Acewell 2853 gauges

I haven't been able to find gauges for my KZ750N Spectre so I'm thinking about going with the Acewell 2853:

www.dimecitycycles.com/vintage-cafe-race...eter-19-2853-bk.html

Does anyone have any experience with these?

Thanks

I have an Acewell on my KZ. I like it but I wish it was larger.

Here's a photo so you can tell the relative size of the gauge.

Larry C

My son Alex has one on his 83 KZ750. It works okay, but speedo is way off under 10 mph due to the sensor doesn't trip very often at that speed. We had to tinker with the wheel circumference number in the mode setting to get a speed that was close to correct. We finally got it dialed in, but it took several trial runs riding next to my car to confirm an accurate speed. It seems the faster you go, the steadier the speedo reads. At lower speeds--25 and lower, the speed reading jumps several mph's.
We installed the unit in less than a day, but you have to come up with a bracket system to mount the speedo sensor.
It also is helpful if you have a wiring schematic for your model bike--before you start splicing and cutting wires inside your headlight bucket.
The wiring instructions and different mode setting instructions that come from Acewell are very roughly translated from Japanese, and do take some interpretation. However, the wiring schematic is clear, and just depends on your ability to identify the correct wires to splice onto theirs. The RPM's (tachometer reader) is a bright yellow wire that you wrap around one of your spark plug leads (the more wraps, the better the signal)... It works well but you need to select the number of spark pulses the unit will count to display the correct RPMs... Rule of thumb, if your bike usually idles at around 1000 rpm's and the unit is indicating 2000, you know you have the pulse count number off in the Tach setting mode.
The only feature we didn't set up is the clock, as it requires a constant current to the unit. It can be hooked up by jumpering the lead that goes through your ignition switch circuit... It wasn't worth it to us to do this hookup... No big deal...
I will see if can get some pics of the speedo sensor bracket if you think it will help.

You have the option for Tach pickup. As mentioned, Yellow conductor wrapped around spark plug wire or for a higher resolution of tachometer sensing, hook up directly to one of the coils primary terminals.

You'll want the sensor close to rotor magnet for accuracies...

Once you dial; in for your wheel configurations and such, a little on the fly number tweaking (programming) and she'll be golden...

LUV my 2803...

OMR

Have you considered either one of the following?

Veypor

KOSO

Has anyone come across any similar to the acewells (round)but larger?

10 pages for Speedo/Tachs....

www.google.com/#q=autometer+speedometers...=on.1,or.&fp=1&cad=b

I realize this has been mentioned before but with the mechanical units, would need to know the Kawi ratio specs....

Dakota Digital makes some nice but spendy $$$ gauges...

Another site out of the UK...
www.digital-speedos.co.uk

Koso...
www.kosonorthamerica.com/

you can get a kawasaki specfic speed sensor that will fit onto the orginal speed sensor location

talk to herm at dimecity..
i think it was 15-20 bucks..

now i had to do some modify for everything ti fit correctly on my kz650

took the stock speed cable and cut it in half to get the stock collar off it..
then i had to take the new speed sensor and lightly file around the rim to make it smaller so it would fit into the stock collar nut.. not much, just a hair..

much cleaner.. and maybe u wont have to fiddle with yours.. i just know on mine.. the new speed sensor collar nut did thread onto the stock wheel speed theads.

sorry my english is horrible...
but its my only language

steell wrote: Have you considered either one of the following?

Veypor

KOSO

Does anyone have any info/experiences about the Veypor?

:whistle:

I can't really say much about it yet, but I just bought a Veypor and the Indicator box with the lights on the sides. Haven't gotten it installed yet. But, what an impressive piece of equipment, if it does what it actually advertises that it does and I have done lot of reading about it and I haven't seen ANY bad reports, just praise.
As I said, I got the Veypor not the more expensive VR2, I don't need all of the extra datalogging that the VR2 does.
I also got the silver indicator box they were out of the black one. They emailed me that the black ones were a limited run.

You can veiw them at: veypor.com/index.html

For a total of 298 buckazoids with shipping and quick delivery. I'm impressed with them.

Oh, I did check with them and they said all I have to do is email them with the mileage that is now on the bike, they will send me a firmware patch to load into the Veypor so it shows the correct mileage on the odometer.

Les

I just bought a 2803 and its great! Only problem I'm having is the speedo cable threaded cap you buy to fit the Kawasaki stock speedo cable is slightly bigger so it wont stay on tight. I'm going to try some lock tight we will see. Anyone else see this happen?