24. SLAVERY

In the interests of being able to quickly arrest unintended forward progress I decided to upgrade to hydraulic anchors both front and rear.
The front we've already discussed but the drum rear is a very different kettle of fish.
Originally Mr Honda had fitted a rod operated drum actuated through a crossover shaft.That crossover shaft got deleted a while ago thus the move to hydraulics.
The master cylinder is already adapted so on to the slave cylinder which was originally meant for a Toyota clutch.
Decided to drill a couple of holes & bolt it to the drum backing plate.
It's a little big so in an effort to hide it in plain sight I wound up filing the part numbers off then polishing it to match the, now floating, torque arm.

Toyota clutch slave cylinder as bought

Slave polished up

slave on brakeplate

hydraulic rear brake setup

original Honda setup

23.WHERE WE'RE @...

Pulled her outside for the 1st time today to stand back & evaluate her proportions & stance.

CX500 custom rebuild progress

CX500 custom rebuild progress 2

22. MOUNTING THE GUARD PT.2

To carry on I decided to add a couple of rearward facing braces & incorporate x6 rivnuts then weld on a pair of spacers to help brace everything up nicely.

Setting the rivnuts

Mudguard mount test fitting

Painting completed mudguard mounts

21. MOUNTING THE GUARD

Decided to use up an old Moto Guzzi Sport 1100 carbon front mudguard (second grade) that had I had been tripping over for years.
First I taped on a piece of 25mm diameter plastic hose then placed the guard on & made a quick sketch.
Marked that out on to a bit of 20mm mild steel strap, pilot drilled the holes to m5 then using an m6 tap threaded those holes.
Stuffed x4 rubber grommets into the guard then bolted her up.
May need to fab a brace just yet,will see how it goes.

Hose guide for mounting front guard

Guard mount sketch

tapping guard mount to m6

Guard test fitting

Carbon front guard done

20. GENESIS 1:3

And God said "Let there be light" and there was light and God saw the light and it was good.
Well, not bad anyway. Got an old fashioned round  8" 35w Q/H headlight with built in indicators. Not the brightest light in the shed but good enough for this guy. The blunt end got a slimline tail/stoplight mounted in rubber grommets on a fabbed stainless steel bracket 'glassed in underneath.At this stage am undecided on the indicators.

Tail light/#plate pattern

Tail light bracket glassed in + seat rubbers

Tail light/#plate bracket completed

Headlight & Tail light

19. TO SEE OR NOT TO SEE?

As I'm 5'15" tall the chances of me getting down behind the fairing screen to peer thru it are slim to non existant. So decided to make me a nice carbon fibre windscreen. This will match the carbon fibre front & rear mudguards.
Added some m5 stainless button head capscrews and will end up clear coating  all the carbon bits later on.Its this clearcoat that helps give carbon bits that deep gloss.

Carbon screen

Carbon screen 2

18. MEAT OR POTATOES?

Induction

Well carbs of course! Having decided that the standard CV carbs wont play nice with pod filters & arent worth it anyway time for plan A. A pair of Makuni VM34's have arrived so I set about figuring out how to mount them? Turns out silicone bends are available in many sizes bends etc so in this case I'll be using a pair of 76mm long 30 degree bent 45mm to 38mm id reducers.
Had to remove the stock rubbers from the alloy manifolds first  which turned out to be a mission in itself as they are very firmly glued on. Air filtration will be via lightly oiled 58mm I'd foam pods.Ill make my own throttle cables probably also using a 2 into1 adapter. Have been searching the interwebs & have found a baseline jetting chart so am almost there.