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I've finished (mostly) a recent mod out of necessity that I though I'd share. My instruments that I had, the DP dual analog tach and speed finally went south. The tach's two screws that held on the face plate backed out and the tach just bounced about when I rode. Also, I had this weird thing of my fuel light coming on when I put the bike in neutral. There ended up being a little chaffin' going on so when the neutral light came on it lit the fuel light too. (tho dimmly) Anyways... off it came. I found this little gem of a product: www.veypor.com and decided if I could get it to be a replacement for my faulty dash.
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It's got every function that ya need... and then some. It's pretty inexpensive at $270. This things gotta ton of features.... tach, speedo, gear indicator, odo, 0-60 runs, quarter mile runs, dyno graphing, programmable shift light with 2 modes, and braking runs. The display is easy to read during the day or night. Install was a snap. I think it took about 2hrs or so to get it all done. All you need to do is supply a switched 12 VDC (I tapped off of the horn/brake light wire coming out of the fuse box), give it an input from either your existing tach wiring or in my case a tap off of one of the CDI boxes, and glue a magnet on your rear wheel and route a small sensor. It takes another hour or so of fidgeting with it get it set up. Ya gotta set up a few parameters so that it can display the correct rpm, mph, what gear you're in, set the shift light, etc. I haven't had the time to really mess with it too much... but accessing all the menus with just 2 buttons is pretty painless. I had a little time a while back to play with the 0-60 and braking runs. It kinda fun... The other great thing about the Veypor is once the run is over you can access various graphs of your performance. It has a serial port connection so you can pull it off the bike and plug it into your computer and download the data to be manipulated by Veypor's VAS software. It's incredable the amount of data that can be viewed. For example, during a braking run you can see distance gone vs time, distance gone vs speed, distance gone vs braking G's (it has a built in accelerometer), etc, etc. I give this little doo-dad: :waytogo: :waytogo:
The next challenge was trying to figure out how to mount the thing. The kit comes with a mounting arm... but I really didn't like the looks of it. Once I had the DP dash off.. I really like the looks of the bike with it missing. After a little looking.. I saw that the bottom shape of the Veypor sorta matched the "V" cut out in the Monster tank where the ignition switch resides. Wouldn't it be cool if I mounted it there? Then what would I do for an ignition switch?
Well... tell me what you think. (not that I can go back and change it.. it's a little permanent now!) :lol:
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It's got every function that ya need... and then some. It's pretty inexpensive at $270. This things gotta ton of features.... tach, speedo, gear indicator, odo, 0-60 runs, quarter mile runs, dyno graphing, programmable shift light with 2 modes, and braking runs. The display is easy to read during the day or night. Install was a snap. I think it took about 2hrs or so to get it all done. All you need to do is supply a switched 12 VDC (I tapped off of the horn/brake light wire coming out of the fuse box), give it an input from either your existing tach wiring or in my case a tap off of one of the CDI boxes, and glue a magnet on your rear wheel and route a small sensor. It takes another hour or so of fidgeting with it get it set up. Ya gotta set up a few parameters so that it can display the correct rpm, mph, what gear you're in, set the shift light, etc. I haven't had the time to really mess with it too much... but accessing all the menus with just 2 buttons is pretty painless. I had a little time a while back to play with the 0-60 and braking runs. It kinda fun... The other great thing about the Veypor is once the run is over you can access various graphs of your performance. It has a serial port connection so you can pull it off the bike and plug it into your computer and download the data to be manipulated by Veypor's VAS software. It's incredable the amount of data that can be viewed. For example, during a braking run you can see distance gone vs time, distance gone vs speed, distance gone vs braking G's (it has a built in accelerometer), etc, etc. I give this little doo-dad: :waytogo: :waytogo:
The next challenge was trying to figure out how to mount the thing. The kit comes with a mounting arm... but I really didn't like the looks of it. Once I had the DP dash off.. I really like the looks of the bike with it missing. After a little looking.. I saw that the bottom shape of the Veypor sorta matched the "V" cut out in the Monster tank where the ignition switch resides. Wouldn't it be cool if I mounted it there? Then what would I do for an ignition switch?
Well... tell me what you think. (not that I can go back and change it.. it's a little permanent now!) :lol:
