Martin77 wrote:It's coming together very nicely! That motor looks especially trick...I like it..
Thanks Martin. I had that engine built up last year (you can see photos of it on the kitchen table). But I ran out of money and had to wait.
You know you've been up too long working on your bike when you hear the birds singing.
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I'm truly amazed at how long everything is taking to accomplish. It's all a bunch of little things, and they add up to a whole lot of time.
I can't seem to get any of my performance pipes to work with the frame and body work. So I pulled out the Ninja pipe that I have for this bike. It's not a bad pipe, just not the kind of performance that I want for this bike. But it will work until I can get a better pipe. Once I knew which pipe was going to be employed I got to installing the EGT sensor. It went together fairly well considering the Stage6 directions don't tell you any specifics. I knew I wanted to set the sensor about 15cm from the piston skirt. A bit of measuring things worked that out. I didn't know what drill bit to use so I started small and worked my way up to what looked right—which happened to be a 1/4".
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I didn't grind off the ridges like RJ did (I'm too lazy!), partially because the spring clip is about where the sensor should go. I ended up putting it a little bit off axis which is fine, and I located the clamp to sit on one of the ridges. Worked out okay. This first photo is checking it out, the second one is the bung installed, and the third is on the bike.
A little RANT time. What the hell is up with battery companies. They make these hi-tech batteries and stick these horrible connectors on them. Hey Shorai you are a fucking JAPANESE company. You have JAPANESE engineers. Your ancestors must be turning over in their graves for putting out such a horrible design. Seriously!
It's hard to see in the second photo, but I finally got so fed up with this crappy design that I went and got a piece of hose and stuck it under the nut. It's an old trick that works a whole lot better than what Shorai came up with using a piece of foam. Ballistic did a much better job at the battery posts.
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So I went for the switch! Things are so tight in there that it is questionable! And I couldn't employ the neat design on the switch to work with the throttle. But that's fine. The only part of the switch that I was going to use was the kill switch. While I was working on this my buddy Jason called me up. He was out Gromulating. Some idiot creeped up his ass at a stop light. We were talking about what to do about assholes like that—and well really all you can do is let them pass. But one thing that it made me think of is how it would be nice to have a button to flash the tail light, and well here I was wiring up the brake switch to the tail light, and I had the momentary button from the starter on this switch gear. So I wired it up to the brake light too.
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To get the wiring together I had to make two custom harness adaptors. It took a lot more time figuring out how to design them than it took to wiring them up. Lots of thinking about the wiring diagram, pinning out the things like the switch gear—all that sort of stuff. Took many amounts of time.
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And they ended up looking a bit scary too. I really didn't have the right parts to make these—if I had they would have looked much cleaner. I had to scavenge bits from here and there, and well at least they work!
When I got the bike it didn't have the front running light. I've always wanted that to work. The standard setup for it is to run it only off of the stator. I wanted it run off of the battery so that it was always on—like at stop lights and such. I really don't want to get hit again! Anyway it works now.
And the real pretty sight—a working EGT gauge.