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Ok. Since I can never seem to leave well enough alone, here's the quick summary of this year's significant mods.
First up, I had the master work his magic on my forks again ('02 GSXR 750 legs in SRAD triples), but this time he did something special: he installed '04-05 GSXR 600/750 knuckles so I could run the R6 radial brakes. ;D Now, my brakes consist of an R6 master cylinder, galfer lines, R6 calipers, and freakin super-duper awesome Alth rotors. Wasn't really a fan of the blue baskets on the rotors, but it has grown on me. I need to order a black pazzo lever to match my clutch side now, but the stocker works just fine for now.
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I still need to figure out a good mount for the reservoir, but for now it's zip-tied - lol. You can also see my new Swatt 2.5" rise clip-ons in this pic:
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As for the speedo, I was running Jim's kit on the front wheel of my bike with the stock rotors I just replaced with the Alths. Jim's kit was nice, but it was rather unsightly and only worked with stock rotors up front. Since I now have aftermarket rotors, I couldn't run the same magnets I did before. So I thought, why not run it on the back wheel? After looking into it, I figured it would work, but I needed to find the right parts.
I can't say it was cheap (because of the speedohealer), but it works awesome. No adjustments (once set up properly --- I got it functional on the first try), no removal and re-installation when I pull the wheel off, and because of the speedohealer---dead nuts accurate. It's very subtle and protected, too.
Mounted the speedohealer in the trunk:
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Hall Effect Sensor mounted to the rear brake caliper bracket (the spacers are white nylon, so I took a sharpie to it....poorly. I'll probably replace with aluminum spacers at some point, but they'll probably need to be custom made by someone):
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Ran the sensor wires with the brake line:
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Proximity to the rotor bolts (where I have one magnet mounted)
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Found some 6mm OD x 3mm tall neodymium magnets on ebay from the UK. The bolts are steel, so the magnet sticks right in the hole and stays there until I pull it out with another neodymium magnet...no glue, epoxy, or anything:
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As it turns out, the hardest part of the whole install was extending the leads on the speedohealer's harness. they only give you about 3" of a pigtail for both sides of the stock speedo hookup. The stock plugs are in the headlight bucket, so I needed to bust out the soldering iron and essentially make my own harness, using the plugs that came with the kit. No big deal, just time-consuming. With only one magnet, and the stock settings, if I was doing 80 mph, the speedo would read 19 mph. I think my settings are off slightly, causing my speed to read a little higher than reality. I'll bust out the GPS and get it set properly in the next week or so, but for now it's close enough.
There's a couple more things I plan on adding this year, but figured since I had the time today, I'd post up some pics.
First up, I had the master work his magic on my forks again ('02 GSXR 750 legs in SRAD triples), but this time he did something special: he installed '04-05 GSXR 600/750 knuckles so I could run the R6 radial brakes. ;D Now, my brakes consist of an R6 master cylinder, galfer lines, R6 calipers, and freakin super-duper awesome Alth rotors. Wasn't really a fan of the blue baskets on the rotors, but it has grown on me. I need to order a black pazzo lever to match my clutch side now, but the stocker works just fine for now.
I still need to figure out a good mount for the reservoir, but for now it's zip-tied - lol. You can also see my new Swatt 2.5" rise clip-ons in this pic:
As for the speedo, I was running Jim's kit on the front wheel of my bike with the stock rotors I just replaced with the Alths. Jim's kit was nice, but it was rather unsightly and only worked with stock rotors up front. Since I now have aftermarket rotors, I couldn't run the same magnets I did before. So I thought, why not run it on the back wheel? After looking into it, I figured it would work, but I needed to find the right parts.
I can't say it was cheap (because of the speedohealer), but it works awesome. No adjustments (once set up properly --- I got it functional on the first try), no removal and re-installation when I pull the wheel off, and because of the speedohealer---dead nuts accurate. It's very subtle and protected, too.
Mounted the speedohealer in the trunk:
Hall Effect Sensor mounted to the rear brake caliper bracket (the spacers are white nylon, so I took a sharpie to it....poorly. I'll probably replace with aluminum spacers at some point, but they'll probably need to be custom made by someone):
Ran the sensor wires with the brake line:
Proximity to the rotor bolts (where I have one magnet mounted)
Found some 6mm OD x 3mm tall neodymium magnets on ebay from the UK. The bolts are steel, so the magnet sticks right in the hole and stays there until I pull it out with another neodymium magnet...no glue, epoxy, or anything:
As it turns out, the hardest part of the whole install was extending the leads on the speedohealer's harness. they only give you about 3" of a pigtail for both sides of the stock speedo hookup. The stock plugs are in the headlight bucket, so I needed to bust out the soldering iron and essentially make my own harness, using the plugs that came with the kit. No big deal, just time-consuming. With only one magnet, and the stock settings, if I was doing 80 mph, the speedo would read 19 mph. I think my settings are off slightly, causing my speed to read a little higher than reality. I'll bust out the GPS and get it set properly in the next week or so, but for now it's close enough.
There's a couple more things I plan on adding this year, but figured since I had the time today, I'd post up some pics.
