Little update for you. I've only got a little bit done as, like most of you, I have a job, house, wife, other hobbies etc. Alas, enough of this chit chat, on with the show.
As you can see, the hardware-less chassis is now starting to be made use of. Here it is test fitted to the reassembled front tranny. Just these standoffs made so far. I milled them up at work, and tapped them by hand at home. I know it's long winded but I have no access to a lathe currently and all the mills have fixtures on, with full turrets and no room for a vice.
So I cut a bit of scrap so it would fit in a fixture, then milled these out with an emill, and drilled the hole. Had to carefully bandsaw them off then dress the ends to size. A right caper you may think, but it's in keeping with the title and theme of this build.
I got the chassis from ebay for £20. The standoffs, cost nothing. nada, zip, zilch, sweet fa. A time tunnel models full ballrace kit for £11 too sees the whole car ballraced so it stands half a chance of something hotter than a 540.
Ignore the XR400 rear spindle in the background. That's the other thing I'm working on, and is where I'm off to now, to show pics on another forum on how the bike is coming along.
And remember, in the mighty jungle, the lion sleeps tonight.