Submitting in Just for Fun because I started and stopped on this multiple times last year.
I have a MB165 frame that I want to use in conjunction with a new Lifan 6.5 electric start clone. In the past I drilled out a hole for the switch on the front frame brace but routing the wiring through the frame proved difficult so I’ll start everything over. Frame will be powered coated not sure on other parts.
So here is what I’d like to do: Relocate the starter switch away from the block, use an existing real gas tank that I never got around to sealing, make a battery tray that sits where the Lifan gas tank used to fit, run the front and back lights off the battery, use a large SpeedRacer tire out back (I have that), bob the rear fender, hopefully replace the front forks with a set up from a Honda CB 125 including tire, rim, brake, speedo and headlamp bucket. Looking at trying to modify the seat. Depending on rear tire spacing use a PMR jackshaft set up or a TC. Replace the motor mounting plate and check all the welds.
Stretch goal is to find a way to introduce a foot brake for the rear tire and add blinkers.
Naming the build Glory Days because I want to incorporate the colors (green) and some of the design characteristics of my first 2 cars as a teenager. First was a 1966 Dodge Coronet coupe that only drove in reverse and the second was a pristine 1972 Plymouth Satellite.
I have a MB165 frame that I want to use in conjunction with a new Lifan 6.5 electric start clone. In the past I drilled out a hole for the switch on the front frame brace but routing the wiring through the frame proved difficult so I’ll start everything over. Frame will be powered coated not sure on other parts.
So here is what I’d like to do: Relocate the starter switch away from the block, use an existing real gas tank that I never got around to sealing, make a battery tray that sits where the Lifan gas tank used to fit, run the front and back lights off the battery, use a large SpeedRacer tire out back (I have that), bob the rear fender, hopefully replace the front forks with a set up from a Honda CB 125 including tire, rim, brake, speedo and headlamp bucket. Looking at trying to modify the seat. Depending on rear tire spacing use a PMR jackshaft set up or a TC. Replace the motor mounting plate and check all the welds.
Stretch goal is to find a way to introduce a foot brake for the rear tire and add blinkers.
Naming the build Glory Days because I want to incorporate the colors (green) and some of the design characteristics of my first 2 cars as a teenager. First was a 1966 Dodge Coronet coupe that only drove in reverse and the second was a pristine 1972 Plymouth Satellite.