My Seca II headlamp conversion

Hey all. I'm new here.

I recently bought a Seca II which had been laid down hard on the right side at some time in its life. It had been repaired but not well. I didn't know this, of course, until I got it home and started working through some of the maintenance items. The biggest tell was the tank. I stripped it to paint and ground out about 2 inches of body filler to find dent-puller holes which had been welded, poorly, shut. The tank was bent enough to dent it on both the outside surface and the inside skin (underside of the tank).

I sourced a new tank, painted all the body plastics and decided to do a front end conversion as the original fairings were cracked and poorly repaired. Here's the result:

 

The Specifics:

The headlamp ears are made from 16 GA steel welded to 1 1/2" EMT Conduit. They slip over the forks and a 1.5" ID o-ring is used to seperate them from the upper and lower triples.

The headlamp is a Delkevic 7" H4 from EBay.

The small fairing is from a 2nd generation SV650N.

The gauges are Trail Tech vapor.

The handlebars are the European bend from BikeMaster (EBay), in black.

I used stock triples, stock cables and stock brake hose.

 

Better sideview picture. I need to tilt the headlamp fairing back forward; it's rolled backward to give me access to the headlight and its wiring and I forgot to roll it forward. Should lip over the front of the headlamp slightly.

 

Very nice looking mods! It looks like you have removed 15 years of style from the bike! Looks 2000 or later model year. Your gonna LOVE that H4, especially if you convert it to HID. $25 from DDM Tuning, an easy install and so worth it!

Loren

 

i like it, about as naked as you can get
same headlight i used, weighs about a pound the original bulb won't last long though
what kind of pickup did you go with for the speedo ?

 

Nice! Something to be said for simplicity, only spelling it isn't! LOL

 

Wow!
Nice.

At first glance it had the look of a Ducati.

Suggestion:
Look at the detachable windscreens on the Dual-purpose BMW's.
It might be possible to fabricate a completely detachable auxiliary screen ... to allow you to have wind protection for LONG Trips and be left-off for when just zooming around.

 

I also thought about a Ducati.

 

Looks great. I like the big headlights.

 

So sweet!

 

Oooooh nice..... I love the Seca II great lines......
Small front side cover for that little trianglish shaped part would clean up the look a bit as well....

Next time that guy throws his up on Kijiji here maybe I'll have enough cash for an offer ....

 

looks liek it just rolled off the show room floor, it's awesome!

 

Thanks for the Kudo's! The speedometer sensor is the generic hall-effect type with the magnet on the front wheel. I mounted it to the fork leg and routed the wiring through a hole I drilled in the front fender. I'll try and take a picture tomorrow.

I received my stock seat today and fitted; much better look in my opinion. I'm going to leave my SV650 in the garage tomorrow and take the Seca to work to see how it does. I'll get a nice picture when I get there showing the progress.

 

Pictures from amidst today's ride. Took her up through Coal Creek canyon and into Central City. She did great. I'm running a set of Kenda Cruisers and I'm quite impressed, bang-for-your-buck wise.

Here she is with the stock seat:


And a view of the cockpit:

 

very nice, makes you want to do it again doesn't it

 

I like the gauge man. It fits behind that mini fairing nicely.

 

I'm sure I'll do it again.

 

Seca II Tachometer Wiring

I'm finally happy with the tachometer performance of the Vapor. Here's what I did for the signal:

I connected the tachometer black lead to the coil ground and made an adapter for the tachometer red lead using a pair of spade connectors so that I didn't have to cut into the stock harness. The tach signal is conditioned using a 10k resistor and a 1 microfarad capacitor, soldered inline with the red signal wire. The schematic is as folows:

 

New update to an old thread:

I decided to give up on the Vapor gauges as the tachometer was just never as good as I needed it to be. It worked well at lower RPM's but would get really erattic at higher RPM's (when I needed it most).

I started by converting a set of FZR600 gauges and ended up redoing the paint and tail. Here she is, test assembled, before paint:







And here are the pieces, painted and cleared in lacquer, waiting for the 2k final clear coat. Once the rain stops, I'll get the stripes finished, the decals fixed and the clear shot. When done, the tank and tail will have a white strip to match the Holeshot fairing:

 

looks nice radare, can't wait to see the finished product.