2 Strokes Down Under

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!

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

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

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...

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.

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

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!

TZR250 wrote:
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.

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

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

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.

Do "we" know anyone in Japan?

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

Ya big teaser

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