Ducati 996 engine custom build

[koko64]

Karen's good.

With orange fit a black clutch cover and also paint the shock spring black IMO . Consider the outlawish Charger orange colour.

[buzzer]

here is the first coat of lacquer…  For 40 years I used my trusty Binks Bullows 230 but it was starting to give problems…  I tried several guns off Ebay, but despite the Binks problems always went back to it…  then a few years ago I bought a cheap (£20) gun off amazon…  it had great reviews, and sure enough its brilliant! this is the gloss straight from the gun!

[koko64]

The glossy depth gives it the look of a modern art installation. . A mate has 900 Supersport fairings hanging in his lounge room.

[buzzer]

And the final coat....  my heart is always in my mouth when painting over decals...  I have found by experience you MUST wipe them over with panel wipe, and make sure the first coat of lacquer is a mist coat which then has to tack off...  then a couple of coats on top.  if you go with a full coat first you always get runs off the lip on each letter!  I will let them dry fully in the drying oven...  OK, the small bathroom as that is the hottest room in the house!

[koko64]

Excellent model designation 

[buzzer]

out in the sunshine...  people are saying I have an obsession with Orange!

Clutch cover is now on...

tank plate now finished....

 lost an entire day as I could not get the TPS voltage to register on the ignition...  turns out that I had the TPS load in pin 9 and it should have been pin 6....  wrong way up!  its registering voltage readings now so next few days I will post a video 

[koko64]

Very nice. Congratulations.

[Pinion]

Very cool

[Howie]

Great work!

[Duck-Stew]

I like the plate in front of the tank. Very nice

[buzzer]

I like the plate in front of the tank. Very nice

Thanks!   It took a while to make...  i used a sand bag to planish it into shape, and a press tool to make the raise for the ignition switch...   working with alloy makes me want to make a tank!

[buzzer]

Question...  is bike building a form of self isolation? 

As I am going to leave the belts open I thought it best to at least have a token grill to stop big stones flicking up…  particularly off the front wheel.  Its still a risk I know…   I made this grill out of Stainless steel mesh, and 6mm stainless tube.  I needed to cut a slot in the tube to make it neat, so I made a jig and used a 0.9mm cutting disk.  it worked rather well!  just got to polish it now.

Also fitted new belts...  I have used the app on my phone before for tensioning and its very good. takes any guesswork out of it.   after fitting the belt on the horizontal cylinder I tensioned it using the app…  and on the vertical cylinder I tensioned it to the good old trusted method of twisting it 90 degrees on the longest run to what years of experience told me felt right…  when I checked it I was VERY close, which was quite pleasing.

[Mhanis]

That is a pretty cool guard!

Mark

[buzzer]

That is a pretty cool guard!

Mark

Thanks!


Sometimes it doesn't go to plan...  it would not start...  I spent a good few hours trying to understand why...   I had taken the tank off a few times to change things and had put a clamp on the fuel pipe....  and forgot!

[koko64]