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, "Miles" wrote:
> Honda 600's will go as fast as you can make them go and then they
> will blow up. Red line is 6000 rpm and speed at that point with 145
> SR10 tires and the synchromesh trans is 75mph.
> I drove a Z600 with original 4 speed non synch trans and RHD across
> Germany in caravan with a Honda S800 and an MGB back in 1984 at
85mph
> until we got to England, then the speed limit was 55mph. We were on
> our way to The Isle Of Man Honda S800 car meet. Driving back across
> Holland to Germany was at the break neck speed again of 85mph. I
was
> taching well into 7000 rpm's, but was not my car, belonged to
Martin
> Weigert who is a Honda master mechanic/collector there in Germany.
> The blue car should have 520 x 10 Bia Ply tires which are taller,
> though from the pics looked to have had the 145 -10's. That car has
> the earlier non synch engine and the top speed may be different on
> the speedometer especially since the tires wrong size and the
speedo
> drive gear won't be matched to the wheels, so it's more likely you
> were doin' 85.
> Now, as far as restoring it. If the paint is original, even though
it
> has a ding, it will devalue the car to paint it. If it was my car
and
> the body had original excellent paint, I would clean up the engine
> bay, rebuild what needs rebuilding, replace the carpets etc and
never
> touch the paint. You do those things and you will double the value
of
> the car, redo the chrome but not overdo the quality. The original
> chrome had factory scratches in it, might be hard to duplicate. I'd
> avoid doing 90mph as cranks are all gone. Last retail on one was
> $1600.00, though I hear you can get rebuilts from Germany for
> $1600.00.
> Miles
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2cylinderhondas@yahoogroups.com
, goinhm@ wrote:
> > Hi Greg,
> > You have mentioned going 90 mph in a 600 sedan ...... does
> your car have
> > a stock engine? When I look at the performance curves on the
600
> (torque
> > and bhp), it appears the best the car should do is no more than
> 70 mph and
> > this is putting you into red line on engine rpm (6,000 rpm).
Did
> you drive it
> > at 90 mph or 90 km/hr?
> > Dale
> > You should read the earlier posts. I went and looked at the car
> and
> > bought it on the spot. Shrunken window rubber? That comes out
> anyway
> > if you are doing a good restoration. There is absolutely no rust
> in
> > the entire body whatsoever. No oil leakes and I had it up to 90
> mph.
> > It has NEVER been hit except a small ding in the rear bumper.
> Going
> > to do a ground up restoration on it, and it's always better to
pay
> a
> > little more for and excellent body.
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