bd581
13-08-2005, 07:25 PM
http://www.ozhonda.com/gallery/watermark.php?file=500/762honda1cb.jpg
After 2 1/2years building the engine (for the third or forth time - i lost count), i finally get to hear the little thing scream again!
However, it hasn't been the easiest task.
Here is a few things i learnt
With the car sitting for so long it lost all the clutch and brake fluid.
I bought a spare diff that i completely rebuilt, bearings, seals, chains everything.
Went to swap them over, and the new diff didn't fit. Where it bolts to the chassis, the holes didn't line up, not even close.
Swaped a few of the new bits over andfitted the original diff back in.
Took it for a quick run and the back wheels kept locking up.
Turns out where the handbrake cables mount on the "new" chain cases are slightly different, so everytime the back wheel goes up or down it pulls the handbrake on.
The guy i bought the diff from also gave me a half cut S600 coupe body, the nose on that is the same shape as mine which for years i thought was the wrong shape, as every other S600 was a bit different.
After numerous phone calls to the number 1 S600 part supplier and nut case in Germany (Michael Ortman) it turns out that mine is one of the very last S600s ever made, a lot of the parts including the body is actually S800. A friend of my father has one, and even engine internals are different.
Another guy I deal with in America once met Mr Honda (didn't realise it at the time as he worked and met Mr Honda in a Nissan factory, but he drove a S600 to work. Obviously Mr Honda was more interested in the S600)
This guy said that Mr Honda said that no two S600s were ever built the same, they kept making improvement. He certainly wasn't lieing!!!
Brad
PS. Sorry about the picture size, not much of a computer guy
*CTR coupe Edit* "fixed it for you"
After 2 1/2years building the engine (for the third or forth time - i lost count), i finally get to hear the little thing scream again!
However, it hasn't been the easiest task.
Here is a few things i learnt
With the car sitting for so long it lost all the clutch and brake fluid.
I bought a spare diff that i completely rebuilt, bearings, seals, chains everything.
Went to swap them over, and the new diff didn't fit. Where it bolts to the chassis, the holes didn't line up, not even close.
Swaped a few of the new bits over andfitted the original diff back in.
Took it for a quick run and the back wheels kept locking up.
Turns out where the handbrake cables mount on the "new" chain cases are slightly different, so everytime the back wheel goes up or down it pulls the handbrake on.
The guy i bought the diff from also gave me a half cut S600 coupe body, the nose on that is the same shape as mine which for years i thought was the wrong shape, as every other S600 was a bit different.
After numerous phone calls to the number 1 S600 part supplier and nut case in Germany (Michael Ortman) it turns out that mine is one of the very last S600s ever made, a lot of the parts including the body is actually S800. A friend of my father has one, and even engine internals are different.
Another guy I deal with in America once met Mr Honda (didn't realise it at the time as he worked and met Mr Honda in a Nissan factory, but he drove a S600 to work. Obviously Mr Honda was more interested in the S600)
This guy said that Mr Honda said that no two S600s were ever built the same, they kept making improvement. He certainly wasn't lieing!!!
Brad
PS. Sorry about the picture size, not much of a computer guy
*CTR coupe Edit* "fixed it for you"