1978 Honda 400 Build

[jim v]

Terrific stuff Xrocket.

Back in my younger days I would've skipped right by this thread - old Honda, searching for parts, whatever. Now this is right up my alley

Hope your collarbone is healing up!

[xrocket21]

Terrific stuff Xrocket.

Back in my younger days I would've skipped right by this thread - old Honda, searching for parts, whatever. Now this is right up my alley

Hope your collarbone is healing up!

Thanks! I'm glad my efforts aren't wasted. It's fun to document things and be able to look back.

I agree, I wouldn't really see myself getting too excited about a 1978 aircooled Honda 400 lol, but here we are.

I have really grown to believe it will basically be both my kids first bike and they will get their licenses on it.

It is frustrating to stall out and not be able to make good progress these days, but I can't really ride it anyway, but it HAS taken over my garage for quite a few months now.

Collarbone... well, its been broken for 10 months now, and it has felt broken the entire time. I THINK I am on the upswing, but still can't really use it. I would really love to be better by Ju ly, as JDay is doing a new 6 hour team race at Hemonds that I'd like to run with the boys.... But I don't have high hopes. Thanks for asking!

Any bites on the RC51? How are you healing since the crash? Are you able to ride at all?

[jim v]

Thanks! I'm glad my efforts aren't wasted. It's fun to document things and be able to look back.

I agree, I wouldn't really see myself getting too excited about a 1978 aircooled Honda 400 lol, but here we are.

I have really grown to believe it will basically be both my kids first bike and they will get their licenses on it.

It is frustrating to stall out and not be able to make good progress these days, but I can't really ride it anyway, but it HAS taken over my garage for quite a few months now.

Collarbone... well, its been broken for 10 months now, and it has felt broken the entire time. I THINK I am on the upswing, but still can't really use it. I would really love to be better by Ju ly, as JDay is doing a new 6 hour team race at Hemonds that I'd like to run with the boys.... But I don't have high hopes. Thanks for asking!

Any bites on the RC51? How are you healing since the crash? Are you able to ride at all?

Part of the excitement of the 400 must be sharing it with your kids. Passing down the knowledge that you've built up over the years to the younger generation is a good feeling

I'm doing great, a complete recovery, physically and mentally. Even back to playing basketball one night per week. Took a few rides in the fall and plan to get the VFR out whenever the rainy weekends stop. Signed up for some track days as well - some of my friends think I'm crazy. Hell, I think I'm a little bit crazy.

Hope the collarbone keeps making progress. Be easy with it, we're older now and takes longer for things to heal, don't push it too hard. Easy to say from here though

RC51 has been sold, hope it treats you well Ben. He has a mint RC51 with NLA mods - Satos, that sort of thing - more a collector bike. He wanted a rider that he wouldn't worry about, that RC fills the bill. Its in good hands

[xrocket21]

Pretty stalled on progress trying to figure out what to do about the missing mounting tabs.

All that is left at this point is the wiring harness, blinkers, mount battery and rectifier/figure out tabs, hook up the cables to the carb, change the oil, and mount the tank and seat!

I couldn't help it though, I dropped it off the hoist and put the seat and tank on and I think it looks pretty cool!



One question though, I think there is some sort of stop for the center stand missing, in the up position it hits the rear brake rod and the chain, it just swings up too high, but I don't see any empty mounting points for a stop.

Oh, and also I have to figure out how to mount the mufflers, I think another mount is missing.

I should be hearing from that guy local about buying that parts bike, that would answer most all my questions.