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After I brought this home and washed it, I think this might be a restoration candidate instead of a streetfighter......what do you guys think?



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Not a rare bike in it's day......they were designed to be beaten to death I know.....
But it's rare to find one still in one piece after 25 years of abuse and or neglect......


I'll tear into it in a couple weeks to see what's still good and what needs rebuilt...girl friend says I have to finish bathroom rebuild project in house before I touch it....it will give me time to search eBay to see what it would cost for the original parts I know it will need.....
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I spent the afternoon cleaning this thing up and going over it better.......sorry fighters, I can't tear this one up. I had planned on a Suzuki GT750 two stroke based, cafe fighter......but I couldn't pass up the deal for this one. This is getting put back on the road, after I pull motor and go through it (needs head gasket for sure)......

.......Had the air valves in the tires cut off/4 years of grime and dirt from sitting on a dirt floor in a worn out barn/brake calipers froze up/a chain that acted like it was one solid continous piece..........talk about a bitch to get up on trailer. But it cleaned up better than I ever thought it could, and it is so complete.......
I'll just have to hold out for a GT750/TR750 project.....maybe I'll find one in boxes at Mid Ohio at this summers Vintage days.

PS....any of you fighters out there have a stock pipe laying out back, that you tossed when cutting your 86-88?

sorry about small pics, but this forum said I had too many pictures, and wont let me post more

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God damn that garage is insane.
Thanks....Its taken a long time......I would buy one, ride it for a number of years, then just set it back because no one wants an old outdated sport bike. Especially in the Harley infested area I live.
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Since I got the GSXR, my low dollar cafe project should probably go to someone who can do something with it sooner than me.....
!977 KZ650C All there, runs, stops, and kick starts....needs head bearings and a front tire to save on medical bills.....but very complete for a bike almost 35 years old.
It had sat for well over ten years when I picked it up......I went through the brakes and carbs so I could ride it....but never took it up over 55 with the front tire looking original....

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Have any interest in passing on that water buffalo? Title not a problem....yes I'm close..
Wow! Real katana,gs1000,cbx and a gsxr1100 if you only had a miller lite sign on the wall you my be my god. Water kettles are the shit i need to find time from my other project and get a title for my barn find 72. I just wish it wasn't to clean to cut up. Are near the northern parts of IN? I'm near south Bend area. Oh and sorry I'm makin my way to the noob thread not much of a typer just got excited. I love oldskool muscle.
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Got it running after a bit of screwing around......mouse nest was a bit restrictive

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restore it, crate it and forget it for a handfull of decades. will be an icon and a sought after classic
I think it will get restored to the best I can with OEM parts when I can find/afford them.....it can sit for a while......but I'll ride it as soon as I can, because I'll be in a crate in a couple decades. So if anyone is going to enjoy it, it's going to be me in this decade.....each year, till the crate gets me..........
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I got this from SNOWMANN399 here on the forum in april....

Yea, this was to rare to fighterize too.... Sorry guys, But I do have another 72 frame that will be pieced together into a smokin screamin stroker....

The bike is finally legal and titled.... And is working better than I ever could imagine a 40 year old bike could run... I love this thing.

Thanks for the opportunity Jeff....I'm takin good care of her.

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Well.....
If I had a 75 GT750, I would'nt mind tearing it apart, as they are still pretty cheap comparatively. But this is a DEC 71 build early model, with all the features still intact, that only the first few months of production had. If I am going to chop a bike up, I'll only do it to one thats in boxes, and make something out of nothing....like my 79 CBX, which started out as a bare frame I found in a barn attic. Styles come and go, but original never goes out of style. Thats why I have bikes of all types, because there is nothing wrong with liking them all. I never had to grow my balls back...I never lost them

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Thats real cool randy.
One of these days I'll have to find out where you live and check out all those projects I see on here
Cr 9 and 24 out in the boonies
Cool..
I used to live on CR9 about 15-20 years ago (first time I was married)....about 1/4 mile-from mishawaka road
OK guys...I found one too far gone to restore ....... My original plan from the begining.....
Had a 1972 GT750 frame from a parts bike I got when restoring my other GT...then found an engine a month or so ago, that needs a total rebuild. Have an 18x3.5 rear aluminum rim, and an aluminum swing arm that fits perfect. have a 36 spoke hub with some GS1150 rotors for the front....(looking for a used 36 spoke aluminum 18x2.5 rim from a dirt bike yet) and probably a set of GS1000 forks, with first generation Katana spring preloaders. Then maybe a fiberglass tank and cross over chambers....some frame cutting and bracing too?
I can't stand chopping up a good bike, so this is how my fighters start out like. My CBX was the same way....I need to scan pics of it when I was building it (before everyone had digital cameras) it was scrap metal that I saved too...
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I agree...
It's not that most of these bikes are rare when new, several sitting side by side on the showroom. But it's rare to see one still complete, with original paint 20-30-40+ years later.

I remember VF1000R's going cheep still in the crate because the dealers couldn't sell them...same as 81-82 CBX's... sat for years on the floor. Even the Suzuki rotary...
They are worth big $$$ now in original condition and considered rare

anyway......like you said :)
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95% complete RGV SP.....dry clutch and all......
Yea, its too rare too...:D

But I also grabbed a RGV VJ21 that looks like it would be much easier making it a smoking streetfighter, than back to it's original shine

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All the talk about too rare....my feelings are, if it's clean and still 95% original...make it 100%
But if it's a bike that will take just as much or more to restore, than it would to build however you want...then let your imagination and cash flow...

OK...
Downloaded some pics from my Streetfighter CBX when I first picked up the pieces in 1996, to it's first iteration in 1997. Most bikers, at least in this area had no idea what a streetfighter even was back then. But I read a lot of bike mags....and many were from the UK then, as now. So, I figured if it can be done there, I can do it here.

I bought two 79 CBX's....one a complete bike that had been used for dirt drag racing..(yea, it was rough...!!! it still had a 5.10 monster knobby on back) and the other one in pieces (about 60% complete in boxes)

This is where I started (the one in pieces)...

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I picked up the 91 GSXR750 front end, and rear wheel at the Pingle Thundernationals....out of a truck bed for about $250 I think...?



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A little more progress..... I was going through a divorce as I was building this....So hitting the bars every night, to find some entertainment for the evenings, ate up a lot of time I could have been building....





Started off with a FJ100 swingarm, but scraped up enough money to get a JMC swingarm...and worth every penny...

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No more trial fitting...time to bolt it together for good....



Then the engine from the dirt dragger turned street bike comes out, and goes into modernized CBX.... The other engine I had was in pieces, and just used it as a dummy engine.



Next was connecting the Honda F3 controls to the the CBX cables and wiring....



And then....
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Almost ready to be put to use....



Still needs tail lights and final details....



which brings me to...
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Around 2003...all bugs worked out and used as a daily rider



As it sits now, waiting for it's big bore kit...



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