The Yamaha Road Star Warrior Forum

67STROKERSTANG:

are you going to BBB in Fayetteville?

i probably would but my bike won't be ready in time. I wish it was going to be I would love to put it in that bike show. The ones around here are a joke.

I like it alot! You have and are doing such a great job with that bike.

This is shaping up to be among the better how-to photo-threads!

Brandon, I do still have the 2 switches attached to the tach.  The wires on them are long enough to allow me to located them on top of the ECU and held in place by the rubber strap that holds the ECU in place.  Has worked for me with no problems.

Thanks for recognition on the mod but I am certainly not the first to use an aftermarket headlight, maybe the first to use the frame neck area to the extent that I did to hide all the wiring that was originally in the stock headlight bucket.

bpk0816:

Brandon, I do still have the 2 switches attached to the tach.  The wires on them are long enough to allow me to located them on top of the ECU and held in place by the rubber strap that holds the ECU in place.  Has worked for me with no problems.

You should see under my seat. I don't think I could fit a sheet of paper in there.LOL I am going to leave the switches off for now. I can always plug them in if I need them. This is really just temporary, I will eventually be having the tach frenched into the tank when I get all my fenders and bodywork done. I am going to have the buttons put into the tank with the tach. 

I am sending you a PM Brian.

 Got a little more done today fellers. Thought I would share it with you.

Her is the trees. I am luckier than most, the ignition and tach mount just unbolts from the Morton trees. So I didn't have to cut and sand to get the upper tree smooth. I just hit it with some 1500 grit and polish and it looked great.

By claypool782, shot with DSC-T300 at 2009-09-15

By claypool782, shot with DSC-T300 at 2009-09-15

Started on a headlight bracket. Got it ruffed in. A few more cuts, some smoothing, and a little polish and it will be done. You can see the sharpie marks on the top where I will be rounding it off.

By claypool782, shot with DSC-T300 at 2009-09-15

By claypool782, shot with DSC-T300 at 2009-09-15

By claypool782, shot with DSC-T300 at 2009-09-15

This is the headlight mounted in what will be its final position.

By claypool782, shot with DSC-T300 at 2009-09-15

By claypool782, shot with DSC-T300 at 2009-09-15

I also got the hole cut in the back of the neck. Used a 90 deg drill and a 1 7/8 hole saw.

By claypool782, shot with DSC-T300 at 2009-09-15

I will update again when I make some more progress. Thanks for looking and the kind words.

Chris - (A.K.A. Rubberface52):

So far this Is going really good,, becoming a weekly update show..I'm very interested in all the steps you are doing. Keep it up and please keep the updates coming...

Thanks man. I prefer to update day by day because I always forget things when I wait till the end and then try to post pics and steps for the whole mod.

 Got a small update fellers and some more pics for you. Pretty much got my headlight bracket done. I still have some hand sanding to do and then a good polish and it will be done. Here are a couple of pics of how it turned out.

By claypool782, shot with DSC-T300 at 2009-09-17

By claypool782, shot with DSC-T300 at 2009-09-17

Started on my wire extensions. I only got the red plug from the speedo to the tach done today. I have 3 more to do and should get those done tommorow. Here is a pic of my cluster-fucc. It will be organized when I get done I promise.

By claypool782, shot with DSC-T300 at 2009-09-17

By claypool782, shot with DSC-T300 at 2009-09-17

Here are a couple more pics of the whole package.

By claypool782, shot with DSC-T300 at 2009-09-17

By claypool782, shot with DSC-T300 at 2009-09-17

I am going to try to scrounge up some scrap steel from a trailer shop down the road and see if I can start to fab up with an ignition mount tomorrow as well.

More to come.

As if you need someone else to say it but, Looks great.

You do very nice work.

Sweet!

 Looks great Brandon. What size wire are you useing for extending the tach?I plan to do the same thing once I finish my custom hand controls.Thanks.

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super work !!!! love to see your updates and your work brandon!!!! inspriing!!