New Racing Gearbox announced for the 2023 V4R

Alf said:

FE, as in Final Edition? Final Edition of what I wonder--final edition R with a SSSA? Final Edition of the current generation Panigale? Certainly not final R ever made.

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SuperDomestique said:

Anything is possible. Just depends how much money you’d want to chuck at the problem.

You’d need to send your engine or split your case and send them the bottom end with gears across the pond. Considering it costs $75 to send a 4 lb package to Italy, you’ll be spending at least a few to several hundo just on shipping back and forth.

+ Shift drum selector and forks are the same from 2019-22 between all models
- When/how much is this new selector drum? And is Ducati putting together a kit that sorts out the electronics too

Ideally you could knock the pin (17) out releasing the shift forks and pull out the drum selector. I’m not sure that’s feasible since the forks would drop into the bottom end when the pins are removed and considering they specify sending crankcases (not sure why they specify both cases as you should be able to get away w the lower one and just use the gearbox install tool to hold everything in place).

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Hate to be a realist but I’d assume this would cost in the realm of $10k to do IF Ducati supplies the kit and more if you’d have Nova engineer a solution.

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RickD996 said:

I know this may make me look foolish, but I can't see the Ducati race sequence drum being big money (or, more money than the stock drum). It's, presumably, the same as the stock unit, just reordered? Or, at least the gears and selector forks are the same, and the drum would be different?
Plus, that pesky redesigned gear position sensor...

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KarlKani said:

How do you break down engineering marvels but then a seat makes you glitch?

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Paul G said:

The drum, sensor and flash will be cheap as chips, the stock drum for example is only a couple of hundred euro. The cost will be labour for those who cant spanner, and if there are any ancillary items such as lock out switches (if any) and their associated mechanical or electronic components if they cant be retrofitted easily. My thoughts are that for most riders i.e non-racers it's not a huge deal but if such a kit did become available and i was a serious track rider/racer I would definitely add it to the list of upgrades.

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KarlKani said:

SEAMLESS?
there will never be a production seamless gearbox in a motorcycle while we are on here chatting
this thread is about a WSBK style racing gearbox

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SuperDomestique said:

Because their DP by Akra exhaust is cheap haha! Slip on pipes are $4k?!?!! Full exhaust $8k… Ducatisti def drink the koolaid

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SuperDomestique said:

I concur.

If you want to know how much it’ll cost, Bruce is the only one w the goods

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KarlKani said:

SEAMLESS?
there will never be a production seamless gearbox in a motorcycle while we are on here chatting
this thread is about a WSBK style racing gearbox

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SuperDomestique said:

Corse drum and gears are 1700 euro. I still stand behind my $10k quote

https://www.forza-moto.com/en/p/3340+ducati-corse-close-ratio-gearbox-v4r-v4rs

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RickD996 said:

I think you'll only need the drum though? As the ratios aren't being changed, just the order of 1st and neutral. Plus, as some kind soul mentioned, an ECU flash (to swap the 1st and N GPS readings around).

That Corse gearbox, at €1700, sounds cheap!

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SuperDomestique said:

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To be fair you were kind of right on the sequential WSBK style as per that slide from the original po

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RickD996 said:

This forum has so much drama!

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RickD996 said:

This forum has so much drama!

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