Going Naked, need help with gauges.

[Corinthian]

Top fairing is scrap. Plastic is all beaten and chewed and scraped and cracked. Held together with zip straps ect..

I'm going to be doing some refurbing on the bike 89, and need some ideas how I can go about having all my gauges.

I can either keep the big ole beasty thats in there and work around it using the sub frame and pinning on some black plastic and make it look "ok" or go with an aftermarket setup.

http://www.electrosport.com/street/speedometers-series-2700-2800.php

especially is what I had in mind. anyone used these before? I'm going street fighter because I cant afford new farings. This looks like a relatively cheap, not so complicated and possibly darned cool way to do it. Here in MN you have to have speedo to get tabs, they dont check but if I ever get pulled over I'd hate to have my bike impounded because I didnt.

[racerman_27410]

i use this one....

http://www.electrosport.com/street/speedometers-series-3950.php



nice alum. housing and works very well..... also has voltmeter,temp i use for oil temp) and fuel gauge.




be super easy to mount it up without the fairing on.

Kookaloo!

Frank

[threejagsteve]

Corinthian,

Looks like either your link or racerman's would work, but what's the look you want?

Back in the '70s and early 80s, speedo and tach were usually in two separate cans and were real gauges, not digital readouts, which might fit a "street fighter" look better, IMHO.

Or you could always rent "Mad Max" and/or "The Road Warrior" and pay particular attention to the bikes, looking for ideas!  

[Corinthian]

I'm going to be painting it flat black, and powder coating the frame. I do sandblasting/powder coating at my work routinely and can sneak it in. Which is why I wasn't too afraid to take on the task. I'd do a full on rebuild but I've priced the fairings new/used and I'm still looking at around 900-1200$. Luckily I got the bike for 600 when my budget was 1500 atleast according to the wife >:|

So I think I'd be better off putting that extra cash into the mechanical aspects of the bike. The painting/coating for me is going to be basically free just a little labor lol (SHHH dont tell my boss). Mainly new rubber and a rear brake disk with the valve adjustments and a carb resynch and possibly rebuild. The brake hoses which Thankfully (I do repair work on excavating equipment as well as the excavating) i can refit myself. They're definately showing their age.

Back to the tach, I'd go without personally. But law here requires a tach I saw that one and said well hell, for 119$ I can have the whole thing! Maybe even sell off or swap my perfectly functioning unit.

Be on the look out for non plastic Top end parts, head lights, blinkers and mirrors

By the way racerman, That one was on the sight I listed I'm very very happy to see It's not an impossibility!! That one I can even afford!! How did you find the install? did it come with instructions combined with a shop manual that proved reasonably "Do it yourself"? Any pointers or tips specifically, with the speedo cable. I think this one uses a digital pickup mounted on the fork then you have to run a wire up. Did that just fit right in the fork/wheel bearing?

[racerman_27410]

By the way racerman, That one was on the sight I listed I'm very very happy to see It's not an impossibility!! That one I can even afford!! How did you find the install? did it come with instructions combined with a shop manual that proved reasonably "Do it yourself"? Any pointers or tips specifically, with the speedo cable. I think this one uses a digital pickup mounted on the fork then you have to run a wire up. Did that just fit right in the fork/wheel bearing?

if you look in the accessories section they make speedo drive to digital signal cables..... you might be able to find one that fits in the stock FJ speedo drive... i also put one on my DRZ and used the speedo drive converter on it.

http://www.electrosport.com/products/product-detail-2080.php



i have a FZ1 front end on my FJ and there is no speedo drive.....so i use the magnetic pickup i have found that using two magnets gives very accurate speed readings and real time not delayed like the bicycle computers can be.

if you have a multimeter you can wire one of these up pretty easy.

KOokaloo!
Frank