Gauges

[paintmann111]

Anyone care to make a picture thread for making and mounting your own gauges? Or like a how-to for creating street figthers? Just a thought. Black Peter was nice enough to post the headlight how-to already. I feel the older these kat's get the more people will be interested in turing them into street fighters, since finding good fairings for pre-98's is getting harder and more expensive to find.

[il_ragazzo]

a how to SF!!!???

i can see a how to headlight mod or gauges mod and even a tail mod but not a how to SF cause thats too vauge . Its a personizing thing ya know.

[paintmann111]

I guess, what I meant is maybe discussing little tips or tricks for certain things. IDK.

[Black_peter]

Yeah I hope to.. Jeez bud give me some time!!

I just got the idea for the forum last week!

[NiteMare]

if you're going for the minimalist front end look there's always the Acewell or Veypor/Vapor/Vaypor (sp) all in one digital clocks that you could mount, or for really minimalist there's the good old bicycle speedo

[StevieB]

if you're going for the minimalist front end look there's always the Acewell or Veypor/Vapor/Vaypor (sp) all in one digital clocks that you could mount, or for really minimalist there's the good old bicycle speedo

Cateye makes a bicycle cyclecomputer that reads to 186 mph!

[Black_peter]

I just posted my gauge history.
Kwebble made a slick one but his pictures are gone. You can just see it here:

[paintmann111]

What is that gauge pannel made out of (not the red and blue one)? It looks sweet. (

[1SikKat]

Anybody have any luck with Autometer guages?

[DRUNK_UNCLE]

Well I still haven't figured out how to put a picture is these little boxes, but if you go to the streetfighter photo gallery I posted a two pics of my streetfighter. One of the front end and the other of the simple gauge mount I fabbed up. Its just two metal strips with holes drilled at each end. I bolted one end to the top of the gauge and the other end to the bottum of the triple tree.

[Waltari]

This is the gauge panel I made for my 82 Katana. The gauge is a SPA tach with built in digital speedo and 3 stage shift light. This one I made by hand...took a bit more time but once it was powder coated looks great. Easiest way to do something like this is to lay it out in cad and get it punched or lazered and formed at a metal shop. Seriously, to have a metal shop do something like this they might one charge you around $60 if you shop around. Notice the two holes on the lower panel...the whole thing bolts up to the leading edge of the top triple tree. I just drill and tapped two holes in the front of the tree and thats it....easy as can be.





Here it is mounted...

[paintmann111]

Thanks, I will probably resuse my gauges to keep the expense low, but I like how clean that looks. That bike is awesome by the way.

[Bright Wire]

I'm pretty curious as to how you switched it over to digital. What all was involved in getting that done?

[1SikKat]

I'm pretty curious as to how you switched it over to digital. What all was involved in getting that done?

+1. Looks good.

[adamodoyle]

Here's two of the gauges from Koso North America. If I were putting together a nice bike, I'd go for one of these... only major flaw is the price tag of nearly $400...

I have used the all-digital Vapor setup ($110-175, much more affordable) It's a relatively simple install; attach sensors, one power, one ground.