996 with a 999 swingarm
 

Only just seen this on a USA forum from sometime ago too, so the original is probably long gone and all I can find is the pictures.

However, I'm impressed - a lot of work for what I'm guessing is only a marginal improvement over the original but it looks good:

Makes it look like a cagiva mito. Not my bag, now a 1098 swingarm.. That would look good.

You wouldn't draw a set of specs on the Mona Lisa 'cos you thought she might be squinting a bit...........would you?

Ducati did experiment with a double sided arm on the wsbk machines in Foggy's day but didn't feel the need to go down that route. The single sider didn't stop them winning a boat load of races and titles spread over a decade.

What next, a 999 bodykit on a multistrada?..............hmm maybe that would be an improvement:lol:

Ray.

A fairly cheap way of getting a Corse length arm as the 999 arm is the same length as the Mag arms for the 748 to 998 series

I see they didn't make use of the speed sensor fitment

Why would anyone fit a beautiful thing like a T9 swingarm in old piece of carp like a 996?:rolleyes:

Blimey I was going to do that to my race bike - reason being it's easier to set the suspension up when you change the rear sprocket, you don't have the calculate the ride height due to arc change of the hub.

It would have looked better with the later type arm.As it is,i don't like it!

That arm does look very small with so much space around it!
I'm not a fan of that. The single-sider was one of the best features of the 916 line.

That's quite interesting that ... not for a 996 (looks ugly) but I am thinking about doing a project with a Multistrada engine / 996 chassis and I would want the late 749/999 swingarm. Looks like it could be a straightforward fit then.

Does anybody know how straightforward or not the fit would be around the swingarm mounting points?
Multistrada engine should be OK to fit with the 748/996 frame (as it uses pretty much the same swinger as standard)
I don't know though how a 749/999 swinger would fit in a 748/999 frame though.

I would assume that much complexity would be thrown in around the exhaust though. Most definitely a custom jobbie that would have to be.

Was also considering the Aprilia Mille swingarm. Does anybody know how straighforward the fit would be with one of those?? I would think that the whole suspension linkage would be affected so not too keen on the option anymore

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This is the one that I like - the attention to detail is superb and the pictures tell a great story:
http://www.ducatisti.co.uk/forum/duc...ect-748-a.html

Pics and the engineering are fanstatic. Love the bike.

here is the one that ducati tested with foggy

That Foggy bike is weird - the pipes are all wrong as well!

Didn't someone on here have a version of that bike, not sure if it was MarioP or someone else

Yes, I shared a garage with him at Silverstone a few years back, somewhere at home I have some photos of the machine - believe it had started life as a test hack for the 999, he was running it with 996 bodywork but still with the 999 swingarm

Ducati Kaemna has done something similar based on the 1000ds engine, with a 999 swingarm and modified frame. Check them out:











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And some more info about the bike here: http://www.ducati-kaemna.de/cms_en/t...ple.htm?&ct=47

Nice looking bike.

Wow,that Kaemna bike is bloody gorgeous!:cool:

Yeah I knew about that one. You can pretty much buy it all as a kit and it is very much cheaper than the Pierobon or the NCR Milona.
Still I would like to find something a little more straightforward to get together and got quite a few parts already as left overs from other projects.

I know some guy that did fit a 900ss engine to a 916 chassis / swingarm. He actually rebuilt the 900ss engine into 748 cases. The rest was a straight built.

I have to say the http://www.ducati-kaemna.de/cms_en/t...ple.htm?&ct=47 bike looks, another good looking bike is the
altoperformance.com bike. Running a ST3 with 97BHP+ at rear wheel.