FE/FC Desert tank for fc450?

[pjay303]

Does anyone know when/if a 3 gallon or so tank is available for the fc 450 yet? Who's making the factory guys' tanks??

 

[LandofMotards]

http://www.cafehusky.com/threads/looking-for-some-fe501-feedback.43285/page-8
This guy used a KTM 500 for his fe501.
He had to trim about an inch off the seat pan but his is over 4 gallons. Maybe you'd have to modify the seat a little for the 450sx big tanks. You could get the 2.5 gallon for the FE but it's not getting you quite where you want

 

[LandofMotards]

I searched and couldn't find anything specifically for it. I'd give Zip-Ty a call.

Not a jab at KTM since they don't have control over it but it seems crazy that you can't get an aftermarket part for these. You would think since KTM makes it every company would jump on it immediately.

 

[pjay303]

Thank you! I'll probably give them a call and do a little more snooping of my own!

 

[robertaccio]

nobody gets it......reality check on the cost for XYZ to design, build a mold and manufacture an oversize tank for a bike like the FC450......to sell 30 of them, numbers dont add up.... WR450 Yamaha, CRF450X Honda different story. make sense?
Our bikes are on the mix and match side of things, XC chassis with Hberg plastic and more so although common with KTM they are seperate small brand layouts. XYZ probably will eventually build tanks....when the numbers start to make sense along with the demand.
As well as sometimes the cost to the mfgr is offset by some of the teams funding the R&D and mold costs to satisfy their race team demands/needs.

 

[robertaccio]

last time i checked the entire op was a 20-25k venture, you need to sell alot of tanks to get good roi on that production run. PS this was for a complete custom job, low production run.

 

[LandofMotards]

Yeah I get all that. The surprising part to me is more with KTM's offroad presence I would have thought they'd be all over it before there was even a market. I would have assumed they'd sell really well. Even Sherco's got big tanks, can't imagine their market being bigger.

Anyway, I was sifting through some old threads and the prototype 449 came up. 30 pages of bmw's leftover engines and that they looked to much like KTM's lol. After reading all of that I'm officially done complaining about these white KTM's

 

[BDHANSON]

I planned on buying a TE tank off a 2013 Husaberg from bergparts.com I'm pretty positive that it would fit as all the plastics say Husaberg on them.

 

[Fast1]

Does anyone know when/if a 3 gallon or so tank is available for the fc 450 yet? Who's making the factory guys' tanks??

if you don't want to mount the 4.1 that I've used just use the 3 gl made for the KTM from Acerbis. You will have to run KTM tank shrouds however.

 

[Aaron platt]

You could run an OEM FE501 tank. It will give you about half a gallon more than the stock tank on your FC450. It would also give you a slim feel and use your existing shrouds. Should bolt up with no issues.

 

[SM113]

IMS products is getting close to having a bigger tank! They where testing it in BAJA ON Alex Smiths bike

 

[reveille]

IMS products is getting close to having a bigger tank! They where testing it in BAJA ON Alex Smiths bikeView attachment 48987

they have a 3.1 out now for sale. It looks really weird though. It uses the OEM shrouds but they are mounted at a really weird angle... Or is it an optical illusion?