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What gargantua350 said, Mark.
Much appreciation for you. Your LC hot rod is a well done work of custom classic geniusry.

Yoshi is very good to order from direct.
Got springs, spring puller tool and a couple of their stickers.
All packaged in cool individual logo'd parts zip lock bags which come in handy later

What noticeable change(s) in performance?
Or, do you need a certain modification to see a real benefit?

What a cool triple. No need to change anything. It's a prized history document.

Wife spotted that polished stainless band material in a 30 ft roll at the Amazon bin store. I would have walked right past it. It is excellent for this spring application. Have plenty extra, of course.

IR8D8R, your snap ring fixed guts in the FPP can is actually much easier than the factory original. The end cap is fixed in with a wire, which is HARD to fish out. Steel wire in a groove that has to be pulled/scraped out against aluminum. Makes one wonder how many more times it will hold.

Rather than trust the hose clamps to hold the cans on, I rigged up a spring kit with rivets yesterday. Gonna see how well that does. Stickers from Mark made me realize how valuable the cans are. No way I want to lose them on the road now:

That's a whole lot of front brake, though. Don't squeeze too hard.

"The Yamaha RD350 Was the Best Bike of the '70s"
It would be very hard to argue with that.

Been passing under that weirdly yellow overpass for some time now. Wondering what it looks like up there and if it is an exit I will ever use. Looks really good, obviously, because of your bike 

nope not yet.. might not.. but will try. torch and a mandrel and a light hammer

PO of my FPPs dropped his Daytona off the lift and dented the can with the axle/nut.
He took a large socket that fit in there pretty close and hammered it through. Came out satisfactory. There's a little bulge where it wandered a little sideways.

Uh oh...
These have survived on two different RDs for the last 40 years or so.
However, I might have to get creative.

A 2024 50th anniversary special edition water-cooled 2 stroke street bike by Yamaha would be appropriate at this time.
...with a big, beautiful drum brake on the front.

What happens when the crank fails? I have heard the splines connecting the left and right crank halves fail. This should not damage the cases if that is in fact the failure point.

Sorry, don't know that very well. I believe it's butt-pucker factor, bad noises and possibly no case damage. I know who to ask though. He used to be RDScotty on the old forum.

Must sound REALLY good with 3 cyls and open stacks.

Nice bike!

Something done to that Daytona crank to make it a little more bulletproof, like a '76/'77 RD400 crank?

No, I am using the original crank. Not the hardened earlier 76-78 models. I spoke with a few old timers, and they said as long as its not a crazy powerful/ported race machine, I will be good. None of them have ever heard of the cranks failing under normal use. Have you?
Gary from Specii said the 350's are also not hardened.

Only heard of those who put chambers on, experimentally ported and thrashed the living snot out of a Daytona having an issue. Scary when it happens when least expected.
I would trust those old timers, though.

...and excellent project, by the way.