bought a nice rd

Just bought this rd all original 73 rd 250 runs good just turned 5k really nice bike. Going to get the credit card out soon and turn it into a screamer going to spec 2 performance. Going to buy a set of 350 jugs off ebay send them to to spec 2 get a street port job done bore job chambers carbs reeds ect Should really scream if i want it to. Should be in the neighborhood of 60 hp with a bike that will weigh less then 350 lbs. What this bike had over an rd 350 is the crank to trans ratio is 3.02 i believe to 2.87 for the 350. I will keep all stock parts and not change anything else from stock. Can be changed back to stock in less then 2 hrs. The bike will not get thrashed. Probably wont go but a few hundred miles a year.
I believe i am going to sell the gt 750 project for me to make it the way i want will cost me as much as i can buy 1 for plus my labor. Did not realize how expensive parts are for the suzuki parts for the rd are 1/3 the price. Jeff was thinking of a h1 or h2 but parts are (almost as expensive as the Suzuki) Maybe next. I can buy all the rd parts above for the price of re chromed pipes for the kettle.
Have a lot of polishing to do on the aluminum parts to make showroom. But i will finish the x first won't take long when i get the space cleared in the garage. Decided i was not going to go to Daytona legs still need a bit more time to build up can't walk long distances yet

 

gday again cutlass, nice bike i wish mine was that good.

 

That's a really nice looking bike! Gosh, the purist in me screams "Don't mo it" but the former racer says "Yea, make it a pure buzz-bomb!"

You are correct about the RD parts being muc cheaper then the Buffalo parts but everything is relative.....think resale, the GT750 is worth many times the RD so naturally, the parts will be worth more. Go out and find a NOS condition stock set of pipes for my 75 H2....IF you can find them, you'll pay 3-4 thousand for them.

That all said, for the money, you'll go a lot further on the RD then you could have with the GT for the swame money. I know you were having a tough time finding the parts you needed at a reasonable price so enjoy your new bike....60hp is possible with a rd350 but it's going to be a real challenge to ride. Raise the exhaust to 28mm & change to TCI ignition(transistor), a set of nice chambers and the reed blocks need to be enlarged so the TZ blocks fit or use the RZ intake manifolds modified to fit ported RD reed cages. A homemade balance tube for the manifolds (or use a RZ tube) TDR single-petal fiberglass reeds and a boost bottle. Biggest thing with the RD s to get squish bands cut into the heads or you'll lose power all day till it cools.

Have fun with it. I' glad you found something that you can have fun building without breaking the bank.....you'll love riding a lightweight bike. Once you ride a 300 pound bike that makes decent power, it makes all these 450-550 pounders seem like pigs.

jeff

 

hey jeff rds are getting expensive also a nice buffalo is going for 4 to 5k. The guy i bought this from just sold a restored rd350 for 4k no one bid on it on ebay but someone contacted him after it ended and made him the offer. He said the offer came in 30 min after he listed mine. By that time i had already bought mine paid the deposit He thinks he could of got more for mine in the 30 min it was listed on a 6 day listing the 1st bid was over half the buy now price. But on the good side he is delivering the other rd in March to Gainsville fl and said he would drop it off here which is on the way for $250 i know you said you know a company that would Ship it cheap was gonna get the number from you all the other shippers want $600+ i would rather get a shipper so i wouldn't have to wait a month to get it. Heck for the prices they want i can drive to WI to get it even with a motel each way.
If you get a chance check out this guy at spec 2 http://www.spec2.com/engine.html he does all the stuff supposedly not real friendly but does excellent work. Had some other guys say he talks but a lot of people that don't know what they are talking about ask him dumb questions and he doesn't have time for it. One of the reasons i am going to have him do the port work instead of doing it myself his porting makes more power down low all the way up the scale. Where if i did it it would be like a light switch all or nothing seems more streetable this way Check out what he charges he even rebuilds h1-2 cranks. All the rd forums highly recommend him. Think i will get the chambers and rejet the 250 and do the 2-1 air cleaner remove the stock one and put it to the side so i can change it back if i ever sell it. i am sure it will make more power then the stocker but the sound so much better then stock pipes. Then start buying parts a little at a time to i get the top end finished. You know as well as i do it only takes about 2 hrs to swap it out. get an electronic ignition give it a hot spark and its ready.
I really was tempted to buy eds maxim 550 the bike was showroom. I just couldn't see buying it. Not with the Maxim x in the garage they are to much alike but if your going to go jump on one which one are you gonna take 550 with about 55 hp or the 700 with 85hp. I just don't think i would have been happy with it.
My legs are getting stronger everyday i am walking more and more. I think the light bike will be a good starter while i finish the maxim. It wont go touring that's for sure but an around town bike will be fun. Will have to climb all over the Handlebars to keep the front end down

 

I would wuv to see that thing whoop a sportster

 

I don't that would be a problem. according to the specs with a professional rider the bike should be capable of low 12 sec 1/4 mile times. According to the guy that builds the kits. I really believe him he is the rd guru. Even the carbs will come jetted for the application and all his testing is done less then 2 hrs from here.

