Been a busy couple of weeks, not much time to work on the bike, but here's what I got.
So I got the power side of the M-Unit wired up and cables roughly run. I decided to just get a small piece of alu to bolt components to, and I'll just velcro that to the seat pan. I was pretty averse to drilling through the seat pan to mount things (save for the taillight wires/mounting bracket).
Here's the M-Unit and starter solenoid
For the solenoid mount I just cut a thin piece of alu, and bent ears on it. I pop riveted it to the alu plate, and those ears fit perfectly in the stock rubber mount from the stock solenoid.
I'm going to give the Ricks the same alu plate treatment. There was room to mount it next to the M-Unit, but I thought it might get too hot and there would be the possibility of damaging the M-Unit, or melting wires, so I'm going to mount it in the far back little seat cavity.
Here's a panoramo of the wiring up the bike. Blue wire is the start wire hanging down, and it's hard to see but I'm going to mount the wireless ignition right in front of the battery in the little ear of the battery tray.
Here's all the wires pulled up and through the headlight bucket.
Next up I think is going to be starting to run all the front control wiring through the bars. I'm going to install
control switches that I got from Lowbrow customs and they'll be flush mounted to the bars. I'm also planning on running clutch/brake switch lines through the handlebars and probably have them exit down by the top triple nut. Hoping for a pretty clean front end wiring wise.
Another little project that I'm going to tackle here in the next week or two is building a bucket for the GPS speedo/digital tach. The unit I got is from Speedhut, and they're designed for cars. I've seen several projects use them and they have kind of a cheezy spin on plastic nut. Most projects I've see just cut out a plate and spin the nut on the back. I'm not really into that so I found a perfectly sized piece of pipe at my local
metal supermarket that the speedo will more or less drop into.
I've got a small piece of flat cold rolled steel to weld onto the back to seal the back off, and a thicker chunk of steel to make a mount for this spot on the triple that I think was used for a wiring mount.
So yeah, I'm going to get everything roughly mounted in the next little bit before I start cutting and soldering wires, and really wiring the thing up in earnest.
I'm wondering/debating if I should splice the original starter motor wire to make it longer, or replace it completely as it's not long enough now to reach up to the starter solenoid in it's new placement. I guess that starter isn't too difficult to pull out and put a new wire on, just a matter of another trip to the hardware store, and time to pull the thing out and build a new wire.
Anyway, probably going to pull the plug on new shocks (still debating on budget, and how much performance I need) shortly as I'm hoping my newly hondaman'd swingarm will be back from Colorado soon. Also getting rubber mounted on the wheels in the next week or so, so I'll have that all mounted up soon too.
Things are getting dangerously close, or at least it feels that way from way back when I started this whole project.
Ok, more as soon as I have time! As always, it's my first build, so feel free to point out where I'm #$%*ing up, or if you have any advice that you're willing to share on parts, placement, etc., to help a brother out!
Cheers all!
