Another Yamaha XS650 Update

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Hey there. How are you doing? I hope you're well. I hope everything is good for you as it is here at Speed and Color. Thanks for joining us. Thanks for being here. And it appears that the uh the XS650 videos were getting uh getting a fair amount of attention. And uh, you know, I know it's not Harley stuff, but metric choppers are cool and uh vintage stuff is cool. So I guess vintage metric stuff is really cool. Um yeah. Anyway, I've been working on this XS650. I've done a couple episodes. I wanted to do another update. We are just about ready to tear it down uh to the frame uh and start frame molding. Uh you know, I I talked about it, I think I talked about it before. I don't know if I did. Um do something a little bit different. I've always been, whenever I've done frame molding uh or bodywork of any kind, I guess, I've always done filler on bare steel, you know, cleaned, obviously, ground, whatever you want to call it. Uh so I've always gone direct to substrate. Uh this time I'm gonna try something a little bit different. I've I've done some reading on it and looking into it. And with the new fillers that are available and the new epoxy primers, uh, House of Color makes an excellent product, that kind of stuff. I'm gonna try priming my parts, my frame, my tank, my fender first, and then applying the filler uh on the primed surface. Uh, I think that's going to not that I living in Western Canada, we don't have a huge problem with corrosion or anything like that. Um, you know, living in Ontario or out on the East Coast, uh you know, if you give it any time at all, bare metal exposed to the elements, bare steel, uh corrosion starts really fast. Uh, and then that's underneath the the filler and can lead to issues down the road. And I want my stuff to last and be good for a long time. Uh so what I've decided to do on this build is get that primer on, get get to bare steel, get it clean, get that primer on right away so that the air is locked out, the moisture is locked out, uh it's it's good. Um will will I ever notice a difference in my lifetime? Probably not. Uh, but I just think it's gonna make for a better, long-lasting finish. Anyone who's got experience with it, if you've tried this before, uh, you know, if you're a professional body guy, whatever, man, I would love to hear your your opinion on it. But my my spin on this is good quality epoxy primer, house of color, kd 3000. Uh, I'm gonna go coat everything with that first, prime everything first, then with a good quality filler, go ahead and do my frame molding and everything. And then, of course, more uh more KD3000. And I always work with House of Color. Uh, and and I know there's other good paints out there, there's other good products, probably less expensive, more economic, whatever, whatever. Um, and uh in the world we're in right now, maybe there's a Canadian product out there, and uh you know that's all great. I learned how to spray with House of Color, I don't know, 50, 50 years ago. Uh, and that's no joke. I'm not I'm not kidding. That's 50 years ago. I've got a fondness for it. I like it. I you know what? It's a good product. Uh and and I think John Kosmoski's a super cool dude, and I love the way the product came along, and uh I just really feel comfortable with it. So whether I pay a few bucks more, uh, whether, you know, wherever the product is made, uh, none of those things are going to convince me that I should try something different. I like the House of Color product. So that's what I'm gonna use. Uh that's where we're at. Alfred and I are getting ready to strip this down. I want to do an update episode, show you a bunch of things. I'm gonna take a little bit different direction here, and uh, you don't need to see me all the time. You've probably seen too much of me already. Uh, I want to film closer up all the different things I'm gonna talk about. So I have a camera I'm gonna I'm gonna hold. Uh please bear with me. Uh as many of you might know, uh I have uh something that unfortunately impacts people when when they get older, uh or some people when they get older, and that's essential tremors. So uh I do have tremors from time to time. Had a little shot of whiskey, hopefully that'll uh that'll smooth me out a little bit here. Uh Red Bank. Oh man, nice stuff. Uh that that's my answer for essential tremors. But anyway, uh I've had a little shot of whiskey. Hopefully I'm smooth enough to hold the camera fairly steady. If it shakes a little bit, bear with me. Uh it it is what it is. And uh I can't afford to have somebody here filming for me or turn this into some kind of professional production. So we'll make the best with what we got. Uh yeah, so let's jump into it. I'm just going to work from the front of the bike back. Uh, hopefully, I don't repeat too much of what I've talked about before. But we we've made a whole bunch of new changes. We've made a lot of progress, really happy. And as I say, right now we are ready to rip it down right to the frame. Uh, go ahead and start getting things ready. I think we're gonna finish off all the welding on the frame and everything. There'll be none of that to do after we get some primer on this. Uh, and you