Show Bonanza 1500 SC

[marc 1]

Worked most of the weekend on putting the engine back together. Her are some photos of it in the Mini.

 

[marc 1]

OK, for all of you that wanted some more of the car. Had to put mini in also!

 

[marc 1]

Yes those birds very interested in the project! Say Hi to Grace and Max. Max is the green one.

 

[marc 1]

Paul, who owns the shop is a clean freak! Yes , you can really eat off the floors. This is a good thing! Especially if he is working on your stuff!! Check out the wall ornaments.

 

[marc 1]

We still have to paint the tank, finish exhaust, put in jack shaft sprockets and do some more wiring and we will be finished. Will show you the finished mini in a week or so. Check out the chrome on the shifter and kick starter. The chromer went all out and smoothed and polished them like jewelry. Not exactly stock but way cool!

 

[buckeye]

A thing of beauty. :thumbsup:
Garage is impressive. Nice to have a cool place to work.

 

[marc 1]

Paul goes all out to make if a fun place to visit or just hang out by the fire place. The birds will often carry on a conversation with anyone in the shop

 

[millers1]

The pic with the birds perched on the handlebars is priceless!

 

[David wulf]

Bike is awesome and i really like the car , you also have a great place to work .

 

[mopar70]

nice bike, love the Hodaka's. Not a bad looking mopar

 

[Clayon]

The Bonanza and the Challenger both look great. The bike is flawless. :thumbsup: Nice shop and birds as well.

 

[marc 1]

Found an nos Steens torque industries exhaust on ebay. After some slight modifications, it looks like it was made for the Bonanza.

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Paul did his magic with the paint. Looks awesome!!

 

[Clayon]

Very nice. :thumbsup:

 

[marc 1]

The "TORQUE" heat shield came with the pipe but the long shield was missing. Pauls neighbor Frank, who is a welder, Fabricated the long heat shield out of stainless steel. We polished it and then had "BONANZA" engraved to match the "TORQUE".

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[Clayon]

That's a nice touch. :thumbsup: One of the nicest Bonanzas I've seen.

 

[marc 1]

We had to shorten the pipe. In doing so we needed to make sure the channel for the clutch cable was still in the right place.

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[marc 1]

The "Steens" exhaust came with a hose clamp to fasten the pipe to the cylinder. This was standard with this application. Paul hand crafted his version of what the clamp should look like.. not to mention it is way stronger.

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[marc 1]

The exhaust came with the same mounting bracket for the rear as the Bonanza did. When modifying the pipe we made sure we could use the stock bracket minus the longer brace. Now it fits perfectly right over the shock mount and utilizes The stock shock bolt.

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[marc 1]

The silencer insert came flat black. I talked Paul into polishing it. I Think he is getting a little tired of my asking him to polish "everything". He's a good sport though !!

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[marc 1]

Yes we had the wrong air box on before. We found an original "and yes" I had Paul polish that too! Sorry Paul....

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