this is a "before" shot from early this year
cost me $3300 from motorcycle disposals in sydney
the official word was that the previous owner "fukt up a wheelie"
not sure how much damage he got, but the TLR was pretty much rooted
in hindsight it probably shouldnt have been re-registerable
but i think i have worked around that ok
im going to skip all the in-betweens
but for more detail check out here
http://www.tlplanet.com/forums/showt...threadid=41211
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this is how it stood as of last weekend, just before i pushed it to the shop
she's getting longer/custom accelerator and choke cabels done
longer clutch line is on its way from our good buddy stu at the supermarket
pretty much just wrapping up a few of the little details now
it currently runs
- gsxr1000 02 forks
- gsxr1000 front calipers
- front brake master stolen off my SV til a busa one pops up on ebay
- HEL braided front brake and clutch lines
- LED indicators with libertek flasher unit
- battery moved up under the seat
- protaper carmicheal bars (black, naturally)
- satin black paint
- EK chain
- diablo corsa f/r
- busa headlight
- veypor VR2 gauge unit
- k&n filter
the final plan includes
- little german style rear end
- custom high mount exhaust using the old yoshi headers and supertrapp cans
- custom luxeon LED headlight modified from an R1 pocketbike headlight
- relocated RH switchgear and ignition barrel
- other little custom bits here and there [8D]
i cant wait to get this thing going
having it at the shop is driving me NUTS!!! i want it back to finish stuff off already!
so you like her?
got any comments? GO FOR IT!!!
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How are you doing the Luxeons Fimp?
I've been looking at some 1 & 3 Watt ones (hobby shit), I presume you're going to use the 5 or 10 Watts units.
there is 10 Watt ones, holy crap!!
im using 2 5W white ones through elliptical lens's
not sure how good it'll be
but it seems to look pretty bright in the shed
i figure if i cant get them bright enough i will just throw in another h3 bulb and set the angle a bit lower than the other side
the biggest thing im worried about is heat, the 5W ones do warm up after a while
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Hey Fimp,
Are you trying to start a new trend with that top triple clamp
Hope you don't have termites in your garage.
Is that what they mean when they say the handling felt a bit wooden
i was waiting for that!!!
just knocked it up so i could get the cables done
i mean come on, what kind of dumb-ass do u think i am?
the final one is gonna be mahogany, BLING BLING!!
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Got a mate who was a bike mechanic in the 60's, in WA.
They got in a shipment of old English singles for parts, and me mate pulls the head off one, takes 2 looks at it and just can't figure out what was going on, the engine actually ran before he touched it, bit smoky, just needs rings he thought.
The piston was made of Jarrah, or some such hard wood, yet it worked on the old plodders.
He went to show his boss, and he pulls another one out from under the counter.
Apparently in the 40's and 50's it was done occasionally when they couldn't get parts in the wilds of WA.
Rob hit this thing up with an electric drill, and couldn't even mark it, hard as stainless he reckons.
The 10 W Luxeons are fairly new, and I don't know where you can get them locally yet. But they apparently light the night up big time, good for high beam.
What power supply/filters are you using? I've been working with one of the Jaycar high efficiency driver kits, but mainly for solar powered garage/outdoor lights and the like.
Could look at peltier devices for the 10W, but a decent sized (IE from a Pentium PC)heatsink should work with the 5W, plus fit up an LDR to reduce the amount of light output during the day/well lit conditions.
At the moment I'm just hanging for my new riser plate to turn up so that I can implement my new idiot 'glow' light system, using 9000+ mcd LED's, and hopefully fuel/temp gauges using the same 'glow' system.
define "glow light system"?
i found that the hi-intensity LEDs are just too damn bright unless u want to blind yourself every time u hit the blinkers on
i ground down the tips of some 5mm ones to take the "edge" of the brightness
the 5W are running off the jaycar kits thingos, i wanted to get optimum light out of them
no use wasting the power eh?
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With the 5mm LED's I have drilled 5mm holes into a 10mm aluminium plate, and recessed a 6mm hole from the back, so that the LED's sit 2-3mm below the surface of the plate. When you look at the holes with the LED's off you just see a polished hole, the clear lens LED's are difficult to see. When they come on they are just far enough below the surface to create a strongly colored glow around the top of the hole, which is visible even in strong direct sunlight. The riser plate where they are going is at the right angle so that I don't actually see the LED's.
Because of the bar-end indicators I won't need indicator idiot lights, so I only need the other 3 idiot lights.
With a circuit like the Jaycar one (I have the same) you minimize the amount of heat being created by only supplying the necessary amount of power, but at the cost of bulk and expense. The kit is aimed more at battery and solar powered applications, where energy efficiency is paramount. Just by going to Luxeons you will already be saving a huge amount of power on your bike anyway. Plus you can get away with a lot of heat generation in the correct headlight set up, you could easily get away with a much simpler control.
holy shit, i actually did some work on this tonight!!!!
knocked a few things off my "shit-list"
i can now completely dismantle the hangers and everything on them with one allen key too, which is nice i think
going to throw the MEGA stock rear end on tomorrow night and dig into these electrics again
once they are sorted its just a matter of rigging up the rad and bleeding all the hydaulic lines before i can take it for a quick spin (hurrah, at my pace that'll only take about 4 years...)
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oh, and i should be picking up the adapter plates for the rearsets tomorrow arvo if all goes to plan
(although they are pretty prone to being late on stuff...)
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Looking truly horny Fimpster
GS500s are always a good providor for fighter conversion throttle cables
www.bladerod.com
www.hoonmedia.com
www.cunningstunts.com/boxer.htm
sorry boxer,
all that crap above is heaps out of date (i think due to the bastards who deleted nov-dec last year on us)
i got a motocross throttle assembly on there, only about 50-60 degrees close->open
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hey fimp, was it expensive for the motox throttle set up? and do you think i could use it for my jnr fighter? any model in particular?
i dunno, it was just at the shop
i think it was about $150??
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9am this morning...
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isnt it great when things just work out the way ya planned?
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and once again, this time with the lights off
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here's a hint
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