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Whitehouse Honda

Jrutgers
Dear fellow bikers,
I hope 2014 have started well for you all!

There's a company called Whitehouse (Japanese I believe) and they have taken the CB 1100 retro bike and put the 70-76 (something) CB 750 Four tank and side covers saddle etc on it and made it beautiful.

I have a 1981 cb 750 and is now wondering, if there would need a lot of changes to the frame and what not to put similar parts as whitehouse done with the retro.

What is your opinion? Difficult? Is it even doable?

Please forgive and old Swede for the bad English..

Thanks!

JR
1981 CB 750 F
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shinyribs
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Your English is better than most of ours is.

I don't have any thing to get hard measurements off of, but I would think it's doable. The two upper tubes of the frame cradles are totally different between the SOHC and the DOHC bikes, but the rest is fairly simple. It might would require some surgery to the underside of the tank, but my vote would be doable.
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That has been discussed here before. Putting the early SOHC tank onto a DOHC frame would require a lot of surgery. The SOHC tank is super tight on the SOHC frame, and the DOHC frame is not only larger in the backbone, but has the two support tubes curving up into the tank.
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Hmmm, if you had both tanks it might would work. Carve the bottom off the DOHC tank and fit it on to a SOHC tank. I'd vote tank surgery vs frame surgery. JMO.
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Jrutgers
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Ok, thanks.
I will see if I can get the parts to start measure.
The sohc parts are hard to get in Sweden, but I'm in no hurry.
Would you say that changes to the frame to make the tank fit would decrease stiffness and/or performance to the bike?
1981 CB 750 F