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I have been dying to get rid of that bulky 1st gen combination throttle assembly & switch pod and liked the way the 2nd gen is set up. So, I sent my old throttle assembly and cables to MotionPro to have a custom set made. Cost was $99, shipped for the throttle assembly and cables.
Here is the 1st gen setup:
And the custom setup by MotionPro:
And the 2nd Gen switch pod:
The challenge here is that the 1st Gen switch pod has the opposite end plug as the 2nd Gen. They both use the same plug, just put in backwards. (2nd Gen on the left, 1st Gen on the right.):
Luckily, thanks to my Michael (Painfully Slow), I am now bypassing the ignition and the rest of the lighting wiring is useless to me anyway, so I really only need to crimp 3 wires, the Orange & Black (one side of the stop switch) Yellow & Green (one side of the start switch) and Orange & White (the common between the stop and start switches). And as luck would also have it, both generations use the same wire colors for the stop and start switches.
I will also need about 6" more wire, since the 1st Gen's wiring harness is a little longer.
There really wasn't much to it. I clipped about 6" of wiring off of the 1st Gen switch pod, including the connector and spliced the Orange & Black, Yellow & Green, and Orange & White wires together on each end and capped off the rest.
As mentioned above, since I am now bypassing the ignition switch and running a total loss electrical system, I don't need the rest of the wiring. I will be cleaning up the unnecessary wiring over the winter to save some weight.
It took some work to get the new throttle assembly and cables to work with the 2nd Gen switch pod and my Accossato radial master, but eventually, I got it to where it operates smoothly and twists and returns nice and easy.
It's also just over 1/4 turn from stop to stop, which is significantly less rotation than the stock 1st Gen with an R6 throttle tube.
Another thing crossed off the list for the off-season. Photos of the assembly and connections at either end: