See, I bought an old '83 CX500 engine for $20. Thanks ya'll for the previous help in seeing if it turned over. I have a '72 CB350 which I use as a parts bike for my CB360. Now that I've scavanged all I can off it I was thinking of putting the new engine on it and building a cafe project around it. Can I put that engine on there without basically buiding a new frame to match the likely mismatched engine mounts? Thanks,
Ben
2007-02-27 08:48:02 · 4 answers · asked by Ben P 2 in Cars & Transportation ➔ Motorcycles
Well, she's worth atleast $50 on ebay, no sweat of my back :)
2007-02-27 09:41:52 · update #1
Well, guess it don't get any simpler than that. Since the old 350 is no good to me after stealin what I could off of it, looks like shes ebay bound as a parts bike. Now, I failed to mention that the engine did come with a frame and back wheel assembly, so I'm thinkin there still might be a spark of potential project there. I honestly look at any engine that'll turn over as fair game, yall know what I mean. But when it comes to real custom buildin, ya I guess I gotta upgrade my tree too heheh.
2007-02-27 14:36:54 · update #2
I think that ones gonna be a cut & weld project, Ben.
2007-02-27 10:19:51 · answer #1 · answered by Firecracker . 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are trying to shoehorn in an engine into a frame that is ancient, the brakes would not be up to the task of stopping that engine if you got the driveshaft issues sorted out into a chain drive bike frame.. etc. etc.
Besides that, the CX 500 was bar none, the UGLIEST engine Honda ever threw at a motorcycle. Abort this mission, return to computer to find Ebay listings...
You can find some pocket rocket bikes out there once in awhile like the RD-350 that are fun little 2 stroke screamers.. would be a great smaller bike cafe project.
What you are talking about is a monumentally difficult project for a fully equipped dealership, and they would flat out refuse to even try and do this for liability reasons I'm sure.
2007-02-28 02:26:20 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Fires right son a cx500 is a vtwin that sits perpendicular to the direction of travel has a drive shaft and was shoe horned into a frame of a different stripe I would suggest getting back what you can and finding a different engine unless your tree is a whole hell of alot better equiped than mine
2007-02-27 19:21:12 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
CB350
CB360
CX500
Sounds simple dont it. Nothing will fit. save your hair. even the 350 and 360 are night and day. its also a shaft drive disaster. Scrub the mission Try to recover you $20
2007-02-27 17:08:18 · answer #4 · answered by Gary M 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