'72 CB350 - Some Assembly Required

[.RJ]

I bought the tank on ebay.  Its an earlier (1970, i think - my bike is a '72) tank that was repainted the original 'candy gold' color.  The earlier tanks were a different shape and I liked those better - I was hunting for a tank either in candy gold or candy blue and decided whatever tank color I ended up with, would paint the frame to match.

My early tank - 



Later tank shape



And the candy blue as well



Its a setback and I'm disappoint, but this is how things go.

Now to start sorting the motor.  I think I am leaning towards shipping it out, but I need to really nail down the scope/cost before I go that route.  I'd hoped that the fabricator that did the frame work for me would be interested in taking on the motor built but he's backed up with complete bike builds right now.  He did say that if I wanted to do the disassembly/reassembly myself he could clean & vapor blast the cases, jugs, covers, etc for me.  I'd still need to find a machine shop to bore the jugs, ship out the cylinder head, and so on.  I need to figure out which makes sense because the costs do add up, at the end of the day shipping out and receiving back a complete engine may not be any more expensive.