Big Motors In Small Vehicles... Mowers, Go Carts ETC...
Has anybody ever put a big motor in a small vehicle just for fun. My buddy and I have been watching videos on YouTube getting ideas. What we want to do is get a cheap mower/ go cart/ glof cart and mod it up a little. We found a go cart with a 440CC Artic snowmobile engine that runs, but needs work for $250 that we could use as a base. We also want to put a 400CC ATV engine in an old riding mower I have. Last year we put a 25 horse garden tractor engine in a 12 HP Crafstman mower. We want to go bigger now. Looking for some insight.
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400 in a ride on mower would be alot of fun,,i can imagine the speed wobbles now.
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My Dad & I took a welding class at the local high school and built a barstool racer as a project. We couldn't find a barstool to use, so the instructor gave us a broken school desk and we used the chair from it. No V8 though, but we did put a 12.5HP Briggs on it. Pretty fun.
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When I was a kid, we all made wooden go-karts to coast down the plentiful hills in our area.
Some entrprising youths strapped a motorcycle engine to theirs. I think it was a 50 or 80 cc out of the little Hondas that were super popular at the time.
I wasn't crazy enough to drive the thing, but it would fly!
And fly it did, right into a storm sewer "mouth" one day. Those are about 6" high by 3 feet long steel boxes built into the curbs of the streets in our neighborhood. Nobody hurt but the cart was reduced to splinters.
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I remodeled an old Bolens Husky rideing lawn mower that was junk.
A friend of mine that built raceing go cart engines built 7hp briggs
engine for me. I couldn't find a pully small enough to slow it down enough to cut grass so I put a bigger pully on the crank.
My wife clocked me at 40 mph on the road I lived on.
It had a recoil pull rope start and you had to ease it around to the
compression stroke to pull the rope or you would hurt your hand
when the compression jerked the rope out of your hand.
When I was a kid, we all made wooden go-karts to coast down the plentiful hills in our area.
Some entrprising youths strapped a motorcycle engine to theirs. I think it was a 50 or 80 cc out of the little Hondas that were super popular at the time.
I wasn't crazy enough to drive the thing, but it would fly!
And fly it did, right into a storm sewer "mouth" one day. Those are about 6" high by 3 feet long steel boxes built into the curbs of the streets in our neighborhood. Nobody hurt but the cart was reduced to splinters.
Two guys up the street from my Dad's house, transplanted a BSA 650 cc motorcycle engine into a go-kart, back in the '60s!!!!
One guy's Dad was a welder and had built the frame, then beefed it up to take the m/c engine.
Being a kid of 13 (at the time) I had no monetary interest in that beast, but, I'd ante up gasoline to drive it.
It was an absolute beast. Left foot - clutch. Right foot - gas and brake.
Left hand (down on the frame) - shifter. Right hand - hold onto steering wheel. . . really tight! (Kill switch under right thumb.)
Back then, the local police didn't 'cruise' our neighborhood very often.
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A friend of mine put a 426 hemi in a jeepster ragtop.It would pull a huge wheelie.The quickest go cart I ever saw had a 750 honda motor on it.It was all smoke off the line then it flew down the road
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Sort of off on a tangent, but we put a 50hp Mercury 4cyl outboard motor on a 12' ft boat rated for only 20hp................Talk about terror on water, almost uncontrollable, tried to swamp when coming down off the plane...........No one with enough guts to push it to full throttle.......Boat was retired with cracked transom, motor is still in use today.
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FORCE IT!,IF IT BREAKS IT NEEDED REPLACED ANYWAY!
IF IT CANT BE FIXED WITH A HAMMER, ITS A ELECTRICAL PROBLEM!
Still bitterly clinging to guns and religion.
Dave
Oregon Assistant Chapter Leader: To join the Oregon Chapter, click HERE
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