 

You bought the RD from a guy in WI????? PLEASE tell me that you did NOT buy it from a guy named John DeBeck!!

jeff

 

no rick Martinez he restores rds older guy all 100 percent positive feedback i was careful wont let what happened to me before happen again. He is heading to gainsville fl in a few weeks he is going to bring it to me

 

Spill the beans, Jeff!!

Cutlass - looks too original to start modding to me - at least put all the parts in a box in case you want to sell it!

 

I'm not going to speak about it since he didn't buy it from that guy...but be forewarned.

I'm very happy to hear that you bought it from someone reputable. I know the work that Spec does. The only thing that he may be able to do that you couldn't is the passages directly in the piston walls since that takes machining equipment. I have a set of three pistons that I need to send out for that too. The reed valves will maintain your bottom end, that's what they are there for. It is convienient to have someone else do the tedious work though, just be sure to hand clean all the ports and passages to be sure nothing was left behind. I pressure wash my cylinders after doing porting work to be sure they are super clean before I oil them.

Enjoy!!

jeff

 

Some of my parts came this week. Got my k&n y boot set up. Found a set of std bore rd 350 cyls and jugs untouched totally stock. My cyl studs came in they are only 3/8 in longer then the stock ones i guess for a little extra grip to hold the heads on at 10k lol. I was just about ready to send them to spec2 to get the heads cut and ccd and bore job to go with the port work. Going to cost me a bit more to get it finished then expected come to find out they haven't updated their price list since 99 big jump in prices But it runs just fine as a 250 need to put tires on it before it even goes down the road they are 38 years old. But can check things out real good before its ready for the street

 

gday cutlass,glad its going to plan, already a head turner,funny about parts,ive been getting them mainly from england for my 350lc and i was abit surprised at the cost of the new parts you need ,dearer than i had hoped,but have been getting some real bargains on ebay,scored a brand new centre stand the other day, for a third of the price i had seen them for buy it now prices,but heres the catch,new stop rubber $8.95 plus postage,new pin 9 pounds,new spring 9 pounds,new c piece 2 pounds and all of this has postage costs,last night broke a swing arm bush ,another 30 bucks to get a pair sent here,i didnt know they were plastic? lucky i dont have a deadline.i have looked for parts in the US on ebay but most come from singapore and are very expensive, if anybody knows a good place let me know, see ya.

 

I buy a lot of stuff off ebay You just have to know exactly what your looking at. You probably wont find to much stuff for the lc over here in the states. They are a rarity plus the year or two they were imported they were snatched up ran to death and are now gone. Where the air cooled ones are becoming very rare and expensive to buy here but parts are cheap for them. A few months back i bought a suzuki gt 750 water buffalo i was going to restore. After i bought i decided not to do it because the parts are so expensive . I can buy 3 sets of expansion chambers for the rd for the price of a nice used exhaust system for the suzuki just to give you an idea. I would love to have an lc but there is not many over here and the prices are out of sight .

 

Holy well.. crap!
I think I just had a, "in my youth moment".
My RD250 was bright yellow and painted by brush when I bought it.
By the time I passed it on to it's next fatefull owner, it was a black sexy machine!
Although... it had a GSX250 tank with a VDO fuel gauge mounted above the normal cluster with a seat that I gouged out and covered with sheepskin to give it a the same sort of look as a bike with a lower rider than pillion, i guess.
I hope the owner appreciated the absolute waste of time I spent on trying to make that bike something more than it was...
Obviously I've always had something for the Katana.... I can't help it... I apologise profusely.
...
Forever a Suzuki apostle but... damn I love these XJ's

 

should turn out real nice thanks

 

That Speedos a bit optimistic at 120mph. it would make a nice air cooled “Screamer”

 

I bet it will peg it in a few months

 

In the mid 70's my buddy bought the same model and we put some R-5 cylinders on it. Even with stock pipes, that bike was very quick with its 250 gear ratio and 6 gears. It would smoke all the other bikes around traffic light to traffic light.
I owned just about every R-5 model, every RD350 model, 3 RD400Es and one F model growing up in Gainesville. The same friend had a 400 he raced. He ran extra base gaskets and no head gaskets, TZ reeds, pipes, TZ spole wheels, Lectron carbs, TZ ignition and more. Although he paid big bucks on crank building, they just wouldn't stay together.
Nice bike.
Have fun with it.

