Thursday, August 10, 2023

1982 Honda Turuna adapted with a CG 125 pushrod engine

From '79 to '86, the Brazilian equivalent of the Honda CB 125 was the Honda Turuna, resorting to the OHC engine previously used in the imported CB 125S before new vehicle imports to Brazil ceased in '76, with few exceptions granted mostly in the Manaus Free Port Zone. While the Honda CG 125 was a best-seller, released in Brazil in '76 and with its OHV engine being more competitive than the OHC as an utilitarian motorcycle engine towards the 2-stroke competitors, the Turuna was supposed to be more upscale and sporty. But nowadays, with CG 125 parts being easier to find, seeing a Turuna adapted with a CG engine in order to remain in use doesn't really surprise me, at least not as much as the stock front disc brake also replaced by a drum brake which used to be a stock feature of the Honda CG 125.
Seemingly the entire front fork, headlight and instrument cluster were sourced from a late Brazilian version of the OHV-engined CG 125, which ran from late-'99 to early 2004 when the OHC-engined CG 150 was meant to become a replacement for the OHV CG 125 regular versions, and from 2006 to 2009 the CG 125 was reintroduced in the stripped-down Fan version, until a new OHC engine was fitted to the 125 starting in 2009. The extremely basic cluster, which missed the tachometer, was adapted from the OHV Honda CG 125 Fan, later also fitted to its carburettor-fed OHC replacement which soldiered on until 2016 when the OHC engine received EFI until it was phased out in 2019. Sure it would've been more appealing if this Turuna had retained the stock instrument cluster, a front disc brake, and maybe an OHC engine which would be more "accurate", but it's already better than if it had been scrapped...

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