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Brown Davis drop tanks

Started by _My74LH_ , Jul 23 2012 06:12 PM

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#1 _My74LH_

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Posted 23 July 2012 - 06:12 PM

Has anyone bought a tank from Brown Davis of late ?

Well, I just ordered one today and almost fell over at the price . although I know its quality work and it will fit right , Im still feeling the pain . I hope its lives up to the hype .

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#2 dattoman

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Posted 23 July 2012 - 09:08 PM

Telling us the price might have been an idea

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#3 Litre8

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Posted 23 July 2012 - 09:14 PM

I have had my Brown Davis drop tank for a trouble free 32 years. IMHO they are the best.

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#4 _My74LH_

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Posted 23 July 2012 - 09:14 PM

It was arround $1600 plus freight to syd .I hope the saying " you get what you pay for" applies here :mellow:

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#5 dattoman

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Posted 23 July 2012 - 09:15 PM

Yes but its still got the same tank of fuel in it you put in the day you bought it

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#6 _SLEDGE_

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Posted 23 July 2012 - 09:26 PM

I built my car on a student/part time wage budget... I felt the pain BAD until I saw the tank and fitted it.

Every dollar well and truly well spent.

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#7 _My74LH_

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Posted 23 July 2012 - 09:33 PM

All good news ,I thought I'd just been reemed , was quoted 4 to 5 week delivery at best . must be lots of torana projects going on ?

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Posted 23 July 2012 - 10:05 PM

I'm another big fan of the Brown Davis tanks, exceptional build quality. The prices are insane these days, but that seems to be the case for everything.

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#9 dattoman

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Posted 23 July 2012 - 10:11 PM

All good news ,I thought I'd just been reemed , was quoted 4 to 5 week delivery at best . must be lots of torana projects going on ?

Slow boat from China ?

Kidding
I've not heard too many bad reports about them
Just be specific with your requirements and make sure they send the right thing
There always seems to be a delay... sometimes a long delay

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Posted 23 July 2012 - 10:37 PM

Did they mention that you have to remove to rearward existing tank mounts before it will fit?

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#11 _My74LH_

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Posted 24 July 2012 - 07:38 AM

Did they mention that you have to remove to rearward existing tank mounts before it will fit?

Yeah they did , I'm thinking of another solution , Don't want to do that . Il wait until I get it to make the decision .

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Posted 24 July 2012 - 09:40 AM

Did they mention that you have to remove to rearward existing tank mounts before it will fit?

That looks great and a quick look at E-Bay shows the strap type drop tanks selling for $1550 pp.
I am looking at one of these down the track and in relation to Statler's comment above; how does it fit up - what is required to make it fit?
Also, has BD amended the shape to jump through the roadworthy issues re: rear departure angle?
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#13 _LS1 Hatch_

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Posted 24 July 2012 - 09:56 AM

$1600 ?

Wow....I don't have that brand, but amazing what a price difference there is from what I had got mine for ($550 from memory) a few years back.

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#14 Litre8

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Posted 24 July 2012 - 12:45 PM

Also, has BD amended the shape to jump through the roadworthy issues re: rear departure angle?

Pictured tank above looks the same shape as my 30 year old version. The tank bolts through the rear 'rails' via the 4 mounting tabs (undrilled in the above picture)

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#15 _monman71_

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Posted 24 July 2012 - 01:28 PM

I payed $600 in the early nineties for the Monaro, it was from bond roll bars in auburn , i remember they had the torana tanks and some had the chev sign pressed into the sheets before they got folded.Im pretty sure there not around any more. Rare spares were selling a price engineering drop tank at the same time for $290 without the set down for the fuel sender.

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#16 _LXSS350_

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Posted 25 July 2012 - 12:25 AM

$1600 Holy C#ap.
No wonder everything is made in China today and Australian manufacturing has made itself obsolete !!!
Paying $420 fitted for mine (early 80's) seems somewhat cheap.

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#17 A9X

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Posted 25 July 2012 - 12:52 AM

I'll have a second hand one forsale next week

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#18 _LH8VD69_

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Posted 25 July 2012 - 01:52 AM

I'll have a second hand one forsale next week

What size and how much? Pm

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#19 enderwigginau

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Posted 28 July 2012 - 06:47 AM

I'll have a second hand one forsale next week

How secondhand muwhahahaha

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#20 A9X

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Posted 28 July 2012 - 04:13 PM

a bit secondhand...

only did 2000k's befor we removed it...on my Targa Hatch.

its fine, but i had another built locally with an internal seperate surge tank to the pick up point, changed the new size to 85 L. old one is identical to the pic above, 120 L

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#21 dattoman

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Posted 28 July 2012 - 10:07 PM

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Posted 28 July 2012 - 11:10 PM

there it is.

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#23 _My74LH_

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Posted 29 July 2012 - 07:24 AM

PM Sent .

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#24 _My74LH_

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Posted 29 July 2012 - 07:34 AM

NSFW.. sexy bum pics following

So it looks like you didn't remove the original tank mounts and just pack out the tank , this is what I had in minde looks good . I thought it would sit lower .or is how they sit on a hatch ?
Was the original hardware long enough to get through the rails , ?

Looks nice Im going to fab up some dummy straps out of stainless and fitt them to the tank before i fitt it up just to have that look as below .
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#25 _SLEDGE_

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Posted 31 July 2012 - 04:28 PM

So it looks like you didn't remove the original tank mounts and just pack out the tank , this is what I had in minde looks good .

It only takes 10 mins with a thin cutting disc on a grinder to remove them neatly... and it looks much better sitting tucked up flush. + it will be easier to align and secure the tank correctly if you remove them.

...Easy to keep them and weld back on if you reaallllllyyy want to change back to an original tank.