My 81 Honda cm400c

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nols

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Bought this 81 cm400c from a guy for about 375 bucks! ;D. Drove it around the town and it needs some wiring love, Carb help, new rear tire. Not bad for the price at all was expecting way worse. My original photo wouldn't load so I have to figure out how to scale it down. I painted the bike semi flat black, cut the rear end off. I was going to make a bobber out of it. I decided to cafe/bobber it or something like that. This build for me is nice because I can change things as I go along. Usually I come up with a plan and try to stick to it so I like the freedoms for me on this one. Pics I'm posting are of the shorty mufflers I mocked up but didn't have time to bolt in due to my heater running out of juice! Tonight I will finish the rear end of the wiring front is done. I have another bike of the same year I stripped down into parts. I may have to cut that short also because hey the UFC PPV is on tonight and I can't miss that for nothing! I bought this rear cowl, seat pan, and seat on ebay and may use it if I don't like the solo seat look. Any comments good, bad, arguments I love em all and enjoy generating conversation.....Thanks for checking out my progress and I'll post more as I go along my slow wintery road.
 
Are those attached to the Exhaust underbelly? or straight piped...

I like the look of them! Keep posting pics...
 
First it has a header and then a dual chamber- on the underbelly for one pipe per-side this pipe slides in for a nice tight fit.
 
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Triple check the inlet sizes and removable baffles or not a lot of them differ. Got mines on the ebay........
 
got my rear section of wiring done last night. Took the wiring from a box of parts and wiring I got with the bike. All the wiring is installed and works purdy good. I hooked up some lights and tossed in the battery and presto she was working like a charm. Will post some pics of that today. Next is installing the cafe rear tail section or solo seat section. I'm going to do a mock up and see which one I like and go with it. I'm just waiting for my tail section to show up in the mail from UPS/ebay!
 
did some more work cleaning up the wiring and thought I would post a pic. Still haven't decided on solo seat or using the tail section I bought. Been so busy I haven't even had time to check this (work) Heater in my garage died last week and just got it fixed so I can finally head back out to the garage.....Here is a pic with the solo seat......gotta find some handlebars.....
 
Hey, nice work, I have the same bike, only now it will be a 450 as the original motor tanked. How loud are the shorty's? I have the same pipes, the stock pipes and a 2 into 1 and I am trying to decide which ones to put on. I don't want the neighbors to get pissed at me when I fire it up at 7 to go to work.

Cheers,
 
man running a spring seat with shocks just looks rediculous, either swap the seat springs over to some hair pin springs or get rid of them completely, of coiurse you can always just get rid of the shocks and sturt it slammed.... i woiudl also look for some Suzuki savage shocks, they ae 10in eye to eye and will really drop that down, you are also going to want some type of a sissy bar or more rear fender, if you catch a bump, that seat is going to pop your right off on to the rear fender, or lack of, and your day will be ruined! run a bit longer of a fender, toss lower shocks, and rock some hair pin springs... i am not sure what kind of welders you know, but on the bob i have going i dropped the seat pan in the rear 3.5 in, thn moved my shocks peg mount on top forward...this allows, me to keep the shocks, have a low lean look, for a old school flat tracker alot like milwakee iron builds... here is a pic of what i did to my frame....
to make this mod look right you have to get the back of the frame even with the top of the rear tire, i moved the top shock mount down and forward because it allows me to save some $$$ and use a stock length Dyna (harley) shock... these will do much better on a more rad angle as well as have a VERY beefy look to them to make the rear end look as good as it feels

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somthing like htis for hte rear fender (this was before i removed my rear shocks on the seat)
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I'm going to be hard tailing it as soon as my buddies shop slows down. I haven't spent a lot of time out in the garage because its been -10 to -20 degrees up here! my poor heater even died from the beating it took. I plan on using stuts of some sort that we fabricate. I just set the seat up top for the picture. Then I need to find some handlebars. By the way both of you guys that wrote back have some sweet rides!!
 
oooh hell ya! slam that sucker down, but remember about ext the fender, exp on a hard tail... running that thin of a rear tire is going to be rough on a hard tail so be ready to be bounced around... what kind of bars you looking for? i have TONS of 7/8 bars in the shop!
 
I looked at a set of biltwell clubmans because you can flip em up or down......something cafe/bobber style haven't really decided yet....Got anything good?
 
Maritime Biker said:
Hey, nice work, I have the same bike, only now it will be a 450 as the original motor tanked. How loud are the shorty's? I have the same pipes, the stock pipes and a 2 into 1 and I am trying to decide which ones to put on. I don't want the neighbors to get pissed at me when I fire it up at 7 to go to work.

Cheers,

Shorties aren't too bad for loudness. These have the removable baffles in them. I am leaving them in because I don't really want the extra attention from our fine state patrol.
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Holy cow I haven't been on here hardly at all. That's because I've been working on the bike non-stop. I mocked up all the parts for my bike put it together and it looked purdy sweet. I built some hardtail struts out of some old steel construction strips. The ones with the rivet holes pre-drilled and the look pretty sweet. I rounded the top and slash cut the bottoms for a different look. Wiring is all done just put the front end back together. All I have left is a tail light and directionals for the rear end. Took the tire off and sent it to the shot for a new one. I broke a finger so I'm not attempting that. Haven't found a set of handlebars that I like yet but was looking on cyclexchange.com in WI at the 70's style clubmans and thought those would be good. Cleaning the carbs and weld the solo seat on in the next couple weeks. (I'll ride without seat if need be...lol). Gonna do a repaint as soon as I finish with the carbs and seat and I'm on the road....Cafe style bobber......
 
I have this bike rolling. I haven't picked a set of handlebars yet ( I'm slow) I'm doin the cafe bobber look. Since my welder and torches and various other tools burned up at my buddies in a sweet fire things are going slow but I did pretty good considering. I'm thinking of a fender/tail section change and some handlebars. I ran into some bad coils that was a real pain in the ass to diagnose because it wasn't happening all the time. Runs real sweet now........
 
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