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Re: fuel tanks
« Reply #15 on: December 26, 2008, 10:15:36 AM »
About 8# I think 8.8 Or is that water?
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Re: fuel tanks
« Reply #16 on: December 26, 2008, 10:43:12 AM »
water is 8.33 lbs per gallon
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Re: fuel tanks
« Reply #17 on: December 26, 2008, 11:03:07 AM »
Around 6.25 lb/gallon.  It depends on the type of gas.

The stock busa holds 22 Liters, or 5.81 gallons.  You can ride quite a while on a full tank.  Of course you won't go as far or as fast in the buggy cause of the extra weight.
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« Reply #18 on: December 26, 2008, 11:06:37 AM »
8-12 gals is nice size/weight.The busa gets decent milage BUT when you are geared twice as low and are pulling twice the weight as the bike and are always on the throttle you are gonna get crappy mileage.Around 10 MPG or so.
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Re: fuel tanks
« Reply #19 on: December 28, 2008, 07:18:10 PM »
how dose this sound i caculated the weight of my fuel tank with fuel and it came out to 128lbs is that to much??
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Re: fuel tanks
« Reply #20 on: December 28, 2008, 07:30:03 PM »
How far you plan to ride at a time? Approx 19 gals is a lot of fuel to carry.Takes up a bunch of space also!!!
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Re: fuel tanks
« Reply #21 on: December 28, 2008, 08:05:27 PM »
the fuel is only 14 gallons and im using 12 gauge steet (.109)
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« Reply #22 on: December 28, 2008, 09:00:22 PM »
OH! that was tank AND fuel! Whew!
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« Reply #23 on: December 28, 2008, 09:11:21 PM »
was that a good or bad one use to be in a drafting class so i have a lot of software so i am putting my spin on the piranha
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Re: fuel tanks
« Reply #24 on: December 28, 2008, 10:34:24 PM »
that's a helluva lot of fuel, and the weight of another passenger.  My civic only holds like 10 gal. and I could get 300 to 400 miles out of it.
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« Reply #25 on: December 28, 2008, 10:48:17 PM »
its going to be a one seater and im looking to make it street legal so i want a bigger tank

i might have a mock tank later on today
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Re: fuel tanks
« Reply #26 on: December 30, 2008, 10:50:36 AM »
here is my tank idea
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Re: fuel tanks
« Reply #27 on: December 30, 2008, 11:10:01 AM »
Before worrying about a tank I'd suggest you make sure that everything else is mounted first. You'll be amazed at how quickly space you thought was there  will disappear.
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Re: fuel tanks
« Reply #28 on: December 30, 2008, 11:19:24 AM »
im still designing things and i have moved them around there they fit good
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Re: fuel tanks
« Reply #29 on: December 30, 2008, 12:47:56 PM »
quick question, where do you guys get your filler necks with the plastic caps, and your bungs for the fittings? steel preferably..
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