so I have been working on a little sportster iron project for a couple weeks now. I bought the bike brand new last year and got a great deal. I built come bars and pipes and changed a few things around and just rode the hell out of it until now.

 

then i started tearing it down, the wiring is bulky and excessive to say the least, custom harness to come. I am retaining the efi on the bike. changed the bars and cut the tunnel out of the tank.

 

Looks good but doesn't that rear pipe fry your ***?

 

then i started on the tail section, it will house all the electronics as well as the battery. it is all built out of 16ga steel and formed and welded by me. i threw a little white paint on the tank to see how it looked

 

it didnt they were angled out just right but it would make your right ear deaf after a while. the new ones are further away, thanks for the compliment

 

so then i hated the angle of the tail section so i changed that up and trimmed some off the bottom side to give it some more flavor. the tank looked way too big and after looking at the old xr trackers i figured i could achieve a similar look by trimming off the bottom of the tank, mission accomplished. I also mounted the air cleaner. designing an oil tank today.

 

That's developing into quite a beast!
I look forward to the final product mate.

TD

 

i am also looking to trade out my rear shocks for some longer ones. even of another stock harley. mine is the iron so they will be 10.5'' eye to eye and am looking for 12'' or so

 

When I was going down that route I went with Road King air shocks. I got some great advice, including shock part numbers in this thread; https://www.hdforums.com/forum/sport...-question.html

 

great bike ... you are pretty handy at building everything .. well done ...