Yet another Monster project(updated 7/26)

[uglyducky]

this guy is amazing.  i am so humiliated that i bring my bike in to the shop for an oil change.  i should just buy a scooter.  stuff looks sick man and i'm an ATL native too . . . kinda shocked at all the folks poo-pooin some of your choices and work.  bummer to read that nonsense.  good on you for the raw talent to even do this stuff.  i wanna borrow you for 5 months.  free tacos . . . lemme know.

[yosso]

Also added a mini K&N that's all black instead of the chrome top

Great looking  headlight combo.

Do you have a p/n handy for the filter?

[Ducatl]

I'm always up for free tacos

K&N part number is...62-1560

The tank is bare and I'm polishing it, which is taking sooo long.  It took me a week using gentle paint stripper and a soft plastic scraper just to get it to those first pictures. I'm currently working it over with 1000 grit right now and there's just so much more left to do.

[He Man]

man thats exactly what im doing too.

i have a dent in my tank

strip it, polish it and clear it.

[DucatiTorrey]

one more reason someone should make an AL tank for the 696 / 1100

 

[Ducatl]

So work continues on the tank polishing but I've been playing with other things too.

I"m working on getting the exhaust/rearsets done as well so I had all of this stuff cut out of a thin sheet of titanium the other day.  The trouble is that the waterjet cad software skewed my drawings and everything came out totally worthless, not sure why the tech didn't spot the issue before he started the run.  Anyways, all of that has to be re-cut so it's just more time waiting on material and machine work.  I was really looking forward to my titanium license plate mount and front brake reservoir holder.



The cans that I bought and cannibalized for the project came with a really awful set of hangers so I've been toying with a bunch of different ideas for mounts.  They'll probably end up coming out of the same sheet of titanium as the rest of the exhaust hardware.

[dbran1949]

  Nice

[Ducatl]

4 titanium exhaust straps

[koko64]

 

[uglyducky]

where the hell is the popcorn guy?  i love him.  and, DUCATI, again . . .. you are a ninja.

[Ducatl]

Spent some time removing all the unnecessary frame tabs that I wanted gone before repaint.  I'm going to cap the tube ends from the tail chop and add in the missing 888 tubes that some people have done.

Some progress pics



I'm gonna blast the frame after everything has been removed/added and then powdercoat.

I've been cleaning the motor as best I can without actually disassembling it, it's really tough to get 11 years of road crap off the block in some spots.  I've also been PC'ing all of the covers and easily removable bits, all of the motor bits are going to be done in textured gloss black.
So to start...I removed the casting marks on the intake mani's as well as shaving and filling the factory emissions ports in them, no more ugly m5 bolts!

[junior varsity]

delicious!

[DucHead]

   
removing frame tabs and painting engine:   

I'm nearing 40k miles, and my bike is showing it.  Eventually I'll grow the nads necessary for a tear down.

[RVA Duc]

Looking good man , keep up the good work 

[Ducatl]

Stripped and PC'ed the hoop in the same textured gloss black used elsewhere.  Someday It'll be billet...


Filed off all of the casting marks on the shock rocker and PC'ed it wet gloss black.  Someday this too will be billet


Also modeled more designs for the exhaust straps, I like this one the best so far so it'll probably stay this way depending on when it gets machined .

In other news... I've ordered spherical weld on end caps for the open tail chop tubes, the rivets for the exhaust bands, and an SS bolt set for the motor.  I've also finally FINALLY snagged an aluminum swinger off of eBay for less than a small fortune, it took six months of checking daily but I did it!

I need to get more media for my blaster before I can finish up the covers for the motor.  Then I've got to get a few feet of DOM tubing to do the frame mods.  Once the frame is done I'll be PC'ing the frame and new swingarm and then everything should start going back together