| I've just had a 996S engine fitted to my 916 by Steve at Moto Rapido - It seems like this was pretty straightforward (apart from 3 hours to get a damaged swingarm pin out!)
The S engine needed sleeves for the mounting bolts as they are 10mm on the 916 and 12mm on the 996.
The throttle bodies came from the 916 but as Felix said, I think the 748 has smaller ones so you'll need to source some, airbox should be ok and you will need an oil cooler.
Only thing that doesn't work at the moment is the neutral light as Ducati changed the way this works between the 916 and 996 but it should be a fairly simple mod with a couple of wires. Besides, neutral is usually pretty easy to find and the old one used to lie anyway.
I have an FIM Ultimap chip so refuelling was just a matter of tweaking over a few dyno runs.
If you go for the S engine instead of an SPS you basically get the same engine but with the flywheel to suit your ECU instead of the P8 computer version.
Only other mod to mine was a Ferracci lightweight flywheel - the final dyno run measured 127.6bhp at the rear wheel which was a pleasant surprise to me, Steve and Wilf as we were expecting about 123.
The old 916bip engine made 106 at the wheel - the extra 20 horses is still making me smile! No more trouble getting past 600s I hope.  |