 

Its gonna be fun project. I already picked up rd 350 cyls the k&n y boot and electronic ignition. Sending the heads and cyls off to spec2 for the porting boring and heads to be cut and cced. going with either tz reed cage or boysen reeds. I am trying to find out more on the carbs they do a lot more now with the stockers then they used to. I have had some built rds back in the late 70s early 80s and a lot more info is available now. And going to get a set of spec 2 chambers that way it will all match. Gary says they will all come back ready to bolt on. I know all bikes are a little different but with what i am getting on the performance spec2 says should be a low 12 sec bike not with me on it. But for a bike that weighs 321 lbs dry and 350 wet thats not bad They say i am going to have to lower the gearing because the crank to transmission ratio is a little higher on the 250. I would rather change the final gearing rather then get a clutch hub crank sprocket tach drive and oil pump gear

 

I am sitting here pulling my hair out (whats left) my rd just crossed the tn border about 5 hrs from here. Its going to be close about the same time as the bad weather is supposto be here from Alabama. Chance of hi winds hail and flash flooding. Keeping my fingers crossed its on an open trailer. Luckily so far all the bad weather we have had this past month has missed where i live. This is like waiting for your first child lol

 

why do you want it on an open trailer? hail doesn't do nice things

 

I thought that you already had your RD? I must be getting pretty old if I missed the "I'm waiting for delivery" part.

Anyway, have fun with it, it's a beautiful bike Dave!!


jeff

 

Its here got here at 9 pm last night. The reason i waited to get it i did not have to pay a shipper and was in no big rush to get it. It needs to be cleaned up but i like the fact he did not touch it 1100 miles on an open trailer makes it kind of dirty. But i bet he got a lot of complements there was another 73 350 on the trailer that he was delivering to gainsville fl that was restored exact same paint except red with white vs blue with white on mine. He sold the red one on ebay for 4k. He was picking up a 69 h1 in ft myers to restore. Will probably have pics later today or the weekend

 

Congrats Dave...did you get the other bike completed last week as you had hoped to?

I just sold the gsx-r1100 race bike that I had and am still waiting for the guy to pick it up. My sweetheart sold the CM400Automatic that I bought and restored for her and HER guy is having a shipper pick it up in the next couple of days....and here I am waiting for weeks for MY buyer to come get his bike.

Going on a road trip tomorrow morning.....picking up a running a 1974 H1 triple. I think that I'm going to paint and sell this one though. With my garage full again(will be if I can get the two sold bikes out and the new H1 in) I guess that I'll be doing more riding then wrenching....always a good thing.

jeff

 

I know what you mean about the garage being full.Right now i have the honda, the rd,and maxim in the garage. My race car is pulled over about 3 feet closer to the middle of the garage I have the press in the middle of the garage been pressing upper control arm bushings and ball joints in the cars suspension. Hope to get this side done this weekend so i can turn it around and start on the other side next weekend. I have to do it when my brother is home to help.
The bike i am working on still has a long way to go but is really turning out nice. Got my slotted rotors for it the other day. Had a problem 1 of the fork legs had a bad casting so after all that sanding and polishing ended up having to replace the forks. Was the first time i ever seen a casting for no reason was weaping oil right thru nothing hit it smooth as can be. I have to sand and start polishing the other fork today. All the polishing takes so much time. After finishing the forks and wheels. I have to sand and paint the header. put the radiator back on. Clean the carbs and probably change the shaft seals in the carbs and it should be done I hope. Then the honda needs to get running. Battery is low on the rd so i will put the battery tender on it for a day. Hopefully i will crank it up this weekend Cant believe there is not a spec of rust in the tank. It has not been started since February one good thing about 2 strokes as you know its just about impossible to clog the jets they are so big.

