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Offline MrDavo

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Re: Cam! Would you put this in your engine ?
« Reply #15 on: December 27, 2016, 06:16:34 PM »
Luckily they made thousands of CB750 engines, and many are still around, if often in bits in a shed.

Some one asked about my classic racing in another thread, I started on a Triton with a 1954 T100 500cc engine, with a 'delta' head and cams from the  rare Triumph factory race kit. Damn I should have kept that engine. Instead I sold it and bought a 750cc Weslake engine, which, although very fast (140mph), kept breaking different parts of  the chassis, often at a bad moment.

If you had a vintage, or classic, bike, that only a handful of still existed, you'd kill for a cam this good. To us, it's scrap. If only whoever stashed it away for a long time had thought to grease the bearing surfaces it first.
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Re: Cam! Would you put this in your engine ?
« Reply #16 on: December 27, 2016, 09:43:23 PM »
Eventually the scabby scrap bits might be rare enough to be viable to have cleaned up and reclaimed but I think in the meantime one has to look at the cost of a decent one vs having the bearing surface built up and re ground, Until its cleaned up there is no knowing how bad it is. For my bikes I spend more on complete engines and ride things that look like sheds but hopefully are mechanically ok and at lest have spares a plenty.
Got a 500/4 with rust and a sidecar and loadsa bits. nice and original and been round the clock

 

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