The weather just won’t settle down, you know?
Is it hot? Is it cool? And is it already beer season?
Anyway, with the post-Golden Week rush and the coronavirus impact, parts just aren’t arriving at all…
Those days when things would show up the next day or the day after must have been a dream.
Work had stalled because the battery wasn’t arriving.
To start from the beginning, I ordered a Westco, but the domestic YB14L-A2 equivalent I was after has a delivery date of July…
Shorai batteries would work too, but they need a dedicated charger…
I was looking around for something recent when I found a really promising battery.
It looks like a Custom Japan brand battery.
Pro Select Battery ← I’ll paste the compatibility link here.
• AGM construction—the liquid is absorbed into fiberglass.
• The liquid is gel
• Impressive two-year warranty
• Affordable ← That makes me a bit nervous, though…
If this battery works out well, we might not need to use Daytona anymore.
When you open a new battery, it’s good to give it an initial charge.
Modern chargers can show you when it’s fully charged, which is nice.
A little tangent:
Suzuki 09161-06021-000 plastic spacer (stepped). This is the one used on oil-cooled GSX-R series fairings.
With this in place, you can get solid fixing and a bit of play (old-school term).
In general, I think it’s good to try to
• reduce the number of parts
• improve serviceability
as much as possible.
This is what it looks like under the tank.
Don’t you think the switch connectors on Z-series harnesses being under the tank is a pain?
I wish they’d run them into the headlight housing instead.
With such a clean frame, I think you could make a clean, minimal harness and sell it.
The fuel gauge and ammeter aren’t used (they never were), so I’ve kept it clean like this. (They’re hidden under a cover, though…)
Running too many obscure option power lines could cause problems, so I’ve kept the original connectors that remained as option power. (Two ports.)
I couldn’t do anything about this wiring, so I was agonizing over how to deal with it…
So I went with the “cover up the ugly stuff” strategy.
Luxuriously made from two types of titanium.
It looks pretty clean now.
This is a wing-like thing that holds the battery down.
After that, I grabbed it with my bare hand and got burned… Spot welding is sneaky like that. This one’s also made from two types of titanium.
That’s how it gets fixed in place.
The final fun part—lightening holes… Today was fun too.
Sometimes I accidentally burr it the wrong way and ruin it, so I have to be careful.
And then I installed it.
That’s how it turned out.
This one’s the same drill—drill holes, burr, repeat.
And then I installed it.
That’s how it came out.
I kept the ETC simple without too much fuss.
I think it’s pretty clean now. The battery doesn’t have anything co-fastened to it. (Just the positive and negative terminal connections.)
I co-fastened this to the right turn signal.
After that, it’s a test ride and we’re done.
