Relocating electronics under seat?
- Thread starter edelweiss
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Tifun
Indy
Here's the tray that went on my 550.
I put the battery on the Swingarm
You can see how it looks here full on. Granted my brat was a K3/4 the concept is the same.
Most of the electronics fit in the tray minus the regulator and rectifier. The excess harness was tucked under the tank. I've built custom harnesses but some times a good clean factory harness will be best. In this case my harness was unmolested with the exception of 3 extended jumpers with used oe style connectors. Hope this helps answer your questions.
Keith
I put the battery on the Swingarm
You can see how it looks here full on. Granted my brat was a K3/4 the concept is the same.
Most of the electronics fit in the tray minus the regulator and rectifier. The excess harness was tucked under the tank. I've built custom harnesses but some times a good clean factory harness will be best. In this case my harness was unmolested with the exception of 3 extended jumpers with used oe style connectors. Hope this helps answer your questions.
Keith
VTNick7
'76 CB550F
Tifun said:Here's the tray that went on my 550.
I put the battery on the Swingarm
You can see how it looks here full on. Granted my brat was a K3/4 the concept is the same.
Most of the electronics fit in the tray minus the regulator and rectifier. The excess harness was tucked under the tank. I've built custom harnesses but some times a good clean factory harness will be best. In this case my harness was unmolested with the exception of 3 extended jumpers with used oe style connectors. Hope this helps answer your questions.
Keith
I would buy that tray if you could make another and sell it to me?
Tifun
Indy
We can make a small run of the trays if interested, the program is still saved last I knew. It will need a few things done on you end such as welding/bolting on tabs to hold the starter solenoid and a few holes to mount the regulator. The finned heat sink item is the voltage regulator. The rectifier is on a bracket aft the tray, that is the only item I extended which I just used jumpers with matching connectors. What year is your frame? The early 500/550 frames were dimensionally different. Not by much but just enough to matter. If you guys are interested feel free to message me.
Tifun
Indy
You will obviously need to find a place to mount your battery. Mine was literally a metal box. I drilled the the Swingarm and used carraige bolts to lock her down. Ran the power wire to the starter solenoid up the side of the frame. Was clean enough to not bother me but there are better options. That one suited me 
Keith
Keith
edelweiss
Coast to Coast
Tifun said:You will obviously need to find a place to mount your battery. Mine was literally a metal box. I drilled the the Swingarm and used carraige bolts to lock her down. Ran the power wire to the starter solenoid up the side of the frame. Was clean enough to not bother me but there are better options. That one suited me
Keith
Is there no room under the rear of the seat for a battery?
edelweiss
Coast to Coast
Tifun said:You will obviously need to find a place to mount your battery. Mine was literally a metal box. I drilled the the Swingarm and used carraige bolts to lock her down. Ran the power wire to the starter solenoid up the side of the frame. Was clean enough to not bother me but there are better options. That one suited me
Keith
That looks like a full-size battery?
Tifun
Indy
edelweiss said:
I will get back with you sometime tomorrow to see if the file is still there for laser cut. Would you want the tray welded or would you be ok with it just formed like the pic above? The final tray that went in was welded at all 4 seams but would cost less if you wanted to weld it up yourself. Also the hole is bigger as well to allow getting wires in better. We make a few other oddball items specific for 550/500 frames, we kinda have a soft spot for them haha. I'll build another eventually
P.S. Sorry for al the typos above, I'm on my phone bored and can't sleep haha.
edelweiss
Coast to Coast
Tifun said:I will get back with you sometime tomorrow to see if the file is still there for laser cut. Would you want the tray welded or would you be ok with it just formed like the pic above? The final tray that went in was welded at all 4 seams but would cost less if you wanted to weld it up yourself. Also the hole is bigger as well to allow getting wires in better. We make a few other oddball items specific for 550/500 frames, we kinda have a soft spot for them haha. I'll build another eventually
P.S. Sorry for al the typos above, I'm on my phone bored and can't sleep haha.
I have a Flux Core welder so I can weld the pan together.
Tifun
Indy
edelweiss said:
Not if you want a brat style seat. Even the antigravity needs remote mounted. As you already noticed, I used a full size battery. Mounted sideways made it less terrible but a smaller battery does look better. Only real option to mount it under the seat would be to cafe it. Then you really don't need a solid tray because most will fit under the hump. You'll just have to extend all the wires or make a new harness. My bike saw both fazes. I preferred the Bratstyle after it was all said and done.
-Keith
SaltCityCafe
Been Around the Block
Not to cut into Tifun's efforts but Speedbump posted the plans for his electrical tray in his CB750 build thread. Its pretty simple and if you have access to a brake not to tough to build a nice one. Here is the link.
http://www.dotheton.com/forum/index.php?topic=38755.0
http://www.dotheton.com/forum/index.php?topic=38755.0
