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 I ended up using Economy cycle to recut the heads and o ring them. Really happy with the work, reasonable price and quick turn around. Good communication.

R5 frame from painter

Frame is back from the painter. Im happy with it. Have a solid plan for the motor and I got the DG heads back from being recut. Bought a new vitos crank. The old one was questionable. Using an rd 6 speed, tuned rd350 cylinders with the tz750 reed blocks, custom made intake manifolds (cant find tz ones that aren't hard as a rock), mikuni tm flatslides, weisco banshee pistons, DG heads, dyna s electronic ignition.  Hoping to have a rolling frame by the time it gets cold..

Thanks for the offer and thanks to those who responded.  Problem sorted!

Ed Toomey Designs South Carolina? Ill give it a shot! Thanks so much!

Is S.Clough still working? No website anymore and his mailbox is full when I call. HVC no longer do that work, Vintage Smoke seems to be closed and forum members such as Chuck "Supertune" that could do the work in 2019 don't seem to be around anymore. Thoughts, suggestions?

I have a set of unused DG heads for an rd350. The cylinders will run weisco pistons and run on pump gas. I would like the combustion bowls re cut to safely run modern pumpgas. Anyone have suggestions on who to talk to?
Thanks in advance!

Yeah, if everything turns out ok, I'd like to use them. They do have a tune on them. Also have a nice set of unused (as far as i can tell) old dg 350 heads to go with them. From what I've read, I'd have to have the combustion bowls reshaped for modern pump gas? True?

Back from the shop and then I put it back together

Started teardown. Rear swing arm went to the powder coater. Rear wheel and hub went to local shop Service Pavilion to get relaced with ss spokes

I have two sets of cylinders to work with. One has an old conversion to what I think is a tz reed cage? Cutting that and converting it to fit the v force. Bottom picture is comparing what I think is a stock rd350 cylinder to the weird conversion cylinder. You can see the standard boost port is wider in the stock cylinder than the weird reed cage conversion. Have to measure the port timings

Bought this 1972 R5 in 2014. Just now getting around to it. Previous owner was a hack. Really started to look into it and found it's easier and safer to do everything the right way. Ill update as I move along.
You can check out my other builds and events/rides on insta @lancasterlambretta

I installed the AllBalls bearing races in my 72 r5 frame. The top bearing race looks wrong to me. Sticks out the top about 2mm (bottom pic)and the bottom race sits pretty deep (top pic). Does this look correct?
Thanks!

That is outstanding.  Very helpful. Thanks!

M in SC,
In your pictures I noticed you have the r5 stock steering damper on the rd forks. I didn't realize you could make that work on rd forks. Can you elaborate on that? Specifics,tips,  more pictures. Was it fairly straight forward?