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Moose, I'm sure I have a turnsignal lens for you here so that's one less thing you have to pick up. When you're feeling up to it, head on over and pick through the box o' parts before you start dropping some cash.

So was it a whistling or a whining? You're talking about two completely different pitches, two completely different sounds. If you want us to help you, you have to be as precise as you can. If it was a whistling, I'm pretty sure that's something escaping out of the battery and that thing is now fuckered. As Don said, you've got bigger issues and unfortunately it's time to invest in a multimeter and start tearing apart the wiring harness, looking for frayed wires, shorted wires, something that shouldn't be connected to something else, something that shouldn't be touching something else, melted harnesses, disfigured harnesses, any of that. My best advice for you is to get an account on gixxer.com. get a service manual, and start reading. If you have something that's really stumping you (and us), ask the gixxer.com people since there are a hell of a lot more of them that have your model bike then there are here.

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magley snark aside, it sounds like the carbs need to be completely stripped and cleaned. Not too sure on the bike's history, but if it's been sitting around for a while (years, not months) these things happen. Before you expend the time and effort to rip everything apart, try running some Seafoam mixed with the gas and see what that does.

1 hour of pre-trip research will save you heaps of time, money, and effort once you're in country.

so some of you have been politely bugging me to post the pics from my recent travels, I thought I'd get up off my ever-expanding ass to clean them up and post them on the interwebs. China is here: http://www.binaryshower.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=3 Australia here: http://www.binaryshower.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=5 Czech Republic is here: http://www.binaryshower.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=4 Enjoy!

I am enormously offended at your clear and concise write up.

I'm pretty far from it and I'm planning on going.

If you feel like giving me a hand figuring out how i can get a projector housing into a 03 600rr without spending eleventy bazillion dollars, I'm all ears.

did it walk into some green ooze and now eats pizza, knows karate, and makes wisecracking jokes?

umm, have you tried reading the thread instead of using retarded acronyms? I'm pretty sure we covered the problem, lol.

Go to court and plead down. If you absolutely have to have a clean record, you can bite the $200-300 bullet and lawyer up.

In his defense he's been a lot less of a squid lately. I don't think posting his tome of a driving record is grounds to ban him.

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I sure as hell hope so, I ordered the same thing.

I gotta hand it to you, posting that up took balls.

it's not the wattage, it's the amperage. High gauge wire is expensive, especially about the time that your bike was being built, factories (my company included) were going apeshit over the copper price trends in '06. If you are going to try to roll your own, make damn sure you put a fuse on the wire connecting to the battery, as close to the battery as you can make it. You can find inline fuses at any auto parts place. Make sure you get some spares as well, you'll might blow one or two getting the amperage right or if you accidentally short something in the wiring process.

As I will be wiring up a set of DDM's here shortly, this is interesting. I picked up the wiring harness with the order, so I'll let you know how it works out when I finally get it. Jcroz, without seeing the harness, I'm guessing that there's a direct battery connection to a relay that's watching for voltage on the headlight circuit. Once voltage is detected, the relay closes the battery circuit and power is supplied to the HID ballasts. Creating your own for test purposes shouldn't be that hard, however I'd seriously consider ponying up the cash for the pre-made harness as the relays are usually smaller and the connections are better insulated.

I think we're going to need a bigger boat, err, database server.

Thanks. I have some on order, but I don't know how they are supposed to be wired up. +1 on the burn smell, if you turn the bike on but don't move the bike does the problem still happen? It's possible that something has either rattled/melted loose and it's causing an intermittent connection. Leaning more towards the melty side, it can melt loose then reconnect when the plastic or whatever cools and contracts.

Wouldn't surprise me, that's why I wanted to know the wattage of the lights and how they were hooked up. Far more likely to happen on the 55W than the 35W.

How are the HID's connected to the bike? Did you get the wiring harness that's sold with them? Are they the 55W or the 35W? Need more info, man.