quad/racing lawnmower/snowmobile build

so our shop was asked to participe in a charity/drinking event this coming saturday... we have to build a racing lawnmower to do an oval race, drag, and tug-a-war... so we have been putting in some time to get it rocking after we close up every day... figured since it is a cool ass project i would share some pics... we started this on monday and have to race it on Saturday

started out with a lawnmower and an old enticer i had laying around... my aunt actually bought this brand new in the 70's hahaha





from there we started on the rear end used a carrier out of a raptor 660 and took some alum stock and tapped it as well as added bracing and welded it up




then for the carrier main beam support






shaved the wells


rear end test fit (rear axle and sprocket from 660) wheels are off a yamaha quad and some old tires we had around the shop


then pulled the sled motor and dropped it in for mock up


rebuilt the carb


front axel and spindalls out of a golf cart


we have a roller

mock up wiht hood


we are naming the quad smokin' grass so of course we had to toss some green powder into it


this vintage secondary opens rev to normal so we had to work on mocking that up
... welded a sprocket to it, then tacked up a brace to get our alignment





















shot of the carrier/rear in the cart




cut and re welded on the spindall arms for the tie rods


more bracing

That's badass cant wait to see it finished

to get the motor as low as possible the deck had to be modded... and the secondary clearanced


next we clearanced the deck to slam the motor and built the motor mounts











mock up






and that is where we are so far!

dude that things f ing sick

I love these pics on IG

that's just Bad Ass!

That's freakin awesome. It's gonna RIP!

bit more bracing and the gas tank is mounted... rubber mounted at that!

busted our asses fri night so that we where able to make race day saturday... got it done!

















and race day was awesome!!!

















even took home the W... not bad for a 4-5 day build

she would move around the track very very well... topped out around 60 in the straits... was a blast to ride!

Dude that is awesome!


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we took a ton of go pro vids ill load them when i can

JRK5892 said:

we took a ton of go pro vids ill load them when i can

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Thats sweet man cant wait to see the vids!

jeffsyfm350x said:

Thats sweet man cant wait to see the vids!

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X2!

Badass! That's super cool!

****** great stuff right there!

hahaha thanks guys it RIPS! we are doing a bunch of smaller changes, and prob going to upgrade the primary spring so we can launch better... but here are a few more pics







even dad took it for a rip...funny thing is he was with my aunt when they bought the snowmobile we used for this build when they bought it new in the 70's! hahaha




my mom and daughter


my busn partner Tim (our mad man welder) and his lady... she dominated the all ladies race

I love that thing lmao! Does it pull the wheels off the ground?

Pure Americanna!