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A perfect day of modding!

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Well, today was supposta be a horrible rainy cloudy, windy, stormy day, instead i looked out my window about 10am to notice a nice pretty sun saying... "come mod with me"

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well, i cant argue with that. Grabbed the tools, bike keys and a buddy and started off, 11am... let it begin, installed the TB Juice box faster than you read this post so far. i was blown away at how easy it was... if you know how to lift the tank, you can do this mod. (that and have an extra $225 laying around).
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Then it was off to the air box. i had previously opened up a little to allow more airflow, this time i was like F it, im opening it up all the way. well, i think i was a little tooooo gung-ho because my dremmel slipped a good bit and i took a nice chunk out in the wrong place! :eek:guess ill have to find a new one and buy it to try again... oh well

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it looks pretty choppy but after cleaning it up with some scotch brite it came out pretty good (minus the dremmel wound) god that hurts, but, everybike has a tale i guess.

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then that was done and it was off to the duel headlight mod.. this, ill have to say was a sh!t load easier than i thought it would be. it took alot of work to do... but not so much for the mod. As in the mod itself was a piece of cake, its taking out the airbox, taking off the front fairing, taking out the battery.. blah blah blah. that was the pain... pretty easy though....

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so, she is done... started at 11, finished up all 3 mods around 330.. not too bad, just in time for the rain, sky was getting dark as we were cleaning up, and as i was putting my tools inside it down poured... i mean buckets... 3 min earlier the bikes internals would have been soaked... so i lucked out big time there.


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the results!

i have no clue, it rained the rest of the night and i have not gotten to do sh!t yet... gay. i did crank it on, headlights work perfect, air box sounds amazing, and from what i can tell the juice box does its job...

Things i have learned:
1: If you lean your tank back toooo far there is a little tab that gets bent (right where the seat clips in) if that gets bent, your seat will be a pain to get in, and you will waist about 30 min trying to figure out why.

2: Dont get carried away with the dremmel, it can be your friend one minute and bite you the next. (punching a whole with the ... "routing" bit of it works best, then just work it around the area)

3: bribe friends to help you.

4: listen to weather reports, just because the sky is nice, doesnt mean it will be in 8 minutes
 
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looking good! and i am hoping for some sun tomorrow for chores, i wish i had time to mod, but rain all day today makes my chores happen tomorrow :(
 
Great job! Modding is so satisfying... May I ask where you got the dual headlight pin? Now I feel the need to mod again, also... Here we go again! :cheer:
 
PS "cheapcycleparts.com" has some good prices of OEM stuff.. just ordered a new air box cover for $7!
 
Great job! Modding is so satisfying... May I ask where you got the dual headlight pin? Now I feel the need to mod again, also... Here we go again! :cheer:

for sure, its a Ford Mini Male PN: 85347 (18gauge) i got it from Pepboys, right by the headlight bulbs and fuses. The flag connector i got at radio shack both had to be modded slightly. The flag connecter i think was supposta be a .320 and i got .25 so i just had to spread the pins with a screwdriver, (no biggy) and the harness pin was made for some Ford sometin'or'other so that just had to be crushed a little to fit in the slot, then soldered it real good and she was golden!
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