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nine1seven
9/26/2009 8:23pm
9/26/2009 8:23pm
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6/20/2015 2:30pm
Hey y'all, I thought maybe one of you might know where I could find some elusive parts. I'm looking for a factory-style ignition cover for a CR250 project I am nearly finished with. They look just like the works Honda ones the factory teams used to use. Supposedly they were sold for awhile by a company in Belguim I'm told. I have seen a couple covers on UK ebay. I've also seen them on used bikes here in the USA so I know they are around. Here are some pics of the cover I am looking for (painted black) as well as my 96 project bike I am nearly finished with and my 93 I am just starting:
http://autos.groups.yahoo.com/group/CR250/
The Shop
I took all the fasteners, axels, nuts, bolts, spokes, and anything else that is steel in to the zinc plating shop last week. I spent 6+ hours in front of the wire and buffing wheel prepping and cleaning each piece. Here's what they look like before and after:
Also sand blasted the frame:
That's a bigass blasting cabinet. Does it use the standard sucky little blasting gun or something better. My blasting cabinet is soooooooooo slow, but the pressure pot I have make a total mess. Looking for a better cabinet system. How long to do a complete frame in there?? And what do you use for frame paint?
When I took the photo of the frame I had about 30 minutes of blasting in. The gun has two hoses-one supplies air pressure and the other is a return for sand or whatever media you are using. A venturi supplies a vacuume that draws media up through the gun. After I got all the paint off I sprayed it with a couple of coats of white primer and then a couple more of gloss white. I'll post some pics after I get a coat of clear on it. I was going to powder coat it like I did with the 96 but I really don't know if it holds up that much better.
True story: the guy I bought this bike from claimed to be the "Texas state supercross champion" He might as well have claimed to have invented the question mark. I wish I would have looked at the underside of the motor closer...I would have seen this:
I guess someone hit a rock and damaged a rib where the bolt holds the center cased together. I split the cases, welded, and then ground down the area.
After all that, I found a motor that was ported and polished and had the cases matched by Pro Circuit. Seller gave me the paperwork and receipts to prove PC did the work. You could see on the base of the cylinder where it had been cut. Got it for $500, and then sold the other motor on ebay. The auction closed at $560 so I made out good on that deal.
That is an impressive steed.
I bought a fender and helmet 1-800-COLLECT trim kit that was also made by 100% for $15 on ebay.
My factory cover is unpainted and have the same logo as that one shown at the photo above.
By the way, I'm looking for the clutchcover for my 87 CR250 Rick Johnson projekt.
I will let you know if I find a clutch cover and we can do the same thing as with the ignition cover.
Pit Row
I wonder how long the manufacturers have to provide OEM parts. A few of the parts I ordered took forever to get and I was told they had to come from Japan.
He sells trick Mugen and HRC parts. I bought the ignition cover your looking for from him.
the big problem is to make the mouldingplug a little bigger becouse the shrinking when
the part's cooling and the fitness may be second but I know som good worker's in the
casting industri that use to fix those problems and I will ask them to make some of it and you can have one aswell.
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