Got my LED's today...

[Diluted]

This probably wont be much of a write up...I did take a few pictures though.

First off I took my flush mounts out, which destroyed the adhesive. No big deal I ended up using E6000 to put them back in at the end.

I cut the the plug end off of the flush mounts then soldered it to one side of my Dean's connectors (Thanks JonKerr for suggesting these). The second picture below is after using the shrink tubing. A vice was most helpful when trying to solder these small connectors, made the job a lot easier!

From there I took the LED pod and fit it where I wanted and cut off about 6" of extra wire. I then stripped the flush mount wires and the LED wires and twisted them together. I then tinned them with solder before soldering them to the other half of the Dean connector. Next was the tricky part for me...getting the LED up into the scoop. I ended up unraveling my solder, pushing it up through the front of the scoop wrapping it around the LED and pulling it back through.

These particular LED's came with adhesive on them..I took this off and used industrial strength Velcro. I'm not so sure how well it's going to hold at 60mph, so I may end up removing the Velcro and using some E6000 if necessary.

Here's a video to actually see them. Sorry if the quality sucks, was using my Droid. There's an extreme closeup of the Transformer too!

LED Vid

 

[porky45]

that's actually really freakin' badass... where'd you get the led's from?

 

[Diluted]

Thanks! I got them off eBay...here's a link

2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 R1 R6 CBR GSXR NEON LED LIGHTS : eBay Motors (item 190387126397 end time May-06-10 19:46:42 PDT)

Main reason for doing this was for frontal visibility, once I put those flush mounts on visibility went to pretty much 0.

Edit:
Oh and the person selling them has 2 POD offers too, but I figured it couldn't hurt to have extra. That link comes with 5 PODs.

 

[porky45]

did you get the amber color all the way to the right or the one second from the right?

 

[Diluted]

They're the color on the very right. I didn't specify a color to the person. It specifies the color on top of the pictures.

 

[porky45]

They're the color on the very right. I didn't specify a color to the person. It specifies the color on top of the pictures.

gotcha. Thanks!!!! i have very similar flushies and while they look alot better than stock, it'd be nice to have these for some actual visibility!

 

[Diluted]

Here are the connectors I used, recommended by JonKerr. Just need a little bit of soldering experience and you'll be gtg.

https://www.ssl-stormerhobbies.com/cgi-bin/seekpart.pl?src=ns&pn=WSD1300

 

[JonKerr]

No problem. I love having mine in there. I got the idea originally from an article I read about a guy putting bright white LED running lights in his scoops like ours on his Gix. I tought if he can do running lights, why can't I put a turn signal in there. I used something more like THESE It's so nice to know people can actually see that I'm turning from the front. That's the one thing I missed about the Trojan mirrors. Not anymore though.

 

[clifford_05]

Thats pretty sweet man. If I was smart enough to do it Id almost borrow your idea, haha.

Where did you get the flush mount turns at?

 

[Diluted]

Thats pretty sweet man. If I was smart enough to do it Id almost borrow your idea, haha.

Where did you get the flush mount turns at?

This was so simple, you could easily do it. I got the flush mounts off eBay, I should have another post floating around with which ones I used, I don't have the link in front of me atm.

 

[clifford_05]

This was so simple, you could easily do it. I got the flush mounts off eBay, I should have another post floating around with which ones I used, I don't have the link in front of me atm.

Ok thats cool man I'll do the search and see if I can dig it up. If I cant I'll hit ya up and see if you can help this noobster out, hahaha

 

[Neon]

anyone know where i can get these lights but have them shipped to canada? as this guy listed will only ship to the USA

 

[Diluted]

Ok thats cool man I'll do the search and see if I can dig it up. If I cant I'll hit ya up and see if you can help this noobster out, hahaha

Absolutely, I'll help you as much as I can. You don't even need to take any pieces off the bike other than the lights. Like i said I cut the connector at the flush mount side so the factory harness is still in tact.

 

[Diluted]

anyone know where i can get these lights but have them shipped to canada? as this guy listed will only ship to the USA

You may want to contact him and see. I can't imagine it's that much more to ship to Canada.

 

[clifford_05]

Absolutely, I'll help you as much as I can. You don't even need to take any pieces off the bike other than the lights. Like i said I cut the connector at the flush mount side so the factory harness is still in tact.

Thanks man. And thats good everything got to stay intact. What all did you have to do to remove the stock ones and put the flush ones on? How long did you think it took?

 

[Diluted]

The stock ones are really easy to remove actually. There's a plastic clip that holds them on the inside of the fairing. The mount is rubber so you can pretty much bend it out of the clip on the inside. Then it will just pop right out after you disconnect the harness. Can do it in probably 5 minutes

 

[husker525]

I really liked how you did that!! They look cool!! Strong work right there!!

 

[clifford_05]

The stock ones are really easy to remove actually. There's a plastic clip that holds them on the inside of the fairing. The mount is rubber so you can pretty much bend it out of the clip on the inside. Then it will just pop right out after you disconnect the harness. Can do it in probably 5 minutes

Thats awesome, thanks man

 

[tractorboy]

Hmmm Good Idea. Ive been want to do flushies but concerned about being seen from front. and Heard some of the trojan mirrors were the greatest to see with so this may be the way to go!!

Looks like it could be seen well........hmmmmmmmmmmmm

Thanks for sharing!!

 

[tractorboy]

Ebay listing says there 5 LEDS to a set? did you put the others on the bike too?