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So, I picked up this LeMans 1 last Saturday. The production date shows to be November 1976 so I guess it is actually a 1977 model. The title shows 1976. Just as you did, I worked on it for few hours and took it for a ride. I'll start tearing it down in a week or 2. This bike went through a sort of restoration / customization and has not been ridden in over 17 years. The wiring harness was replaced along with a lot of other things. My plan is to tear it down to go back to factory red with black frame. I have the stock seat and exhaust along with some other good stock parts.I am in need of a stock red paint code and hopefully good information / photos showing the original paint layout, black positioning and stripe sizes. Do you have this information from your tear down?
A little header pipe before-and-after...
Pescatore...No sir. I sent the headers (mine are the one-piece) the finned flanges and the Lafranconi x-over to JetHot to be ceramic coated.
I had the one-piece header, finned head clamps, and Lafranconi crossover pipe coated in satin black. I did not do the actual mufflers. Mine are NOS that the seller had on the bike. Header was peeling paint and the finned clamps had a little but of surface rust bloom. Jet Hot charged $365.I asked about having the mufflers coated--I was thinking internally only to make them last a little longer as they're obviously just uncoated mild steel inside, but the JetHot rep on the phone said they wouldn't do them. Poor memory, but I thought it was about any internal fiber packing. I wanted the outside to keep the stock finish.
Whatever it was, it was pretty darned frustrating. I'd give Charlie a few days before asking. That kind of frustrating. Think he tried quite a few condensors, etc...pulled the cam...checked/re-checked timing.