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My F2 Rebuild
F2 Paul 876:
Thanks his site is all ready on my Favorites bar, normally have a look every few weeks at the site. Tims F2 is on it.
I would like a gen Yoshi if i can find one, His one will do just fine if i can not find one it dose look really smart and looks like better ground clearance than the Yoshi.
I have a good while yet before i need one no hurry at all.
Paul
SteveD CB500K0:
Steve Carpenter ("Carpy") is indeed an expat Brit - drop him a line - he loves to hear from Honda owners from back home!
Yoshi823:
I found that the original downpipes, once welded up with the joins for #1 & #3 solid, gave good power & ground clearance. The first silencer that I went to from standard was a Harris Racing track outlet pipe...
...but this got damaged after an off on some diesel...
So I had one made for me by John Campbell at CG Exhausts in Dartford. John still makes stainless exhausts for anything nowadays & specials & one offs are his speciality. But in those days it was all mild steel & once chromed they complemented the original downpipes nicely...
At first I didn't mind the chrome, but it didn't like the welding when the downpipes were welded, so the whole lot was shot blasted which removed the chrome & I painted the lot with Kal-Guard Gun Kote...
F2 Paul 876:
Looks like we where going down the same line at the same time. Same Tank which i still have same fairing (still have) at some times, i later fitted a Rickman front fiberglass mud guard still got. Most of the stuff will go back on the bike when i get around to doing it, but i hope to finish it all to a much higher standard than i did first time, there is only so much spraying / rebuilding you can do in the barrack block ! :D.
I only had the head gas flowed and that was done free by Towcester tuning when they did the last engine rebuild for me. They had just got the kit in so need a engine to try it on and as mine was in the shop at the time i got the free gas flowing.
they are still going of sorts just down the road mostly cars now.
I remember Campbell Germetric's ? a blast from the past.
Paul
K2-K6:
Brilliant old photos coming out, nice to see some stuff from this era.
I had a yoshimura pipe on a K2 (bought it at the dixon shop in Godalming) black one as yours mostly rotted from inside but still have remains. Also have access to a almost new one on 750 F2 the owner of which said I could use to get a copy made............. so loosely thinking of exploring getting one made in stainless have done no work on it so far and guess that it's not possible to market someone elses design. So if I can find a scource then see if any interest in getting some made as a group together kinda thing.
As you say they have a wiered balance between quite at low revs along with a good top end noise plus good flow.
I bet that CBX sounded sweet!!!!
Kal Gaurd.......there's a blast from the past. Mostly used their "Chain Kote" since the seventies and now the only one I buy, the graphite one. This makes chains last longer than anything I've seen just apply it when you get home after a run and it stays on the chain then.
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