Honda Spree and Elite 50 Forums

patthesoundguy wrote:Dude that thing is so rad I bet it wants to wheelie

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If I would have kept the stock spree forks wheelies could happen easier. But I'm not into stunts...

On my search for some ch80 parts I found a local guy who had tons of Elite 80 parts. He had a room built on the side of his garage with shelves of ch80 parts, about 7 engine from what I could see. So I bought a spare ch80 engine, rims, throttle cable, rear brake cable, hand controls. He had a test stand made from half an elite frame with a gas tank, wiring and controls so he was able to fire up the ch80 for me.

Wiring almost finished, all the lights work. I need to get some plastics installed so I can go for a longer test run.

I put some plastics on and have been on a few test rides. I'm getting up to 45mph on flats and even more on a downhill. Acceleration is nice and hills are no problem, seems pretty healthy but I should do some maintenance/tune up and clean the carb.

I still need to fit a front fender and the side plastics will have to wait until I change the air filter and exhaust. Planning on ordering those now...

Looking good. Tune the variator, and install a uni style oem filter and I bet you'll see 50 easy.
Btw, where did u go to purchase the threaded pipe/eye hooks for your frame support? Hardware store?

Kevinstonge wrote:Looking good. Tune the variator, and install a uni style oem filter and I bet you'll see 50 easy.
Btw, where did u go to purchase the threaded pipe/eye hooks for your frame support? Hardware store?

I'm planning on some variator rollers and a new drive belt on my next order of parts.

I got the joint ends for the frame support bar from a hardware store. I'm not sure what the proper name for them is, heim joint, fisheye joint, link joint, rod end, bearing end joint.

Awesome, thanks! And the pipe you just tapped on both ends?

Kevinstonge wrote:Awesome, thanks! And the pipe you just tapped on both ends?

Yes, I drilled the pipe on a lathe.

I just got the exhaust pipe I'm going to use, hope it will be good for the ch80. I should have time this weekend to install.

Great, thanks. Definitely keep us updated on the muffler. I tried to find a suitable replacement over the stock muffler, but I gave up my search, and there's no way I'll spend what battlescooter wants for their's. Where did you pick up that muffler and how much?

Kevinstonge wrote:Great, thanks. Definitely keep us updated on the muffler. I tried to find a suitable replacement over the stock muffler, but I gave up my search, and there's no way I'll spend what battlescooter wants for their's. Where did you pick up that muffler and how much?

It's just a ebay pipe for $60 shipped. It has a 1in inlet connector, which is the smallest I could find.

I got the rest of my parts in the mail today.

Getting started on the pipe install. I cut off the good stock pipe, which is a ch80 sin.

Its good to see your replacement for the stock can. Its only a sin if you diddnt have a good replacement but you do so its not a sin

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Installed, sounds pretty good.