I just picked this bike up this morning 10 hours from me. The drive was worth it. It's a running/riding bike with great bones. Came with a huge tote full of NOS Honda parts. Gaskets,seals,bearings , etc..... Probably $700-$800 worth of stuff. Plan is to do a full cosmetic resto, new tires, fix the seat (foam is cut), gold rims, I'll keep the FMF Fatty, and fix some odds and ends. It already has the water pump fixed with a later year aluminum cover.
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Nice find!! I’m just finishing my 95 that’s been on hold for a few years. Have an 89 that will be next up.
A decided to shoot a little video of the pre-teardown.
On my 95, both front and rear oem wheels had a small hairline crack on the shoulder of each wheel and I cut the spokes for easy hub removal. Once the spokes were cut, the front wheel completely snapped a few weeks later.
I'll likely have to get new rims, as I believe somewhere down the line somebody stripped the gold anodizing off of them. This bike will have gold rims again. I used Full Circle Racing for my CR 480 that I did. I may go with Excel Takasago for this one. I'll powdercoat the hubs, and polish the spokes, providing that I don't snap any of them lol.
These are the Full Circle Rims on the 480 I just did.
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Damn good looking 480 and the Trans Am too. What’s the TA a 78/79?
It's a 79 Y84 Bandit Trans Am that somebody painted Solar Gold back in the 80's. It's a fun car. We have a few other big boy toys as well. I wish they were as easy to fix as an MX bike lol.
I have a build thread for the 480 in here. I built it for a vintage race we had in September then I sold it. Still have another 480 sitting here though.
Yeah those bandit cars were cool. I’ve seen car shows where they recreated those wheels in a larger diameter than what was available back then. I think they were called snowflake wheels and the honeycomb were on the earlier years. I use to see the early trans ams rolling the streets with the 455’s under the hood in the 80’s.
I would have hated to race that 480 as clean as it was and then crash it lol.
The 79 T/A has a 1976 400 in it that's fairly mild by my standards lol. I have a really nasty 2015 Z/28 that I race autocross with. It makes 588 rwhp. A company called Year One makes all sorts of factory replica wheels in 17" diameters to fit more modern rubber but keep the vintage look.
I didn't race the 480, I just showed it. Next year I'll be on something though. The track is fairly mellow, it's a 70's natural terrain track.
I had a 400sb in a 79 K5 blazer back then. The Pontiac and the Chevy 400’s were completely different though, even though both came from GM.
Yeah your Z28 sounds like it will get up on its hind legs.
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It was nice out today so I got a little busy. I started off with a compression check. Got 146psi which is fine for a 500. People tend to think that the bigger the engine the higher the psi, but that is incorrect. Any decent wngine whether a 125, 250 or 500, you want it around the 150 mark give or take. I got it stripped down to the frame in about 2 hours. Found a wasp nest in the airbox, lots of incorrect bolts, a few broken tabs on the frame where the seat goes, and the wrong coil hooked up. Other than that I can't complain!
I shot a small video on how I remove the data plates from the stem of vintage CR's. It works really well. I see guys drilling out the pins and prying on them. Totally unnecessary.
Been busy with work so I haven't done much of anything at all to the bike. It came with a later year kickstarter on it for the lowboy pipe. Those were the 89+ models. I was searching ebay for weeks to find a correct kickstarter. Finally found one for $119 and I snatched it up. Here's a comparison of the improper kicker and the correct kicker.
You will be hard pressed to find a better pipe than the fatty for an 87!
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