to build the seat frame section out of 3/4" tubing with a single tube of that sticking out of the front of the section that will fit inside the 1" tube at the rear of the tank and attach with a pin, once I have it built the seat will be attached to the frame and the whole assembly will be removeable by taking out the pin. I am building a cafe racer style tail with a single seat and am recessing the underneath of it where the frame will sit, then I am going to skin the bottom of it with polished aluminum so it will be a cafe racer style single seated tail with a flat polished bottom and no framing visible at all.
revheadgl said:
Brother I would like to first thank you for that link to britten, he was a true craftsman that built world class equipment and I was not aware of that website so again thank you.
This bike started out as a nice stock restoration, then I decided to go with a cafe build but after deciding to go with the reverse port, rims , and inverted front suspension that I did it started getting away from the classic cafe style that I love and started leaning more towards a pro street style so that is one of the reasons I decided to go with the extended rear suspension and finish her in a pro street look. I want to build a boardtrack racer after this one and then I will build what I consider to be a classic cafe racer.
As for the seat yes it will look suspended in the air with no visible framing at all, the framing for it is very simple but a little hard to explain...the tube from the neck to the back of the tank is 1" and I left it open at the rear of the tank, I am going to build the seat frame section out of 3/4" tubing with a single tube of that sticking out of the front of the section that will fit inside the 1" tube at the rear of the tank and attach with a pin, once I have it built the seat will be attached to the frame and the whole assembly will be removeable by taking out the pin. I am building a cafe racer style tail with a single seat and am recessing the underneath of it where the frame will sit, then I am going to skin the bottom of it with polished aluminum so it will be a cafe racer style single seated tail with a flat polished bottom and no framing visible at all.
Swapmeet Louie
Put some metal in yer eye....
Re: DWMS RACING CB550F SUPER REVERSE PORT! PRO STREET HARDTAIL!
Oh my goodness... This frame work looks fantastic Joey. It flows with the reverse motor so well..? Are you studying black magic again? I'm tell'n yer mom...
Oh my goodness... This frame work looks fantastic Joey. It flows with the reverse motor so well..? Are you studying black magic again? I'm tell'n yer mom...
joeyputt
The green flag sets me free
Re: DWMS RACING CB550F SUPER REVERSE PORT! PRO STREET HARDTAIL!
Hahahaha! Unfortunately for you my Mom is one of my number 1 fans!
I started this build with no plan at all and have been just building each piece as I get there but you would not believe how many times I have changed ideas as I am building! Hahahaha!
Thank you for the compliment Brother Louie, that means a lot to me man!
Swapmeet Louie said:
Hahahaha! Unfortunately for you my Mom is one of my number 1 fans!
I started this build with no plan at all and have been just building each piece as I get there but you would not believe how many times I have changed ideas as I am building! Hahahaha!
Thank you for the compliment Brother Louie, that means a lot to me man!
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i wish i could say the same... My mom always says "can you leave anything alone or do you have to take apart and change everything you get"
considering that my Dad is just as bad as I am with making "changes" to his stuff makes me laugh
and mind you this is coming from a lady who drives a tricked out truck... in the summer rocks our completely custom Fountain race boat, has a fully modified snowmobile... and come to think of it has NOTHING stock!!!
i will never win... just mom being mom...
i wish i could say the same... My mom always says "can you leave anything alone or do you have to take apart and change everything you get"
considering that my Dad is just as bad as I am with making "changes" to his stuff makes me laugh
and mind you this is coming from a lady who drives a tricked out truck... in the summer rocks our completely custom Fountain race boat, has a fully modified snowmobile... and come to think of it has NOTHING stock!!!
i will never win... just mom being mom...
Hot Rod Troy
Coast to Coast
Re: DWMS RACING CB550F SUPER REVERSE PORT! PRO STREET HARDTAIL!
Joe, I think we have all heard that. haha That's what makes us so much fun.
Joe, I think we have all heard that. haha That's what makes us so much fun.
joeyputt
The green flag sets me free
Re: DWMS RACING CB550F SUPER REVERSE PORT! PRO STREET HARDTAIL!
I am happy that you like it Brother Teazer!
I have several different designs that I am thinking about doing, but am undecided at the moment, as you said I want to keep the long and low clean look and the higher I go with bracing will take away from the look of the length which I like.
I think I have the underbracing that I want to do figured out and I may do it today but I am still playing with ideas for the top side.
teazer said:
I am happy that you like it Brother Teazer!
I have several different designs that I am thinking about doing, but am undecided at the moment, as you said I want to keep the long and low clean look and the higher I go with bracing will take away from the look of the length which I like.
I think I have the underbracing that I want to do figured out and I may do it today but I am still playing with ideas for the top side.
Re: DWMS RACING CB550F SUPER REVERSE PORT! PRO STREET HARDTAIL!
Joey,
Something about the shape is still bothering me and finally it came to me. I'm seeing that parallel set of tubes as a swingarm AND as a rigid rear end and of course my mind is having trouble with two very different images.
If you add a lower tube, it will make it look more like a regular rigid frame and I think that will be a great improvement. An upper tube would also work to add to a more old school look but starts to look like an old bobber and that doesn't work with the motor. So maybe a lower tube each side plus an upper tube that points straight at the headstock and stops at the rear down tube.
Cantelever a small R6 type race seat and have that fat exhaust flow under the seat and then kink up over the wheel to end up face straight back in a short megaphone. you could even slit the exhaust into two stubby megaphones with a tiny rear light between them. Or into 4 (MV style) with a long slim LED strip above or below the megs.
Think MotoGP meets bobber meets street rod.
Joey,
Something about the shape is still bothering me and finally it came to me. I'm seeing that parallel set of tubes as a swingarm AND as a rigid rear end and of course my mind is having trouble with two very different images.
If you add a lower tube, it will make it look more like a regular rigid frame and I think that will be a great improvement. An upper tube would also work to add to a more old school look but starts to look like an old bobber and that doesn't work with the motor. So maybe a lower tube each side plus an upper tube that points straight at the headstock and stops at the rear down tube.
Cantelever a small R6 type race seat and have that fat exhaust flow under the seat and then kink up over the wheel to end up face straight back in a short megaphone. you could even slit the exhaust into two stubby megaphones with a tiny rear light between them. Or into 4 (MV style) with a long slim LED strip above or below the megs.
Think MotoGP meets bobber meets street rod.
