'68 Honda CL350 Project basically complete - Page 2

MNellis · 03-28-2009, 12:10 AM

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Originally Posted by shmike

What they said.

How did you restore the shiney bits (fenders, heatshield, rear shocks, etc..)? Were you able to polish them back to life or did you replace them?

Great looking bike!

Thanks everyone.

It was a tremendous amount of polishing to get the pipes to shine and I, uh, er, we worked hard on it. There was lots of rust and road grime but it hadn't pitted. The heat shield had been damaged in the fall but I was able to take a hammer and sand bag and pound it out. The shocks were a little tougher but the shield and springs came off so I could get the 0000 steel wool in there.

Here is a picture of the exhaust pipe cleaning process.

Yep, that was sure a long day.

RACER X · 03-29-2009, 10:24 AM

Very Very cool Mike!

baninja · 03-30-2009, 01:59 AM

Awesome job Mike! The time you spent on it paid off. Great looking bike. I can't wait to see the next project.

MNellis · 03-30-2009, 10:36 PM

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Originally Posted by baninja

Awesome job Mike! The time you spent on it paid off. Great looking bike. I can't wait to see the next project.

Oh you can bet it will be Brian. It was pretty much a rusted piece of dog poo when I got it but with some loving care, it will rise once again to be a dominant motorcycle.

I took the head and valves over to a guy in Cedar Park tonight for the valve work. He's going to blast the head as well to clean it up. I should get the frame parts back from the powder coater this week then I'll have the cylinders honed and start putting the frame back together. I've also got to start tearing into the bottom end of the 450 this week too.

03-29-2009, 10:24 AM	#12
RACER X AMA Supersport Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Richmond, Tx Moto: '10 Tuono Factory Posts: 4,569	Very Very cool Mike! __________________ ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ 2014 GROM! 181cc of FURY 2010 Aprilia Tuono Factory - SOLD 2009 SFV Gladius - SOLD 2008 Hayabusa - SOLD.

03-30-2009, 01:59 AM	#13
baninja Dad of Expert #291 Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: TX Moto: My kids have all the fun Posts: 33	Awesome job Mike! The time you spent on it paid off. Great looking bike. I can't wait to see the next project. __________________ NO bike for me... but my kids have a '98 Honda CR85 Supermoto, '08 Kawasaki Ninja250 and a '07 GSXR 600.