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Adding another touch of green from allthingsslingshot.com.

Easiest mod from slingshotonly.com I've put on yet...

Lastly, I put on the TricLED Mechanical Brake Light Switch from Slingmods, didn't get a pic, but not much to see. I was having problems with it taking quite a bit of brake pedal to engage the brake lights and kick off the cruise. I could have adjusted the magnet sensor, but decided to fix it right.

Instructions were really good, explaining how to install it and after I got it adjusted right, it really only took about 10 minutes to install. You get to do it from the engine side, don't have to climb in upside down to see the brake pedal, which was really nice. You will need a helper to push on the brakes to understand how it works.

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For me, the brakes on the base Slingshot are pretty weak. It just seems you have to push pretty hard to stop this light vehicle, a lot more than most smaller cars. It's almost as bad as my F350 dually.

In an effort to resolve this, I was advised to get the DDM Brake Master Cylinder Support which helped, but not enough.

I'd love to replace the calipers all the way around, but there are only two kits that I'm aware of, Slingshotonly.com sells one, and DDM has another, big brake kits, but they are expensive and require bigger wheels, 18" or bigger. I like my 17" wheels all the way around, so that's not an option.

For now, I'm trying better pads and upgraded rotors. The DDM upgrade kit looks good, but isn't in the budget right now, so went on the hunt for something else. Slingmods.com has a nice EBC based kit, which led me down my path.

So went searching and found this at EBC's site : https://ebcbrakesdirect.com/mo…ngshot-sl/2015-2016/56573

Their retail locator lead me to

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A few quick mods

I needed to fix my shift adapter, since Joey at Kerrville mentioned that I didn't have it installed correctly. I knew it wasn't, and told him there was a story behind my odd setup. I also installed a new shift boot with green stitching, to match my other green accents.

Back when I bought shift knob adapter, I went cheap and got one off of amazon, problem was, it didn't come with a set screw to attach to the short shifter, and I wound up using the OEM adapter (and having to cut off about 1/2 inch of the oem) between the short shifter and my adapter, which made my shifter almost as tall as OEM. It worked, but was annoying.

Finally took the time to retap my shift adapter so the set screw would fit it and took out the OEM adapter. Aluminum is such a pain to rethread, it's so easy to mess up if you don't have the proper tools, so took some time but I got it in there.

Next up, a simple mod to make driving a bit easier... Mirror Extension And Adjustment Bracket

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I was asked to get some pics for a project and to properly get a pic of the main fuse attached to the battery mount, I needed to pull the battery out. Just a few days ago I put in remote jump posts and had problems getting things lined up to reconnect the battery terminals, and yes, it was a pain this time around. I stopped and considered everything I would have on the battery long term and decided to try rewiring how I had it. I also got in a remote battery minder port from Slingmods that I wanted to connect up.

I decided to connect the battery minder port to the remote jump terminals, it just made more sense doing it this way and less wires to deal with on/near the battery and everything is out of the way.

The positive side of the remote jump terminals went to the fuse block and I ran the negative under the battery box (over the frame though and to the frame connection for the battery.

Final picture from the inside

Hit me with any questions you have.

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I've actually had more people interested in my pieced together remote battery terminal jump ports than expected, and asking about the parts list, so here it is and will try to form this so the links can be permanent. Ebay links will eventually stop working, so grabbing pics for long term archiving.

This is my own design from pieced together parts found online at ebay.

Ebay Battery power junction post

Ebay 4 AWG copper battery cable

Ebay Battery Cable Insulator Boot - may be optional, I wanted it for peace of mind

It's possible I could have gotten them elsewhere a bit cheaper, but then I'd have to drive around, etc. Time == Money for me

Hardest part of this install is attaching the leads to the battery. The 2019 battery on mine has a bolt/nut combo and once you pull the bolt out, the nut falls down in it's enclosure and you have to raise it up in order to get the bolt to connect again, kinda hard when you are trying to hold multiple cables in place and put the bolt in.

I

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With my white and black SS, I've always felt it needed some color highlights, but was never sure where to put them. I'm a technical guy, not color coordinated. But with some help from my better half, she suggested some green, since I have a green helmet, Kawasaki green, since I have a Kawa bike. I'll be adding some color to it over the next few weeks with parts on order, but here are a couple of first steps.

The new wheels required new lugnuts and they only come in chrome, which I didn't feel worked well, so installed lug nut covers.

Swapped out the gear shift handle for something green, doesn't quite match my helmet, but I don't care

Next up is the rear wind restrictor, finally got a night picture of it, and yeah, I know it's not green, they didn't offer it in that color...

Rear view pic of it:

Installed remote jumper ports in case I need to boost it again (faulty wiring issue already caused me to need this once). That other wire is my rear camera feed, not

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This was really my first aesthetic mod (ok, the shift knob was probably the first), but this was the first major one. I never cared for the look of the stock rims on SS, not even the fancier SLR rims, and the tires were too narrow for my liking. Traction of course, but also the looks of wider tires have always appealed to me.

This is what I went for on my look :

The tires are Nitto NT555 G2 from Discount Tire, they had the best pricing and with free rotations and flat fixes. I went with 315/35 R17 all the way around, so I can rotate them and I just prefer the look. I went with 17's because I have some cushion and they will flex. Plus, the tires were cheaper than going with a similar sized 18, however, the wheels were a bit more expensive. The wheels are Race Star 17x10.5" Drag Star in metallic gray. Picked them up off of ebay for about $15 off per wheel vs any other place online. Discount didn't have that brand on their website, but turns out, they could have ordered them

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Back when I ordered my Welter Dual Exhaust 2.5", I had done my research and knew a lot of people with a tall windshield and top reported issues with fumes in the cockpit. This is due to the top/wind shield causing a vacuum in the cockpit and sucking in air from the rear. Since the Welt Duals go out at the tail lights, this can cause fumes, even at high way speeds.

I had also read that some people didn't have the issue, if they were using an adjustable windshield, that allowed air in underneath, breaking up the vacuum and I gambled (and lost). If you have been reading my other blog entries, I have the Twist Dynamics Soft Top and the TD Adjustable Windshield.

After I put the new exhaust in, I made several short trips and had fumes as well as the burnoff you get with a new exhaust. Hoping a lot of it was burnoff, I ventured off on a long trip one Saturday, putting almost 350 miles on it, but to no avail. I did experiment several times, the TD Windshield is adjustable up and down,

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Finally got my rear camera wired up and put a new license plate on it. It's a Boyo HD. Maybe it's just my head unit, but it doesn't seem to be any better quality than the $40 front camera. Oh well, I like how it's mounted and it should do really well at night.

I know she's dirty, thats next on the agenda.

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Can't really get any pics of this, or it wouldn't make much sense, so will describe and answer questions for anyone.

One of the biggest things that they missed in the electrical department was the lack of spare fuse capacity and while some vendors have some very nice stuff for plug and play, they seem a bit overpriced, so I built my own setup.

First up is the fuse block from walmart.com, I'm installing this in the glove box, mounted upside down against the top of the box, should be out of the way and still be accessible when I need it. The biggest drawback to this was the lack of a switched option and it's not water proof, so that's why it's in the glove box. For the switched option, I didn't need any always on connections, so I wired in a relay from ebay to the hot side. Of course, since I'm being frugal with this, I get relays that are wired incorrectly on the plug and their diagram is wrong, but once I figured that out, it's working as expected.

The fuse block also doesn't

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