street fighter front end

I have been looking at doing a street fighter front end with a 600rr race tail swap(foam seat).  My question doenst deal with a 600rr tail swap but it deals with the street fighter frontend.  When doing a street fighter front end where does everyone hide the fuse box and the wiring harness connectors.  i dont know if i want to stuff them behind the radiator but that is the only place i can think of without it looking out of place.  I was planning on running driving lights for the headlights(2 of them).  One was going to be on all the time and the other one was going to be wired up to the high beam switch.  can anyone give me some input to hide that stuff.  thanks everyone.
 
 
 
Jim

are you planning to shield the backside of the instrument cluster? or are you going to run a different set of clocks? if you plan on getting a fly screen you may be able to put the fuses and such between that and the guage cluster. or if you really want to put some work into it, relocate it all to the undertail with an access panel just in case you need to get to the fuses. if it were me, i would find another loom on ebay and then modify it, if something doesn't work, you can reference the original loom.
 
way back i used to run a set of piaa lights. i had them hooked up straight into the electrical system. it worked great but for one problem, if i left the key on too long, the lights would drain the battery quite quickly. so i ended up putting them on a seperate switch that i could turn on after i got the bike started. i never measured what the draw was from those lights, but it must have been way more than the oem light. they were bright as a mother.
 
 

i was planning on moddifying my windscreen and making a custom mount for it to protect the guages.  thanks for the advise i am probably going to start it in a week or 2 but who knows i might start it later this week on thrusday and have it done by friday.  who knows!  ill keep you guys posted

87F1 Street fighter
 
http://s26.photobucket.com/albums/c103/sirr1/hurricane%20SF3/
 
SF head light?
 
http://s26.photobucket.com/albums/c103/sirr1/Motorcycle%20Streetfighter%20Headlight/
 
F3 shock linkage upgrade
 
http://s26.photobucket.com/albums/c103/sirr1/Hurricane%20Shock/
 
polished front rim
 
http://s26.photobucket.com/albums/c103/sirr1/CBR600F1%20Front%20Rim/
 
polished rear rim
 
http://s26.photobucket.com/albums/c103/sirr1/CBR600F1%20Rear%20Rim/
 
if you remove the fairings you will need to mod your air box by removing and plugging up the snorkel.
then drill holes in the top of the air box, otherwise you will stall at high speed.
 
Pm me if you need some help with your project.
 
 

Hey SIRR1...
 
What bars are those and how do I go about doin that to mine? I have been thinkin about runnin some motox bars but how do you mount them up?


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So, where are all the wires on that 87F1 Street fighter? Just behind the headlights?

I really dont see any reason why you should have to change the airbox any. Will it really cause trouble to leave the snorkels hooked up to the frame piping, and just pulling air from below the gauges? I dont know, as i havent done any high speed driving with my bike, and it has the front fairing with no pipes or covers connecting the fairing to the snorkels.

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ORIGINAL: daytonatrbo

I really dont see any reason why you should have to change the airbox any. Will it really cause trouble to leave the snorkels hooked up to the frame piping, and just pulling air from below the gauges? I dont know, as i havent done any high speed driving with my bike, and it has the front fairing with no pipes or covers connecting the fairing to the snorkels.

 
with the fairings removed the air is not longer routed toward the snorkel. now there is turbulance and a vacuum making the engine work much harder to draw in air from the front of the bike. if you remove the snorkel then the bike can draw clean undisturbed air from under the tank.

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ORIGINAL: hawgy

Hey SIRR1...

What bars are those and how do I go about doin that to mine? I have been thinkin about runnin some motox bars but how do you mount them up?


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The bars are protaper and the risers are off a crashed 07 Honda Spirit 750.
 
My friend own the local Honda Shop and the mechanics their save me parts off of crashed bikes, thats where I got the bar risers.
 
I drilled the risers out to accept the 1-1/8  inch protaper bars.
 
FYI, if you know where some old Honda 750, 550, 360's are lying around, these bikes had bolted on handle bar risers, so you could scavange the risers and use them on the F1 street fighter on the cheep and mount a standard set of MX or dirt trackers bars and your ready to roll !
 
 

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ORIGINAL: f3racer

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ORIGINAL: daytonatrbo

I really dont see any reason why you should have to change the airbox any. Will it really cause trouble to leave the snorkels hooked up to the frame piping, and just pulling air from below the gauges? I dont know, as i havent done any high speed driving with my bike, and it has the front fairing with no pipes or covers connecting the fairing to the snorkels.

with the fairings removed the air is not longer routed toward the snorkel. now there is turbulance and a vacuum making the engine work much harder to draw in air from the front of the bike. if you remove the snorkel then the bike can draw clean undisturbed air from under the tank.

 
Well Said, perfect reply !!!

fair enough. I didnt think you would achieve enough of a vacuum back there to cause running problems, especially if you have a small fairing due to the bike being SF/naked. I think im gunna run my snorkels up forward further, to keep that nice cold air intake setup working the way it was meant to. Im gunna be running a pair of 4.5" offroad lights as headlights, and i was thinking of making some ductwork to grab air from under the center of the 2 lights and run it back to the snorkels.

If your thinking of making it a ram-air system, you are in for one hell of a headache. It took the local bike shop forever to tune my ram-air system, since I couldn't. It took them 2 weeks working 3-4 hours a day. And then when I went and upgraded my exhaust it made the headaches start all over again. So far I just removed most of my ram-air system so the bike could run right. So now it runs rich as all hell, but when rammed it was too lean above 65mph with the new head-back exhaust. The worse thing is dealing with the temp changes, below 50 outside and I had to pull the tubes so the bike would even run. So I'm thinking of junking the system, since it is more trouble than its worth now that I modded the bike further.
 
NO, I will not sell it, it seriously takes forever to tune and an exhaust gives more power increase.
 
A little backgorund I've had my ram-air system for 7-8 years now and it worked awesome during the summer. When it started to cool down I had to start blocking the vents until it got cold enough I had to remove the tubes. So in the spring/fall/early winter I had to play with different foams stuck in the ducts and disconnecting the ducts to get it to run correctly. I had the tubes ran up to the vents on either side of the headlight, fyi, you can get the tubes at lowes or home depot, same with the different cells grades of foam.
 
For the win, just do what Sirr1and f3 racer say.

just the kinda info I was lookin for... we have a bike salvage place close by. I will be on the hunt for the risers. Thanks!

I wast gunna go for ram air, i know the difficulties involved on carburated engines.  My father and i set up a drag snowmobile with a big ram air, was great on short runs, but he melted the pistons on a trip (going 100+).
I was merely thinking of emulating what the stock set up does, supplying the snorkels with plenty of nice, cool air. even if that means giving the pressure somewhere to bleed off.

Since I'm in the same boat as the OP (this thread got completely stolen), where do people who don't use a front fairing put all of their wiring/fuse box? I'm starting my wiring tomorrow and if there's no real response I guess I'll just have to extend/cut down wires and find a good spot to hide them all.

I stashed my wires under the tank in front of the air box.
I screwed the fuse box to the frame over the left air hole and ran the wires through the hole.
Hope this helps!