TractorDude
Too cheap for karts
Hi DIY Karts!
Thought I'd share my current project as my first thread here!
It is a little 196X Rugg Carpet cut that I found, in a barn, rusting away and seized. Dug it out of the barn and immediately thought "this needs to go fast!.. REALLY fast!" I junked the worn out and seized briggs 5 horse flathead and dropped in a lawnboy Duraforce 6.5hp engine. I swapped the pulley ratio and pretty much rode it liek that for a while, it could top out at some pretty scary speeds but it had no torque (untuned, unmodified 2-stroke, no big surprise here) So I acquired a nearly brand new 7hp briggs intek (aftermarket animal cam anybody?) OHV push mower engine and dropped it in... and holy torque! I was keeping up with cars in second gear with 1/4 throttle! (3 speed manual) Well, on the last run I broke the inner shaft that goes from the diff to the right wheel and lost the wheel while I was pulling up my driveway, and I wore out the bearingless sleeve on the transmission. For right now, all I have are some older videos of it and pictures. Once I get some more work done I will keep you guys up to date in this thread Hope you like!
~TractorDude
Youtube account with 4 vids of it so far: http://www.youtube.com/user/crywolfe210
Pics are of when I got it and now.
Thought I'd share my current project as my first thread here!
It is a little 196X Rugg Carpet cut that I found, in a barn, rusting away and seized. Dug it out of the barn and immediately thought "this needs to go fast!.. REALLY fast!" I junked the worn out and seized briggs 5 horse flathead and dropped in a lawnboy Duraforce 6.5hp engine. I swapped the pulley ratio and pretty much rode it liek that for a while, it could top out at some pretty scary speeds but it had no torque (untuned, unmodified 2-stroke, no big surprise here) So I acquired a nearly brand new 7hp briggs intek (aftermarket animal cam anybody?
) OHV push mower engine and dropped it in... and holy torque! I was keeping up with cars in second gear with 1/4 throttle! (3 speed manual) Well, on the last run I broke the inner shaft that goes from the diff to the right wheel and lost the wheel while I was pulling up my driveway, and I wore out the bearingless sleeve on the transmission. For right now, all I have are some older videos of it and pictures. Once I get some more work done I will keep you guys up to date in this thread Hope you like!~TractorDude
Youtube account with 4 vids of it so far: http://www.youtube.com/user/crywolfe210
Pics are of when I got it and now.
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We are finishing up the steering, got linkages going over the engine due to the size difference of the vanguard compared to the push mower engines 
