Ducati
Ducati Streetfighter ECU remap for lambda switch-off
This customer bought his Ducati Streetfighter in with a Power Commander already fitted, and a snatchy throttle response. He’s sorting his bike out in stages, and wanted the lambda sensor switching off, which is all we did via the ECU and the stock map. We rode the bike afterwards, but weren’t really happy with the [...]
Ducati 888 cam belt swap
People do worry about what can go wrong with Ducatis – especially older ones like this 888 – but a lot of the time their fears are unfounded. The big issues, on a bike like this which is used fairly regularly, is to keep on top of changing the oil and filter, and to have [...]
Ducati 916 Power Commander fit and set-up
The chap who owns this Ducati 916 also has a 999S, but prefers this model for trackdays, so bought it over the winter. He’d rebuilt the engine, and wanted us to fit and set-up a Power Commander on the Dyno (these older Dukes really need PCs, as the ECU map is not really quite so [...]
Ducati S2 1000R Monster(s) full ECU remap and Dyno set-up
A brace of Ducati S2 1000R Monsters bought up from London, by two competitive riding mates. Both were in for full ECU remapping and Dyno set-up, but were set up differently, one with Arrow cans and the other with Mivv. As yet we’ve never seen a Mivv system make any gains or work well in [...]
Ducati 1098S Cordona PQ8 quickshifter fit and suspension sort-out
This Ducati 1098S is owned by a regular customer of ours, and he bought it in recently for some work; he’d purchased a Cordona PQ8 quickshifter from us (for an old carb’d Yamaha R1) a while ago, and wanted it swapping onto his Ducati that he’s not long had. This is a relatively straightforward job [...]
2010 Ducati 848 service
A year old Ducati 848, with only 3,000 miles on the clock; because of its age (!) the Ducati dealer was insisting upon a valve clearance check as part of its service, which obviously is expensive. From our perspective the mileage does not dictate that this bike needed its valves checking, so we did an [...]
Ducati 1098 Cordona PQ8 Quickshifter fit
The Ducati Performance Quickshifter is not a popular fitment these days to bikes like this 1098; it’s got some tricky set-up issues that interfere with the pick- up, and we’ve had Ducati dealers phone us for help with bikes with broken gearboxes due to the Quickshifter (so if you’re using one, be careful…). We fitted [...]
Ducati 848 side stand modification and ride-height adjuster
A Ducati 848 owned by one careful lady owner – with a penchant for trackdays! She bought it in because she was having problems getting the sidestand down when she was sitting on it, and swinging her leg over the seat was not really on the cards. We added an extension piece to the sidestand [...]
MCN longterm Ducati Diavel
MCN bought their longterm Ducati Diavel, newly fitted with a full Termi’ system and Ducati re-flashed ECU for Dyno testing recently; in all fairness nobody was too impressed, as the engine showed only a marginal gain over stock – it seems the generic Ducati map is very average to say the least. It has to [...]
Visordown’s Ducati 848 Challenge race bike
Ben Cope of Visordown bought his Ducati 848 Challenge race bike in for a fettle recently; as it came in it was putting out 123bhp at the rear wheel, well shy of what it should and could for the class. We optimised the squish in the cylinder heads. dialled in the cams, fitted a 70mm [...]
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2010 Triumph Sprint ECU Reprogram
The issues with this bike mainly concern power and power delivery off the bottom especially two-up. It’s been back to the dealer and had the latest factory tune, but the owner wants a little more. First job? Isolate the Lambda sensor and cap off the emissions unit. The bike was then put on the Dyno and we reprogrammed the stock ECU; fuelling at the bottom end has been richened up, taking away the ‘hunting’ snatchiness. Fuelling all the way through the rev range has been optimized and the ignition curve trimmed.
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2009 Yamaha R1 Road to Race
To upgrade to race spec we’ve fitted an Öhlins rear shock and MCT have modded the front forks. The engine’s been out and we’ve adjusted the cam timing, ported and skimmed the cylinder head and we’re fitting a set of BSD Performance adjustable bellmouths. It’s also having a YEC race loom and ECU, plus quickshifter.
