fighter help

[Canonball]

tryin to clean up my tail section, i know a few of you have lost the fairings and re-done your tail sections and i just wanted to see what you guys did with the electronics and such left there. i was thinking of making a tray to hold all that stuff and putting it under the seat which might require cutting out most if not all of the plastic fender. ideas?


eidt: here's a few pics for reference

[-ahven-]

There are lots of space to hide wires and other stuff. Just open all wire harnesses and remove every unrelevant holders. First you should remove those crappy original cable ties

[tt_four]

I have my tail apart a bit right now, I'll take some pictures and post them later. There aren't too many wires under the seat to really worry about. Most of them can stay strapped to the rails, like the turn signals and the tail light. The only other things you need to mess with is the stuff mounted on that bracket on the right side rails. If you're doing something to the tail that they can't stay there you can just attach them to whatever. That bigger one with the fins, not sure what it is, I planned on mounting that to the bottom of the bar where the seat latch bolts onto, and the two smaller ones I planned on leaving on that bracket, but cutting the bracket smaller and just sticking them wherever.

[-ahven-]

That bigger one with the fins, not sure what it is

That regulator needs airflow, it warms up a bit. That's why it has fins.

[Canonball]

well i've been planning on doing somethin with the tail section for a while now and today is when i finally started looking at it to figure out what i want to do and how i want to do it. at first i was going to simply hack off a bit of the back end, redo the lighting, and clean up those components... but since i've been looking at it i think i could pull off a pretty decent cafe type of rear. with the way that top tube (under the seat) isn't angled very much i could cut right where the two tubes meet and fab a flat cafe style seat and make a tray for those components underneath and then make a bump with tail-light right about where the bracket is for the seat support. the only issue with this idea is that it will probably end up being a one-seater which the wife will not be happy about as she likes riding with me and spent good money on helmet, gloves, and jacket. hmm.....

[tt_four]

I always wondered about the regulator, but figured that where it is doesn't really get any wind over it anyway. I figured the fins were just to give it more surface space for it to cool better.

I've gotta figure out what I want to do with my tail as well. 1 seaters always look so much better, not to mention how much easier it is to mount a solo tail instead of 2 seats, but then no one can ride with you. I'm planning on making a streetfighter out of the next bike I get, and I'd definitely just go for a 1 seater, but I'm not sure if my wife will go for it. We've got the GS for her anyway, but it depends on how much she rides it when I have another bike as to whether or not we'll keep it anyway.

[tt_four]

I was going to try to post some pictures, but I can't find the camera. I looked my tail over though. The regulator I think is going to be bolted to the bottom of the bar with the seat latch on it. The two smaller pieces on that same mount are going to be in the same spot, only on the inside of the subframe with the mount cut down. The ones on the other side I've not really worried about much as they don't stick out far enough on mine to bug me. Sometimes people take metal mesh and jbweld or tack weld it to the inside of the subframe, which kinda blocks any of that stuff from view.

[DoD#i]

While you may not ever intend to ride in the rain with these mods, you may be very unhappy if you get caught out in it (or ride through a puddle) and have mounted components where they get soaked with crap coming off the rear tire, or have repositioned them to a direction where water pools in them rather than draining away from them.

If you cut away the fender to make room and mount components below where the fender sits, what happens when you hit a bump and the rear wheel goes up to its upper travel limit? There isn't all that much room between the fender and the tire in that case - might kinda suck to hit a bump and have your regulator torn off and dumped in the road.

The stock location for the regulator actually gets pretty good airflow for a concealed (with the plastic on) location - air feeds in there from forward and exits out the bottom/back, or it looks like that to me.

[-ahven-]

I just turned regulator 90 degrees with L-shaped piece of steel.

[Toogoofy317]

Remember where you live Canonball I'm a fully faired girl can't help with the rest!

Mary

[tt_four]

I just turned regulator 90 degrees with L-shaped piece of steel.

What's that sheet of metal with the wholes in it from? That looks like a pretty good setup you have for the tail swap. When I did mine the first time I just ziptied the seat to the subframe rails since my seat has 2 loops on the back where it used to mount to something I guess. Do you have any pictures of what you did to the bottom of your seat? Now that I'm redoing my tail I'm going to try to put the seat release latch back on it. I bought a steel bar that's bent at 90 degrees long ways. I was going to cut it, fold the ends around the subframe, and bolt the latch to that. I think I'll have to uncover the seat so I can stick some bolts under the padding so the threads stick out the bottom of the seat. I'd like to come up with something better for the front. I just took another peice of aluminum bar, bolted it onto the old tab, and bent it up a little

[-ahven-]

Check my topic on forum, there's some pics.

[tt_four]

cool, I know I've read through the whole thing before, but for some reason I guess I didn't really pay attention to details. I love following bike builds, but I'll admit 95% of it I just look at the pictures. You ever look at some of the builds on www.Customfighters.com ? I can spend hours just scanning through some of those builds.

[psyber_0ptix]

i tucked everything under the tank, flipflopped a bunch of stuff and mounted stuff in/on a project box.

check link in signiture

[Canonball]

man that project box is an awesome idea, that would be perfect. i'm stuck between a two different ideas right now but i don't have any money to spend on this for right now anyway, so i guess i've got some time till i get paid to decide which way i want to go with it.


i love your bike psyber, it's been a while since i've seen pics of it last, that gsxr fork looks sick and so does the rest of your bike