Best of luck with the purchase! Looks like a real sweet BSA. I have a special place in my heart for cafes. Just recently had to sell my 74 CB750 restomod and I still regret it. Took me 3 years to build this beauty.
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Shame! NICE bike!
My bud out in Phoenix built a Turbo Harley Cafe Racer and took it to Bonneville and blew away the record for that class. With
ALL the different classes, I don't remember which class.
His first one had a turbo from a Subaru WRX. The turbo map wasn't really ideal, I sent it to the guy that rebuilt all my turbos. He rebuilt it and changed the exhaust wheel to get it closer, but still not really ideal. I adapted a gauge style Turbo Smart controller. He ran it for a bit with just the waste gate spring and no controller. When the boost hit, it ramped way too quickly and it was just a wheelie monster.
On his second rendition with his girlfriend's bike, I sent the specs to my turbo guy and he gave me a few options. Her bike had a much bigger displacement engine, stretched frame and changed the angle of the forks.It was more of a purpose built bike for a land speed record, but still a good streetable bike. With the different style of turbo, we could design a better controllable system and far more efficient. Same simple Turbo Smart controller, the smallest BOV I've ever used and a redesigned intake manifold, the new design flowed amazingly.
Both bikes were fuel injected and had to be tuned. What a primitive system Harley used. The first bike used the stock computer and wiring with aftermarket tuning software. Jason used the software he had been using and it was such a pain! Nipped quite a few plugs before it was finished. I really didn't like the tune that much we came up with street tuning. The deadline to make the Salt Flatts was to close to get a spot on a motorcycle dyno for a couple hours.
The second bike got the aftermarket computer, wiring harness with it's particular tuning software. MUCH better system in all aspects. The software was almost the same as the one I had used for a couple of years. I got the dyno time and I had the bike fully tuned in a little over an hour. Not because of any special skills I had, it was just the easy system and software.
His girl's bike was just a fast ass beast. The torque was just plain stupid with the big twin. Even with the lowest settings and ramp rates on the boost controller, you'd better be a bit forward on the bike at anything above half throttle.......and that was with my big ass riding it. I'm glad to have put a few hours under my belt with that bike, but if it had been mine, I would have eventually killed myself.............but what a way to go!
My first bike was a Honda V65 Interceptor, I say it was the first real super bike in modern/er times.... the Vincent of the 80s. Such a FUN bike and torquey as hell with that V4 and a well balanced bike. Her bike was in the same fun zone.
He later converted the
) and figured if i was ever in an accident I’d prob crumble to dust! That and the fact doctors had me on oxycodone and xanax i figured that wasn't a wise combo for being out on a 2 wheeled death mobile! Wound up selling it back to dude i got it from!
love that movie but but that’s my stapler 
