V4s Build - From Start To Finish

Once again, goin balls out on the mods just like your previous Panigale lol

On a side note, your garage floors are the same color combo that mine is except i went with the race deck tiles instead of the diamond cut like yours. I still need to paint the walls same color as my proslat wall and finish clearing out the garage but I'm still settling in to the new place and doing work at the same time and dealing with my 5 month old. All work and no play here.

Incredibly detailed build, do you mind if I ask if its mainly for display or for riding?

double0 said:

Once again, goin balls out on the mods just like your previous Panigale lol

On a side note, your garage floors are the same color combo that mine is except i went with the race deck tiles instead of the diamond cut like yours. I still need to paint the walls same color as my proslat wall and finish clearing out the garage but I'm still settling in to the new place and doing work at the same time and dealing with my 5 month old. All work and no play here.

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Yeah. Love race deck tiles. I had to buy a few more for the new garage as I didn't have enough but 80% are now nine years old but just as good as the day I first fitted them. My kids have all grown up but I remember just how much hard work youngsters can be, so I sympathise with your situation!

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Paul G said:

Incredibly detailed build, do you mind if I ask if its mainly for display or for riding?

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It's going to be ridden just as soon as I can get it finished. I've been plagued with delays along the way, so I'm really looking forward to getting it on the road after a 2 & 1/2 year wait!!

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It will be worth the wait!

Seismic said:

Any additional details on the bar-end mirror you are going to use?

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See post #136 on the glass-less mirrors.

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Paul G said:

It will be worth the wait!

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Next on the list of jobs to do was to trial fit the new lower carbon belly panels from Peter Lieb. These have been patiently sitting in a box for the last two years.

The next stage is perhaps the most daunting which involves lining up the carbon panels with the lower fairings and securing them with masking tape, then drilling four holes in each fairing to accept the securing bolts. No margin for error here but thankfully the slots in the carbon panels line up with the correspondong tabs on the fairings, which make the process a little less nerve-wracking.

Every other hole in the panel needs to be drilled out in the fairing, the remaining tabs on the panels will be bonded to the fairings once they are permanently bolted in place.



Here are the panels and fairings bolted together






The next stage is to bolt the two halves together to drill out the two remaining holes for the front of the panels and then fit the heat shielding.

Here are the two halves bolted together. This allows you to drill out the two forward holes for the remaining retaining bolts. In the second image you can see the nuts/bolts in place.



And viewed from the other side.



Next the panels are split again to apply the heat shielding, as per Peter Lieb's instructions.





If you look at the DP lower fairings that Ducati supply for the Akrapovic full system, you will note by comparison, that these panels come provided with a LOT more heat-shielding on them than their plastic counterparts.



At this stage, the next step was to unbolt the carbon panels from the lower fairings, which are going back to the paintshop for their final modifications and will be reunited at a later date. In addition, the carbon panels will be having PPF film applied and the leading edges of the fairings (after paintwork) to protect against stone chips and I will also address bonding the non-drilled tabs of the carbon panels, once they are fitted for good. More on that in due course.

Estimated wet weight after completion?

Jolly Roger V4 said:

Estimated wet weight after completion?

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No idea JRV4. Weight was never a target with this project, though there will have been some significant reductions.

Tank and battery cover fitted for alignment checks by the painter, before they go back to the shop tomorrow for final paintwork to be done. I temporarily fitted the OEM upper side fairings to aid alignment.

Where can you buy those Peter Leib carbon belly panels? Great build!

Mojangle said:

Where can you buy those Peter Leib carbon belly panels? Great build!

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Thanks. For all things carbon (or at least if you want the best on the market) you can contact Peter here:

[email protected]

or call:

Telephone: (+49) 7577 7664 (Mo - Fr. 9.00-11.30 a.m. and 1.00-5.00 p.m.)

I didn't think I was that into watching these big build projects until a couple of you started posting this garage porn.
Suddenly feeling the urge to buy silicon coolant tubes and some CF parts that I really don't "need."

So I decided to replace the Evotech tail tidy with.......an Evotech tail tidy. Reason being the updated version has a much less cumbersome integration of the number plate light (Evotech incorporate their own one now, instead of using the OEM part) and the whole form factor of the assembly is considerably smaller and lighter than the Mk1 version (though as a concession to weight, some parts of it, such as the indicator stalks/spacers are now plastic instead of aluminium). If anyone is interested I am selling the original version (which has not seen the light of day/road since fitting it and is therefore as new).

Even the packaging is smaller than the previous incarnation.



Full kit laid out before assembly. Here you can see the supplied LED numberplate light. If I have one gripe it is that it doesn't come supplied with an OEM connector and you have to add on the additional lead (supplied in the kit) to make it compatible. There is a lot less room inside the casting to accommodate the wiring (unlike the older version), so this has to be tucked under the tail when you come to fit it to the bike.



Having connected the pig tail (supplied), I then heat shrank the connectors, before wrapping them in fabric tape (as used on the OEM loom on the bike)



Fully assembled and ready to fit



Just as a comparison, here is the original version.

I had one of the Evotech tails and the thing I hated about it was how the plate was sized for EU spec license plates. They give you these goofy awkward adapters which make the whole thing a train wreck to fit US plates.

I have the Rizoma tail tidy. It’s a tad longer than the evotech but includes both EU and US plate holders.


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Your OCD and attention to detail is amazing. How many hours do you think you will have put into this once it’s done? Has to be a couple hundred ?