1978 Ssr440b

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I am looking for info on the 1978 SSR440B. I have a race shop survivor and am trying to verify it's origins etc. I am looking for good info on actual quantity built, who raced which VIN #, where these whacky cylinders came from, where I can find a tunnel etc. I have owned it for 15+ years and don't really want to sell it but, I have been receiving some offers that are hard to ignore...
Contact me if you can help.
Mark
 
Luck Dog.... I am toying with having a clone built for the vintage IFS class next year.
I am not all that up to speed on the ssr's but am sure several here will chime in and help you out.

welcome to the site
 
Thank's. I am a closet Yamaha freak. Have had lots of them over the years. Still have a few. The SSR is real nice, has some unusual parts and pieces on it. One off yamaha stuff. If I could find Gordy Muetz he may know something about this sled.
 
you can add pics for an avitar in your user control pannel. I am sure that several of the users here "toydoc" "RHJ" and others will be able to help out. My Little SR292 was a fun project, but a head ache to race last year. Nothing seemed to go right. Picking away at building a mod '74 GPX433 for the '08 season, and just found a '71 SR433 motor to play with also
 
I talked to Gordy Muetz years ago about the SSR. From what he remembered Yamaha made 100 for Can and the US, 50 for Eur and extra parts for 50 more. Any tech info, notes or race info (for SR, SRX, SSR...) all went in the dumpster when Yamaha moved his office from Calif to out East.

Yamaha started the vin numbers at 100. So you know what one it was in production. Not much info from yamaha to work with after that.
 
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Thank you. That is very helpful. My ssr is 000117. What is unusual is the cylinders look like magnesium, have 3 bolt intake flanges, water cooled exhaust ports with hose fittings and no casting/id/numbers. The bell housing is also Magnesium as is the chain case. Trailing arms are aluminum, radius rods are molly. Very light. I have never scaled it but a guess would be 300 pounds. I need to find a tunnel to make it perfect.
 
Years ago I found some of the same stuff for the SR and SRX. I did some looking and talking and found many of the better race teams did some trick parts. Yamaha was more helpful and available at the race track. So if a race team (or yamaha) wanted to have a custom part made, they just found a Fab shop here in the states and had it made (sometimes with yamaha help). None would have numbers on it. Back in the 70's Poor Boy racing had: 1 cyl, 2cyl and 3cyl yamaha 8F2 base motors. They had custom Polar case and cranks and all looked like factory yamaha, very cool stuff. Back then Aaen was making his own SRX cyl and I'm sure others did, just can't think of any names right now.

For the tunnel I'd try Jake Snider. He has the best luck of anyone I know.
I'll PM you his email.
Chris
 
Sounds good. I will contact Jake after I get his contact info. Is there anyone who can trace the vin number as to it's origin and race history?
Thank's again.
Mark
 
8HO-21910-00-00 said:
Sounds good. I will contact Jake after I get his contact info. Is there anyone who can trace the vin number as to it's origin and race history?
Thank's again.
Mark
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I never found anyone at yamaha. Gordy was it for old info and all of it went to the dump. Now you have to track down old race teams and talk to them.
Maybe try calling Dick Trickle. See if you can get a list of 1978 yamaha race teams going and work from that.

http://www.tricklefan.com/bio/stuff1.html
 
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