Coils

[Guest]

These coils from JCWhitney.com are a great price. Am I missing something. Why is everyone scrambling around eBay for used ones when these are here and cheap?

http://www.jcwhitney.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/EndecaControllerView?D=02zx4256b&Dx=mode+matchallpartial&firstSearch=1&catalogId=10101&Nty=1&Ntx=mode+matchallany&Dn=0+111&Ntt=02zx4256b&tmplframe=EndecaCategoryView&langId=-1&section=body&storeId=10101&Ntk=AllTextSearchGroup&ss=10101

[SqDancerLynn1]

Those are not for an I4 motor, they will not physically fit

[UncleMike]

True. But would one of these work:

http://www.jcwhitney.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?PID=1274739&makeId=11050421&productId=3741&catalogId=10111&langId=-1&AID=1150578&modelId=11068696&storeId=10101

And they should work perfectly for my two cylinder bike, correct?

[SqDancerLynn1]

For a twin they should work! MOST of the coil post are regarding I4 motors Bandit/GSX coils

[UncleMike]

Great. I guess finally I'm at an advantage against all you people with the beasts.

[Einar J Skog]

Should work on inline 4 also.But you must bay 2 of them.
If the ohms are right ????

GS1000GLx

[UncleMike]

Are these gonna be direct replacements, or am I gonna have to fabricate something to make them fit?

[redliner1973]

They will most likely not be a direct bolt-on :twisted:

[UncleMike]

Great. That'll be fun.

Any ideas for direct bolt ons?

I'm a little mechanically-savy, I can turn a wrench, but I don't have the tools or inclination to be fabricating stuff.

Am I thinking too little of myself?

[Dark Jedi]

Great. That'll be fun.

Any ideas for direct bolt ons?

I'm a little mechanically-savy, I can turn a wrench, but I don't have the tools or inclination to be fabricating stuff.

Am I thinking too little of myself?

Fabrication is not nearly as hard as it sounds. Especially if the mount being fabricated is hidden, like a coil mount. You can go for effective, if not pretty.

Just use cardboard to trim and shape, then cut metal using the final cardboard piece you shaped and molded as a template.

Then bend, pound, shape, drill, and trim it to fit properly and not rub anything vital.

I got a honda Aspencade trunk and rack on my GS650GL using two re-shaped straight brackets from the hardware store. just bent them into an offset Z for the left, and offset S for the right side. Works like a charm....

[UncleMike]

Cool. Thanks.

It's much better than paying an arm and a leg on Ebay for coils that'll fit my bike and are 20+ years old, or paying anohter arm and a leg for Dyna's.

[Anonymous]

Hmm, Im one of those that paid an arm and a leg for the dyna's....They are nice though. However, that was before I discovered ebay. Coils from a suzuki sv650 should fit your bike better than those generics from jc whitney.

There's a couple on ebay now.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=35594&item=2468222727

and: http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...tem=2467712359

This guy is selling them separately, I've posted the link to one of them.

Sam

Cool. Thanks.

It's much better than paying an arm and a leg on Ebay for coils that'll fit my bike and are 20+ years old, or paying anohter arm and a leg for Dyna's.

[UncleMike]

Awesome. Bought 'em. $40 for a pair of 2001 coils? Not bad,...

[Hoomgar]

Not bad at all Mike. Ebay is a vintage bike owners friend

[UncleMike]

Yeah, the hardest part is just knowing what will work and what won't.