know, we'll go from there. Hopefully, we haven't missed anything. I don't think we have. Uh, but uh yeah, let's see where it goes. Okay, I'm going to uh start at the headlight here in a second with you. All right. So here we go with the headlight. And forgive all the junk in the background. Uh Gradge is a little tight for space this winter. I may be a little bit overpopulated, you might say. Uh I have a new van project that I'll be showing you soon. Uh, but for now, uh, just you know, the shelves in the background, forgive me. I know it's a little confusing, but it is what it is. Okay, so looking at the headlight, uh, and I'll try and get a different angle here for you. The headlight, I am going to admit, this is not a super quality piece. Uh, I ordered this off Amazon. I think it's probably Chinese made. It is not a robust piece. Uh, it's not the kind of uh the kind of product I like to work with necessarily. However, it has the grill front and it has that swoopy kind of look to it. And if you look kind of overall at the bike, something I've tried to do, and I'm gonna switch to the other camera for a second. Something I've tried to do on this build is I wanted I wanted everything to kind of swoop to the back. So the tank, the bars, the headlight, the top of the sissy bar, the back fender. I wanted everything to flow that way, and I'm I'm pretty happy with it. I think we've done a good job of getting everything to flow back and down as much as we could. So I'm I'm pretty happy with that. Back to the headlight area. Okay. So it's looking looking pretty good. I like that headlight. It's pretty uh it's pretty wild looking. It's kind of crazy. It's gonna be easy to set up. Um not thrilled with the mounting arrangement. It's not bad. Once I polish up pieces, I'll do a little bit. I might uh might trim some things, round some corners. We'll make it look okay, but uh that's the one the one part that I'm not really thrilled about. And then the turn signals. Turn signals match the ones that I'm using on the rear, and I've shown you those before. Uh they're very nice. And what I did, and hopefully we'll stay in focus here when we do this. What I did was I machined the mounts to match what I've done for footpenks and stuff. So again, I'm trying to keep that. Here, I'm gonna switch to the other camera. I'm trying to keep that look, uh, that ribbed look. So it kind of comes from the the cooling fins. Uh I wanted to keep that line look. So the the headlight has the grill, the turn signals have the grill. Unfortunately, they go in different directions, horizontal versus vertical. Um, I'm not going to get too too hung up on that. Uh, I would have preferred that I could keep everything going the same way, uh, probably horizontal. But then you have things like axle spacers where they have to be vertical. There's no really no option to do that. So there's a mix, uh, but I think it's going to work out. And unfortunately, the way these pieces are made, I can't turn the grill 90 degrees and have them match up. But like I say, I'm I'm digging the way the grill pattern looks like cooling fins, looks like the foot pegs I've machined, looks like the spacers I've machined, everything's kind of tying together. So that's the headlight and front turn signals on the springer front end. I love the grill look with the springs. I think that's really cool. The springs tie in really nicely. Uh, so again, very happy with all of that. Let's move on to the next thing here. So I've no, I know I've shown you the exhaust. Uh, we've seen the exhaust before and and it's worked out fine. And it'll get uh it'll get sanded and chrome plated. Uh, gonna be a lot of chrome on this bike. Um you know, I like chrome. I think chrome is super cool. Uh it's the way I grew up, it it's what I grew up with, and I like it. Um powder coating's okay. Notice I said it's okay. I I'll admit, guys, I'm not a big lover. I I used to own a powder coating shop. I uh I have respect for powder coating and everything, but uh I just uh I don't know, I'm a chrome and polished aluminum guy, uh, and I think it's gonna make a comeback. I think uh chroming processes are gonna get better. We've got an excellent shop here in in Calvary. And I think as it improves, and and you know, as manufacturers find out, the powder coating is just kind of getting old and everybody's tired. Well, maybe not everybody's tired of it. Some people are tired of it. I think things might change. Anyway, for me, chrome and polished is the way to go. So moving back here to the clutch and shifter setup. And let me keep the shifter knob in place for you there. Um, this is from Bet Built Fabs. I have changed, or Bet Built Fab, pardon me. Uh, I have made some changes to it. Dustin's setup is the old uh, what were they called before? Jump Street, I think it was. Um, J over at Jump Street. Good design. Uh, you know, looks to me like it's gonna work just fine. I have made some modifications because I wanted to do things differently. So the shifter typically from Vec Belt comes, and let's see if my hand will work here, comes out behind here, uh, sort of under the seat, a jockey shift for sure. Uh I didn't want a jockey shift. I wanted I wanted this, the shifter ball, to be prominent. That was that was a big deal