hello all,
Ive finaly dedicated my time and resources to the reconstruction of my 1987 CBR600 Hurricane. The project began almost a year ago as a mostly complete, backet case bike. I went through it, got the engine running, and its been taking up space in the garage since. I completely stripped it down, and will swap everything over to a titled frame.

I all ready have alot of questions, and i will try to keep them in this post.

I was thinking of media blasting my rims, will the bare aluminum be a problem?
unfinished spokes with a polished lip, will it need to get clearcoated?

here she is, awaiting assembly

 

zoop seal work good on bare aluminum I thought, kinda whats its intended for. is that a cb1 next to the hurricane, or a hawk? looks like a project all right

 

at least you don't have that infamous crack in the frame.

 

cbreric - the bike is a 96 CB750 Nighthawk

the frame does have the crack, it will get welded this week.

 

nice bikes then good luck with the weld!

 

could someone measure the distance between the ground and bottom of the oil sump, with the bike straight up? i'm going to build a stand to lift the bike high enough to have the wheels just off the ground. i got sidetracked, but did get new tires, powdercoated the rims, polished the forks, and found the missing parts it needs.
ill post pics once i get a rolling bike.

 

i am missing the front brake rotor dampening shims, will fiber washers from the hardware store be fine?

 

I think so, I've read of others doing so. The washers are pretty thin ( almost useless IMO ) but they put them there for some reason. I put a set of good used rotors on recently and reused the old washers with no problems

 

cool, i went ahead and ordered some oem shims. i figured they were pretty thin and couldn't really find anything localy.

 

aghhhh! you paid for those damn things? My dad found some at some store, he bought a handful of them for $1. I wasn't paying OEM prices for them.