bmccrary
Touring Mod
So after sleeping in all morning and playing Tetris on this site till noon, I decided to get out of bed and actually do something productive.
It was a brisk 33 degrees out, so riding was out of the question, however, messing with it was not. So I decided to do the dual headlight mod and see what else I could get into.
I started off by pulling the inner fairings out, which to my surprise was not that difficult at all. I decided to splice the wire as low as I could with this project and after finding the wire that I need I spliced into it and ran a long wire over to the right side head light just to see if I did it right, and I did. However the connectors that I had to do the job were not big enough for the headlight. So I ended up buying these high heat headlight connectors at my local auto parts store. Each connector had three wires, red, black and green. So for the right side, I used the green wire for the low beam to do the dual headlight mod.
Here is where the fun part come is.
I liked how both headlights were on for the low beam, but unfortunately, I did not like how only one light is the high beam, I would like to see both lights pick up to high beams. I ran power from the right side light over to the green wire on the left side so I would have power to run the high beam if I could make something work. Well it worked but unfortunately there is no way to get the H4 bulbs in that left side light. The opening is too small.
Does anyone know if there is a H4 bulb that is smaller or if there is a way to get a different headlight assm that has a larger opening for the H4? Something off and R1 or R6 maybe?
Also, I am planning on doing the pod light deal later on, and use them for turn signals as well. The connector I need is off a 03' R1 correct? Has anyone been able to order the wiring harness for the European models to do the pod light deal? If so that would really be the ideal thing to do.
Thanks for the input guys.
-bryan
It was a brisk 33 degrees out, so riding was out of the question, however, messing with it was not. So I decided to do the dual headlight mod and see what else I could get into.
I started off by pulling the inner fairings out, which to my surprise was not that difficult at all. I decided to splice the wire as low as I could with this project and after finding the wire that I need I spliced into it and ran a long wire over to the right side head light just to see if I did it right, and I did. However the connectors that I had to do the job were not big enough for the headlight. So I ended up buying these high heat headlight connectors at my local auto parts store. Each connector had three wires, red, black and green. So for the right side, I used the green wire for the low beam to do the dual headlight mod.
Here is where the fun part come is.
I liked how both headlights were on for the low beam, but unfortunately, I did not like how only one light is the high beam, I would like to see both lights pick up to high beams. I ran power from the right side light over to the green wire on the left side so I would have power to run the high beam if I could make something work. Well it worked but unfortunately there is no way to get the H4 bulbs in that left side light. The opening is too small.
Does anyone know if there is a H4 bulb that is smaller or if there is a way to get a different headlight assm that has a larger opening for the H4? Something off and R1 or R6 maybe?
Also, I am planning on doing the pod light deal later on, and use them for turn signals as well. The connector I need is off a 03' R1 correct? Has anyone been able to order the wiring harness for the European models to do the pod light deal? If so that would really be the ideal thing to do.
Thanks for the input guys.
-bryan
