Brilliant thread, really interesting! I wouldn,t have the nerve to track it after all the time,money and effort involved. You seem to have some serious skills, what do you do if I may be so bold ?
I did something similar with my injectors, all new stainless screws etc and I tumbled them in dry rice and pasta!! the finish is good and clean but nowhere near as shiny as yours, they do look very good though and I had the injectors ultrasonically cleaned too.
Cheers guys, I will get on with some more posts. Chris is doing the unshrouding work, the ports and inlet rubbers, and valve guides.
The rockers and cams are in perfect condition, so too are the valves. I did however leave the valves in the heads so that the new guides could be matched. While on the hunt for some 916 barrels, I came across some on ebay that were in very good condition. There was the tiniest amount of scoring to the nicasil, but during a visit to John Hacket for some parts, I took the barrels to him to check over. He honed them while I waited and they are now ready to go. One step closer, next was pistons. While I was in JHP I asked if they could order me some 853 pistons, and was told that they were only a few weeks away. I waited, and waited, and waited. A few phone calls and I got the impression that they weren't coming. Febur in Italy had them in stock, and the exchange rate made them a fair bit cheaper than the price quoted by Hacket, so they were ordered. It was the first time I had ordered from Febur, I would not hesitate to order from there again, very good service. These are the high compression versions, for the Pankl rods. Along the way I have picked up a few trinkets, some are just for looks, some should prove their worth. I have a few pieces of various slipper clutch assemblies, I was hoping to make a useable slipper out of the parts I have. I know these parts are not really compatible, but I think they can be made to work together. After all the slipper mechanism is a really simple thing, the hard part is the setting. That, is as far as I got with the engine. I think i have all of the relevant parts, and I have collected few spares over the years. I have had a fair few pieces of the steel parts zinc plated so should be ready to go back together. Rich Llewelyn has offered to help me rebuild the engine when I am ready, I am really looking forward to this as I am a sponge for information. This was the reason I collected the engine parts from Motovation, the offer I got from rich was much more to my liking.
Then, in the summer of 2010, I bought another bike:- There is alot more info on that here if you are interested:- Kanerdog1X1's Bike Journal, Ahem. - Modifications - Suzuki GSX1400 Owners Club The Ducati then took a bit of a back seat, I was still actively doing things to it, searching for parts, but it did slow down fairish. I made a couple of versions of a carbon bracket to hold the Translogic dash. the first one I was never really happy with:- You will notice the cnc top yoke I had. I thought this was great as the one with the bike had previously had a plaque that had been removed, badly. Then 'rossdj' on here got a 916 and I fell in love with the standard top yoke, so sourced a better condition one. The new dash bracket I have is this:- The patterns I made in aluminium to prove the design, then the carbon version is from Fiberlyte. Pretty much all came to a stop about a year ago. I did however fall across some nice parts along the way. Ohlins shock, Gilles rearsets, Afam qr sprocket set, Ducati performance airbox, 748 RS air tubes, Brembo brake and clutch master cylinders... I thought if I built the bike up out of the boxes and piles of stuff I would get excited again, but no, its just under a cover again. I even scored a lovely pair of Brembo billet calipers.
After sifting through the potato bucket account, I have found some of the images of some of the smaller details... Speed sensor for the dash. I didn't ever set the speedo as it is a track bike, but it is used for the gear indicator. Clutch spring holder used as a mounting point on the air tubes. The factory I have found out since use a threaded bobbin, but I prefer the simplicity of a rivet. The rubber band is an o-ring we use at work, which happens to be the perfect length. Brake and clutch reservoir brackets, in titanium. The bits I made for the dash were anodised black:- And fitted:- The 'ears' for the fairing mount are also titanium, one of the first bits I made. They started out as simple bent brackets, but after the day at snetterton i found they moved too much so strengthened them. Version 2:-
The brake master cylinder was a bargain from ebay, as it was a bit wounded. I have experience of repairing them so striping it was no problem:- And the offending broken part, I made a couple of them and put one in the spares kit. And reassembled. The worn lever blade stays as I like its character. The shock arrived with normal preload rings, but this hydraulic preload adjuster was a welcome addition. And the lovely metal connectors for the fuel pump. Expensive, but worth their weight in brass.
I'm supposed to be a mechanical engineer and I like to think I'm pretty good at machining but your work is top class. I wish I'd got the patience to do that kind of work but I just take the normal short cut and hose money at everything.
Matt, what brake lines are you running on your m/cs? I am running dual lines on the Brembo race radial with a banjo switch and have clearance issues on the carbon air duct. I think I've just answered my own question there, but would be interested to known what you've done!
Cheers guys, kind words. Anyony, I have a single line going down to a tee piece on the bottom yoke, then splitting off to each caliper. Not sure if I have a pic. Oh, and no switch, because track bike.
Yeah, I think that's my issue. I've given away the single switch I had though! D'oh! I think I may have to go the same way with a split at the bottom yoke. Interesting how you've mounted the dash. I used the original mounting points onto a carbon backing plate then bolted the dash to that (via some rubber stand-offs) so it can be used in road trim.
I had a new pair of forks with radial feet, but sold them only last week to a member on here. I will be getting a pair of ohlins r&t soon.
Cheek! I already had a (cheap) pair of 848 calipers and was then offered a (cheap) pair of forks to go with them! Ultimately I'd like to get the monoblocs on it, the same as the Hyper, but that can wait until I find some cheap.
