It took me a little over a year to get it that way then I had a fairly bad low side that put me out of commition for a while. The bike wasn't too bad though.
Then the fun started when I saw a thread on the Archives and a really good deal on flebay for some parts I had always dreamed about putting on the bike - see signiture below.
So to continue, this is what I've been working on now:
I found a company online called Vintage Connections and British Wiring. They sell OEM style wire and terminal connectors. They are kind of expensive, but I'm really into not butchering my wire harnesses since I did replace them with Factory New items at a very large penny. Now as most know the '89 and '90 models had unique wire harnesses that were not shared by the rest of the model range. This made thing a little difficult too for what I wanted to do.
First was to Putting wire connectors on the new headlight set up. So I put together everything with two terminal connectors since the German headlight uses a H1 and H3 bulb instead of the US stock H4.
Next was to dismantel the OEM wire harness for the headlights and put the corresponding terminals on the wires. Yellow is high beam and green is low beam. This was fairly easy as one of the items that Vintage Connections sells is a multi tool specifically for this. They also sell a wire crimper that helps with the assembly.
Then I started looking at the wire diagram for the gauge I'm using and correspond it to the factory wiring. First up was to dismantel and reassemble the main switch. I added the corresponding wires and connector to link it to the gauge wiring.
And the gauge wire harness. The red and brown is for power. The green and black will be fuel level and ground. The loose wires are gauge specific for temp, speed, and tach. The others get grouped and organized to be added to the main harness as a direct plug in.
I made this wire extension to link the new thermostat location back to the main harness.
Here you can see the three harnesses pluged together and ready to install back into the bike.
The other item I did was to put an upgraded VR in. I'm using a '03 R6 VR that should help things out since the original one was fried. I disassembled a beat up YZF600 wire harness for the connection since the '89 FZR used the old style. I only had to add a black ground wire that I will attach to the frame somewhere. I'm leaving the original ground in place as well.
All this and no wire splitters or splicers. What do you guys think?
