looking at a 1200 Sport which hasn’t been rollerised. My local MG dealer tells me that they have been told by Piagio that NO Sports ever failed! Does anybody know of a Sport that failed? The kit for the conversion is no longer available. Thank you.
Copied from v11lemans.com - With one notable exception all 8V’s changed over to roller tappets and cams by the middle of 2012. The factory’s engine numbers for the changeover point are listed as;
Stelvio- Motor#AC12596 Build Date 12 March 2012
GRiSO - Motor#A813524 Build Date 12 April 2012
Norge - Motor#AA12214 Build Date 18 April 2012
The exception to this is 1200 Sports, none of which were ever made with roller engines at the factory. It’s my belief that this is because the last of them were built before the advent of the roller top end and although they continued to be sold and plated as ‘Current model’ up until at least 2015 in the Australian market they were in fact ‘New Old Stock’ manufactured prior to rollers.
Thanks, yes was my understanding too. Actually phoned the dealer to ask about getting it rollerised and said there are no kits available (type c) from Piagio. Dealer also seemed sceptical about Piagios response on the Sport.
Yes my sport started to fail, caught just in time. That was about 17k miles.
Thanks Brian, just not with The risk