My Land Speed Buell/Sportster Year # 2

[isiahstites]

Originally Posted by Electric Head

Looking good! I don't think you'll get much fuel in or out of that thing as it is though.

Really?? Don't quit your day job buddy........

Scott

[isiahstites]

My friend and fellow LSR racer Randy S brought a very important point to my attention regarding my newly fabricated gas tank..........it is block the air flow to the front cylinder head! DOH!!!

So I cut two inches off of the bottom which is approximately 1/4 gallon so now my tank is about 2.25 gallons.



Here is the tank with the new bottom.



Plenty of airflow now.





Here is the cap and bungs for the vent, petcock and gas cap.



The finished product.

[Electric Head]

Originally Posted by isiahstites

Really?? Don't quit your day job buddy........

Scott

Sarcasm mate, I didn't really think a bare metal box was the finished fuel tank...

[isiahstites]

Originally Posted by Electric Head

Sarcasm mate, I didn't really think a bare metal box was the finished fuel tank...

I got ya! I was just having a little fun with you as well...........I guess my dark black text doesn't display my cheerful attitude when I am messing around.

Scott

[Electric Head]

Lol yeh it'd be good if it was easy to convey emphasis and emotion in text. I had a feeling that you were having a go at me, but I thought I'd better jab back just to cover myself in either case lol. Anyways, enough of my wasting your time and thread on jibba jabba.

[isiahstites]

I picked up my fairings today and I am very pleased to have a set of new fairings I can fit to my bike. I have a lot of cutting and trimming to do to make the fairings fit the bike so they can be mounted properly and be easy to take on and off of the bike quickly.

As you can see the nose is sitting up high, I will need to trim the inside of the fairing or widen it to allow the whole fairing to sit down on the bike. I will also have a lot of work to do to the rear fairing to make it conform to the rules and to fit a chassis that was never designed for a tail section such as this one.

Scott

[Milehog]

Just guessing here but the fairing may make tuning an interesting proposition if it creates positive or negative pressure inside at speed.

[isiahstites]

All of the welding on the gas tank is finished and I made brackets to hold the tank on the backbone. I still need to pressure test the tank and I found out that my guesstimation of how much gas the tank would hold was wrong, it holds a gallon and a half.






I finished making the battery box this weekend and still have to make something to hold the bottom of the box to the top.









I am almost all done with all of the fabrication portion of the build so things should start to move quickly in the next couple of weeks. I still need to make fairing brackets to hold and support the body work as well making mounts for the fuel pump and regulator.

Also found out today that the original record of 184 mph that was going to take quite a great pass to beat is incorrect, the record is actually 178.170, still difficult however not as hard as 184.


Scott

[hdmarsh77]

This might be a stupid question, but are you going to have to make some sort of window in the front of the fairing to look through? I don't imagine you are going to look over the top of it?

Anyway, the bike looks great and I am enjoying watching it come along.

[isiahstites]

Originally Posted by hdmarsh77

This might be a stupid question, but are you going to have to make some sort of window in the front of the fairing to look through? I don't imagine you are going to look over the top of it?

Anyway, the bike looks great and I am enjoying watching it come along.

You know I was always taught that the only stupid questions were the ones that were left unasked..........windshield is on order and will be here in a few weeks as it is a special order item.

Scott

[TXCHOP]

Amazing work Scott..!!!!!!

Is a gallon and a 1/2 enough for what the purpose is? Just curious as i am not too familiar with the salt , but dont you do a couple miles out than back in with some idle time in between?

Oh and carefull backing that off the lift...lol

[isiahstites]

Originally Posted by TXCHOP

Amazing work Scott..!!!!!!

Is a gallon and a 1/2 enough for what the purpose is? Just curious as i am not too familiar with the salt , but dont you do a couple miles out than back in with some idle time in between?

Oh and carefull backing that off the lift...lol

1 1/2 gallons should be fine for making a few passes at Bonneville, if I need to fill-up I would just have the tanks resealed. They seal the tank once you buy there gas on the records running on gas so no there is no unfair advantage.

Scott

[TXCHOP]

Oh cool....whats fuels do they offer there?

Must be a pretty penny too....

[isiahstites]

Originally Posted by TXCHOP

Oh cool....whats fuels do they offer there?

Must be a pretty penny too....

http://www.ercracingfuels.com/ercCustomBlending.htm

I think I used the 110 stuff there last year and I have been using VP 110 at El MIrage.

The ERC stuff was like $8.50 a gallon and I fill up my container which is 5 gallons and have them seal that to so I always have fuel.

Scott

[isiahstites]

Good news! Even though I bought and expected to use the fuel pump and regulator it turns out I do not need to the bottom of the tank is about an inch higher than the highest point on the float bowl!



I picked up a set of 25 Dzus fasteners, springs and grommets for $16 off of ebay.



I finished the mounting bracket for the battery box to keep the top and bottom together.






I ordered and received my Zero Gravity windshield for my fairing. $99, not bad for a custom windshield.



I cut some material from the from fairing to make it sit down on the bike. Hopefully this weekend I can get the fairing mounted and in there final resting place.