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Awesome, Thanks for chiming in. One less thing to worry about.

did you make the rotor spacer yet?

No I haven't. I was gonna use the center of the stock rotor like you suggest in the Speed Shop though.

When you don't have a mill...  Not perfect, but not bad! Took me a while to make though. The caliper really takes up a lot of space between the forks. Looks like it will hit the wheel. Hopefully an optical illusion.

Awesome! Thanks guys.

I have the bottom end of the engine assembled, no side cases. I'd like to put it in the frame and build from there because it's kinda heavy and I'm a one man show. Also, don't want to scratch up my freshly painted side cases. Any reason I shouldn't do it that way?

I went out and got some low heat aluminum brazing rods I was going to try and use. But this guy will no doubt do a better job than I ever could. I just didn't want to potentially screw it up even worse. He did warn me it'll be a slight different shade.

So I found 1 (ONE!) guy who's willing to fix my head (RD400 head that is...). He's a race car fabricator/welder with a shop on site at Sonoma Raceway (aka Sears point, Infineon). He's about 25 miles from me. Gonna go see him tomorrow. It wont be cheap, but it beats JB weld!

Awesome! I get almost as excited about construction projects as I do bikes!

So my question is, is this fixable? Maybe braising or one of those low heat fillers you can get that only requires propane or map gas?...  or do i just fill the holes with JB weld and paint it. Here's my other head all nice and polished.

No problem, I'll just take it to my welder dude, who did a decent job on my cases...

I am just sick. Sometime over the last 3 months, I got a crack on the outside of my right Daytona head. Don't know how/when it happened. I tried to straighten it, and of course it broke of. The 2nd pic is from when I posted pics of the finished parts, about 3 months ago. You can see the crack up in the right hand corner. Don't know how I missed this.

Looks like it's shaping up to be a great hide out! I love snooping at other folks garages. An open garage door always stops me in my tracks while out walking the dog. 

Your trailer is framed for the boards to run length wise. If you're keen on using the free wood, couldn't you just add one more wide metal brace in the middle and butt the ends of the boards together? You'd have a seam in the middle, but if it's bolted down good towards the ends it should work. You could even get fancy and put a length of T metal in the seam to cover it.

What ever paint you use, baking it on there at 200-250 degrees for 0-45mins seams to make it a lot tougher.

John,
Be well and thank you for the nice chats and awesome work you did for me. I must be one of your last (if not the last) customers. John had my parts while he was dealing with his medical problems - and still somehow took care of me. My crank looks awesome BTW. Enjoy your retirement, working on your own projects at your own pace.
Thanks again, John B