Clean up that fender....rear turn signals and license plate!

[bhppy101]

I personally dont like the look of big turn signals and plastic comming out of the rear feender.....

I removed my license plate and fabricated a bracket to mount to the lower shock bolt.

I chopped off the plastic plate holder....

I took off the stock signals and added some mini marker signals.


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If you noticed my muffler....I drilled it out to make it sound better! :roll: no jetting is required for this mod!

It now thumps instead of sounding like a scooter

I still need to clean up my cuts on the fender with my dremel and also clan up the drilling I did on the exhaust...it sounds much better!

[Easy Rider]

I removed my license plate and fabricated a bracket to mount to the lower shock bolt.
!

To each his own, I guess.
Personally, I don't care for your license plate "mod".
I think it looks cheesy. Have you checked with the DMV or CHP to be sure it is legal to display plate sideways like that?

[bhppy101]

I removed my license plate and fabricated a bracket to mount to the lower shock bolt.
!

To each his own, I guess.
Personally, I don't care for your license plate "mod".
I think it looks cheesy. Have you checked with the DMV or CHP to be sure it is legal to display plate sideways like that?

It is legal as long as there is a light shining on it at night. I am wiring up a small LED with a plate holder tonight.

Ane I agree with you "To each his own, I guess." I would like to mount the plate somewhere else besides hanging down on top of the rear tire. I like clean and smooth lines.

[bigfour]

I like it, looks sharp. But since you drilled out the pipes, you should try the needle shim mod explained on this site; people who don't drill out the pipes do it anyway since the bike runs lean from the factory.

[Aussie_Al1]

Just a "heads up" easier and cleaner way to drill a larger hole in your muffler. Into your EXISTING exhaust exit tap in a tapered piece of dowel and use a "hole drill" (see picture). Let the centre drill bit drill into the dowel, this will centre the drill for the hole to be drilled out and it makes a nicer, neater hole....

Al'


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[Easy Rider]

Just a "heads up" easier and cleaner way to drill a larger hole in your muffler.

Good tool, that, BUT that particular kind doesn't do a good job cutting hard metal.......and the back plate on a GZ muffler is VERY hard (at least the ones the past couple of years).

Anyone who insists on doing major surgery back there should get a metal hole saw of a single, fixed size.

I think multiple smaller holes with a drill bit are much easier to manage.

[jexy]

drill a big hole, it's OK with the bike? what will it do to the exhaust system? did you need to do some thing with the carb??

i drilled 6 little holes around aexhaust hole. the sound is interesting.
what did abig hole do to a GZ ? just sound??

[Jaime]

You should check the carburetion after modifying the exhaust, as the bike will be leaner somewhere in the rpm range and, in any case, your GZ may lose performance because of a lack of backpressure.

[Easy Rider]

drill a big hole, it's OK with the bike? what will it do to the exhaust system? did you need to do some thing with the carb??


Read the old messages, please.
This has beed discussed to death already, in more than one thread, I think.

[Aussie_Al1]

Good tool, that, BUT that particular kind doesn't do a good job cutting hard metal.......and the back plate on a GZ muffler is VERY hard (at least the ones the past couple of years).

Anyone who insists on doing major surgery back there should get a metal hole saw of a single, fixed size.

I think multiple smaller holes with a drill bit are much easier to manage.[/quote]


True i agree, either use this to "MARK" your cut or a compass, but a compass can be fiddly

[trykemike]

Bhappy101 what size drill bit did you use ?