to me. It has to do with my son, who uh unfortunately is not with me anymore. Um, but uh that was something that Thomas and I were going to use at one time, and I just really feel like I wanted that in this project. So I've changed the linkages, the way it the way it works. Uh, not the way it works, I haven't changed the way it works, I've changed the geometry. Uh, and I think it's worked out really well. Uh Beckville Fab foot pegs uh as well and foot clutch, nice pieces, uh, you know, bronze, uh oil impregnated bushings and everything, like really good stuff, really nice quality. I've you know put my own foot pegs on there, I've put my own toe pegs on. Uh, I machined those. Uh, you know, the spacers on the linkages, I machined those as well. So I've just changed things around a little bit, but it it's really the VEC-built um system or uh, you know, process, and and it's gonna work just great. So I'm really happy with the way that's all worked out. Um moving down to the kickstand. You know, I'm gonna admit, um I agonized over the kickstand. And right now I haven't uh haven't tacked welded it yet, but I'll show you this. Um let me see. Let me see if I can hold this while I do this. So I'm pretty happy with this. Um when this retracts, it's gonna be pretty cool back there to go a little bit further back. It's hitting on the vice grid right now. Um Alfred sourced these red skateboard wheels from Timu or Timu or whatever, however you pronounce that Chinese outfit. Uh so he brought one in for me. We love it. The red's gonna work with the uh the paint on the bike. That's gonna be great. Uh Brent down at PFX had this used, I think this is a TC Bros style stand. Um he had a used one sitting down there and he said, Here, he said, I'll I'll part with this. So that has worked out pretty well. I was hoping for something a little bit more creative, but I gotta be honest with you, uh, you know, that red skateboard wheel I think makes it really different. Uh, it's gonna be very cool when it's when it's actually on, uh, you know, when stand is down and the bike is leaning on it. Uh, I dig it. And then what we're gonna do back here, we've got the TC bros chain tensioner on there. Uh because of, I believe, because of the job geometry of the hardtail setup, I did have to lengthen this part of the chain tensioner. The original arm wasn't long enough to really do the job there. Uh I've had the chain on it and got it all set up. But anyway, I lengthened that arm a little bit. Um, that will all get chromed, of course, to match the the uh the foot peg hardware and the shifter. Uh this will all be chrome plated. Um so that uh is in place now and works, and I've had the chain on it. And now it gets enough, I don't know, it there's enough angle there, it works the way it should. It puts tension on that, uh, on the chain on the bottom. Uh now with these skateboard wheels that Alfred found, they are the extra width is kind of nice, uh, and they are a bigger diameter uh than the wheel I was gonna use, and even the wheel that originally came with the TC bros. So that should work out really, really well. And Alfred is ordering up uh two more of those wheels for me. Uh one is gonna go on the chain tensioner, and okay, spoiler alert, the other one's gonna go on the kickstart. And I'm not totally sure how that's gonna work yet. Um we'll see how it works out. I I think I'd make it work. It's gonna be very different, uh, but I think I can make it work, and I think overall, if if I can get this all uh to work out right, um having three skateboard wheels all identical on the bike is gonna be kind of cool. And we know that skateboards tie into choppers and that's all good stuff. Uh going back to the engine, uh, this is another got built fat piece with that stainless one into two intake. Um great design, great product. Uh, I gotta tell you, Dustin's stainless welding is TIG welding. Absolutely beautiful. Man, I don't know how that guy does that. It's so fine. Uh his welds are just really, really nice. I love them. Um in this case, uh, you know, we took the manifold as he would typically make them. I'm a little bit whatever. I I find that the carburetor is kind of hitting the bottom of the back of my thigh, uh, just a little bit. You can see where the seat is. You can imagine uh where the foot peg is there, that you know my leg might have a hard time getting around that carburetor, but it's not much. There's just a little, little pressure from the carbon to the back of my leg. So, what I'm gonna do, originally I was gonna modify the intake. I wasn't really looking forward to cutting it and changing the angle, which I think would do the trick. And the other night, Alfred said something that really made me think. He said, How big are the spacers between the head and the intake manifold? Because it is touching up at the top at the rocker box there. Uh well, I guess that's still the head, actually. That's not the rocker box yet. But it's touching up there, and he said, How how thick are your spacers? And that made me think, I actually have about, I measured it, and it'd be close to an inch. I'm gonna call it three-quarters of an inch, um, that I could add between the head and the intake. That's gonna move that carburetor back another three-quarters