I chose this because my scooter had it's electrics upgraded way back when I bought it. It has electronic ignition now and got rid of the battery setup. My old harness had all sorts of wires for the battery as well as the turn signals and a switch on the front brake lever to light up the rear brake light.
It is 12v now with the standard 5 wires coming out of the stator and an 8 pole ignition switch. The VBC apparently has a very unique 8 pole ignition switch that the other Vespa's don't. I am going to try to install the more common one and see what happens. All of the wiring diagrams seem to follow the other 8 pole switch so I have more diagrams to go off of. So it turns out the other 8 Pole switches simply won't work on the Super. If you changed the headset then yeah maybe. But I really like the round headlamp so I'm sticking with the super 8-pole switch as it is my only option. I just hope I never have problems with it.
Because of the wacky setup and the uniqueness of the VBC 8 pole switch I couldn't quite figure out a harness to purchase for this so I am going to make my own. Really hard to find a shop around here in Raleigh that carries multi-colored wires in 18g and 16g for what I needed (you can get lots of fun colors at a car stereo store, just not marine grade).
The web of course is the answer. It was highly recommended on scooterbbs to use marine primary wire as it is very abrasion and corrosion resistant. I found out I could order the majority of colors online at westmarine.com in 1 ft. increments, which saved me the expense of buying it by the spool. My total cost was $30 with shipping. I used 18g for most wires, except the following (based on the above pdf) and note also the color changes:
1. Yellow wire from regulator (says rectifier on the pdf) to ignition switch position 6
2. Green wire from ignition unit to ignition switch position 4
3. Blue wire from stator to regulator (unregulated power). I also did not use black here as per the diagram but kept the wire blue all the way from the stator to the regulator.
4. Black wire from ignition switch to rear brake is 18g Orange.
5. I also added 18g brown, pink, and white for turn signals. This is not on this diagram but I might draw one so you can see how I added LED turn signals. This is a future project but I am installing the wiring now. Basically I'll have 3 wires connected to the turn signal switch on my handlebar on the left side. The white will be the power coming from the turn signal flasher mounted by my regulator and the brown and pink will go to the respective turn signals I'll mount later.
I might use 18g for the ground coming out of the stator but that's for later and not that big of a deal.
Next I ordered all new brake, clutch, choke, and speedometer cables from scooterworks, as well as a new keyed ignition switch, new 12v regulator, brakes, and random clips and pins that needed replacing.
I also went through all my baggies and started degreasing and cleaning all of the random bits, screws, nuts, bolts, and random pieces to get them ready. I'll be replacing lots of rusty bolts and such and taking a trip to the hardware store to rifle through their bins to see if I can find everything I need. I am also preparing some rust treatment for parts that I am not replacing right now, such as my shift and throttle tubes, fork, kickstand, etc.
Hopefully I'll be ready to put everything back together with only a few random last minute orders and trips to the hardware store. After this is done I'll start to upgrade other things over time. White wall tires, new shocks, rims, kickstand, colored rubber trim and grommets, new brake and clutch levers, and other small bits and pieces to slowly put the finishing touches.
Assuming the body and paint work are done, I'll start this on the weekend and I'll post pictures of the process and any tips and tricks I learn.
Really worried about the legshield trim, of which I do have the original and hope to preserve it and install back on.
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