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Originally posted by ali
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Remember that the Battle of the Twins Ducatis were 900SS engines - a lot of them in 851 frames |
I remember! I came within a gnat's chuff of buying that little black lovely you ended up with. I love my SL, but that's a special bike and I was a fool not to have snapped it up! Ahhh, hindsight.....
My current dream bike would be a 1000ie engine (big bored to 1082 by Sigma, Testarossa heads, slightly lightened flywheel, FCR41s - about 106bhp) in an 888 chassis (Mag marchis, brembo billets + master/cyls, painted carbon, ohlins R&Ts, penske rear)...... sorry, I appear to have gone off into a dream... 
Ali |
106 Bhp? Is that all?
Bloo Duke is doing a smidge over 100 bhp on 944cc. At just over 100 bhp per 944, that's 0.106 bhp per cc. If you multiply that by 1082 you would be looking at 114 bhp and enough torque to pull up trees. That's assuming that you could maintain the same specific horsepower with the bigger engine, but I don't see why not - Nelly tells me the flow characteristics of those testarossa heads are good enough to feed a 650 cc cylinder, so it should still be flowing more than enough air for a 541 cc pot without getting breathless at the top end.
As for the rest of your bike, love the spec, it's nearly the same as mine so put some Galfer wavey's onto BST carbon wheels or Marvic Mag/Carbons on it and I'll buy it off you as soon as you've built it.