h-donut Mods Thread

here are a couple of my old toys, both long gone



66 bronco with a shelby spec engine (POS)

and a 1989 Gibson Explorer Custom Shop Edition


my pre-glide



93 heritage

pics of me installing a 50 states legal exhaust to get out of trouble with the Cailfornia popo



a bunch of us yay-hoo's hanging out in death valley, 2005, right after I had my motor done and was running Samsons



notice the t-bag, still have it and it's still in really good shape,
saddleman seat which stayed on the bike for all of 2 month, scratching the piss out of my fender

left to right:

john: 74 shovel
brian: (bright red shirt) 05 night train
capt: 03 low rider
clint: honda, tagalong military guy
donut: 93 heritage (again)



then vegas bike week 2006, red rock was amazing



this is thunder bolt colt's 2006 road glide

preliminary mock up of a yaffee style diy mount

stock used, leftover stainless satellite dish, big hammer, drill and grinder



wanted to place the 6 3/4" openings so that if I did decided to use larger
speakers later I would have less to cut, tried to visualize squeezing in the
neodymium magnet from the MM series



this is about as far as I got before the whole thing started cooking and popped, amp okay, hku had to be replaced.

what went wrong:
a. had speaker leads near "hooks"
b. had amp mains near gauge lighting
c. ground wiggled loose, just enough
d. user unfamiliar with implementing crossover points effectively

solutions: reroute wires, jacket, seal protect, rework ground mount

as of today, nothing is rehooked, except 4 sets of 4ohm speaker on the factory radio

replacing PBR300x4 with PBR300x2, and sony HU, should make for a louder clean setup



one of my first mods, bolt cover multi pak, the red dice thing, fell off or broke within 50 miles, lol
replaced air cleaner cover since then

the only thing I've changed since these pics is re-routing the power and ground wires up and away from the head light area

still rocking 400w d-i-y style - will add another 2-4 speakers + another 400w once I have a chance to listen to various systems over the summer

this is how my stereo turned out, real happy overall, I have a sidecar cycles splash guard on the way



for wiring, ended up going with a 14 gauge wire, then buying 16-22 fitting, tin plated copper,
work out pretty good, once stripped the wire barely fits,
you can then accurately crimp, place a dot of solder, heat shrink that puppy up,
make a real professional connector



these haven't been soldered or shrink wrapped yet.

update: my marine head unit only last about 3 weeks in the elements before shutting down, FM died, AUX in died, inside usb worked up until the end

this is due to a couple factors, 1. running without a rain cover 2. more than likely getting the hand controls wet with the pressure washer mist

replaced with the red faceplate DSX-310 and sidecar cycles splash cover this morning, does pandora, has song and album skip ahead, no more suffering through a whole album or forwarding through every song, way better radio, pandora stream great also

and looks cooler, these are tough pics to take, but it is visually appealing





also noticed some areas where speakers are rubbing causing the fairing to distort slightly, just left it, didn't bother me enough to repair at this time.

application notes: DSX-310 - 14 band parametric EQ, kind of a pita

when on the bike I only make volume or song changes, anything else, I pull off to the side and deal with it there.

no test ride yet, should sound about the same

controls work, but AVC is hard tied to speed sensor and interferes, so set
EQ before hand, or where I'm headed, maybe disable AVC altogether

I'll look into stamping out some brackets, would run about $25 shipped
if feasable, both sides for $45

here is the EQ I came up with so far, about 2 weeks of messing with it.

optimized for DM on LOUDNESS on, PBR300x2 about half gain, LP turned up just a hair