looks good man. ctfs!

 

Looks great man!

 

Looks good man.

 

Wow! I don't know how I missed this thread. That looks hella neat. Somewhere on the thread I did someone said that it will look better once it starts to look a bit more gruddy. well it's starting a tad bit and it still looks awsome. I as well have a little cover piece that i'm dying to put on, but i'm just not sure how to go about it yet.

I don't know if I mentioned it before, but I used a hypercharger Spacer. That's exactly what it's called. You can get one out of jpcycles for about $20

 

looks good man, gotta find a seat that holds the line of the bike without the seat on it...looks really good without the seat on IMO

 

Thanks for the compliments!

Yeah, I feel the same way about the seat. I've tried 4 different seats. I may just make one. I've mentioned it before but there's a kick *** leather place near me that specializes in bike seats. I could have them gel pad & cover a pan that I form.

I didn't see that Hypercharger spacer but I probably would've made my own piece if I saw it anyway. But just from looking at a pic of it, it looks to be too big of a diameter to slip my filter boot over. I basically made the same thing but then an adapter sized to fit my filter. Perfect fit.

I want to make more parts. I'm drawing up a pair of old school looking pipe tip inserts. All I have is an OLD bench top Smithy lathe though.

Slackster, the way I'm going to hold my cover on is pretty simple. Pics would be great but I haven't done it yet. I had planned on doing it tonight but I had family over. I was showing off on this little mini Sporty I'm putting together for my nephew
and wrecked into the one owner, 1969 Hurst built AMC SC/Rambler that's sitting in my garage. I was sick to my stomach so I went in for the night.

Mini Sporty next to my Nightster:



Where the axle nut hit the side of the car when a wheelie got out of control:



The paint guy is coming to look at it Monday. This car has never had a dent.

Anyway, when I mount the cover I'll post pics.

Thanks again.

 

Spent all day in the garage watching football & cleaning up to better rearrange the cars. Still feeling sick for ripping a hole in one of em...anyway, sun went down, got all of the cars back inside & football was still on so I mounted the cover.

I enlarged the hole in the cover to 5/16". Drilled a hole in the center chrome piece of the a/c. I drilled this hole 3/8" because I missed dead center. In the pic you can also see the *temporary* mounting hardware. I say temporary because after installing it I realized the mounting stud needs to be a single piece incase it loosens (so the carb doesn't suck up anything it doesn't need to).



I used a 5/16" x 1 3/4" long all thread connector & shortened it by 5/16".

The stainless bolt inserts from the backside of the a/c and the chrome one from the front. I will find a longer 5/16" bolt to insert from the back of the a/c that extends all of the way through the connector & cover then use an acorn nut to secure it. That way I can better monitor the bolt if it loosens.







It still needs to be engraved & powdercoated mirror black.

There's a cover being sold on Ebay that will be similar but the diameter is too big...and it's 60 bucks. I may end up having 10 bucks in mine after the engraving (which is the only thing I'm not doing myself).

 

Good looking bike man and good job on the air filter as well. I see you have a modded S dime there.

 

nice job mreed! that's a sweet sporty dude.

 

Thanks! I bought 2 fenders & a gas tank off of Ebay to have them painted black. I've fitted the frone fender & gas tank )they still need painted...just happened to be black when I got em). Lowered the front fender an inch so it hugs the tire and the tank already has all of the welds & seams smoothed. The rear fender isn't on it yet because I'm shaving the rear brake light & license plate mount holes. I don't want to bob this one. I'm trying to decide on a seat because I may shave the seat mount holes as well.