Made some sense of the wiring today. What an ordeal. Every in has been cut, spliced, crimped, and a complete mess! I didn't make it perfect, just cleaned up the birds nest that existed behind the headlight, and labeled it all. To just get it back on the road, I ordered a cheap rubber mounted headlight with mini windscreen, this both saves me money at the moment (didn't buy this thing expecting I had another financially draining project on my hands), and covers up the wiring up front, which even cleaned up is a pretty substantial bundle.
I also found a replacent header in good condition for the exhaust, since the half arsed unit on there was made from a set of kooks headers haha, it even says kooks on it still! The exhaust on the market for this bike are insanely priced, with the high mount systems going for over 1k. I will likely measure the needed tubing size from the new header and buy a ton of material from my mandrel bend source. As far as the actual mufflers, probably the 18 inch reverse cone quiet cores from cone engineering. I figure I can make something nicer than what's out there for less than half the price.
The monoshock work to accomodate the 748 swingarm seems to be mechanically sound, but it's butt ugly. I will have to break it all down to clean it up, which right now I really don't want to do. Did I mention the seat covers it? That's probably why the previous owner didn't make it pretty in the first place. All kidding aside, I'm going to want to get the frame in a jig and verify everything come winter. The shoddy work I have found thus far has me in the mindset to leave no stone unturned. It seems the "mechanic" that fiddled with it prior was of the camp that gets it to work, but has no care to make it look decent, which for me is not good enough.
I think long term, the only way I can make this into something special is to relocate the ecu and battery where the airbox used to be (lower in the trellis frame) which would give me the chance to do a custom gas tank, much lower and sleeker. Then, I can do a seat to match. However, the reason I picked this bike up was to have a commuter, not another bike in a box, I don't have the money available to take it on right now.
I think I am just going to make this rideable for the summer, then I will do a full teardown come next winter. With that in mind the list of to do's is as follows:
Headlight mounts (ordered)
headlight (ordered)
Header (ordered)
high mount exhaust (will probably fabricate to save money)
undertail plate bracket (will probably make as well)
belts, plugs, oil, etc
ride it until something fails
