Starting a build

Bust · Post by **Bust** » Mon Mar 23, 2015 8:18 pm

If my shit stays together I will be starting a build I've been wanting to do since the early 80's

This

with any luck, will become this

I figure I have a few months being tied to the house and picked up the old bike running but rough for a c note. Might as well do something.
Wish me luck

blrfjr · Post by **blrfjr** » Mon Mar 23, 2015 10:33 pm

looks like a fun project! Have fun!
Good to see you still have a desire for such things

fencer · Post by **fencer** » Mon Mar 23, 2015 10:38 pm

Is that a 400?

bluesdog · Post by **bluesdog** » Tue Mar 24, 2015 2:10 am

Great project! Please take lots of photos as it progresses.

beemerdons · Post by **beemerdons** » Tue Mar 24, 2015 10:48 am

bluesdog wrote:Great project! Please take lots of photos as it progresses.

+1, Gunny; very glad to see your project NumbNuts, best of luck on it Barry! JSNS!

El Toro Joe · Post by **El Toro Joe** » Tue Mar 24, 2015 12:33 pm

Looking forward to seeing the finished product

wpbfjr · Post by **wpbfjr** » Tue Mar 24, 2015 6:10 pm

awesome great project. lots of pics, please!

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spklbuk · Post by **spklbuk** » Tue Mar 24, 2015 8:21 pm

Promise yourself not to let Don ride it!! Have fun Bust.

HotRodZilla · Post by **HotRodZilla** » Wed Mar 25, 2015 12:02 am

That could turn out cool. Take lots of pictures and hurry up about it. When you paint it yellow, use the yellow from the 'Vette. THAT is a great color!!

Geezer · Post by **Geezer** » Wed Mar 25, 2015 11:29 am

fencer wrote:Is that a 400?

My guess is a TX500. Assuming it's a twin.

Bust · Post by **Bust** » Wed Mar 25, 2015 7:52 pm

No it's an xs 400 1980.

Geezer · Post by **Geezer** » Wed Mar 25, 2015 8:51 pm

Bust wrote:No it's an xs 400 1980.

Very nice. I knew about the 400 2-cycle but do not remember the XS. Looks like fun.

ShinyPartsUp · Post by **ShinyPartsUp** » Thu Mar 26, 2015 8:29 am

Great project. Don't f@$k it up. No tassels on the grips, OK?

silverback · Post by **silverback** » Thu Mar 26, 2015 10:19 am

Buddy uses an XS400 in flat track. It'd be better on the street! Lol! They are rather ubiquitous and lots of parts though. Bullet proof too.

FeeJeR Fred · Post by **FeeJeR Fred** » Thu Mar 26, 2015 5:15 pm

El Toro Joe wrote:Looking forward to seeing the finished product

Looking forward to seeing the process even more. Good luck with the build, Barry. I wish I had the patience for that kind of thing. I'm always in too much of a rush to git 'er dun.

Bust · Post by **Bust** » Fri Mar 27, 2015 3:37 pm

silverback wrote:Buddy uses an XS400 in flat track. It'd be better on the street! Lol! They are rather ubiquitous and lots of parts though. Bullet proof too.

That's the hard part here, everybody is still doing that.. A local guy still builds 'em for just that.
He told me that mine would be in his garage before it was a cafe racer replica..I told him he'd be eating a ball samitch before that happens..

I hope he likes ballz.

ionbeam · Post by **ionbeam** » Fri Mar 27, 2015 4:52 pm

I used to have an earlier member of the family. This is the very rare (but not so valuable) '77 XS400, built for only 6 months, sandwiched in between the old and newer models. Dunno why Yamaha bothered.

Hopefully you retain the old school skill of gapping points. The kick starter isn't heart healthy though. Get everything right and it will start on the first kick. get it wrong and I would kick the little bustard for a half hour. What this bike really had going for it was being on a car dealer's lot and he had it priced $tupidly low.

Bust · Post by **Bust** » Wed May 06, 2015 8:51 pm

Build went into the shitter today.. Storage shed at buddy's burnt to the ground with the XS in it. Fuk

bluesdog · Post by **bluesdog** » Wed May 06, 2015 11:26 pm

Aw, man that sucks

HotRodZilla · Post by **HotRodZilla** » Thu May 07, 2015 1:42 am

Seriously?? WTF? Dayum dude...Sorry!!

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