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Engine swap time

topic posted Fri, March 14, 2008 - 8:56 PM by  Steamboat Ed
Hoping to up-engine my art car to something less wimpy than the 1-cylinder 150cc engine it's running now. Looking for advice on how to go about it. Extra hands a plus! The goal is to produce something with enough oomph to haul a small people-barge, as that seems to be a requirement now at the DMV...
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    Re: Engine swap time

    Tue, May 6, 2008 - 1:44 AM
    hey steamboat,

    it was good meeting you at the maker's fair.
    here's the website for the company that makes engine adapters that i told you about.

    www.kennedyeng.com/

    they don't list geo motor adapters online, but i think my old catalog had them listed. it's worth a call and they seemed like friendly people.
    let me know if they can't help you out, as i have a few engines laying about that were on their list. they just would all be bigger and more of a pain in the ass to implement.

    good luck,
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      Re: Engine swap time

      Fri, May 9, 2008 - 9:32 AM
      Thanks for the link! Yeah, it would be kewl to use an 'ordinary' engine like a VW, as opposed to the wimpy little thing I'm using now. Good meeting you at the Faire too!
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        Re: Engine swap time

        Mon, July 14, 2008 - 7:04 PM
        Update: had a chance to get my paws on a Honda Odyssey, vintage '84 with a 350cc engine so da plan now is to leave the Chinese kart as is, then mutate the Japanese one into something ...innnteresting. I had my heart set on a paddlewheel steamboat but a pal suggested I make it look like some kind of 'cruise ship' complete with mini swimming pool, hehe.
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          Re: Engine swap time

          Mon, July 14, 2008 - 8:02 PM
          let me know if you go with a paddleboat steamer. a couple of years ago some friends and i worked out how to get the padlewheel to operate so that it looked like it was actually driving the boat. sadly, my friends took a job in LA before we could build the "Playa Queen". it still sounds like a great project to me though.
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