I went down to the local dealer today to pick up my turn signals and spacers, but the signals were the wrong ones (he ordered some round ones instead of the LP arrows). So I had to order the arrows again so asked if they had any sprockets on hand, but they have to order them too. I got a sunstar 15 tooth front sprocket on order for $20, are they any good or should I order something else? My bike only has 5000 miles on it and I'm going to do a 520 conversion next winter, so I'm not really concerned with the wear of it, but how much is my speedo going to be off now and is there that much of a difference? My stand should be here by Thursday so I was all ready to pull the bike apart and put on my frame sliders, front sprocket and install my new signals, but that would have worked out way to good LOL. I guess I'll have to wait a couple more weeks to get the signals but its worth it. I guess I'm done with my little rant, but let me know if the sprocket is any good or what you think of dropping a tooth up front.

-Jesse-

 

I’m not familiar with Sunstar... but that doesn't mean anything. You will/should notice a big difference and your speed will be noticeable also. I paced myself beside a friend in his truck. At 70MPH mine was reading 61 to 62ish.

Sounds like you're having fun with a lot of mods at once. Let us see the pics when you're finished.

 

Everyone has there opinion about things so for what it is worth I went down one on front for about 2 days and did not like the high revs running in straight aways. It is all about how you ride in town and things like that might be ok. Where I'm at I have to ride a lot of straight aways to get to good roads and normally with 1000's so It wasn't for me.

 

I haven't heard anything bad about them, but I will find out next week. I usually ride highway and backroads, but I'm not worried about hitting 150+ in the straights, just a little more grunt down low. Don I'll deffinately keep up on the pics. I'm going to be taking it apart this weekend to get everything ready to install. I got the woodcraft sliders with the bike, but he didn't put them on. I went to wal mart the other day and got a laser level that I can mount on my camera tripod, so it should work pretty good.

BTW I have the hotbodies undertail with the led tail lights and my blinkers flash really fast. What do you guys suggest to slow the rate down? I hear alot of people say to go to radio shack and get some resistors, anyone have a pic of what they look like and how much they cost? Thanks guys

-Jesse-

 

I went to Radio Shack to see if I could find something easier to mount. No luck. To get the resistors we need, you have to use these heavy ceramic bricks that are a pain to wire up. You have the big ceramic piece with two very stiff wires on each end. The easiest way I came up with to mount it was to lay it next to the wires and strip areas of the wiring that I could use. This is hard to put into words and make sense. Picture the two wires you are working with. You will strip areas about 2 to three inches apart. One area on the ground and the other on the hot wire. Resistors add a load to the system so it's not an inline application, you jump across the wires. Once the areas were exposed (not cut just strip the rubber coating) you can pull apart the strands of wires and interweave and solder the resistors into the wires. The resistors will heat up, a lot. I added a heat protection layer to mine so I didn't have to worry about the plastic around it melting.

 

Where did you get yours or did they come with your CA tail light? I saw in dennis kirk they have some resistors for bikes that are $16 for the pair, if I find them I'll post a link. How hot do they get? If they are going to melt my plastic I don't think I even want them.

-Jesse-