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Another Project found thrown in my truck
Well... The the 2 stroke bug continues and brought home a 1974 H1 Widow maker... Needs works (barn fresh) Pics to come!
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Re: Another Project found thrown in my truck
Can't wait to see it 500cc?
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Re: Another Project found thrown in my truck
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The H2 was 750cc. It was the H2 that [I believe] was called the Widowmaker, so... I'm not sure which one Bannister has in his possession.
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Re: Another Project found thrown in my truck
H2 is the widow maker.
I have never heard of the H1 causing problems. Mike Ross (high school buddy) was single when he woke up in the hospital... His 750 pitched him in the ditch while he was practicing for the drag races. Had his helmet on, still doesn't remember anything about the accident... Lee B
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Re: Another Project found thrown in my truck
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"Flexible Flyers." They wallowed so bad in the corners, it was anyone's guess which side they would crash on. It took some real balls to pass em. And if you did, they would just re-pass you on the straights. One took me out in the pouring rain at Nelson's back in 74??? All through the race we swapped places. Battling for last spot on the podium. He passed me on the back straight just before the kink, lost it and stood it up. Leaving me no choice but to go grass sledding at about 115MPH. (somewhere there's an 8MM movie of me flying thru the air about 8' up)
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Re: Another Project found thrown in my truck
BTW Dave,
A bit of (hard learned) advice. Don't use a metal case timing light on that evil thing. Apparently insulating the HEI was not a high priority back then. It's amazing the distance your leg muscles can catapult you with a 50,000V zap
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Re: Another Project found thrown in my truck
Its striped down to frame to be powdered coated, Its will be a while before it makes an appearance, Motor looks good its free spining hopefull not much needed (still will need torn down and replace crank seals) maybe a mild exhaust porting and nice exhaust chambers. Currently just ebaying to replace rusty parts that can't be saved.. Should be nice when done these bikes were the coolest when I was a tennager!
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Re: Another Project found thrown in my truck
Yes just the H1 but widow maker sounds cooler ha!
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I can use that tank coating extra for sure Woody and here is some pics of tear down ,paint and back to a roller
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Another Project found thrown in my truck
Ok now black shinny Chassis paint
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Re: Another Project found thrown in my truck
looking good
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Re: Another Project found thrown in my truck
Nice progress. That will be fun when finished.
Lee B
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Re: Another Project found thrown in my truck
PM me if you need kawi dealer parts
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Update on progress
Well I should of been a further but life gets in the way but pleased I’ve made a few huge steps forward Crank has been completely refurbished Balanced, rods, lab seals higher quality bearings etc etc and I did not anticipate the cost would be so high but it’s done! ![]() Cases are soda blasted ( thanks to a good friend) ![]() And I’ve been piecing together original bodywork parts and scored real nice original side covers but struggling finding a fuel tank that’s prestigious but have cleaned up the original with metal restore and if push comes to shove it holds liquid and the inside I tried using a sealer failed miserably so it’s had metal restore soaking inside for months and is adequate if I had to settle for the patina look.. but seeing how I’m in this deep I not going to settle yet to be continued ![]() These chambers in the next photo I bought a mid-Ohio this past July and are so badass ![]() So I plan on building the bottom end in the evenings starting this week, I still need cylinders bored and buying wossner pistons which cylinders are being cleaned up and soda blasted then off to machine shop I hope soon! Little odds and ends I have such as all turn signals, shifter brake pedals etc some items purchased from eBay that we not useable but planning on finished product to be stock with pipes and slightly warmer motor with tuned/balancing and just raising the exhaust ports slightly! Still looking into possibilities of figuring out the exact squish to prevent pre-ignition and if I need to shim tranny once I start putting together the bottom end To be continued Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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