Ok - I need another piece of advice. I have what is purported to be a CB450 hardtail frame which I want to turn into something to look cool and tool around town. I have a 1976 CB360 which I was originally going to turn into a hard tail but subsequently found this frame. The CB360 is clean and unmolested but parked for the last 13 years. I have started cleaning out the carbs (very dirty) and such. It seems very clean. I also picked up a 1968 CB450 K1, which was sort of chopped purported in the 1970's, which I believe. They put these extended forks on it, without figuring out the problems with rake and trail. They didn't chop the frame, which made an amazingly tippy and fairly unridable bike. So I believe this bike hasn't been ridden much for many decades. It is also not particularly clean and it leaks oil from some place I have yet to sort out.
Now the purported 450 frame appears to have the right front mounts and top mounts although the bottom mounts may or may not be correct. So even though it has CB450 numbers, it may or may not be for a CB450.
So, to the forum, which motor would you try to revive? The cleaner, newer CB360 which may take some work to fit in the frame but looks clean and tight or the older, leaky CB450 which has a higher possibility of fitting in the frame but probably more issues in the actual motor?
Now the purported 450 frame appears to have the right front mounts and top mounts although the bottom mounts may or may not be correct. So even though it has CB450 numbers, it may or may not be for a CB450.
So, to the forum, which motor would you try to revive? The cleaner, newer CB360 which may take some work to fit in the frame but looks clean and tight or the older, leaky CB450 which has a higher possibility of fitting in the frame but probably more issues in the actual motor?
