Hello ducati friends. I’ve been playing in shed again with my unique,unqualified mates. Just a thought. Reversed rear head on a bevel. Boucher.

Why does all this crazy stuff come from the land of OZ? What is in the water down there?

Amazing. I only wish I could find someone in the US who could, and would, do some of this kind of welding. Here they just tell me they cannot do it.

So, a Pantah type head on the front too? Tell us more.

MikeV

Hi mike, yep 800ss heads are being used. Boucher.

a Kevin Bracken rep ?

Yep a bevel. Just collecting parts. Boucher.

I'd try Dave Miller to do a reverse head. He's an amazing welder/fabricator.

Matt

Head progress. Boucher.

I’ve been playing around in the shed on the big bevel. As you can see I’ve cleaned up and seated the heads. I’ve managed to get hold of a veetwo bevel dry clutch. I’m going to run a plain metal bigend crank out of a ST2 ducati. I’ve up graded the oil system with a veetwo oil pump and made it full flow. (Kent’s idea out of blue lunatic fame). With my calculations I needed a conrod 151.5 mm eye to eye. 152mm =6” in the old scale. 6”= triumph T140 rods. Made new little end bushes and had the big ends slightly resized. The rods had to be thinned out on the bigend width. They are carrillo rods. Boucher.

This looks to be very exciting... And potentially hazardous!

Hazardous yes. I’ve managed to track down the proper forks they used on the veetwo alchemy all those years ago. WP 4054? Same forks that were used on the JPS norton rotary in the early 90’s. A bit more of the puzzle. Boucher.