Whats That Engine

[Shane284]

ID. this Australian mower engine

Hey guys
I'm new to the community but have been browsing this forum for over 6 months now and recently got myself an engine from a lawn mower. I was wondering if anyone could help me identify exactly what engine it is that I have, I think its a victa engine but that's all i know. Any help would be appreciated, pictures can be seen below

Thanks guys

 

[anderkart]

I dont recognise it. Are you from Oz. by any chance? (we've got a few guys from Oz. here on this forum that might know) I was thinking you might get a better response by editing the title of this thread to something like:
ID. this Australian mower engine

 

[Shane284]

Hey there, yes I am from Australia. Thanks for the tip, hopefully I'll attract the right kinda people to my thread now

I think it could be a Victa SSS 201B, that's the model number although when I google it I get hardly any relative hits at all so I'm in doubt if that's right, maybe some reassurance from someone with experience would convince me heh.

The serial number is 1624 107 if that's of any use.

 

[sideways]

It's got a Victa Power Torque engine, which is basically what all 2 stroke Victa mowers have had for the last 30 years, the only real changes being in the ignition system and the exhaust port (yours is quite a late model one though). Its half crank and you will have to machine your own adapter to be able to put it on a kart, or really anything but a mower, no one really bothers with these motors except for die hard Victa fans like me .

It looks like it would clean up pretty well, you could probably sell it for at least $80, $100+ with the right buyer.

The Victas we normally use on karts are the older ones with a round cylinder head, their full crank and thus much stronger, you can buy adapters to fit clutches onto them too. My advice, sell the power torque and get your self a older Victa and an adapter and spend the rest on your kart .

I'l post more on the adapter and how to get one tomorrow, I can post pics/info of the older version of the Victa motor if you need it too.

Hayden

 

[Shane284]

Wow, thank you Hayden, very informative I might consider selling it if I can fix it to a good enough condition to be sold. Didn't know they went for that much, I grabbed this one for $20.


I'm not to familiar with adapters but I'll look into them any info on them would be helpful and appreciated.

By the sounds of it, full crank is the way to go then. Maybe if you could just mention a few names of Victa motors you would recommend for using on a kart or if you think pictures would be more easier that would be great too.

Thanks again,
Shane

 

[sideways]

Wow, thank you Hayden, very informative I might consider selling it if I can fix it to a good enough condition to be sold. Didn't know they went for that much, I grabbed this one for $20.


I'm not to familiar with adapters but I'll look into them any info on them would be helpful and appreciated.

By the sounds of it, full crank is the way to go then. Maybe if you could just mention a few names of Victa motors you would recommend for using on a kart or if you think pictures would be more easier that would be great too.

Thanks again,
Shane

Your mower probably isn't much more than 10 years old, so its still worth quite a bit, you can make quite abit of money buying cheap mowers or getting ones from the tip, cleaning them up and selling them for several times what you payed for them, of cousre, I keep mine though .

Here's a link to the website with the adapters, click on CLL-ECP and that will bring up the catolouge, its on there about 3/4 of the way down. They cost $44 from memory, I've never bought one but a couple of people on the forum have. The adapters only fit the older style motors, not power torques. Basically you just go to your local mower/small engines shop and they'll order one in for you.

In your other thread I posted a link to a thread I typed, Its got some pictures of old victa engines in it, they are the older style ones, theres tons of models of them, they used most of the names again on mowers with the power torque and thier so old the the stickers have usually fallen off or faded so much you can read them. The easy ways of identifying full crank engines are:

They have a round cylinder head, power torques heads are square.

They have the flywheel on top of the engine, power torques flywheels are on the bottom.

Their block is cast aluminium and they have a cast iron cylinder which is removable, power torques are cast iron and the cylinder is cast into the block.

They have a different style muffler, power torques all had the same muffler (well to my knowledge anyway), the older ones have many, many different styles.

Thanks

Hayden

 

[Shane284]

Sounds like a good profitable hobby that I could attempt but for now I think I'll get a chassis built up and worry bout the engine later, It works so that's a good start, If I go for more power or find no way of transferring the power to the wheels then I'll get a new engine.

I had a bit of trouble finding the picture of the adapter on that website, I've gone 3/4 of the way down, not sure what I'm looking for either since I've never seen one.

I saw that link in my other post, It was great I now have a good idea of what I will need to get. Thanks for all the information, it was very helpful. Ill keep my eye out for a motor with those characteristics and hopefully get something great for my Kart

Thanks Hayden,
Shane

 

[sideways]

Sounds like a good profitable hobby that I could attempt but for now I think I'll get a chassis built up and worry bout the engine later, It works so that's a good start, If I go for more power or find no way of transferring the power to the wheels then I'll get a new engine.

I had a bit of trouble finding the picture of the adapter on that website, I've gone 3/4 of the way down, not sure what I'm looking for either since I've never seen one.

I saw that link in my other post, It was great I now have a good idea of what I will need to get. Thanks for all the information, it was very helpful. Ill keep my eye out for a motor with those characteristics and hopefully get something great for my Kart

Thanks Hayden,
Shane

Thats okay, I'm happy to help .

The adapters about a 1/4 of the way down sorry, just below the centrifugal clutches, sorry, my bad lol.

What kind of kart are you building? On road? Off road? Post a build thread!

Thanks

Hayden

 

[Shane284]

Oh ok no worries, I think I've found them, that's a picture of them down below?

I'm thinking of an off road kart. Yeh I'll post a build thread once I have some steel to work with and some designs that I can show off to people heh.

Thanks for the help

Shane