Went for a great ride around sunset yesterday. My favorite weather, hot summer night cooling down. I just super appreciated my bike. Lighting up the road as well as a 10 wheeler, good stopping power, and the tune spot on. Hugging the road in the turns beyond the bike's reputation in the twisties. We've come a long way together from the day I bought her.
I've seen cracks in a lot of OEM coils that still worked well. The Bakelite seems to crack over time. A switch over to COPS is cheaper than buying coils, and more reliable and easier to maintain. It's been a few years now and the COPs never a bother. The only time they'll be a performance increase is if the OEM system was faulty.First of all, I've been lurking/checking post for time to time but feel like ages since I've actively posted.
Well, today started out washing, spray wax, adjusting my rear brake switch etc. Then noticed a little hard starting when I went to move her out of the sun to spray wax. TBH I noticed a little harder, but not concerning starting most of this week on short trip to and from work. Then yesterday, and Wed I noticed idle was a little "lopey"
Well, when I took off the seat to charge the battery to address the hard starting, I noticed a little corrosion on the Positive terminal. Then I noticed THISlarge but not very deep cracks on my left coil pack, when I disconnected the wires I noticed more corrosion inside the female part of the lead. Well, I cleaned up the battery terminal with a sore brush, and a one of those plastic dental picks in the coil ( I don't know if coil packs hold any kind of capacitance when disconnected, but I didn't wanna find out ) after I cleaned everything and battery sat on tender for about an hour I put everything back together. Not only did it fire right up without cranking, but it ran like a different bike! Way more crisp rev response from idle up to 3k. I got so used to the hesitation it was doing, I stopped noticing it.
My big question now is, is the crack superficial if everything seems to be running fine, or do I need to replace sooner than later?
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I've seen cracks in a lot of OEM coils that still worked well. The Bakelite seems to crack over time. A switch over to COPS is cheaper than buying coils, and more reliable and easier to maintain. It's been a few years now and the COPs never a bother. The only time they'll be a performance increase is if the OEM system was faulty.
And so today I did more; I used the '6th dummy indicator' I installed a lens and have that for my manual fan switch on indicator. I installed 2 strips of 6 l.e.d.'s (tiny but bright) on the tail light reflector above the 2 bulbs. This is on a switch feeding through a strobe unit (about the size of a zippo lighter) for an emergency light that uses very little battery power, could be left on for hours without much drain. I came up with the need for this once while parked on a no shoulder curve on a mountain hwy while I was up ahead tending to a couple who had just crashed (didn't know them) but felt my bike visibility was not what it should be. I could put up pictures and video if someone were interested.
The mod monkey bit hard and would not let go. I would never been able to accomplish any of this without Steve O. This forum has been awesome for me for so many reasons, none the least of which has been meeting and becoming friends with Steve. In the last 4 years we've become riding buddies and brothers. I'm grateful and fortunate. So on to the mods. Full exhaust from Marks SS 12" cans 2.5 openings loud, aggressive, bad to the bone. Gixxer rims from Larry Fitzgerald at LCR Performance in Rochester NY you can read my review below but the short version is awesome. From Sean new superbike bars, turn indicators, bar end mirrors and grips, 2" lowering in front and 12" progressives in the back, Muscle jet kit, plus a bunch of other stuff. I can't add anything else about Sean that hasn't already been said 1000 times. Great guy, wealth of knowledge and willing to share, honest and trusting.....I could go on and on. Steve installed everything including front and clutch master rebuilds, tuning the carbs and many other maintenance needs.
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