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Yeah just trawled through all 18 pages of it I'd have said that was a gloss finish, it's far too shiny to be called satin. Satin was the colour of the 750F2 engine and stuff like the reversed comstars on the 900/750s DOHC bikes. Either way the gloss I've had done is not that far off that, possibly a little shinier but TBH I'd have polished the frame anyway so it would have ended up shiny either way.Couple of things I noted on Pauls thread,1. Did he ever tighten up the nut on the rectifier ? Things like that just bug the hell out of me.2. The note from Hadleigh Custom says new big end shells fitted and yet further down it says exchange crank and rods fitted and "BIGENDS ONLY GROUND" If they'd ground the bigends it may be why the rod bolts are protruding past the nuts, makes me wonder why the felt the need to grind them in the first place, plus why are the big end shells listed under the replacement standard parts section, Honda AFAIK never did oversize shells just very slightly bigger shells, I'd say far too small a difference for Hadleigh to have ground down too. Did Paul use the 1000cc block? I gather not as he's using 0.50 oversize pistons so suspect he used a replacement block and bored them out OR rather you did on his behalf.Nice to see there is a BZP plater closer to me than Allens, Sheffield isn't that close but it's closer than the Hull area. Need to get some stuff done for the 500, trouble is I only have some small brackets off the airbox right now that need doing and I'm not sure whether they accept me just posting them to them. May ring and see.
Quote from: Oddjob on September 25, 2019, 12:44:51 PMYeah just trawled through all 18 pages of it I'd have said that was a gloss finish, it's far too shiny to be called satin. Satin was the colour of the 750F2 engine and stuff like the reversed comstars on the 900/750s DOHC bikes. Either way the gloss I've had done is not that far off that, possibly a little shinier but TBH I'd have polished the frame anyway so it would have ended up shiny either way.Couple of things I noted on Pauls thread,1. Did he ever tighten up the nut on the rectifier ? Things like that just bug the hell out of me.2. The note from Hadleigh Custom says new big end shells fitted and yet further down it says exchange crank and rods fitted and "BIGENDS ONLY GROUND" If they'd ground the bigends it may be why the rod bolts are protruding past the nuts, makes me wonder why the felt the need to grind them in the first place, plus why are the big end shells listed under the replacement standard parts section, Honda AFAIK never did oversize shells just very slightly bigger shells, I'd say far too small a difference for Hadleigh to have ground down too. Did Paul use the 1000cc block? I gather not as he's using 0.50 oversize pistons so suspect he used a replacement block and bored them out OR rather you did on his behalf.Nice to see there is a BZP plater closer to me than Allens, Sheffield isn't that close but it's closer than the Hull area. Need to get some stuff done for the 500, trouble is I only have some small brackets off the airbox right now that need doing and I'm not sure whether they accept me just posting them to them. May ring and see.Oddjob1. Yes the nut was tightend. The reason it isn't tightened in that picture is I was still trying to source a new/decent foam/rubber bit which goes around the edge2. I doubt that grinding a couple of thou off the bearing journels would make any differance to the bolt length The crank and rods were uprated for the 900cc big bore kit, no I did not use the 900cc block or pistons as a new block was sourced and Trigger did a full top end refurb inc Re-bore. The bottom end was also compleatly rebuilt.
Hadleigh may have replaced the rod bolts Paul with stronger ones to cope with the higher compression etc of the 1000cc kit. Certainly seems to have had a lot of work done on it.