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I have performed several searches, so please direct me if I have missed obvious information due to lack of knowing the right terms.
Before I make an offer on a '79 CX500 Custom, I need to know if I can rectify this problem.
The crossover part (collector) is gone. This bike, otherwise stock, is fitted with gutted Harley pipes and lacks all low-end power. It does not have the crossover part. The chassis has the threads for this part intact, in fact the threads for it near the center-stand are clean and fresh meaning the part has not been missing for very long. But as I understand it, this part is hard to find intact and I wonder if there is a way around it.
I won't make an offer on this otherwise all-stock bike if I can't get it to perform as the Honda engineers intended.
And I did do a search, but I don't see that anyone has found a workable solution to the collector missing.
Please tell me a way around this exists! Because otherwise I know I can bring this bike back to a street-worthy status, and this old engine should be back on the road again.
My "rescued" '86 VFR needed a crossover pipe to re-gain midrange power from the aftermarket Supertrapp exhaust installed when I got it. That was cheaply and easily accomplished by a local automotive exhaust welder. But this CX500 exhaust seems to be far more detailed.
Again, assuming I searched with as many terms as I could think of and found nothing, is there a known way around this problem?
Many thanks for any info.....
Before I make an offer on a '79 CX500 Custom, I need to know if I can rectify this problem.
The crossover part (collector) is gone. This bike, otherwise stock, is fitted with gutted Harley pipes and lacks all low-end power. It does not have the crossover part. The chassis has the threads for this part intact, in fact the threads for it near the center-stand are clean and fresh meaning the part has not been missing for very long. But as I understand it, this part is hard to find intact and I wonder if there is a way around it.
I won't make an offer on this otherwise all-stock bike if I can't get it to perform as the Honda engineers intended.
And I did do a search, but I don't see that anyone has found a workable solution to the collector missing.
Please tell me a way around this exists! Because otherwise I know I can bring this bike back to a street-worthy status, and this old engine should be back on the road again.
My "rescued" '86 VFR needed a crossover pipe to re-gain midrange power from the aftermarket Supertrapp exhaust installed when I got it. That was cheaply and easily accomplished by a local automotive exhaust welder. But this CX500 exhaust seems to be far more detailed.
Again, assuming I searched with as many terms as I could think of and found nothing, is there a known way around this problem?
Many thanks for any info.....