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Old 21-Sep-2009, 14:06
pguenet pguenet is offline
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Luck of the draw I am afraid.

I managed to pick a complete one up over summer at very good price and brut carbon colour. I had to have one instead of the QB one because I wanted it to work with shower injectors and RS airbox.

Recently another complete one turn up from Target Motorsport and sold for almost GBP1,000.

The tanks on their own turn up fairly regularly. The problem though are the internals as it is very difficult to get fuel pump units, etc. Those 2 complete tanks are the first ones I saw in a couple of years having the fuel taps in the airbox. I have seen of few more of the early models with the taps on the left hand side. So there are a rare beast, but likewise to London Buses, you wait ages for one and a couple turn up.

I picked up some very pricey connectors for internals some time ago. The RS bikes have brainded fuel lines with screw on connectors (not push in and clip). I am unlikely to use them on my project so if they end up left over, i'll be happy to sell them on.

If you are looking for real Corse stuff, Les Liney was selling some 60mm twin injectors sometime back for about £1500. That's a set up that was used on the early RS bikes (which run the small airbox) but I think that it was deemed too brutal and they then went on to have shower injectors and bigger airboxes instead.

On my 996 I am going to run 748RS shower injectors bored out to 54mm. That will be good enough... though it is not a straight fit with the RS airbox. Nelly is having to use the Dremel to make the airbox fit....

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