of an inch. I think that's gonna be really good. So before I go and cut the intake, I'm going to make, and I have uh right here, I have a couple pieces that I picked up this morning from metal supermarket in Calgary. Great place. Uh, if anybody's looking for metal for fabrication and stuff, I don't know who you use now. Metal supermarket, I love those guys. They got great products, good pricing. I mean, fair for you know odds and sods, if you will. Um, you know, it is certainly you're not getting the same price you would get as an industrial volume customer. Uh, but given that you can just go in and pick stuff up and everything, uh, pricing's great. I I really appreciate those guys. So I have two pieces to make two spacers. That's gonna push that carburetor back about three quarters of an inch. And I think that's gonna do the trick. It's gonna be really close. It's also gonna allow me to pull that shifter back, which I can adjust with. The uh the linkages down here and the rod ends and stuff. Um, so I might be able to pull that shifter back just a little bit, which again I would like. I kind of like to have the ball more up, more up in this area, so in about a couple inches. Um that's what we're doing on the intake. Uh seat you've seen before. I did decide to add passenger foot tags because I'm also doing a pillion seat on the fender in front of the sissy bar there. Uh, and that pillion seat is gonna hide my moto gadget and any other electronics. Uh most of the electronics. I'll clarify that in a second. So knowing that I'm gonna do a pillion seat there, I decided to go with passenger foot pegs. I machined those to match the main ones. Um, they're just little pegs, they don't have to be very big. I don't know if they're gonna get used that much. And whoever's sitting on the pillion seat, which will never be a guy as long as I'm at the handlebars. Uh, but whoever the chick is sitting on that pillion seat, um, she'll just have to live with uh with those pegs. That's what they are. I haven't finished welded them yet, they're tacked in place. Um again, because of my trimmers, uh, because I'm not a professional welder, etc., etc. I don't like trying to weld that on the frame in the position it's in. Seeing how we're gonna tear it down anyway. It's super easy to just lay the frame on its side, you know, get the the weld horizontal, make it easier to work around there. Uh, I weld much better when I can get things into a position that I'm comfortable with. Uh so that's what we're gonna do then. Moving down into the bottom here, uh, you can see that I have the uh anti-gravity battery now tucked away down there. Uh, had to make lots of modifications, and I'm not done yet. I gotta do some more grinding and shaping on it and stuff. Uh love anti-gravity batteries, lithium, lithium iron phosphate, good technology, no issues at all. Uh, but I'm gonna be really honest, and it is not an anti-gravity product. They do sell it to go with their batteries, but the battery mount case, uh, well, it's not a case, it's a mount, uh battery box, I guess is what I should say. Uh not impressed, but uh you know it works, the design is okay. The quality, yeah, not great. Uh I was not impressed with the quality, so uh I'm not gonna I'm not gonna take a shot at who made it. Uh, like I say, the design is is good. Uh I see where they were going. I just think the quality of the thing could be way, way better than it is. Um, so we'll leave it at that. But it did work out. I I've modified it enough. And what I had to do, let me just scoop around to the other side here. Um what I had to do, or I didn't have to do, I was looking for a way to mount this and a place to mount it. And it was driving me nuts for a while. I was having a real hard time with it. And uh finally I sat down and took a look at it, and I thought, wow, I could mount that right off of the same tabs that the master cylinder mounts off of. And uh I thought, well, I could also make the spacers to match all the other stuff I've been doing, uh, like the linkage back to the master cylinder and the foot pegs and the toe pegs. That'd be cool if everything matched up. That's what I did. I machined a couple spacers. Uh, I threaded the spacers, so they're actually the mounts. Um, the bolts come through the master cylinder, through the tabs, into those spacers. I got some Teflon, uh not Teflon, nylon washers in between the spacer and the tab. Uh, you know, once the frame is painted, those tabs will be painted just to prevent some ugly scratching and stuff. Uh, I'm gonna use those nylon washers in there. Between the master cylinder and the tab, there is a chrome spacer. Uh, those are really nice pieces from Lowbrow. Uh, who does Lowbrow get their hardware from? Colony. Uh nice stuff, good quality stuff, very expensive for Canadians now with counter tariffs. By the time you get them here, uh, I need to look for a Canadian source for those or a Chinese source. Uh, but those I had, and uh, you know, I can't I can't criticize them. I can criticize the uh the tariffs and and I can criticize the U.S. president. I can't criticize the parts at low brow, uh good quality stuff. And uh I just wish it was still I wish it was still reasonable to deal with those with those guys. It's not, uh