[Ducati] Blammo!

[TheGeek]

The last few 900cc monster/SS engines with low miles sold on eBay for under
a grand (900 + 975). But they were F.I. engines, don't know if it's a big
deal or not

Peter

On 10/3/07, mike bernhard <dfrnzy at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Hey Guys
>
> I was out for a short ride on my 900 SS SP and all of a sudden I here a
> noise that sounded like a fork being dropped down a garbage disposal. I
> pulled the clutch in and the bike shut down immediately and I coasted to a
> stop. Luckily I was close to home and my gf came and picked me up so I could
> go get the trailer to bring her home.
>
> When I finally got around to do some investigating I found a few small
> metal particles in the oil and when I pulled the belt covers the vertical
> cylinders belt was snapped. Ouch!
>
> At that point I called Travis at Corse Superbikes what was going on and
> arranged a time to bring the bike in.
>
> After exploratory surgery he found that the intake valve (i think) had
> been bouncing around inside the cylinder tearing up the cylinder wall and
> ported head, punching a hole in the high compression piston, etc. He also
> thought that the engine locked up breaking the belt since there were several
> teeth missing on the belt. (the belt had about 6k on it)
>
> It looks like I will have to bore the cylinders, replace the pistons with
> 944s, new valves and guides, probably open up the bottom end to flush out
> any additional debris, not to mention the heads.
>
> I really love this bike and am completely confident in Travis's work to
> bring her back to life, but I'm not sure if  I should be putting several
> thousands of dollars into this 96 SP. (about 8,500 miles)
> The motor had been tweeked by Mark Sutton when he was running the Ducati
> team for Corse Superbikes. He did a great job and the bike ran really
> strong!
>
> Anybody have an alternative ideas that might be more cost effective like
> buying a used low mileage motor or something goofy like installing a new DS
> Motor. I have been thinking about getting something newer lately but I would
> always go for a ride on the Duck after riding something else and be suprised
> at what a great bike it still is.
>
> Anybody have any ideas?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Mike Bernhard
>
>
>
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