Extended staycations, spare engines, and crazy ideas can result in potentially dangerous engineering. The old lawnmower chassis under this Suzuki engine was serving as a cheap dolly to facilitate moving the aluminum and steel lump from garage to swap meet. Standing six to eight hours at a swap meet is a long time, so on went the spare kart seat. A few more parts later, and the end result of this random prototyping caught our eye at a Goodguys Rod & Custom Association swap meet a while back. We were told the engine does in fact work. The rest is merely preliminary concept work for the ultimate riding edge trimmer. Or something. Now, if we could only figure out how to run a seven two-stroke leaf blower engines with compound turbochargers.
Wait. So the mower is powered by the Suzuki lump? Or is the mower still powered by the Toro/Briggs/Tecumseh it came with and we’re just thinking of fun ways to render oneself sterile in short order?
Love the idea, as it reminds me of those nutty barstool racers or coolers (ice chests) you can drive around at the track, and even my own recent resurrection of the 30-yr old Craftsman with which I earned my allowance as a kid (just mowed it’s first lawn in at least 15 years, actually). It’s far more reasonable than those blown, 350 lawn mowers and snow blowers, imo. Done properly (with a Suzuki GSXR engine, maybe), and a bit of attention to mower blade geometry and one might be able mow the lawn, then *fly* down the street to chat with a neighbor…
No plug wires to the outside plugs (or any other plug wires visible) so I doubt there’s any function to the Suzuki in regard to powering the mower. The starter’s been removed too; can’t imagine that’s an engine easy to start via pull starter.
Were it connected, I’d bet there might be just a leetle bit of wheelspin when giving it the gas… not that I’m complaining, mind you.