Next Week's Mods

[Buckeye4Life]

I'm starting doing some mods to my 08 GS500F that i got over the summer. Currently in the mail, I have a 9" Delkevic slip-on, a pair of frame- mounted led turn signals, and a 6 Sigma stage 1 jet kit.

What spurred all the modding is that i'm having carb problems and its going to the shop to get them cleaned and balanced. I bought the jet kit and a shop's gonna do all the install and tinkering for me. After that, the exhaust is going to be my own adventure. I have a buddy in my apartment building who works at a Harley dealership as a welder and he's gonna help me out.

I'm also going to do a pretty major fenderectomy so that those signals can get seen from the road.

I haven't seen anyone with the frame mounted signals, so i'll have some pics up after all this work gets done.

[weedahoe]

Be sure to take pics of everything both before and after.

[Buckeye4Life]

As a guide, it's a completely stock '08.

[Buckeye4Life]

also, here is a link to ebay about the turn signals i have ordered

http://www.ebay.com/itm/280956501183?item=280956501183&viewitem=&vxp=mtr

[Gsrideraria]

Cool mods man

I am in the procedure of turning my gs500f into a street fighter
I have bought k&n oil and air filer, clipons, a nasty looking headlight but is gonna be
A bi**h to mount new 2 in one tail light so no more clumsy looking indicators
And am in the process of getting a seat cal

Good luck to your project man
Gsrule

[cbrfxr67]

"nasty looking headlight"?  Need pic!?!?  I like me a fugly headlight.  Maybe off a snowmobile or something,...fook yeah!

[JollyRojer]

do you think you will need a resistor for wiring in those blinkers? let me know how it all goes, im in the market for new blinkers all around these would be a great slim idea.

[steezin_and_wheezin]

Tuning the carb then installing a different exhaust? I'd flip those 2 steps so you are tuning the carb for the exhaust that will be used

[Buckeye4Life]

That's all one big step. I'm doing the exhaust then taking it in to a local shop for the Carb work

[Buckeye4Life]

I got the exhaust on tonight! Since it's 1:00 a.m. local time, I won't be posting any pictures tonight. Tomorrow, I will be putting on the tail lights and doing my fender hack. Pics to follow!

[Buckeye4Life]

Here are some pictures of the new exhaust. Installing it was pretty easy. The delkevic midpipe had a flare at the end with 6 notches cut out of it, so i had to cut that off and recut the notches. i did all of that using a drop saw with a metal blade in it. the center stand had to come off of the bike because without a stopper on the muffler, it came up and in contact with the chain. The new can didn't interfere with the swingarm at all and it was a very easy and straight forward installation.

[Buckeye4Life]

do you think you will need a resistor for wiring in those blinkers? let me know how it all goes, im in the market for new blinkers all around these would be a great slim idea.

I haven't got a dremmel with me at my apartment, so I can't do the fenderectomy and am afraid that with the fender ON, my turn signals won't be seen. However, I unplugged the old turn signal and tested the LEDs. The worked fantastic and only blinked a BIT faster than stock. I don't think i'll need a resistor, but i do need to be really careful about how I attach them so they don't slip around.

[weedahoe]

That muffler looks so odd being so short but overall looks great

[Buckeye4Life]

It acutally ended up being shorter looking than I though it would. I think the next size up is a 14" and i would take the shorter pipe over that any day of the week 

The exhaust sounds great (when it's not backfiring too bad) but I still need to get the jetting done, so i haven't had it running too long.

[Higgins13]

I'd love to hear what that exhaust sounds like.

I'm surprised those turn signals are dot approved.