Project Frankenstein Racemower

I just repainted Project Frankenstein, so here are the before and after pictures.



Before.






After.

Nice, whats up with the steering wheel?

The steering wheel is two fourwheeler chains that I welded up and I melted the center out of the stock plastic steering wheel and welded it in the center of the chain steering wheel.

That steering wheel is bad ass. How did you make sure it was circle?

Looks great now in black!

Thanks, used the rim of a 12 in subwoofer to hold the chain in a circle and then i tack welded it and removed it from the sub and finished welding it up. And the paint job was just 2 cans 0f 0.99 cent spray paint from lowes with a 3.00 dollar can of clear coat.

Hey Thunderdivine, would it be a good idea to put my engine in sideways because when i put my front axle on top of the frame to lower it took up too much space to put it in normally.

Can't do that because the steering rod is in the way.

Would I have to get special permission to stencil "ATLTF.COM" on to my race mower?

chevy8988 wrote:

Can't do that because the steering rod is in the way.

Well then just go for it sideways

chevy8988 wrote:

Would I have to get special permission to stencil "ATLTF.COM" on to my race mower?

And ofcourse not.

Ok

Would it be a good idea to use a small pushmower engine for this project? It shouldn't need much power for the lightweight chassis.

I Would say go for it as long as it is 6hp or more, and that would definitely cut down on fuel cost and weight!

Ok

I finally got around to doing some work on the race mower. Different tires on the rear, and rebuilt custom steering wheel. Im takin the dana spicer 5 speed out of the offroad mower to put into the race mower along with the 17.5 hp OHV from the offroad mower. The offroad mower is gonna be used for parts becuase I dont have time for two projects at once.


Non working pictures removed- Willis923 3/2/2015

sorry bout the missin photos sometin messed up on my photobucket account and they were deleted

I wont be able to post pictures for a while but i finally got the racemower running all that left is theshift linkage.

Im finally almost done with the racemower i just need to make some belt retainers. this thing probably does about 20 with the current pulley ratio, not sure what the sizes are, i will eventually swap it to go faster, hoping for 40-45. it has already tried to kill me multiple times during test drives and i have crashed it twice.


Modifications since the last post i made:
-rims
-tires
-transaxle(now a spicer 5 speed)
-6.5 hp predator 173cc engine
-custom belt system
-new steering wheel
-paint
-vise grip shifter

looking good so far vise grip shifter adds a nice touch

thanks

Here is a picture of the race mower and my new mud mower project as they currently look. Tell me what you think of them and I'm open to ideas if you got some.