Ozzy CFL build

[Aussiechop]

Well I ordered most of my wiring shit last night, I bought some braided sleeve, which just looks like braided lines for oil or fuel, except it feels thinner, imo it looks better than the plastic condult and heat shrink. After no luck finding any in any shops (oh one place did, but only sold it in 100 meter reels), back to Ebay it was, which is fine because everything will be at paint for atleast 2 weeks.

I grabbed 1/4, 3/8, 1/2 and 3/4 sleeve, a box of terminals and a box of rubber gromits for my holes. I just need to buy some reels of wire which I may just grab from work..

My diagnosis LED lights came today too, the gauge of the wire is very small though, unsure how this will work as I was going to run the circuits through them. May have to run them in parallel instead.



Will try to set up my circuit breaker and LED housing this week if I become less busy.

[axeychrome]

Originally Posted by Aussiechop

I had the option of probation or good behavior, but fuck that, 1 year of driving normal, couldn't do it, especially on a bike. I'll just take the 3 months on the chin.

it's tough, but i've been on probation several times so my insurance wouldn't take a hit. i figured it was more probably i could force myself not to speed for a few months than that i wouldn't drive at all for a few months.

[Aussiechop]

That's true. See I couldn't be on the edge of my seat for 12 months always looking for a cop in case I'm doing something wrong, like roll through a stop sign or not indicate.

Last night I couldn't sleep due to fucking thoughts running through my mind of this left hand fender bung that JSP brought up. I was stressing out majorly, it gave me a headache and stomach cramps.
Since my frame paint will be like a grand, I didn;t want to risk it, so back to the shop today I went and picked it up again, jammed the frame in the back of a car I'm borrowing, and back to work I went.

I'm going to put it on the top like every other CFL, how it should be. And then cut the fender out so there isn't a hole in the side where the bung used to be. Then take it to the guy who welded my internal fender struts in tomorrow after work.

Fucking stress man.

[axeychrome]

Originally Posted by Aussiechop

That's true. See I couldn't be on the edge of my seat for 12 months always looking for a cop in case I'm doing something wrong, like roll through a stop sign or not indicate.

probation blows, agreed. last time i was on it was for almost 2 years. They'd taped me confessing to what i did, and if i did anything wrong, no negotiation, state pen for 1-3 years and a felony. was nervous that whole time, especially living in a crack neighborhood carrying a gun everywhere. made it though, now a proud graduate of the IL 2nd chance program.

Originally Posted by Aussiechop

Fucking stress man.

these days if the worst stress i have is building a chopper, i'm good. you're doing it right, though, make it perfect before the next step and save the rework.

Paint for just the frame paint is a grand? seems high to me, but not sure what all you're doing on it.

[Aussiechop]

Man, Maybe if jail was on the table I'd probably get straight. Shit. Good to see you got through it though. And good point about chopper stress, the paint is black with gold flake, I have a pic of the color card but pictures don't do justice. So the frame will be that, same with the sunken parts of my fuel tank, then the middle of the tank, fender, seat and front fender will be gloss black, and gold pin stripe will go onto the rear fender and tank.

Hopefully it looks good.

[axeychrome]

Originally Posted by Aussiechop

Man, Maybe if jail was on the table I'd probably get straight. Shit. Good to see you got through it though. And good point about chopper stress, the paint is black with gold flake, I have a pic of the color card but pictures don't do justice. So the frame will be that, same with the sunken parts of my fuel tank, then the middle of the tank, fender, seat and front fender will be gloss black, and gold pin stripe will go onto the rear fender and tank.

Hopefully it looks good.

oh yeah, that does sound like a pricey paint job, but betting it'll be wicked. can't wait to see!

[Aussiechop]

[DarinZ]

Awesome. Now thats Way better!!

[Aussiechop]

Thanks, yeah I'm pretty relieved about the whole thing. Turns out the guy that welded that bung on is a really good welder. I'm happy with he holes I've drilled.

Only thing is the two top fender bungs, LH and RH sides wont be symmetric, one being on top, the other being underneith. But I can live with that.

[Nelster]

now those are good welds... i still think your nuts for painting it already.. i sure hope it passes .. after you paint it .. you always get it passed first .. then paint it .. what they say here in qld is spray it black .. get it passed then pull apart and paint it good luck can't wait to see paint
cheers
mate

[Nelster]

dude just put another bung on the fender side underneath a few ppl have put one on top and bottome

[welder guy]

make sure you run a small de-burring cutter inside the holes edge or when you go to pull your wires you will shave the outer jacket.

[Aussiechop]

Cheers, welder guy, I'm actually going to fit rubber gromits as the amount of electrical faults I see in cars I want to make sure this thing is electrical fault proof.

Chris, still don;t understand the whole not painting thing, from the shops and engineers I've talked to, they don;t do it that way. The engineer I talked to said it will all be fine, and I've seen the report he fills out and it's all (like 98%) pretty much about lights, and hand controls.

[markkoby]

I would spary it black with a can and then ride the bike for a while. There might be some mods that may need welding or what ever. When bike runs good and all is how you want then strip it and paint properly. Anyway your doing a great job and keep at it.

[El Skitzo]

I'm nervous about the location of your rear indicators as I don't know if you'll pass having them that far forward on the bike, I'd expect they'd want them either side of the tail light? Not knocking by the way, just thinking out a loud.