Norton 880 long-term project

At one time Kenny D. was using this pathway for an alternate oil return via a fitting and hose.
 
from the top pic it looks like a 750 head modified to 850?

windy
 
The 850 and 750 had all 9 fins, but effectively , when seeing this head from underside , we could imagine the bolt's holes nearby the plugs , that hade been redrilled, the only difference with the bore and so the squish band area........my two cents Pierre
 
I bet the length of the Kawa steering stem is wrong so you're going to have to machine it anyway. I cut the 30mm bearing fits on an R6 stem down to the 25mm Norton size. Haven't gotten it all back together but it looks like it'll work. I also need to machine to top of the lock nut so it will locate the fork clamp. This fit is close to bearing size and was lost when I reduced the diameter.
 
I'm looking at having a sleeve machined to fit in the top yoke, with the reduced diameter re-threaded stem capped by a chromed grade 8 fine thread nut.

I'm really anxious to get that monoshock rear end and get to work on the fitting up and mockup of the rolling chassis.

The biggest booger is to find and properly set up a dual-disc wire spoke front wheel that will mate to the large diameter axle and caliper spacing.
 
Looking good GP.
With that head, cam and carb combo I highly recommend a rev limiter.
The cast iron crank can be explosive. :roll:
 
I stumbled on an 86 Virago spoked wheel on ebay with dual discs. It had solid rotors but amazingly floating rotors off a 90's model R6 bolt right on. Dimensions on the EBC website. The Virago had 42 x 15 mm bearings so I'll put in 42 x 20 and machine down the 25 mm axle off the R6 fork. Just need to make some spacers. Disc spacing looks pretty close but I don't know for sure yet.
By the way, a good friend of ours, Father Bill Davis, moved down as priest for the Catholic church right on the border about a year ago. If you ever want to talk to a cool old Irish priest he's the one. He really loves the people. That's wild Indian country, isn't it?
 
I really thought I'd get more use out of that rolling Kwakker chassis, but it's down to just the forks and MAYBE the rotors. Unless I can find a matching pattern rear wheel in a considerably narrower guage (maybe a 250 Ninja?). The frame and swingarm are already on e-bay to try to recoup my money for more important stuff.

This border is only 1,000 miles long, so the Padre might be anywhere!

As far as Indians go, there are definitely Mexican Indians (Mayans) all over the place. As far as "wild", there's wild folks of all kinds, but the worst are the Mexican drug lords and thier gangs.
 
GP, you have a nice project going there.



Good luck and keep us posted. :lol:
 
MichaelB said:
Looking good GP.
With that head, cam and carb combo I highly recommend a rev limiter.
The cast iron crank can be explosive. :roll:
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Front up the cash and buy a Maney crank. Problem solved.

After you knock over a 7-11 then you can send a small fortune over to Steve Maney. :wink:
 
grandpaul said:
I really thought I'd get more use out of that rolling Kwakker chassis, but it's down to just the forks and MAYBE the rotors. Unless I can find a matching pattern rear wheel in a considerably narrower guage (maybe a 250 Ninja?). The frame and swingarm are already on e-bay to try to recoup my money for more important stuff.

This border is only 1,000 miles long, so the Padre might be anywhere!

As far as Indians go, there are definitely Mexican Indians (Mayans) all over the place. As far as "wild", there's wild folks of all kinds, but the worst are the Mexican drug lords and thier gangs.
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The good father is at San Francisco Zavier in Laredo. He's probably good for a bowl of soup. It sounds like the banditos have created a bad atmosphere down there.
 
Whenever anyone uses the term "Indian" a British friend says "Do you mean a two-feather Indian or a red spot one?"

When I started driving for the local transit agency four years back, a group of the people in the training sessions said they were going to the "Indian Cafe". I'd brown-bagged that day and had an errand to run. When they came back I asked what they'd had for lunch, as Indian food is relativley scarce around here. When the answers came back "hamburger, cheese burger, fish & chips", I said "didn't anyone have Tikka Masala or curry?"

That was when I discovered that the cafe was inside the local motorcycle shop and he was a dealer in Indian motorcycles!
 
After a long phone conversation with Kenny Dreer, more of the details are solidifying:

- I'll be using a vernier cam sprocket for ultimate cam timing on the Megacycle 560 cam

- Smith Bros. pushrods with OEM cam followers, re-cut to a 3" radius and Nitrided

- Ferrea 7mm valve lash caps with Coventry Spares radiused valve adjuster screws

- OEM late spec connecting rods, overcut big ends, polished and balanced on both ends

- 750 crank polished and dynamically balanced with billet flywheel

- Koyo maximum capacity 9-ball main bearings

- Kehin 35mm flat slide carbs

- Electric starter conversion on the belt drive clutch basket & inner primary cover

- 18" wire spoke wheels, front & rear

- Front forks installed with final fit to provide 4" trail

I'm thinking of arranging the logistics and scheduling to give the finished bike to myself for Christmas 2009.

Pix of the bodywork & monoshock rear end soon!
 
Hot Dawg. Here's pix of the bodywork and the exclusive hand-made pipes. I can't wait to mock this beastie up!

The tank is a fuel cell bladder with a glass shroud; the pinstriping didn't show in the prototype shots-

Norton 880 long-term project


The tail / seat unit also houses a nifty tail light-

Norton 880 long-term project


I hope the seat is more comfortable than the Corbin it's patterned after-

Norton 880 long-term project


Nice sidecovers-

Norton 880 long-term project


And the beautifully formed one-of-a-kind header pipes-

Norton 880 long-term project


Something about the lines of those pipes on the prototype is what sent me over the top when I saw the first prototype pix on the 'web...
 
Hi there, after seeing your posts, you give me the idea to build up too a better front end on a spare cdo frame , so following "littlefield " track I had just bought a set of 2002 R 6 forks , and then I will try to fit them onto , as you say "littlefield " it was a question to fit a 30mm axle into the 25 mm bearings by machining down the tree-axle, and then for the upper yokes?? about the virago front wheels , which one had dual discs spokes wheel ? sorry about the copyright, and may be there will be another like yours across the atlantic....Pierre
 
Just got back a couple hundred pounds of Cad plated hardware,
it's shared between this project, a client's Norton, another client's
Triumph, and a bunch of old bits and bobs I rounded up from
around the shop to get as close to the minimum batch as possible.

Norton 880 long-term project


Next, assembly!
 
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