Honda-SOHC

Always a major victory when the engine goes back in, the end is in sight

And the Leyland National bus body was also used to build the Pacer trains for British Rail back in the 1980’s. Single boogie at each end of the carriage makes for a spine crunching ride!
We went in one a few years ago from Exeter to North Devon, it was absolutely knackered.

Really nice work👍.
Yep, that's the going rate I think for the work you have done. Luckily there was no major engine work and a need for new pistons, rings, rebore, rocket arms etc because they really do push the price up and once you get into splitting the engine you end up vapor blasting and repainting the cases etc, etc.
Just enough left of summer to get it run in👍

I would guess that's a lot of work making or modifying inlet manifolds, air box, cables etc for little reward but.....I do like the ingenuity of it so hats off to whoever did it for making something a little bit different.

Welcome to the forum Ian 🙂.
George is of course correct about the yellow ones being the fastest, it could just be a rumour put around by myself, I can't possibly comment.......🤔

Well done for buying the bike from Peter and keeping it in the forum 'family'. It's very pretty bike with a lot spent on it and restored to a very high standard.
The yellow ones are of course the fastest, it's been well documented on here 🙂. Sometimes they are capable of 150mph+ in the right hands, downhill and with a force 10 gale behind it, I think I read it in a magazine somewhere........🤔.
Enjoy it over the summer and beyond.

Talking of Spitfires.............I am a volunteer tour guide at the Battle of Britain Bunker in Uxbridge, Middlesex.
This was the home of Number 11 Group Fighter Command. The Air-Vice Marshal was Sir Keith Park, a New Zealander who was a WW1 fighter ace. The Air-Chief Marshal of RAF Fighter Command was Sir Hugh Dowding who was also a WW1 fighter ace. Between them Dowding and Park perfected the Air Defence of Great Britain using the plotting system that became known as The Dowding System (and is still used to this day in modified form).

RAF Fighter Command was split into four control groups when it was formed in 1936, these being 10, 11, 12 and 13 Groups. No.11 Group looked after the airspace of London and the South East and was located 60ft below ground at RAF Uxbridge and is the only surviving control bunker left. Everything in the bunker is original apart from the green lampshades (they went over to fluorescent lighting later in the war) and the Tote Board. The Control Room set up as it was at 11:30am on Sunday 15th September 1940; this is now known and celebrated every year as Battle of Britain Day.

My uncle was stationed at RAF Kenly in Surrey and was ground crew servicing the Hurricanes that flew from the base. Kenly was under 11 Group Control. 
I flew in a 2 seat spitfire in 2022 from Biggin Hill, another airfield under 11 Group Control. The aircraft I flew in has a history having shot down a ME 109 during the D-Day landings in June 1944. It was converted to a 2 seat training aircraft just after the war. To say the experience was unforgettable would be an understatement! We flew from Biggin Hill to Folkestone where we did a low pass, full 360 around the RAF Fighter Memorial below to the amazement of the visitors looking up! The aircraft had a full cockpit layout in the second seat and I was allowed to fly it for 10 minutes despite having never flown! On the way back we did some rolls, absolutely amazing. Pilots said you didn’t fly a Spitfire; you wore it as it fitted around you.

Expensive, yes, very, worth it, absolutely to be flying in a piece of history and to remember not only my uncle but also the 2900 pilots of ‘The Few’. 545 of these brave men died during the Battle of Britain, another 600 were burnt or wounded in their aircraft during the battle and another 800 of those ‘Few’ died in other theatres of WW11. The average age of a Fighter Pilot during the Battle of Britain was between 18-24; the average age of the WAAF’s who were sending them into battle via the plotting table at Uxbridge was also between 18-24. Not a single pilot in the RAF knew the control bunkers existed during the war, all they knew was they were told to fly to a vector and the Luffwaffe would then suddenly appear!