Frequently Asked Questions

Q: Will it fit the VSRCR?

A: No.

Q: What about governmental regulations?

A: The system is designed to meet all governmental regulations. It's received the US EPA's blessing. CARB and TUV are next.

Q: Where is it made?

A: Start to finish entirely Made in America

Q: Will the fuel gauge be more erratic with this?

A: No, the erraticness of the sending unit won't get worse. If anything, it'll improve since you'll have the opportunity while installing this to clean the sensor strip. There is greater volume at the bottom of the tank than stock so you'll have quite a bit more range when your fuel gauge reads 1/4 and below than you did with the stock tank.

Q: I see you are changing the skid plate and extending it, will I have to weld it in place?

A: No. We will offer two different skids. The default one will be a rivet in skid plate. We will also offer a weld in replacement for people doing frame out work.

Q: Will I have to make extensive frame modifications?

A: No. I'm seeing a lot of griping about this part of the install and IMHO it's getting blown out of proportion. Based on what we've seen in the installation trials the new tank will fit right in without any further modifications. However, it is possible that the space you are putting it into has some very rough sharp points (mig wire, splatter and drippy welds.) Add in some vibration (you can see where the stock tank has chaffed the paint off) and common sense says that you don’t want these sharp pokey things ever touching or rubbing your new tank that’s holding a flammable liquid. Later ('04+) frame years were greatly improved in this area, but the early models ('02-'03) can be a little, shall we say: ‘rough’. I like to think of this of this part of the installation like making a nice smooth bed for the new tank to lie in. Is it required? NO. The tank will fit w/o. I highly doubt that even the worst of these could ever pierce the tank, but still, I think it only makes sense to smooth out any rough spots. However, as the installer you can certainly choose to ignore our recommendations. Should you choose to do it as recommended the process is very easy and while it's true you'll break the painted surface, the places you do so will be completely hidden by the new tank and a little touchup paint will prevent any rust. If it were me I'd smooth it out no matter what tank I put in there.

Q: What about safety? Harley couldn't do it without changing the bike.

A: You are confusing decisions made by the bean counters to keep costs down with what the system is capable of. The process we are using is much more expensive than the OEM part, making it unsuitable for Harley because of cost, not safety.

Q: What about the California Carbon Canister? Those of us in CA have to keep this to stay legal.

A: We use the space where this is currently for fuel, the Carbon Canister will have to be relocated. We will offer a bracket to do so.

Q: Will it work with the alarm & siren?
A: Yes. The alarm stays in the stock location and the siren is relocated but the wires are plenty long enough and there’s space for it.

Q: Will it work with Phat tires, that is: 240s, 250s, 300s and beyond?
A: Yes, my bike has a 250 and it works fine. Should fit any size tire.

Q: Will it work with models that have a seat release button (ignition isn’t in the tank area.)
A: Yes, It’s the same as an ignition, just without the switch. So it will work by relocating the button with the ignition relocation kit.

Q: What about dealers? Will they have access to this kit? What about international?
A: Yes, however I never allow dealers to have first access to new kits. I find it much easier to keep direct contact with the customers in the launch phase. No internationals in first launch phase either, just much easier to deal with inside the US48. Fear not, that phase shouldn’t be more than a month or two.

Q: Can ’07 tanks fit the pre-’07 frames? Can this tank fit the ‘07s and later?
A: No, HD made changes to the frame and they are not compatible in either direction, this tanks for '02-'06 only (should fit all excluding the VSRCR.)

Q: Will installation of this tank affect my warranty?
A: No, I can’t imagine any way that it could - see the Magnuson-Moss act.

*Normalization: The tank will expand with exposure to gasoline. That's one of the properties of the material. We have to plan for this in the design or it'd never come out again so we design it a little smaller than what the final size is expected to be.

The latest measurement was done by weight which is about as accurate as we can get. A brand new tank measured out at 5.04 gal and the one that was in my bike from September to early December (in there about 80 days) measured at 5.35 gal. The 5 & 4.9 numbers were the day after it was first exposed in September.

We lose about 1/10th of a gallon to the pump & sending unit and airspace at the top.
That's how we get 5.25 gallons of usable fuel after normalization.

According to studies that have been done it should do 90% of it's growth in the first 90 days and stabilize around 120 days.
The one with 80 days of exposure measures almost exactly what the computer predicted it would be.

Bear in mind it is plastic and plastic changes with temperature so you can expect it to hold slightly more in the heat of summer and slightly less in the cold of winter.
The above measurements were taken at room temperature, 70°F.