cx'y 500

Come take a peak, you won't find anything as refined as you have going, more a gathering of parts I had or liked and come across.

I have a bud that is doing a CX as well. until exposure to them by him and others including yours, I hadn't really given them a hard look. The Radiator, The Strange Twin, The Shaft drive all seemed foreign. But when thought of as a Japanese Guzzi they begin to show thier potential.
 
Lol, I love em mate and think that engine looks really cool, I mean, if youre gonna have a twin then lets see it ha ha ;D

Right then,
Fiberglass. The thing about fiberglassing is preperation. Make sure you have everything to hand, then either cut up or tear your matting to the sizees you need. Remember big bits wont go round corners as easy as little bits and if you rip the edges they will overlap much better too

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The guid on the can says 2cm of hardner to 100ml of resin. the can holds 500ml so 5cm of hardner for one of my paper cups should be about right as they hold around 250ml

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I like to get a coat of resin on then add the matting and apply another coat of resin to wet it right in

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The first layer is really important as that will be the outside face of the finish pod so take care to get it right. A few minor imperfections are no biggy as they can be got out with a little body filler

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After that its just about getting the layers on. I'm gonna do a 3 layer seat so the mould needs to be 5 or six layers as it needs to be really ridiged.
Now it can sit and cure for about 48 hours then i'll remove the plug.

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Well I got up this morning and decided to pop the mould off the plug

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I cleaned it up and trimmmed the edges with a hacksaw blade in my jigsaw

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There are a few small air bubbles on the inside, but I'll sort those out with a little body filler

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First time I've attempted a seat, and so far its all gone to plan ;D
 
The sexy side of the CX'y500
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you won me ages ago, but girlie pic are never wasted ;)


Nice work on the seat mold. You might want to strengthen that a bit for a production run, because I have a feeling you'll be getting requests once word gets out.


cheers
ian
 
bikeboy said:
you won me ages ago, but girlie pic are never wasted ;)


Nice work on the seat mold. You might want to strengthen that a bit for a production run, because I have a feeling you'll be getting requests once word gets out.


cheers
ian
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Thanks Ian,

I think youre right, and I'm gonna add a few more layers of fiberglass next weekend. I dont have any plans right now to do a production run, as my evenings and weekends are taken up with the build, but there are gonna be times when I am waiting on stuff I could bang out a few I guess. ;D

Thanks again for the positive input mate.
 
Frankenfe said:
That seat makes me want to run out and get me a CX just to put it on.
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Lol, thanks mate. I love Honda, and the CX500 is just so different it gets my creative juices flowing. I've already built the bike in my head and know exactly what I want it to look like. If I had a big wallet it would be done by now. Dam that wallet, lol ;D
 
you at least have one thing (possibly two) i don't. i have a cx500 cafe project i'm working on too. and i've already built it in my head. the problem is not just money... it's time and talent. there is so much i want to do but simply don't have the skills at this point in life.

funny enough, the way i want to do my seat is completely different from yours. i want to use the lines of the frame and make the seat follow them. since the tank points down towards the back, i'm hoping to make my lines "flow". if i ever get the time or money we'll see if my mental images become tangible.
 
Why not use the back of your tank as a mould for the seat pod mate, then cut it down the middle to narow it, the glass it back together and the to the original CX fiberglass seat pan. You already have most of what you need mate. As far as talent, well watch as many youtube vids on the subject you can, and learn from them mate. I've made some horrible mistakes mate, but I've always learned from them.

Now then, there is nothing stoping you, but you, so crack on and get some pix on here.

Oh! and ask as many questions as you like, I will alway reply mate.
 
Time to get the heads back on.
I applied silicon to bothe sides of the head gasket and droped the heads back on.
Next I greased both ends of the push rods and put them on to the followers.
The rockers went on next and the four head bolts went in.

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The head bolts need to be tightened in the correct order to prevent the head warping.
there is a torque setting for the head bolts of 36 ft lb

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I was advised by my mate to start at 15 ft lb's and tighten to the sequence shown
working up 5 ft lb at a time untill I reached the maximum shown in the Haynes manual

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There we are then, back on.

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I'm pleased that I learned how to use my torque wrench, and think its going to
be a real asset on this build

My mate Rob was the second pair of hands tha held the engine for me while I
tightened everything up and gave me some sound advice.

I think I'm gonna start pulling the carbs apart next so I'll be hunting for
a carb rebuild gasket set next. While I do that I'll get to welding the frame mods.
 
I think you are developing a scary fondness for your new Torque Wrench, ::)

I am afraid to tell you they have ...Digital ones too! :)
 

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I think you are developing a scary fondness for your new Torque Wrench, ::)

I am afraid to tell you they have ...Digital ones too! :)
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Owwwwww Moma!!! ;D
 
Munch, munch, munch.... I'm very glad I got that popcorn for this thread. Looking forward to seeing the final product on this seat.
 
Tonight I thought I might add a bit of bling to the project, so I gave these bad boys a look

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I started with 240 wet and dry then went finer until I got to polish

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I'll do the other one when I get in tomorrow.

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I had forgotten how ugly those motors are naked. Reminds me of................Never mind. We don't need to go there.

That looks much better polished. I suspect some black on the motor with those covers as contrasts might look good.
 
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