Ducati Sporting Club UK > Model Specific - Discussion, Technical Problems and Help > 998 / 996 / 916 / 748 > disc carriers.

[adam]

just had a look at my forks and you are correct tony, just matched up the PFM disc and the standard one, the PFM has a deeper dish. like you said tony fork bottoms machined out, new bottoms or new disc/carriers. Bl**dy hell. How much are Fork bottoms?

[bolds]

Don't think the bottoms are normally available seperately but Ducati Coventry (John Hackett) has done a lot of radial conversions so he may have some that have been replaced.
Its worth a try

[keefer]

or just get your ones machined and have some spacers made up at the same time.
then you can run what you want

[adam]

ahhh man cant go through the grief of taking the forks out, got to try and get different carriers.. boo hoo

[adam]

any idea of price for having the caliper mounting points machined?

[Felix]

Flog your discs on Ebay and the proper stuff. Don't bodge it!

[keefer]

nothing bodged about having them properly machined.
not saying get out there with your dremal.
and any way as is already mentioned the 748 and 998 R have it done.
only thing is it wont then be original.
don't know how much to get it done, best look in the yellow pages and ask for a few quotes, depends which is cheaper new carriers or CNC milling ?

Had a similar problem with a rather Gucci set of discs I managed to get my hands on that I wanted fitting to my Senna. Long story short the bike went to Pete @ http://www.panda-engineering.co.uk/ and he machined @ 3 mm off each side of the Marchesini, 2.8mm off back of carrier, re machined the carrier holes to correct ‘pattern’ and then @ 2mm off the callipers…..hey presto some awesome brakes on std. callipers……….mmmmm std. callipers maybe some new ones needed, what you think Nelly?