the shop

Man! The shop is packed again!! We're lacking a couple sets of pistons and both of the Triumph projects will be on the market. We still have the Sportster chop and it's been banged around the shop quite a bit. The paint job is what screwed us I think. If the sumbitch was flat black with wrapped pipes we'd have sold it. We've decided to take a pounding on it and let it go for around 3000.00 to get it out of here. The paint has quite a few dings in it now. Dale got his shovel done and it runs great! Jake and Dale made it out on the ice last week but I haven't had a chance yet.. This year we'll have my cart to play with too. Most of the frame and engine fabricating is done. I got a Kawasaki ATC rear end from a friend of mine. You can take it in and out of posi. We had a CB 175 engine complete tight down to wiring, cables, carbs, and pipes sitting on a shelf in the back room and that's what we've mounted. It has good compression and I've accumulated a couple boxes full of jap electrical shit and should have everything we need to wire it up. I even downloaded a wiring diagram but when I blew it up it became impossible to read so that is where we are at with that. I have the brake pretty much all taken care of and it's quite simple using the existing brake rods of both the cart and the rear end with a pivot point mounted to the frame. The sprockets were and issue as they were not even close in pitch and size, but I got that taken care of (I'll get some pics) The engine puts out 22 hp accourding to the specs I found on line. With the five speed gear box I expect is should go along quite nicely. Out at the ice track, you probaby would just use second and third gear because of the size of it. But....if I register it as an ATV I can blast it down along side of the road about a mile and hit the boat ramp on lake ST George at a pretty good clip. I ought to be able to find out just what it can do from the ramp to Marshall shores!