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Offline Hot500

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Cafe seat and hidden electrics.
« on: October 02, 2011, 12:51:31 PM »
So I'm going the cafe route with my CB500 and want to go for the clean look with the battery and electrics under the seat.
Trouble is I can't get my head around where everything will go.  ??? ???      I am prepared to go with either a cafe seat on a standard base, or I have an after market cafe seat base I could work with.

Do I need to make some sort of extra box under the seat to hold everything ? Also, will the standard wiring be long enough. Any advice and pics muchly appreciated.
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Offline WarwickE36

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Re: Cafe seat and hidden electrics.
« Reply #1 on: October 02, 2011, 01:19:36 PM »
You're going to need to extend the harness, you could probably use a hondaman fuse-panel to cut down on size.  Or you are going to need to make a custom fuse-panel.  You will need a smaller gel battery to fit under the hump (standard batter will leak obviously.) 

Then you will probably spend most of your time tuning the pods.  Unless you have already done that.
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