Seeing pictures of Alex's fantastic "MH900eR" (#1936) has inspired me to consider what the next stage could be:
And this what I am thinking:
1) Martin Bickwood's flowed "Testarossa" heads - work well and how cool will the red heads look on the MH? (see http://www.mbpducati.ca/)
2) Overbore and 966 Mahle pistons to add in a little more stomp
3) Engine properly set up with squish reduced to 0.04" etc, etc.
This mean that the MH900e will have the same power as a 916, now how cool is that?
Now, has anyone had experience of similar upgrades and what do the learned think about boosting the power to such an extent - bottom end, chassis, etc?
Also, do I do this on my current engine (2000miles odd), or do I go and get a workout engine and do the bottom end of that at the same
time?
Now the other upside is that with all that power, Ohlins front and back will be necessary and I can justify them to myself.
I was thinking of strying to stuff a 9xx motor into my MHe, but this seems like a more sensible way to go.
In response to my posts in the Superbike section, a guy called Chris sent me an email indicating that he could do this type of stuff inj the UK - check out www.louigimoto.co.uk/ if interested.
What do you plan to do with the gearing. With a littlke over a hundered ponies, you could lengthen it quite a bit, although the wind at speed buffeting you would more than likely set the top speed befoer the gearing! What do others think?
I also really liked Alex's paint job and his one-off MH900eR - if you do this you will have a MH966eR
Cheers
Duccie
PS I'm impressed that you have not responded to Andi's wind-ups, hang in there!
I was just positively commenting on deimh not responding to your posts and keeping it private - like many others have already indicated. Hence I am surprised at your agressive responce
Now Andi, can you get the chip off your shouldewr and let the rest of us play nicely?
I am cool with peace, if you have any sway with Dave tell him to stop throwing rocks, then I won't need to pick em up and hif em back ...easy.
K, I read the post on the Yahoo site, I like the idea and with the heads professionally done it would be great, I am in two minds as to the swingarm being able to take the extra grunt as they flex now with 75 -80 hp.
I would be keen to get a M900 FI engine and do the mods, wouldn't wonna do it to my existing engine, maybe the full length headers from Staintune should be enlarged to help with the volume??
I would expect a swingarm stabilizing mod would be in order however I can't see many owners wanting to fizz some extra bracing under the swingarm, I certainly wouldn't.
I am happy at my 75 -80 hp but if theer is more on offer then....well you know
i will ask dan van epps @ ducati if he can advise if the stock swingarm can handle 104 hp. that is the question now, right?
ciao,
johnc
Yeap, also there would be increase torque as well, as Dave says in the region of 30% so it would be good to ask about the structure as a whole.
Maybe with staintune with the full length headers now would be the time to discuss the sizing of the headers, they may need to be bigger than stock to allow that bit more umph!!
Anyoine for 104hp?!
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