Alternate ATC 70 Gas Tank

[Flyingw]

I will be building another 70 and I've been throwing around different ideas with what to do with it. Since stock metal 70 tanks in clean shape are getting harder to find, I thought I might look for an alternate tank with a slightly different look. I started looking at the shapes of the Z50 tanks. The Z50 has gone through allot of changes over the years and there are a couple of shapes I keep going back to. I also found a couple of places on Ebay selling reproduction metal tanks for less than 100 bucks. The Z50 has a petcock unlike the 70. I will be stretching the frame 3 inches so I have some room to play with and the Z50 tank hooks in the front just like the 70 so all I have to do is relocate the stems on the frame for the tank grommets. I need to get my hands on a Z50 tank and do some fit checks. Check out the tanks on the Z50s I keep coming back to. I wonder if anybody has tried to fit a Z50 tank on a 70?

[Flyingw]

I'm partial to this shape.

[MattDragontamer]

Yea, I bought a tank off of ebay that looks like that for my future little red 70.

[Flyingw]

Have you done any fit checks to see what it looks like?

[muthey]

you need to contact oldeuce, he has already placed a z50 tank, I believe that is what he told me last summer, there is one off of a honda bike that is a almost direct fit I know for sure, he will know.

[Flyingw]

I went to send him a message but his name doesn't come up on the list.

[Mr. Clean]

Try Ol Deuce

[Flyingw]

There he is, thanks Brother

[Flyingw]

I was browsing Ebay last night and was scoping these out for the headlight and yes with a working speedo. I can get the gear drive and with a slight modification to the hub and spacer, I think I can get it to work. The Z50 speedo cable is a little over 21" long. The length is perfect. The light bucket has a neutral light and there is a hole for a key switch.

[Louis Mielke]

May I suggest a Honda APE100 tank? It fills the dead space of a stretch pretty well :-)

[Flyingw]

I was wondering what that tank was off of but they don't seem to be readily available.

[shortline10]

An atc90 tank bolts on with no issues as well and would look great with a 3" stretch .

[Flyingw]

Cool, I'll look in to that.

[Ol Deuce]

This is what I kinda though would work ...Ok! the tank is from a '70s SL70 .....It does use a big Boy Pet-cock LoL........Ol Deuce

[greenhuman]

About 20 years ago I cut a late model 70 tank down the centre and welded in a metal strip around 2"wide. This was to give my first project X 70 more fuel capacity and to match the tank width to the seat width.
Now someone is making a wide tank from fiberglass.