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Title: Home brew tail chop Post by: MonsterTom on April 02, 2010, 11:12:33 AM (http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2702/4484561197_e5a28a1ec0_o.jpg)
(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4004/4485213912_9bf32c272c_o.png) (http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4063/4484563337_39248921f5_o.jpg) I chopped the stock tail on my M1100. I'm pretty happy with how it turned out. I'm still waiting on a pair of license plate bolt lights as I cut off the stock one, but other than that it's good to go! What do all think? Title: Re: Home brew tail chop Post by: DucatiSTi on April 02, 2010, 02:27:25 PM looks good [thumbsup] - 10x better than stock
Title: Re: Home brew tail chop Post by: stopintime on April 02, 2010, 02:59:00 PM Yeah, why not [thumbsup]
Looks better and costs nothing - always a good feeling to have done it yourself :) Title: Re: Home brew tail chop Post by: hcomp on April 02, 2010, 08:10:29 PM Nicely done! I think I like it better than my DP kit!
Title: Re: Home brew tail chop Post by: MonsterTom on April 03, 2010, 03:50:41 AM The DP kit was sort of my inspiration, however I preferred to have the plate under the fender. The trickiest part was blending in the lower half of the signal staulks. I cut the lower piece just aft of the signals and tried to blend it into the curve portion. Hard to explain, but I'm happy!
Title: Re: Home brew tail chop Post by: MonsterTom on April 05, 2010, 03:43:39 AM Installed some LED license plate lights yesterday. They do the job, but would almost need some spacers to move the bulbs away from the plate to better illuminate the entire plate. The stamped lettering actually interferes with the light somewhat.
Title: Re: Home brew tail chop Post by: WhiteStripe on April 05, 2010, 05:48:41 AM Installed some LED license plate lights yesterday. They do the job, but would almost need some spacers to move the bulbs away from the plate to better illuminate the entire plate. The stamped lettering actually interferes with the light somewhat. Seriously why do you care - other thatn passing inspection i can't think of another situation that i woudl want someone to be able to read my plate [evil]Title: Re: Home brew tail chop Post by: MonsterTom on April 05, 2010, 07:01:54 AM Hmmmm.....good point! [thumbsup]
Title: Re: Home brew tail chop Post by: coarsegoldkid on April 05, 2010, 06:53:36 PM Tight butts drive me...
Title: Re: Home brew tail chop Post by: DucatiTorrey on April 06, 2010, 09:49:17 AM Seriously why do you care - other thatn passing inspection i can't think of another situation that i woudl want someone to be able to read my plate [evil] I have the LED bolts on my plate. they are bolted on the upper two holes. Works fine. Does light up the sides of the letter more then directly down on them, but it looks fine, and the cops can see it if they look hard enough. |