After owning my bike for 3 years I decided to go all out and try this myself. 3 night's of hanging out in the garage thinking about things and trying many different things I came up with this! Randomly came across a few of these pipe clamps.

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Flattened them out with a vise. DSC00204.jpg
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Coil bracket (silver piece is stock from the coil)
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Finished Dirty just how I like my bike.. I don't care about flashiness and scratches, RIDE IT.

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Just hope the metal is thick enough...I made 3 different brackets for my coil until it finally held. Your coil is smaller, lighter and mounts differently, but engine vibration can easilsy cause the metal to crack.

I actually rubber mounted mine this last time and it helps reduce the vibration.

 

May need to go thicker. Just from what I've read about the trial and error involved in these. Metal fails, its just the nature of the beast. You need to find the proper thickness to prevent failure then go slightly thicker imo

 

Good job bro!! Love to see the homemade stuff.keep it up key relocation next pls

 

Noob question, to relocate my coil, what else do I need besides the bracket, couple screws and shorter spark plug cables?

 

just some drill bits of your choice, go to hardware store and match up some bolts that you think fit best and you should be good with a little imagination. The wire connector that runs the coil must be re- routed a bit between the fuel injector area. I just did the wire tuck tank lift coil relocation and key relocation of my own using pieces from the stock bracket all that I paid for was the bolts through the hole project.

 

hey ill post tonight hopefully made it by myself and its holding amazing.

 

it's not much about thickness. flex, memory and metal properties are much more important than thickness.
the way i test my caveman engineered items is; check'em frequently and if there's any sign of crack or fatigue, try to figure out the cause with a low iq and try something else (repeat the process until a solid item is achieved)

my 1mm thick side mount licence plate is still holding well for his life after three weeks time. and we hope to celebrate our anniversary next year

in vibrating environments flex attributes counts. like aluminium sheet, it just goes with the flow.
and perfect for dummy fitting on curved surfaces as you can shape it nice. not stubborn like steel and just cool

and i love this kind of caveman/redneck style solutions. it's just nice not to pay a zillion dollars for some sht and do it yourself for just a couple beers and cup of tea.

 

Metal fatigue is patient and sneaky so beware of embrittlement, though depending on the galvanizing method used it may not be as big of an issue as flex/heat fatigue.


Anyhow, good job on finding something that works and doing it. Seems like I see way too many bikes lately with tires that have seen maybe 500 miles and they have been ordering **** from the catalogs every other day, posting up pictures, talking about how it looks,...

Just sayin.