 

Took the rd out for the first short ride. Did not want to drive it far i need to replace the tires i am not sure if they are the originals or not plus need to give it a good check out. Was surprised it has not been started since the beginning of Feb started 2nd kick i thought that was pretty good considering the 1100 mile trip. I forgot a lot of 2 stroke stuff like they do not make any power under 3k but pulls strong to 8500and beyond. I know its really light 329 lbs but is so nimble and handles real well. The last bike i rode was my virago 2 totally different bikes completely. I don't think anyone has ever cleaned it to much which is good the frame is clean under all the dust. You can tell it was started alot in the garage from the oil mist and dust sticking to it. It will get a makeover by the end of summer everything will get cleaned and polished. I am only working on one bike at a time soon as i finish the maxim i will get the honda running then the rd. I had to laugh the last inspection sticker on it was 1979. All in all a really nice old two stroke that brings back lots of memories . I took this pic today you can see how dirty and dusty it is

 

i am getting most of the parts rounded up. Its nice not to be in any hurry rounding up parts saves a bunch of money that way. Took a good look at the cyls and heads i bought . I think i can get by with 1st over on the pistons. Ran into a great deal on carbs they have had the 2.0 air jet modified and tapped very clean inside with new viton needles and seats. Paid $30 bucks for them. Ran into a good deal on ebay on k@n y boot set up less then $40 shipped. I got the deal of the century on intake boots and crossover off an rz 15 bucks they are like new. Just need chambers and then i can send out the top end for boring and port work. At this time i am kind of at a stand still on my maxim x restoration. I have been off my feet for 2 weeks last friday i had surgery on my left foot they had 2 brake 2 bones and i have to get used to walking on it without a cast so it will reset its self and will be able to walk right

 

I'm new here, and I know "noobs" aren't given much credo in forums, however if I may I'd like to speak up. I gotta tell ya boys, those RDs are FAST. My hubby raced Banshees with RD engines in southern cali desert (AMA district 38 in the 1987 and 1988 saeasons. We even had a support ride with Yamaha then!), An even though that engine was in a 400 pound quad, he was clocked on radar at over 107mph on a dry lake bed near El Centro California. That Banshee of his did the 107 during a race, not during some well-prepped high speed run.



Same quad/ same engine at the dunes ...


So I guess my pont is that from what I remember these engines can be made to really go, but still serve well with a ridable poweband. He did the porting and piston windows himself with a Dremel. Memory serves he used Boyzen reeds too, Toomy pipes I think, and some other gearhead junk that is gone from my head. Stock carbs modified with the extra fuel passage (aka the choke) connected to a small compresson release lever. At long hillclimbs or long sand-wash runs the lever could be pulled in to fatten up the mixture and speed up the quad (and also keep it from seazing when you let off the gas). That's all I can recall right now.

I just remembered how much fun those RD engined toys we had were. Thanks for allowing me to share some old memories of our racing efforts back in the 1980s. Keeps a girl young!

Abeja.

 

half ya luck cutlass, you finally had a ride, my LC frames still on the milk crate waiting with some other bits to get powdercoated,just had a little windfall so hopefully it will be in the shop at the end of next week , then i can start putting it back together,

 

Come on guys, you gotta love it, a woman that knows tuning? Now THERES the total package<LOL>! I know from days gone by that we could get incredible power from the RD but I'd be VERY interested in learning more about this mod " Stock carbs modified with the extra fuel passage (aka the choke) connected to a small compresson release lever."

That sounds pretty interesting....if you or your husband has time to explain exactly how that was accomplished, I'd appreciate it. Toomy pipes have the widest powerband given the cone diversion angles and midsection length but when I had built one for a friend in the 70's, we used one designed for a bit more peak but then again it was installed in a roadracer where dancing on the shifter to keep it in the powerband was a well-practiced skill.


Cutlass, time to put the wrenches away bud...the weather is getting too nice out to be puttering instead of riding.

jeff

 

Hello Jeff. My name is WFO on other forums, I'm Abeja's "hubby" (geez!).

The choke mod is fairly simple. On stock carbs the choke isn't actually a choke in that when engaged it does not actually reduce the air coming in (like a *choke* does) but instead it opens up a secondary fuel passage to richen the mixture. Has the same fattening affect as choking the air coming in.

Ok, what I did on several of these hot-rodded RD engined Banshees was I took the clutch lever perch from a late 1970's Yamaha TT500. Those TT's had a compression release lever built right into the clutch lever perch. So you had the long clutch lever and this stumpy little compression release lever on the same clean perch.

The choke actuator knob mounted on the left side of the left carb must be removed. A small fitting is used to replace the choke knob thingy. This fitting easily attaches to a small compression release cable that runs up to the lever on the clutch perch. Adjust the tension .... all set.

