hey all

[dropzone]

hello everybody Im a 43 yr old male from kentucky. I dont have or havent built a off road mower yet, I have one in the works its an old murry wide body with 12 hp briggs I\C. My current project is a golf cart. I put a briggs 16 hp opposed in it. Im a welder\mechanic mostley big rigs. I started mechanicing when I was really young (10-11yrs old) so I know my way around a shop. Hope to be able to help some of you out and hope to learn alot too.

[Chris]

I'm interested in your golf cart project. I have a 20HP opposed that I wanted to stick in my old '76 E-Z-Go

[dropzone]

It wasn't that hard just alot of fab work. I had to make a motor mount and lift the cart to make it work. I lifted the cart 12" then lowered it to about a 6" lift just seemed to be alittle unstable to be safe. the only mods to the motor are a 2 into 1 header and removed the Governor.  http://www.buggiesgonewild.com/ There's alot of info on the subject there. That thing has lots of torque. I used the stock driven clutch and belt I get about 35 mph, But that's not what I built it for. It;s for hunting and fishing so torque to pull a Jon boat is what I needed. Ill post some pics or you can go to buggies gone wild look for my build. It's under B\S 18 opposed in 91 G2. Its actually 16 hp I didn't know it at the time, the shop I got it from told me it was a 18. After I got it in the cart a rod started knocking so I rebuilt it thats when I ran the numbers and found out what it was. It was a fun build and there is still more to do. Tires and wheels are next.

[Chris]

Holy crap registering for that sight pissed me off. They need to fix their freaking captcha. I don't like how you have to register to view any pictures, that's annoying...

Anyway, in a golfcart setup like yours, I would have put a snowmobile engine in there! My cart uses a 250cc Subaru engine that runs backwards to propel the cart forwards, and it runs forwards to propel the cart backwards! So no snowmobile engine for me. I see you're lucky and have a horizontal shaft opposed. I have vertical shaft opposed engines, so I have to add a transmission to mine.

[dropzone]

Yea I looked into the snowmobil rout and found the briggs engine for cheeep so went that way. Yes I understand about having to registering to view pics and it was a hastle but I wanted to get some idea about the build. Why not try to find a yamaha G2 or G9 rear to transplant into your cart? They have a slider gear with the shifter on the front of the rearend that has 2 cables attachet to a selector leaver for forward and reverse. Then you can use about any engine you want.

[Chris]

I'd love to, but there's not golf cart "junkyards" up here in my neck of the woods, I'd have to order it off the internet.

I had a plan for the Opposed twin going to a Peerless 700 and a live axle; but I'm not sure a peerless 700 would appreciate having to move a 1-ton hunk of steel along with my fat butt

[Kaptain krunch]

If your golf cart uses the differential I'm thinking of, couldn't you just turn it around? like if the right wheel is facing right, make it face left?

[Chris]

Technically, yes. The problem with that is the gears would not get properly lubricated. It has a similar rear end to a car, just scaled down to size.

[dropzone]

I think the peerless would be ok. From what Ive read they are strong built. But thats just it I've only read up on them I don't have first hand experience. The racers sure do like them right? That would be the only cost effective way I can think of to make a vertical shaft work. If your not worried about reverse I would find a horizontal shaft engine and go for it. That would be the easyest rout.

[goatmower]

any headway on this?