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[GD Engineering (Gavin)]

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GD Engineering (Gavin)

[Chester]

Can you build me a fuel tank?

Now that would make life easier

[GD Engineering (Gavin)]

Originally posted by Chester@Jun 16 2005, 10:54 AM
Can you build me a fuel tank?

Now that would make life easier

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Easier and cheaper to get one second hand. If it is a special fit I can modify it.

[Chester]

Heh, not for this damn bike.....

ZXR-250A, my tank is pretty rusted along the bottom seam, haven't put the sealant kit in just yet (Need a spare weekend), and there are microcracks all over the bottom of the tank.

I have found a couple of tanks here, but both were $220-250, and both had big dents, and just as much rust as my tank.

The only other one I have found was in QLD, and they wanted $440, including shipping, and it was also unpainted, and in whatever condition it arrives in.

One other option I was looking at was cutting the bottom plate out and welding in a new plate, how hard would something like that be to do? The top of the tank is in damn good condition, no scratching or anything like that on the outside, just surface rust inside, but the bottom looks like Bulbous's ass after a night at CAD's place (All brown, crusty and uneven, and cant hold fluid anymore).

Could also get the top of the tank bead blasted once the bottom was cut off it too then

[GD Engineering (Gavin)]

Originally posted by Chester@Jun 16 2005, 02:26 PM
Heh, not for this damn bike.....

ZXR-250A, my tank is pretty rusted along the bottom seam, haven't put the sealant kit in just yet (Need a spare weekend), and there are microcracks all over the bottom of the tank.

I have found a couple of tanks here, but both were $220-250, and both had big dents, and just as much rust as my tank.

The only other one I have found was in QLD, and they wanted $440, including shipping, and it was also unpainted, and in whatever condition it arrives in.

One other option I was looking at was cutting the bottom plate out and welding in a new plate, how hard would something like that be to do? The top of the tank is in damn good condition, no scratching or anything like that on the outside, just surface rust inside, but the bottom looks like Bulbous's ass after a night at CAD's place (All brown, crusty and uneven, and cant hold fluid anymore).* *

Could also get the top of the tank bead blasted once the bottom was cut off it too then

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Yeh they all suffer the same fate eventually. Can make a new bottom if it's not too complex geometry wise, most tanks have 'stamped' bottoms that are then seam welded. paint will suffer to some degree when welded. Try these if u haven't already
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Good luck

[Gonz1]

gday Gavin, i think your the guy i met at scabs on the street fightered ZX10?
welcome, glad you could make it

[Odd_Motorbike_Guy]

just curious, but what would you charge to build a fuel tank, completely to my design? i'm debating getting one built to my specs. more room 18L not 15L, fitted to the frame properly and built to fit flush with my ram-air. it's for a cbr400rr. essentially a larger cbr250rr

[GD Engineering (Gavin)]

Originally posted by Gonz1@Jun 16 2005, 06:30 PM
gday Gavin, i think your the guy i met at scabs on the street fightered ZX10?
welcome, glad you could make it

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Tis me. Done quite a bit more to the old girl since then. Might catch up with some of you in the not too distant future.
PS. go the zeds.

[onikage]

Originally posted by Chester@Jun 16 2005, 10:54 AM
Can you build me a fuel tank?

Now that would make life easier

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yes, please do!!!

it'd make mine safer from thieves, sorry friends...

[Chester]

Originally posted by onikage@Jun 17 2005, 01:16 PM
yes, please do!!!

it'd make mine safer from thieves, sorry friends...

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Nah, wouldn't want your tank, not with your ball bag bashing against it!! Never know where its been!!

[burnoutnut]

would you be able to do something like this or is this abit out of ya level



will get the specs if you need them

[GD Engineering (Gavin)]

Originally posted by burnoutnut@Jun 19 2005, 02:18 PM
would you be able to do something like this or is this abit out of ya level



will get the specs if you need them

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Easier than i thought, should look shit hot in the flesh too. Got some good ideas for colours as well. Cheers

[Gonz1]

Looks up!
now that would look cool!

[burnoutnut]

Originally posted by Gonz1@Jun 19 2005, 07:59 PM
Looks up!
now that would look cool!

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its going to look fully sic

[burnoutnut]

its done

this is the design i want