HOW TO: Make your own Knee Dent Tank

[Joshua]

that looks damn good for a hammer job you can really tell you put time and some skill into it geart job!

 

[hammerlo]

Great job skillzman, and great tutorial, you got skills

 

[TheMainMuel]

Wow man, you have earned your name! Nice work. I've got a spare tank I'd like to try that out on.

 

[Sokrates]

Perfect, i'll give it a try this year. thanks.

 

[Phyberoptic]

very nice... reminds me of high school, and a shop teacher I had that would take a crumpled VW fender and with just a hammer and a steel backer... would bring it back to shape needing just the thinnest of skimcoat sealer before paint.

Skillz.... you are blessed with the touch.

Now off to destroy a tank or two... for I am not. :-/

 

[skillzman1]

Not for nothing..but the Skillzman name came from when I worked as an inventory clerk at a local warehouse.
I rode MX...painted cars...was an avid fisherman..pretty good cook...and thus they donned me the 'skillzman'...my last name is Gill...they called me 'the Gillz wid da Skillz'...and being that it was better than what I remember most people calling me...I let it stick!!LOL

And the touch comes from the years I spent apprenticing for free in my uncles custom shop........I was the sand monkey....he never fell for the Skillzman part...had to earn it.Taught me a lot...we used to urn out some pretty slick stuff from that old horse barn /body shop.....heres a pic of my first custom fabrication project...with help of course.

and the car I built at one of its several transformations.

 

[skillzman1]

That hood was the stock caprice hood with metall hood scoops cut out of a 1978 Firebird Formula hood.....had to cut the scoops out....shorten them to fit the caprice hood...weld them in place...and then cut the caprice hood and fab up some diverter flaps for the functional ram air...

 

[volcomskater77]

wow. thats fenomenal. i dont think i spelled that right. and that looks really sick. still have it?

 

[skillzman1]

no....had to sell it to do emergency repairs on the house...heres another pic of the second transformation.

 

[volcomskater77]

damn. my friends dad has a 95 imp ss. stock in purple. pretty mean. but yours is just great. i like the lense switch on the head lights. the two tone and rake are sharp and i like the mesh bumper.

 

[skillzman1]

Thanks...i miss that car.....cam,roller rockers,ported heads,long tube headers,4.10 gears.....lets just say it sounded nasty and could back it up....340 rwhp....high 12 low 13's 1/4 mile.....still got 18 mpg and carried the whole family...and what a freak driving thru town.

 

[ivor]

Love that tank

 

[skillzman1]

Thanks...I just wet sanded and base coated it in black today...going to practice some custom paint on it...see how it turns out.

 

[volcomskater77]

nice im gonna start a seperate thread so we can discuss this bad boy later. lol

 

[skillzman1]

heres the tank ..in black base coat.

 

[hardtailed77]

That is a pretty sweet ride skillzman! I sold my 91 mustang GT a couple years ago, and have regretted it ever since!! 306, aluminum heads, roller rockers, cold air intake, full exhaust, bigger mass air and throttle body, tremec trans, 4.10 gears, etc.....and 8 1/2" slicks when at the track!!! It was a beast,,,,DAMN I MISS THAT CAR!!!

 

[niko]

great job!

 

[Drockcity]

very nice work, super influenced to go beat up that extra tank thats layin round the garage!

 

[jray]

man I love this tank! I have a spare xs250 tank so I might give it a go.

Do you have pics of how it looks on the bike??

 

[jodok]

shit i don´t have any drop shaped fuel tank to beat.....more than respect for that craftmanship...