Monday, 11 July 2011

A few more pics

As well as using many parts unique to the 749RS, the little bike shares many parts with the 999RS.




Motors are marked like the 998RS, 999RS and 1098RS with F04, F05 etc to denote the year of manufacture (2004, 2005 etc.) and a serial number: 05 in this case and 007 in the lower picture. The teams would log hours against a motor and rebuild with new engine cases after 400km, although, since many Corse cases are sandcast and stronger than production cases, their life may be prolonged by limiting revs to 11,000 rather than the race 14,500.





Inside the motor, there is a mixture of R and RS parts. The gearbox is Ducati Corse, just like the 998RS, 999RS and 1098RS. The crank, rods and pistons are production R, as are the The rockers and (titanium) valves. The cams have identical lift compared to the road bike, but have far greater duration. The heads are 4-way CNC machined. At the time, there were very few 4-way CNC machines in Europe that could create the very accurate 


The flywheel is identical to the 999RS item and is massively lightened. The alternator is much smaller than the road item, needing to produce less power than the road item. Again, it is 999RS.





This bellypan is interesting. The sponsors logos indicate that it was used in 2006. 


Inside the fairing, it is possible to make out Nannellis name above the heatshielding, but in the bottom corner, the tam has written Easton. This bike was built by Carrachi for Nannelli in '06, but when Chili crashed in WSB, Nannelli went to World Supers and Stuart Easton took Nannellis seat on this bike.










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