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Here's the story... Apparently in my recent crash, a piece of metal got sucked into the front cylinder of my 996. As I pieced the bike back together, I was unaware of any engine damage and proceeded to ride about 300 miles before the remnants of this piece of metal finally shorted the spark plug, and prevented the bike from running.
Teardown went pretty smooth, and the damage was limited to one slightly bent intake valve and some shallow dents speckled across the piston face and combustion chamber of the head. Also, upon teardown, I found a few flaking rockers, but seeing as this is a fairly common problem, I doubt its related.
As I rebuild the motor, I plan on having all the opening rockers resurfaced by MBP, replacing the bent valve with OEM, installing VeeTwo adjustable cam pulleys, FBF hi-comp pistons, and setting the squish.
Now for the questions... I talked to my local dealer and they do not know where to get the cylinder base gaskets in various sizes other than stock. Apparently, the Ducati Performance gaskets have been long since discontinued.
1. Where can I get the needed base gaskets to set the squish on my 996?
2. What is the prefered squish measurement for a bike ridden mostly on the street, with occasional track days?
3. Is there a magic base gasket thickness that I need?
4. Will the FBF pistons change the base gasket thickness needed to properly set squish?
5. When setting the timing with the VeeTwo cam pulleys, what is the recommended advance/retard for the intake and exhaust?
As a side note, the bike is a 2000 996 BiPosto and the only current engine mods are Termi 45/50 half system and PCIIIUSB. I have access to a dyno and full mapping capabilities, but it ain't cheap so I would prefer to run it once as opposed to run it, change it, run it, change it, etc...
Sorry for such a long post and thanks for the help.
Teardown went pretty smooth, and the damage was limited to one slightly bent intake valve and some shallow dents speckled across the piston face and combustion chamber of the head. Also, upon teardown, I found a few flaking rockers, but seeing as this is a fairly common problem, I doubt its related.
As I rebuild the motor, I plan on having all the opening rockers resurfaced by MBP, replacing the bent valve with OEM, installing VeeTwo adjustable cam pulleys, FBF hi-comp pistons, and setting the squish.
Now for the questions... I talked to my local dealer and they do not know where to get the cylinder base gaskets in various sizes other than stock. Apparently, the Ducati Performance gaskets have been long since discontinued.
1. Where can I get the needed base gaskets to set the squish on my 996?
2. What is the prefered squish measurement for a bike ridden mostly on the street, with occasional track days?
3. Is there a magic base gasket thickness that I need?
4. Will the FBF pistons change the base gasket thickness needed to properly set squish?
5. When setting the timing with the VeeTwo cam pulleys, what is the recommended advance/retard for the intake and exhaust?
As a side note, the bike is a 2000 996 BiPosto and the only current engine mods are Termi 45/50 half system and PCIIIUSB. I have access to a dyno and full mapping capabilities, but it ain't cheap so I would prefer to run it once as opposed to run it, change it, run it, change it, etc...
Sorry for such a long post and thanks for the help.