Exhaust Finale and Start of the Electrical

Had a nice long 4th weekend and got a lot done on the bike. The exhaust is fully welded and all welds ground smooth on Friday. The only things left are to find band clamps for the slip joints and to weld a hanger bracket to the frame where the 2" section starts.

The tape on the tail pipe is holding on an extra 6" piece of pipe to illustrate how long the muffler will be whenever I get around to ordering one, but its not cheap so I'm putting that off till later. The tape from the swing arm to the wheel is in place of the brake stay bar that I also haven't fab'd up yet, but that will be an easy addition when I get to it.

On Saturday I took the time to wire up the ignition module to a battery I had laying around. After an annoying series of minor oversights (forgot ground wire to the block, open fuel petcock), I was able to get it fired up without even using the choke. This video probably doesn't work too, I need to find out whats going on there...

Sunday I jumped right into starting the wiring. Didn't spend a whole lot of time but still made some progress. I drew up the entire schematic for the bike and how I want to wire it. 

Next I sat with the manual, the left and right controls (headlights, blinkers, ON/OFF, etc), and I re-pinned them into Molex connectors. I was able to remove about 4 wires from the controls by doing it this way because the original equipment harness had extra functionality that I won't be using; like a starter (haha) and a "blinker canceling unit" which doesn't work very well from what I hear. So at this point all of the controls up front and headlight are wired, now I just need to get some cable wrapping to harness the wires together and start on the rear part of the electronics. This includes the capacitor that will be replacing a battery, fuse panel, LED blinker timer, and brake light relay. The regulator/rectifier needs to be terminated and the alternator wires have to be redone as well.