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The
10/29/2010, 02:20 PM
What Is The $297.17 Ducati Screw? (http://jalopnik.com/5676509/what-is-the-29717-ducati-screw)

http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/12/2010/10/500x_very_special_screw.jpgOfficially listed in Pro Italia's catalog as "Ducati OEM Special Screw," what on earth could make a screw so special that it'd cost $300? Just as importantly, why do you need eight of them?
http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/12/2010/10/500x_special_schematic.jpg
Turns out the screw is needed to hold Ducati's race-spec engines together, specifically the 197 HP 989cc V4 of the Ducati Desmosedici RR MotoGP replica and the 1199cc v-twin of the $40,000 Ducati 1198 R.
The screw itself is made from heat-forged Japanese steel and bolts the connecting rods together and is a Ducati Corse item, which means it's a specially made factory hop up part.
Still thinking an Italian superbike might be an affordable entry into exotic motoring? [Pro Italia]

stoopified
10/29/2010, 02:23 PM
Okay,not mt idea of a $300 screw.

Oldnslo
10/29/2010, 02:23 PM
Getting bent over by mechanics is a Universal Truth.

Big 8
10/29/2010, 02:26 PM
That's about the going rate on Backpage and Craigslist.

yermom
10/29/2010, 02:26 PM
try making one cheaper ;)

jumperstop
10/29/2010, 02:27 PM
Cause where else you going to get it? There is no off brand...Dacuti?

bluedogok
10/29/2010, 10:17 PM
It's a part to a $70,000 race replica, what do you expect. A 1990 Chevy Cavalier (bought one year old for my sister for $4,500) would have cost about $100,000 if you priced every individual part by the GM parts catalog. Parts by themselves are awfully expensive.

olevetonahill
10/29/2010, 10:19 PM
Ive paid More than that ;)

GKeeper316
10/29/2010, 10:20 PM
its the same reason an ashtray in a sub costs 400 bucks

StoopTroup
10/29/2010, 10:34 PM
If you have the specs and can give some folks at a machine shop some info...you should be able to get one made. They can probably heat treat it to and maybe even make it out of a similar steel...but...your gonna have to do some leg work.

Did you break/strip one or lose one?

I see someone answered the ? in the link too.

GrapevineSooner
10/30/2010, 07:48 AM
I hope you get a free tub of KY with that purchase.

Breadburner
10/30/2010, 08:31 AM
Thats a Rod Bolt not a screw.....

Sooner Eclipse
10/30/2010, 08:54 AM
Getting bent over by mechanics is a Universal Truth.

I find this highly ironic coming from a lawyer.:D