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Traverse City, Michigan

Parts Sales + Engine Services + Maintenance/Repairs + Full Bike Building for the Vintage Honda Minis such as the Honda Z50 Mini Trail, CT70, SL70, CL70, C70, ATC70 & More!

If our posts ever start to look a little repetitive, we take that as a good sign.Being "boring" just means we're busy do...
09/10/2026

If our posts ever start to look a little repetitive, we take that as a good sign.

Being "boring" just means we're busy doing what we do best every single day— solid, honest work at the engine rebuild bench.

We’re incredibly grateful to everyone who chooses VintageHondaMinis.com for their engine builds, chassis maintenance/repairs, and parts sales. Thanks for keeping the shop busy and trusting us with your small bore Hondas!

— Josh & Jason

This is a customer's engine that was dropped off to be torn down. It was pulled from a bike that he recently purchased a...
09/09/2026

This is a customer's engine that was dropped off to be torn down. It was pulled from a bike that he recently purchased as restored. The easy part of building a bike is the assembly of chassis, which can look really good with a decent paint job and new parts...but the most important and potentially costly mistake is not verifying the engine work...

09/04/2026

VintageHondaMinis.com
Traverse City, MI 49596

We be riding.

Another CT70H engine restoration completed. Just doing some initial break in laps. This is a demo video for the customer testing transmission function

VintageHondaMinis.comTraverse City, MI 49696My brother and I are making a great team with workflow. We snuck this job in...
09/02/2026

VintageHondaMinis.com
Traverse City, MI 49696

My brother and I are making a great team with workflow. We snuck this job in towards the end of our shop day. Top end package just came in this afternoon.

A customer sent his Honda z50 top end for refurb. Head was already clean and cylinder was painted as it was an attempt to lap in old valves and re ring a piston, but didnt work out so customer pulled the top end and shipped it out to us. Ex guide was bad, cylinder was scored up. We re-cut the seats and installed new honda valvetrain parts. Replaced ex guide. Repaired damaged exhaust stud holes. 2nd over bore/hone on cylinder. Leaked and measured all the work and provided pictures to customer. Ready to ship out with tomorrow's pickup as our day in the shop is concluded.

I somehow have an extra m8x1.25 timesert thread repair tool kit, it has been used once.$65 shipped in Continental USA
08/29/2026

I somehow have an extra m8x1.25 timesert thread repair tool kit, it has been used once.

$65 shipped in Continental USA

I'm going to have to order in some white lab coats😂This lab quality Imada digital push/pull force measuring machine popp...
08/28/2026

I'm going to have to order in some white lab coats😂

This lab quality Imada digital push/pull force measuring machine popped up for sale locally and I knew it would be a good addition to our shop. It will provide alot of useful info. Going to add a DRO gauge and make some parts to expand its usefulness as it currently sits.

From spring comparisons of stock to heavy duty alternatives and what their real differences are - Valve springs, clutch springs etc across many engine platforms

To evaluating these 60+ year old flywheel's permanent magnets health coming with engines we are rebuilding for customers. This digital load cell device can record a peak pull value and will allow us to test a flywheel vs what we will learn to be good safe range vs weak ( I have some bad flywheels in a bin that never ran great and just swapping them out for another one resulted in a great running engine). Weak flywheel magnets can cause you to chase ignition and carb issues if you cant identify the weak flywheel magnets...Especially on CDI conversion.

Stopped for a minute to make a small support stand for ct70/z50 carb rebuilds. Spare intake manifolds mounted to a simpl...
08/27/2026

Stopped for a minute to make a small support stand for ct70/z50 carb rebuilds. Spare intake manifolds mounted to a simple support base. Throw it on the shelf when not in use.

Auxillary hanging gas tank feeding carb inlet ni**le. Open the drain valve with a clear hose turned upright and observe the float fill height compared to bowl top/gasket level. Helpful because alot of original floats have been tweeked/bent and even though you set to spec can still be off and cause over/under filling of bowl. Measure twice, install once...or something like that😂

VintageHondaMinis.comTraverse City, MI 49696I have been busy the last few weeks and have not even really stopped to prov...
08/26/2026

VintageHondaMinis.com
Traverse City, MI 49696

I have been busy the last few weeks and have not even really stopped to provide shop updates. Weather has been very nice in the 70's. Almost a faux fall here.

Should be wrapping up 2 hardtails that were in for engine overhauls. Test rode a few other completed engines and shipped those back out.

We grabbed a new pitbike for the shop to experiment with some ideas...showed up today on the pallet...tbc...

My steel rear sprocket hub for the eddy brake engine dyno shaft is now completed, so hopefully next month start putting that machine together

Couple new shop machines - Got the langmuir MR1 CNC onto the floor / off its pallet and is now moveable with pallet jack after installing lower lift beams. 220 wired for this and the new mill that is coming soon.
New manual shop lathe has been in use making some parts/prototypes. New 2hp floor drill press has been added for versatility needs.

A bunch of new different parts to add to my ebay store are on order.

and alot of other things getting staged

08/20/2026

My way of repeating until the part sales justify the cnc brake.

VintageHondaMinis.comTraverse City, MI 49696Kept a local University student’s Honda C70 Passport on the road today! The ...
08/20/2026

VintageHondaMinis.com
Traverse City, MI 49696

Kept a local University student’s Honda C70 Passport on the road today! The Rabaconda mini tire changer handled these 17" rims like a charm. Love that it breaks down and stores out of the way when the job's done.

Address

1391 Industry Drive #4D
Traverse City, MI
49696

Opening Hours

Monday 9am - 5pm
Tuesday 9am - 5pm
Wednesday 9am - 5pm
Thursday 9am - 5pm
Friday 9am - 5pm
Saturday 9am - 12pm

Telephone

+15402079170

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