£5 mod

[rst steve]

Been on fleabay and found a small mod that i have been thinking of doing for a while so thought i would give it a go. Think this is gonna be a marmite one. Think the sidelight is crap so decided to go down the Audi route and ended up with this.




I know this will not be to everyones taste but i kinda like it and it only cost me about £4.50. Also when i ordered the light strip i got 2 so got a spare one if anyone fancys doing one on there storm drop me a pm.

[sirch345]

Worth a try at that price Steve

Chris.

[mwad]

I like it

[marravtr]

cheap mod, looks well matey

[ChrisC]

Arrr. Thats just the job, Tis about time someone "shed a bit of light" on
Honda's poor quality positioning (one candle in a fri**in jamjar useless
B**#ard thing)...light..

Good Call RST STEVE

Cheers ChrisC

[rumpleforeskin]

made a similar mod to my old gsxr1100, except i ran the led's round the complete perimiter of the headlight lense. thought it looked pretty cool. It was certainly more noticble than the standard sidelight

[cliveyandrews]

Hehe - me too!

[benny hedges]

pretty obvious what's brighter and more visible looking at the 2nd pic.

not being rude, but i think i prefer the underneath lighting rather than on top - looks classy.
so what's the deal with the strips then, are they flexible / self adhesive?
how do they connect up - just being lazy asking tbh, seen them on ebay but didnt really pay much attention, but they do look good fitted.

i planned on fitting a halogen bulb in my day lamp instead of the poxy 5w effort.

[cliveyandrews]

I cable tied mine to the black plastic shroud....

(they're chavvy flexi led strips from Halfrauds....)

[seb421]

Hehe - me too!

clive how did you do this? was it simple to wire in? deatils please mate i like the look

[cliveyandrews]

It's an easy job, as long as you're happy to split the headlight...

You can then remove the black plastic shroud behind the lens. I tried to glue a flexible led strip to it, but had to make some small holes and cable tie it...

All I did then was put a tiny hole at the back of the headlight, take the wires out there to the sidelights unit - just watch the polarity, they'll only work one way round (but won't blow up the other way )

I'm gonna tidy it up with some proper plugs, and I have SMD (super bright) LEDs to experiment with on a spare shroud.....

[seb421]

I have some SMS led's fitted my self, one in the side light a realy bright white one, and two blue ones inside the dash under the taco and fuel guage.

Might get round to doing the strip at somepoint.

[fishface]

looks good have you a web addy were you got these steve

[stormarmy]

I had a go at this:

Here's a few photos:
Before:

Light Case:

Internal shroud removed from case and LEDs fixed (super glue and zip ties)

Ready to reassemble:

Back in bike:

Lights - Camera etc etc...


It took about 2 hours and I got the 24cm LED here: http://www.suntekstore.co.uk/24cm-flexi ... white.html
for a couple of quid - took about 10 days to arrive as they come from Hong Kong...

Good luck - Best wishes. Next - Acumen DGV!!

[cliveyandrews]

Nice job - looking good on the fast orange one too...



Let me know how you get on with the DGV - I have one to fit myself...

(another photo blog would be awesome )