unfortunately, for Canadians. And uh we'll have to see what the future brings. But that's that. So I did get the battery mounted. Um the other thing we did while we're on this side is we had the brake rod, uh, the caliper rod, uh whatever you want to call that, uh made that up and got the tabs in place and everything. And it fits in there real nice. It's just real nice clearance between the sissy bar and that. So the whole brake setup worked out really, really well. Um that brings us to actually before I talk about the back end, I just want to come around here again. And I want to show you this. I'm really happy with this look. Um, this is what I wanted is that big space under the seat. Now, you know, with the car, uh still gotta put a uh, you know, an intake on it, a cleaner, air cleaner on it, and whatever. However, most of that space is gonna stay there. You can see through to the exhaust on the other side. Um, really, really dig in the way it worked out with no front mount on the fender, nothing to get in the way there. Uh, I just really like that big open space. I think that's that's gonna be very cool. Uh, so that's worked out nicely. There's the battery down in the bottom. Everything is good. So going back to the fender uh and the sissy bar, and if you watched the previous episodes, you know that I screwed up on the measurements on the sissy bar, and it came in and it was way too short to get to the uh the auto plate. So, what I did there is I cut the sissy bar, I machined those pieces of stainless with the same look as the foot pegs and everything, that rigged look. Uh, I machined those, cut the sissy bar, and I had Lance up at uh Hellbent weld those in for me. That worked out really, really nice. I think they look great. I'm very happy with that. Then the mounting system, I think, is gonna be really good. Well, it's already really good. What I did there is I made, and you know what? I'm gonna switch to the other camera for a second. Uh, it's gonna be easier for this. So, what I did back here uh for the sissy bar, I made these little pieces of stainless and turned them down to fit into this uh this bung. So the bung is regular steel, but the little piece here is stainless. I've welded uh this little adapter, mount, whatever you want to call it, to the sissy bar. It goes into um this steel bung. There's a shoulder there, so it only goes in as far as the shoulder. And then I drilled it on the other side and threaded it for a quarter inch coarse uh bolt. So from the inside of the fender, the bolt goes through this bung and into this threaded piece on the sissy bar. So now the sissy bar is uh bolted into this, and this bung now I'm gonna weld to the fender. So the bung will be welded to the fender. Uh when you put the sissy bar on, just spread it, get it into the bungs, tighten, you know, put it into the bungs, and then put the bolt on the inside. I'm gonna make this super tight, super strong with the mounts that I did for the turn signals, which aren't in place right now, the rear turn signals and the fender. So you've got solid mounts to the frame here, and you've got a solid mount to the sissy bar here, which is tied into the frame at the axle plate. This should be more than strong enough to handle a pillion sea down there. Uh, and that was what I really wanted to accomplish. So I'm very happy with that. Uh, I'll just show you that mount while I'm here. So very happy with the way that worked out. Uh, and of course, when it's done, this steel piece being welded to the fender will be painted red like the fender, but the stainless piece will be polished, this piece right here, will be polished uh like the sissy bar. Uh so that's gonna tie together that. I had to make a little modification to Sean's uh hardtail for this thing, and let me see if I can get in there and show you. So if you look right here uh at the axle plate, I had to notch that a little bit. And now I'd have to weld a piece in there just for strength and to close that off. Um and I'm gonna do that. But the problem I had once I got and I used this chrome hardware kit uh for the sprocket, once I had there that on there, it was hitting on the frame. Um, and of course, that wasn't gonna work out very well. So I notched the frame a little bit there. I don't think I've taken any significant strength away from it. Uh everything's tied together there pretty nicely. I don't think there should be a problem. Uh, and there's there's still lots of the axle plate welded to this too, beyond where I've notched it. So once I once I seal off the notch and weld that in, I think we should be just fine strength wise. There shouldn't be any issue there. Um, but that was just something I didn't ever want. These chrome fasteners whacking the end of the frame and and of course destroying the paint job and destroying the fasteners and causing all kinds of issues. That wasn't gonna be good. That is changed. Um on the sissy bar, uh, I had I thought I was gonna use it on the sportster. Um, I just couldn't find a place on the sportster that I loved it. Uh and I don't know, I've just never used it. Anyway, I had this reserved gas bottle sitting on the shelf, and I looked at the sissy bar and I thought, hey, I think that works. And I don't know about you guys, you