So now, at WOT (this setup only works right when at WOT) you can start to creep the lever in a little bit and the bike actually picks up speed! And not just a little bit either! The other thing this setup is great for is seazure prevention. As my wife said, on these two stroke twins if you run the hell outof them then shut them down suddenly the engine will lean out REALLY BAD since the throttle is closed. It's very easy to seaze up the crank bearings in that set of conditions. So at the end of long sand washes or a long hillclimbing dragrace where the engine has been at WOT and under alot of load (producing a lot of heat) when you suddenly shut the throttle to come up out of the sixth gear sandwash, the engine can easily seaze hard on you. Not just a stuck piston, but the lower end gives up it's ghost.

I hope that helped. Going from memory on all of it. I ~may~ have some pics of the carb mods. But to be quite honest about it, it's not that hard to do. A little silver soldering to fab-up the cable fitting on the carb-end of the cable, a TT500 clutch perch with levers, and you're all set to go. Perhaps a bit of ~searching~ on one of the Banshee forums may produce some better results? Dunno.

Thanks for listening ... going back under my rock now (thanks Abeja for bringing me in on this one).

WFO ... (aka Brian ... )

 

lady that knows dirt bikes and 4 wheelers thats a good thing. I remember 35+ years ago one of the girls in the neighborhood started riding she was really good non of the guys could catch her on the track. She would get on her brothers mx175 could hardly touch the ground but she could make it do anything.
ken007 I put a few miles on it and drained the gas out of the carbs Its sitting in the garage gathering dust now. In a few weeks i will crank it up and let it run for a few min.
Jeff wish i could be out there riding it. Its probably gonna be 8-10 weeks before i can even think about riding again. Went back to the foot dr yesterday morning. He took xrays and showed me the bones he broke The outside of my foot about 3 inches below the bottom of your little toe is now 1/2 inch higher then it was before its going to take some time for the bone to grow back together. No cast because he wants it to grow back in the right walking posisition

 

Cutlass, I remember reading that they had to rebreak a couple bones. You sure have been having a tough time with that whole deal. I hope that you recver quickly and can get back to enjoying a nice, full life. I can't imagine what it's like to be incapacitated for months at a time and it makes me appreciate my health all the more.

Abeja, thanks for the indepth explaination. I've got a good picture of the setup in my mind now and you and your lovely wife are right, our two strokes' most dangerous moment is when we shut them down after a long run @ WFO. A lot of guys learned the hard way that the way to shut them down is to pull in the clutch while still reving the throttle to keep the oil flowing. Especially those guys on premix!

Back in the old days it seemed that the "dirt" guys understood but the "street" guys didn't. I had always attributed it to the fact that almost all the dirt bikes back then were two smokers. We used to go up to Capital Raceway to practice our "starts" by running the quarter and invariably there would be some kid on a H1, RD or H2 that would fail to pull in his clutch while trying to use the non-existant engine braking at the end of a run and wonder why his rear tire was leaving a long black streak<LOL>

Thanks again,

jeff

 

Well started pulling her down and cleaning things. Will probably be 6 months till i have the 350 top end bored and ported. I figured i would ride it for a few months as a 250 before the motor gets a face lift I ordered my jets gsks got my chambers in. the oil tank sight glass was weaping looks like for many years so i fixed that plus sometime the po tried to fill the two stroke oil tank to fast and it burped big time over the years it made a nice oily mess.Plus the head gsks were weaping a bit so i ordered them. Pulled most everything off from the tank back so i can clean 38 years worth of oil and dirt. Ordered new tires so i have to pull the pipes and back wheel for cleaning while it still has a center stand. everything is cleaning up nicely. Hope to get cracking on the carbs and banshee crossover and y boot on this weekend along with cleaning the frame.saving a lot of weight also the bike from the factory with a full tank of gas is 351 lbs chambers - 12 lbs airbox delete -2 lbs center stand im guessing 3-5lbs brings it roughly to 330 lbs roughly. So even as a 250 it should run really well. For those that try to figure out jetting for your xj this will blow your minds stk pilot jets are 22.5 with the open y boot the 1/2 inch metal tube connecting the intakes with chambers it now needs a 35 and the main was a 120 now its a 220 and it is possible i might need to go a size or 2 bigger but you can change jets in about 15 min

 

