Tortrons Crispy CT

[GregT]

Put it on farm reg and stay within a 50km radius of home. Or not.

[SOHC]

your not tempted to get an aliexpress bigbore kit?

[tortron]

I looked but they seem for the later bikes? 

I have a few engines now anyways

[Tumeke]

I'm sure you asked me for some parts but can't remember what you needed and cant find the message - so drop me a line if that's still the case.

[RUNAMUCK]

I seldom browse this corner of the forum. Im glad i did to see this. 

Fyi, those genuine honda aux gas cans sell for $3-600. 

Are you on farcebook? Theres absolutely certain to be spare engines with fuck all wrong with them sitting under benches after lifan swaps. 

[tortron]

Dragged this thing with me, mainly because I have just about all the parts and paint to finish it

Dragged it in out of the rain and pulled a few more broken parts off it.

Bike is lending itself well to scramblerisation as the lights are already rooted, and the rear fender was cracked, extra holes drilled, and rusted right through thr middle section.

Easiest thing to do was cut it off

 

[tortron]

I sectioned both the body and the duck tail a little, and got this

 

Well half of it anyway, might get time tomorrow to finish it

Keeping the aux fuel tank bracket mounting holes and the rack mounting points. I might alter both of those a little, not sure exactly how yet.  I saw a good mod to relocate the aux tank to the main tube and that frees up some saddle bag space.

 

Plan is to set this up as a minimalist off road trail/bush hack. Don't need another adventure bike when I already have the perfect build

[tortron]

Welded up the other side of the tail. 

Patched the rust hole in the battery compartment 

Decided to cut off the rear pegs, I can't see them being used (I only have the brackets anyway)

Pulled the engine out and put the supposed runner in

 

China carb filter is going in the bin, I have a nice flat oval type K&N filter 

I think I will mount it somewhere around here. But I want it shrouded, or ideally in an airbox. I want to be able to ford the fords.

 

 

[tortron]

I will continue to look for some bit of rubbish that will do the job, but I'm currently thinking I take this ammo box

And cut some height out of it, so it fits under the tank and above the chain guard. It's then a good size for the filter to fit in.

Width wise it sticks out less than the exhaust.

A bolt either end and maybe a hinge on the bottom, so you can swing it out, clear of the tank to open it (using the original latch and seal)

I will then probably connect the snorkel to the rear rack like factory, or some improvement of that

 

That's what I'm currently thinking anyways, il give it a few days

[tortron]

I looked around at some bits of pipe, but came back to the ammo tin

This is it at 5" tall

 

[tortron]

Also while looking for scraps, I found I still had the internals of the original filter

Which fit exactly into the ammo tin.

 

Also, if I were to cut it down further, to give it a square profile, I could use the original filter set up, and mount the tin on its side, so it opens out. This would also let me use the top surface for the intake/snorkel to rack tube. Which is convenient 

[tortron]

Contemplating headlight. 

Maybe these

 

They are bicycle headlights, but I can modify as needed.  I actually had one of the fluted ones on a bicycle,  I gutted it at put an led torch and battery pack inside.

Probably I will just fit a prefocus 6v bulb, as I have a whole box of them 

[felixx]

Put 6v in series,  6V each until one blows, then its as dark as my mother in laws heart