NO LONGER Trying to get YAMAHA to produce more ealy RZ tanks

[JonW]

Just a reminder,.... this tank plan (with me in the mix) is deader n a dodo... If someone else is keen to pick this up and run with it, then fill yer boots lads!

[TZR250]

mate with todays price list what do you think a new tank would cost

500 1000

and what do you think people would be prepared to pay for a brand new tank then

before i run with it

[DuncanB]

Yamaha listed them at $750 for an LC... painted, prior to stopping making them.

[JonW]

RZ tanks were not as much as 750, and they came painted and stickered. An alloy tank without paint would be a winner, but more like 500 than 1000 i reckon from what people said, most people wanted it for sub 200, they had no idea...

[BRG1200]

I reckon, and of course I'm only guessing, a new tank would have to cost $500 or so to produce and distribute, and I reckon if I could liberate the finances and it was the only way to resurrect an otherwise salvagable classic I'd pay upwards of that for a quality repro. For a few years the general wisdom has been that good old ones are pretty much gone.
$500 is about the rate for a couple of rebores and decent quality pistons, and you wouldn't really blink at being told that.
I'll qualify this by saying it would involve a fair bit of expensive tooling to start with, and volume of production would be nothing like Yamaha scale.
How MANY people would buy one? Its a risk for the producer, would have to be able to sit on an wxpensive stockpile for a while.

[TZR250]

between 200 to 500 you think

what would a brand new r6 tank would be worth new painted and stickered as we would be talking thats what today prices refect

and jon w how many people do you have interested in buying a tank 100?

just have to get an idea to put the economics behind it

[pkay]

I contacted the Indian guys asking for more photos of their tank (before I scored the $80 beauty off Gumtree). He said that they were curerntly out of production and temporarily not available and that there tank was a copy of one sourced from Australia..... So there you go!

[JonW]

and jon w how many people do you have interested in buying a tank 100?

Ok, Im not posting in this thread again as people still think I want to be involved and yet, really I just dont. not even a little bit.

I have no one, zero, nada, zilch people interested... If you want to do this project its all you my friend.

[BRG1200]

Lads, do you get the impression Jon is trying to tell us something ;-)

[BRG1200]

Wish he'd stop beating around the bush and spit it out.

[jools58]

I am frustrated as hell............

I have found several good looking tanks on Yahoo Japan (TZ, RZ) but Japan post will not ship anything that has been in contact with fuel or oil !!

I bid on some NOS RZ exhaust baffles and they had to enter a manual bid as it fell into the bracket of potential contamination.........I did get them eventually though.

[BRG1200]

Do "we" know anyone in Japan?

[hybrid]

I bought a new LC tank while they were still available, and it was around $550 from memory with paint and decals.

[BRG1200]

Ya big teaser

[hybrid]

Oh don't worry, it's already been dented from falling off my bike lift