Well the pike is half pulled apart now everything from the carps back has been taken off and cleaned. Let me tell you 38 year old chain lube is hard to clean off. I have compounded and waxed the frame pulled the shocks cleaned them polished the rear drum wheel and all the spokes. Replaced tires, flushed out the oil injection cleaned the front sprocket area working my way forward. Next put the y boot and intake crossover put the new jets in fit the chambers. It is taking longer then anticipated thats why i have not finished up the x yet. I need to register 3 bikes if i register them a month before my b-day i will have to pay taxes on all of them for a whole year just to drive them a few weeks

 

coming down the line almost ready for re assembly changed head gaskets found a nice surprise. Come to find out the guy i bought the bike from re did the top end its .5 mm over does not even have any carbon build up. Guess it sat so many years the bores rusted up in a few days it will be 39 years old just turned 5k miles. Anyhow motor is all painted and polished up what a difference

 

started adding performance parts added crossover as you can tell had to do some modifications to make fit got it done .Got the y boot and K&n on. Carbs jetted. Now moving on to the front end getting new tire mounted and polishing everything should take a week or 2. Then i can install the chambers and put it back on the read

 

Aw man nice rd. I used to have one and miss it.

 

Thanks just had to look under all the dust and dirt to find it. Under it all it was worth every penny i paid for it. Its Sept now i believe the 2012 bikes are coming out which means it is 39 years old. It has been a fun project so far it is so simple to work on takes 3 min to pull the head. Can rebuild the top end in less then an hr less machine work. Looking forward to finishing it. Still have to do the carbs on the xj and a little carb work on the honda

 

got the front brakes all clean backing plate polished looking more and more like a motorcycle

 

project is coming down the line now. This week polished all the guage nuts. My headlamp ears had a few scratches on them scored a new set off ebay for $50 bucks there was some pitting on the blinkers so i replaced them. I was surprised bike bandit had exact replacements even metal for 30 bucks shipped. Pulled the headlamp bucket waxed it all up and the steering head. forks polished up fantastic. I am not sure what they used to clear them 40 years ago but stripper does not remove it had to sand it off. All thats left is to polish the front wheel and spokes clean from the handlebars up. Bolt the foot pegs and install the brake pedal slap the chambers on seat and gas tank and see if it will fire up

 

wow, cant wait to see it finished, will belong in a museum,you know what a buzz they are to ride but in this condition, there a buzz just to look at aswell,imho

 

just finished the wheel turned out better the the pics look. on to the handlebars now

 

got the wheel fender all back on and hooked up Looks pretty good

 

got the foot peg mounts all cleaned up and painted same with the brake pedal. Doing a bunch of tedious bolt polishing now. Today i have to install the foot pegs and finish the bolts. Going to start polishing up everything above the triple trees. Hoping to get the chambers on this weekend .Then next week can get the tank on and seat recheck everything and set the oil pump cable slack and it will be ready to run

 

just ordered handlebars mirrors and original grips. There was a bit of pitting on the bars and mirror stems. I am headed back out now to put the chambers on it

 

exhaust is on hopefully will finish tomorrow. Notice in the 3rd pic how the lights on my work bench reflect on the aluminum

 

all back together hopefully later this week will get some pics in the sun and fire it up

 

Looks awesome, great job. Amazing what you can get done while stuck at home with nothing to do right?

 

your right there. Its nice not to have to get something done when you get tired you can walk away for a while. I have plenty of projects i am gonna finish the maxim x next. I put so many hours of work in it i just needed to work on something else for a while. The only thing left on it is to rebuild the carbs and polish the right crank cover slap a new battery and its ready to ride. Then there is my honda cm400 i know it needs a float the more i run it the worse the smoking on start up is. I think it might have had a little rust on one of the valve stems and is grinding the guide away. I bought a set of nice jugs and pistons and a good used head. Think i am gonna pull the top end buy rings and gaskets a little over 100 bucks re seat the valves and put valve seals on it. The bike is just so different kinda fun to ride i guess its because its an automatic.
I am not sure yet if i am gonna put the crank and pistons in the gt750 that i have or sell it. I bought a drag motor off one the chain broke and took a chunk out of the crank case. The rest of the bike is there but needs a lot of work was tossing around the idea of buying a 78 or 9 gs 750 using the wheels tank ect off it and making a custom sport bike out of it i need to add up the cost factor Here is a pic what do you think. I like looking for odd bikes to restore. I have had just about every bike you could ever want from built v maxes to ninja 1100s even std zrxs. I don't ride that much anymore the small light bikes are kinda fun zipping around with without getting in major trouble