Would it look something similar to mine (gallery)?

 

I am interested.

 

It will be a similiar design except it will be seperate lights, not a bar, and the lights will be on the top part of the trim ring. I felt that with a lowered bike the lower lights would not be seen well at all. These will be 3 and 5 MM led's with approx 5 on each side. I am mounting them from the lowest point on the side of the trim ring working up towards the peak. It should be a bit more visible than having them on the bottom. I actually saw your signals a few weeks ago and I was going to go that route, but with the lowered stance, I can barely see that part of the trim ring. Don't get me wrong, it looks nice!

 

By the way, I am on several boards out there, ls1.com, r1-forum, kcsportbike... This seems like a great bunch of folks here. I look forward to getting and giving info on a regular basis. Again, I will update the gallery once the light is complete.

 

You're right in that they are not obvious during day riding. Kind of curious as to what they'll look like after I lower the bike this afternoon... Good luck, I very much look forward to seeing what you come up with...

 

I'm interested in seeing your product.

 

shoot us a pic when your done....if it looks good, I might be interested

 

I'm interested also! hyperspd7, were do you live in Missouri?

 

KC... I am actually in Raytown, a burb of KC on the East side. There are a few warriors running around here. I will definately get a pic up when the piece is done.

I disassembled the light last night, pulled the trim ring and had a friend stop by and give it the once over... He has been performing surgery on sportbike passenger peg mounts lately, installing led's for signals. Since soo many of the new rockets (IE: 600RR, R6, R1, GSXR 1K) have led taillights, it has become a really nice mod! He drills holes in the rear facing side of the mounts and installs amber led's in each hole creating a line. It looks totally clean and is **** visible on top of that. I was sold when I saw it done on a 600RR, that is the bike that comes with the factory undertail exhaust. Anyway, I will update everyone with a pic, hopefully next week. Thanks for the response.

 

Hyper, sounds like a nice mod. Just a thought along those lines... Put LED's all the way around the perimeter of the tailight, and dividing the circuit into a left and right half. The result would be almost an arrow shape pointing out toward the turning direction.

 

Bunker, I like the way you think. I might actually go that route. Question though, and this one has probably been answered here a dozen times before, do I need to install a load equalizer to avoid getting the buzzing noise that comes with changing the front signals to LEDs ?

 

Chris, If I hadn't already got the MD Wright set-up (which works well), I would seriously look into this mod. Anyway, you usually need to add a resistor (load equalizer) any time you replace a higher draw standard bulb with a much lower draw LED. Basically you are trying to maintain the same load as existed originally to keep the ECU happy. To determine what resistor value you need, use this online calculator which uses Ohm's law:
http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/erichard/ohmslaw.html

 

Thanks, Bunker. appreciate it.

 

I'm interested. I like Bunker's idea very much!!!

 

Dang!!! I'm in the process of doing exactly what bunker suggested - still waiting on the leds tho

 

Sorry for the hold up on this... The particular LED's we are using were out of stock from our supplier... I ordered from an online store and they should be in the mail right now. Once they show up, it is only a matter of a day to install.

 

 

XZVS has an awesome picture already on another LED rear signals topic. Is that the same idea? Looks great, but I just ordered a run-turn-brake controller with red silver bullets for the rear. I'm going without amber turn signals for now. The bullets will flash red, much brighter.

 

This thread popped up while I was in the middle of planning my mod. I was waiting to make sure it it worked irl, as I knew the theory was sound. Mass production of these- wow - took me 7 hours to do the mod and 10 bucks for the leds and resistors- lessie -- i'd have to chg $563 bucks to make one at current socal electrical labor rates.

 

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