Flat Tracker Fuel Tank Design

Prototyping Large Parts: A friend of ours is a sculptor. He creates the initial shapes for his sculptures by carving into blocks of balsa wood. This method is very skilled and tactile and allows him to see, and feel, the contours, size and scale as he goes. We’re less skilled at this approach and tend …

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Yamaha XT 600 Cylinder Reverse Engineering

Background: This project started out as part of a Yamaha XT 600 – 660 ‘Frankenstein’ motored (bottom end from an XT660 but top end from an XT600 as we wanted to keep the air cooled look) flat track framer bike. The original intention was to cast a new cylinder with modified, more symmetrical, fins that …

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