• 4 Stroke Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Italy - About 1989 to 2014
     TE = 4st Enduro & TC = 4st Cross

  • Hi everyone,

    As you all know, Coffee (Dean) passed away a couple of years ago. I am Dean's ex-wife's husband and happen to have spent my career in tech. Over the years, I occasionally helped Dean with various tech issues.

    When he passed, I worked with his kids to gather the necessary credentials to keep this site running. Since then (and for however long they worked with Coffee), Woodschick and Dirtdame have been maintaining the site and covering the costs. Without their hard work and financial support, CafeHusky would have been lost.

    Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working to migrate the site to a free cloud compute instance so that Woodschick and Dirtdame no longer have to fund it. At the same time, I’ve updated the site to a current version of XenForo (the discussion software it runs on). The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

    Unfortunately, the new software version doesn’t support importing the old site’s styles, so for now, you’ll see the XenForo default style. This may change over time.

    Coffee didn’t document the work he did on the site, so I’ve been digging through the old setup to understand how everything was running. There may still be things I’ve missed. One known issue is that email functionality is not yet working on the new site, but I hope to resolve this over time.

    Thanks for your patience and support!

Carbon Fiber SMR511 Gas Tank Build

ascribner

ascribner

Husqvarna
AA Class
Disclaimer: I have never made a fuel tank before, so this will be improvised as I go.

I am ramping up the fabrication to full speed with the temperatures warm enough to play with fiberglass/carbon fiber now.

One thing really lacking on these bikes is range -- the ability to go for more than a couple hundred miles on the road. I am hoping to make a tank with the capacity of an additional 4-5 gallons is the goal.

You will have to use your imagination, but I would like your thoughts on this. I will figure out these things as I go.
  • The OEM 449/511 seat will fit with minor modifications to the seat.
  • The OEM 510 plastics will be molded into the gas tank and part of the tank itself
  • The tank will be made from carbon fiber
  • The tank is not fitted perfectly and still needs minor tweaks
  • This is a rough idea of how it will look
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Nice project. you do realize there is already a over the counter solution for that much like your building right? Not near as cool looking as CF but...

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Motosportz said:
Nice project. you do realize there is already a over the counter solution for that much like your building right? Not near as cool looking as CF but...
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I have only seen the Safari one that makes the bike look like a DRZ. I have not seen the IMS one. Pretty close to what I am building using the OEM 510 tank with shrouds as the base.

sssshhhhh...I have wanted to make a carbon fiber gas tanks for years and not I have a reason...well no real reason other than I want to make a carbon fiber gas tank. It is a quite challenging piece to pull off and I will build a few out of fiberglass before I attempt with carbon just to make sure I have the process correct and flow of resin wetting out completely.

Curious, how much is the IMS tank?
 
ascribner said:
I have only seen the Safari one that makes the bike look like a DRZ. I have not seen the IMS one. Pretty close to what I am building using the OEM 510 tank with shrouds as the base.

sssshhhhh...I have wanted to make a carbon fiber gas tanks for years and not I have a reason...well no real reason other than I want to make a carbon fiber gas tank. It is a quite challenging piece to pull off and I will build a few out of fiberglass before I attempt with carbon just to make sure I have the process correct and flow of resin wetting out completely.

Curious, how much is the IMS tank?
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No problem just wanted to make you aware of it. I fully support you building one and want to see it :>) Dunno the cost, Bills in Salem Oregon should know. I bet in the $350 range.
 
Motosportz said:
No problem just wanted to make you aware of it. I fully support you building one and want to see it :>) Dunno the cost, Bills in Salem Oregon should know. I bet in the $350 range.
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Thanks. I like the IMS, except for the radiator cover part. I want to make those separate from the tank on this one.
 
A quick pic heading out the door this morning "in the raw". Only getting about an hour about every other night to work on this right now. Hopefully this will pick up some steam.

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ascribner said:
A quick pic heading out the door this morning "in the raw". Only getting about an hour about every other night to work on this right now. Hopefully this will pick up some steam.
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What camera are you using for these pictures? "Smart phone?"
 
ascribner said:
Google Nexus - HDR = True
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Please please please do not take this the wrong way, but is there any way for you to re-size those in the future? Or simply attach them to the posts, then the Cafe Husky software will re-size them automatically?
The first time I opened this thread it took about 4 minutes to load because of all the large pictures... and I've got a fast internet connection.

I truly appreciate your fine work and am delighted that you are sharing all you have done. :cheers:
 
Coffee said:
Please please please do not take this the wrong way, but is there any way for you to re-size those in the future? Or simply attach them to the posts, then the Cafe Husky software will re-size them automatically?
The first time I opened this thread it took about 4 minutes to load because of all the large pictures... and I've got a fast internet connection.

I truly appreciate your fine work and am delighted that you are sharing all you have done. :cheers:
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Yes, I need to resize them on Dropbox. These photos are used on 4 different forum posts. I will try to remember to set my phone to save 1mpix instead of 8mpix for stuff that I am going to post to the forum. Heck VGA would be sufficient! Tiz annoying, I feel ya. Lemme see what I can do real quick. These are almost 3mb each.
 
Coffee said:
Please please please do not take this the wrong way, but is there any way for you to re-size those in the future? Or simply attach them to the posts, then the Cafe Husky software will re-size them automatically?
The first time I opened this thread it took about 4 minutes to load because of all the large pictures... and I've got a fast internet connection.

I truly appreciate your fine work and am delighted that you are sharing all you have done. :cheers:
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ahhhh geah ninja.... "sips -z 800 *.jpg" on my Dropbox folder :applause:

Edit:

Epic fail on using the correct case on the command line!
 
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