can give me your opinion, but I think it does work on that. Uh, so I'm gonna run that hanging on the sissy bar. That brought me to the tail light, and the tail light is the thing, like the battery. Uh boy, oh boy, I agonized over this tail light. I thought, what am I gonna do? Um and again, I expressed this on another episode, and I will say I I don't like I don't like being pigeonholed. I I don't want to be that guy who always mounts my tail light off the left-hand side with the license plate. I've done that a few times now. And I for me, it's okay. I know builders have kind of signature looks and stuff like that and things they do all the time. And that's fine. I got no issue with it. For me personally, I do not want to do things the same all the time. This bike is totally different than anything else I've built. I I mean, totally different. Um, I'm not even gonna tell you I love everything about it, but it's different. And that's that's what I want to do. So when it comes to mounting the tail light, the type of front end, uh, the type of paint, whatever, I want to change it up. I want to keep evolving, I want to keep doing things differently. So with that in mind, I looked at the tail light and I've always, and again, this is just a personal thing. Don't don't get all wound up on me about it. Um I don't like taillights on the sissy bar. Uh I don't like the way the wiring works out necessarily. Uh I I just find sissy bars. I to me, the sissy bar looks so clean. Uh, even with that gas bottle on it, which can come off and then it's super clean. Um I like sissy bars clean with nothing hanging off of them and stuff. Uh that's that's the look that I prefer. It's not the right look or anything, it's just the look I prefer. So I thought, well, we could mount the light off the sissy bar. I would do that for a change. And I just I looked at it the other day and I thought, no, I just don't like that. So what I've come up with, uh, I've come up with this uh tail light with a grill on it, so it matches. That's all good, nice chrome piece, everything's good there. And then what I what I decided to do was make a bracket to mount it, and I sat down and fashioned that, and that will get chromed. And the tail light is going to sit there. Um, so it's gonna be a fender-mounted tail light right there. I have no idea where the license plate is going, and I really don't give a shit. Um license plates are just a pain in the ass. Uh, they're to some degree uh, in my mind, unnecessary. Uh, I don't like them. Uh, it may be going on my on the back of my vest. I'm not sure where the license plate is going, uh, but as I say, I just really don't give a shit where it goes. Uh, I want this bike to look good as this bike, and this bike does not include a license plate. Um so again, just one of Bruce's little pectives or idiosyncrasies or whatever you want to call it. That's an update on the bike. Uh, I think what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna weld, no, I'm not gonna weld, I'm gonna tack that kickstand in place. That's the last thing um that I'm really concerned about. I'm gonna tap that in place. Alfred and I can roll us off the stand again, put it on the kickstand, and just make sure the angle's right, everything works out. Um you know what? I'm gonna switch to the other camera to close this off. So Alfred and I'll uh roll the bike off the stand, make sure the kickstand works, the angle's right, it doesn't fall over, that kind of thing. And then I think we're ready to tear it down. Um we are going to um in here uh this this cross piece where the backbone comes into the hardtail kit. That's a a very substantial piece. It's nice and thick. I think it's uh let's see. Boy, that's gotta be close to half an inch thick. Um it's a very substantial piece, it's nice. What we're gonna do is we're gonna put we're gonna drill probably four holes in it, you know, equally spaced nicely. Uh we'll drill holes and tap it for I I think a 516 course will be fine. Uh so uh to tap it for a 516 bolt. And that will give me something to bolt. Uh, for example, if I need a plate to mount the voltage regulator and maybe even the coil on, that'll give me a mounting, a way to mount that after the frame is painted. That's the only thing I can think of that I haven't got uh an actual something welded to the frame for. And I don't know that I mean for a voltage regulator, you don't need to weld tabs onto the frame and stuff. I think it'll work just fine if we bolt it underneath there. With no electric starter, there's a real nice gap uh right behind the engine, between the engine and the backbone. Um really good in there. So coil uh coil and voltage regulator might fit in there. Uh I might be able to get the voltage regulator under the pillion uh with the moto gadget. We'll see how that all works out. That's where I'm at. Uh I will, you know what, I'll do another episode on engine stuff because there's a lot of stuff there to talk about that I think is worthwhile. Uh that's where my XS650 chopper build is at. Uh, really happy with where we're at right now, and uh we should see some pretty significant changes here uh in this next you know couple of months. Um working out. It's great. 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