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POLL: Would you buy an aluminum tank...?

Started by ducatiz, January 27, 2012, 06:28:55 AM

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CrashVR

#105
February 09, 2012, 07:44:14 PM
So Ducatiz, how's this looking?  What would you say the chances are of this venture coming to fruition?  I just got my '06 S2R and love it, but find myself concerned with the expanding tank.  It's not so bad that they will give me a new one I'm sure, but it probably will be (at this rate) when I am no longer eligible.  Between that and the proposed E15 and the effects on small air cooled engines has me a little stressed out.  I have to say thanks for even attempting to find a reasonable solution for us.

ducatiz

#106
February 09, 2012, 07:59:16 PM
Quote from: CrashVR on February 09, 2012, 07:44:14 PM
So Ducatiz, how's this looking?  What would you say the chances are of this venture coming to fruition?

Tank is going to the mould in the next week or so.  I'd say the 2v tank will be close to 100% and the 4v tank 75%, depending on the fitment issues. 

I'm having trouble finding someone with an S4 and an S4R to try the S4rs tank on.
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DRKWNG

#107
February 10, 2012, 03:23:26 AM
Didn't Venom... offer his S4R?
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ducatiz

#108
February 10, 2012, 05:09:14 AM
Quote from: DRKWNG on February 10, 2012, 03:23:26 AM
Didn't Venom... offer his S4R?

yup, but he's away doing fleet training.  scheduling.  hoping to get it out before the end of the month when he's back.
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lazylightnin717

#109
February 10, 2012, 06:29:22 AM
I have an S4 in Lancaster PA if you need to use it. You're more than welcome to.
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ducatiz

#110
February 10, 2012, 06:32:12 AM
Quote from: lazyjinglin717 on February 10, 2012, 06:29:22 AM
I have an S4 in Lancaster PA if you need to use it. You're more than welcome to.

thanks, do you deliver?  :-)

i just need to fit the tank to check clearance. 
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lazylightnin717

#111
February 10, 2012, 12:14:26 PM
Will you replace the flaking rockers, set the valve specs, belts, replace fuel lines/filter, reassemble and set it back untainted?

If so, you've got a deal  [coffee]
Comes a time
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Says don't you see
Gotta' make it somehow
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ducatiz

#112
February 10, 2012, 12:39:00 PM
Quote from: lazyjinglin717 on February 10, 2012, 12:14:26 PM
Will you replace the flaking rockers, set the valve specs, belts, replace fuel lines/filter, reassemble and set it back untainted?

If so, you've got a deal  [coffee]

yes, but no guarantee with what i'll replace that stuff with..  [evil]
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stopintime

#113
February 10, 2012, 05:10:59 PM
Quote from: Travman on February 03, 2012, 08:15:35 AM
I know the idea is to build a stock looking replacement tank, but another option is to have them (or some of them) built like the desireable RoadRacing aluminum tanks.  The rise at the bottom of the tank exposed the entire vertical head, which looked really trick.
.............

http://www.ducatimonsterforum.org/index.php?topic=34105.msg1024584#msg1024584

It looks like 'Roadracing'i-fied steel tank  8)
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ducpainter

#114
February 10, 2012, 05:16:41 PM
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stopintime

#115
February 10, 2012, 05:20:44 PM
Quote from: ducpainter on February 10, 2012, 05:16:41 PM
steel?

It has that weld seam part of the way, but not where the larger opening is on the Roadracing tank.
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ducpainter

#116
February 10, 2012, 05:25:57 PM
Quote from: stopintime on February 10, 2012, 05:20:44 PM
It has that weld seam part of the way, but not where the larger opening is on the Roadracing tank.
Didn't catch the 'i-fied' part. ;)
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 a completely different way than you, you will be open to understand how that
 perspective
    is even more amazing than yours."
    To realize the value of nine  months:
    Ask a mother who gave birth to a stillborn.
"Don't piss off old people The older we get, the less 'Life in Prison' is a deterrent."


ducatiz

#117
February 11, 2012, 03:19:50 PM
Good news the S4RS tank fits on an S4r with minor mods.

thanks to venomous for his bike

anyone know if the S4 has the same tank as the R?
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DarkMonster620

#118
February 11, 2012, 03:27:48 PM
Quote from: ducatiz on February 11, 2012, 03:19:50 PM
Good news the S4RS tank fits on an S4r with minor mods.

thanks to venomous for his bike

anyone know if the S4 has the same tank as the R?

from parts catalog images they don't look the same ...
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ducatiz

#119
February 11, 2012, 03:34:49 PM
Quote from: Panamanian Monster on February 11, 2012, 03:27:48 PM
from parts catalog images they don't look the same ...

looks aren't important in a Ducati catalog :-)

they are both later style steel efi tanks...  there is a chance they're the same...
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"Yelling out of cars, turning your speakers out the window to blast your music onto the street, setting off M-80 firecrackers, firing automatic weapons into the airâ€"these are all well and good. But none of them create a merry atmosphere of insouciance and bonhomie quite like a revving motorcycle.
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