Machined Clutch Casing
 

The machined open clutch casing (casing not clutch cover) on the corse bikes look great and expensive:(

Please can someone tell me if it is possible to get the standard item machined? If so is it expensive:puzzled:

Is there any downside to fitting this to a road bike?

both my 890 and baby R have machined primary casings,not sure of total cost because both were done during full rebuilds,i think the machining costs were about £80 ish
Butch

Contact Neil748R; he's done it for his own bike and a couple of others and is very happy with it. He's a perfectionist so it must look good!

Downside is a lot more crud to get into the clutch

upside is a lot more dust can get out :P

JHP used to do an exchange. I remember paying £60 some two years ago.

As to crud... well I guess you let crud out (have you seen the inside of closed cover?) as well as risk crud in. However, I ran a 996 for over 20K miles with a machined casing and had no problems. It is arguable whether it is worse than a vented clutch cover. I am not sure it matters. It looks good and will ventilate the clutch better.

I was thinking of doing this over the winter to my 749.

Anyone got a decent pic of a machined casing ?

True, but lets say you hit the gravel trap;)

there are lots of what if's on track.
like what if some plonk takes you out your bike flips 10 times and ends up in a pile of bits the other side of the track then catches fire.
I don't tend to think about these possibilities that much.
maybe I should maybe I shouldn't :eureka:
:P

The clutch cover on Logyk's FWR 888 is machined...there is a pic in the 13th post down on this link here

[Edited on 9-11-2005 by Jools]