Post by boone on Feb 6, 2008 19:43:29 GMT -5
Hi
Just found this forum and it's awesome. I've owned my 79 SR500 since I rescued it from the boneyard in the mid 1980s. It had only 12,000 km on the clock but had suffered from sitting outside for God knows how long. There was a corrosive seizure of the piston, the battery had detonated at some point and one shock was missing.
Hopefully, the pic will post but if not, I'll try and figure it out at some point in the near future. Right now, it's February in Canada and we're in the middle of a huge snowstorm - I'll have to crank up the snowblower pretty soon to dig out.
Mods -
Seat recovered by Sargents in Florida to my specs
Oil Cooler
First over Yamaha piston
Supertrapp shorty muffler
Single walled header pipe
Honda Ascot front fender
Braided front line with Ferodo pads
Yamamags ditched for an XS650 19-inch front and an RD250 18-inch rear with alloy rims.
Dunlop K591 rubber
Mid 80s ZX7 footpegs on modified, chromed stock brackets
Flat bars with Galindo Superbike grips
Huge K & N air filter
Billet oil dipstick
Probably more stuff than I can think about right now.
Hope the picture thing works but if not, I'll try again once the storm is over. Bear with me.
Just found this forum and it's awesome. I've owned my 79 SR500 since I rescued it from the boneyard in the mid 1980s. It had only 12,000 km on the clock but had suffered from sitting outside for God knows how long. There was a corrosive seizure of the piston, the battery had detonated at some point and one shock was missing.
Hopefully, the pic will post but if not, I'll try and figure it out at some point in the near future. Right now, it's February in Canada and we're in the middle of a huge snowstorm - I'll have to crank up the snowblower pretty soon to dig out.
Mods -
Seat recovered by Sargents in Florida to my specs
Oil Cooler
First over Yamaha piston
Supertrapp shorty muffler
Single walled header pipe
Honda Ascot front fender
Braided front line with Ferodo pads
Yamamags ditched for an XS650 19-inch front and an RD250 18-inch rear with alloy rims.
Dunlop K591 rubber
Mid 80s ZX7 footpegs on modified, chromed stock brackets
Flat bars with Galindo Superbike grips
Huge K & N air filter
Billet oil dipstick
Probably more stuff than I can think about right now.
Hope the picture thing works but if not, I'll try again once the storm is over. Bear with me.
