Is your car luxurious?

"Decay buys too many beaters" (decay) 05/06/2016 at 17:03 • Filed to: Deathtrap, sv650

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Mine doesn’t even have gauges...

Caleb "If a rally car can do it, so can my Malibu" M. S. > Decay buys too many beaters 05/06/2016 at 17:09

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weight reduction, bro.

Honeybunchesofgoats > Decay buys too many beaters 05/06/2016 at 17:10

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“What’s the top speed?”

“It travels at the speed of your imagination.”

Decay buys too many beaters > Caleb "If a rally car can do it, so can my Malibu" M. S. 05/06/2016 at 17:10

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Simplification complete, lightness added.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Decay buys too many beaters 05/06/2016 at 17:12

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Only some of the gauges in my Land Rover work. Oil gauge is mostly dead, factory temp gauge, fuel gauge...

Decay buys too many beaters > Honeybunchesofgoats 05/06/2016 at 17:13

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Conversations I may have had...

Cop, “Do you know how fast you were going”

Me, (looks down, looks back up) “Not exactly, but it felt like the top of fifth gear”

Decay buys too many beaters > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 05/06/2016 at 17:15

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lucas electrics for the win?

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Decay buys too many beaters 05/06/2016 at 17:16

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THE OIL AND TEMP GAUGES AREN’T EVEN ELECTRIC WTF

Decay buys too many beaters > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 05/06/2016 at 17:25

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well they could still be birthed from the house of blue smoke.

My e39

DynamicWeight > Decay buys too many beaters 05/06/2016 at 18:01

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I have been thinking about this for my own daily ride, a FZ6. I’m just curious, do you have some way of seeing the idiot lights? Or are you living on the edge? I’m scared of having no mechanical fuel reserve OR gauge. OR CEL light.

Decay buys too many beaters > DynamicWeight 05/06/2016 at 18:17

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I’m living on the edge, lol. Actually only reason I don’t have any is they have no mount point on the GSXR forks and triples I added. No fuel light, CEL, neutral indicator, odometer, tach, spedometer.

My plan it to integrate some idiot lights into a colored LEDs mounted inside the steering stem (so it lights up the center of the hollow shaft), but I haven’t got to it yet.

DynamicWeight > Decay buys too many beaters 05/06/2016 at 18:30

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Have you looked into how easy it is to do? I haven’t taken mine apart yet but I assuming there is some connector that fits to the gauge cluster thingy and that there is a computer inside of there that actually decides which lights to turn on and off right? So you would have to hack up the gauge cluster and then solder new leads to the LEDs you want to mount to the stem? Is the cluster still on the bike somewhere or just not hooked up at all?

Decay buys too many beaters > DynamicWeight 05/06/2016 at 18:39

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For my bike specifically, signal and oil pressure lights are just straight up voltage on/off so I can wire a light between that pin on the gauge connector and ground. The fuel and neutral lights are ground switched, so I need to apply voltage to the top of the circuit into the connector to use lights there.

I just fill up on the way home every other day and I’ve never had a problem. When I’m out on rides it gets better gas mileage than the sport bikers so I just fill up when they do.

Or you could just do a Vapor, I’m thinking that might be the direction I go so I can have ECT as well.

DynamicWeight > Decay buys too many beaters 05/06/2016 at 19:20

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Huh, hadn’t realized it could be that simple. This is getting me way more excited about running gaugeless now.

Decay buys too many beaters > DynamicWeight 05/06/2016 at 19:23

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Wiring diagrams are your friend! In the SV community we have a nice collection of color coded schematics for the whole harness, makes it pretty easy to add things.