Ian

Morning all, yesterday Nigel and I started to strip down the Cushman after a quick test drive of course Tipping bed off.. A nice beefy hydraulic ram The front panels coming off, way more wiring than we were expecting! The prize, well part of it... A OMC 23hp flat twin with lot's of ally for Nigel to polish

Nice work John, you have the "look" just right Keep us updated on the progress as it's a cool build and it will help with Norm's ideas

Mines a bed for two As Koen says, it's too JCB The dirt drag racing is fun to watch, I'm going to have to stretch it by a few inches anyway to get the engine in. It does and I'm not painting the quad yellow That's more like it Paul I think maybe simply "Hold on" or even HYGLI.... "Have you got life insurance?" It hasn't taken long to tear into this project, the bodywork soon came off.. With the aid of a Nigel, a Rex and a scaffold board the V twin was soon on the bench to see how much work is ahead. Hhmmm, it looks quite a bit bigger than the original 230cc lump! So... Out come the small engine followed by a few slices to the frame. The quad now looks very "Mad Max" with the parts roughly piled in place Sorry for the blurred photo, with the wheel under the engine swapped for a small trolley I could prop the parts at more of the correct height. The bottom two tubes need to be level to line things up.. The engine will hang a bit lower than the original but not by much.. Now this is where Honda had thought ahead for me and decided it would be a good idea if their quad engine had the same splines on the gearbox as a CX500 bike engine Thank you Honda for making life easy for me A quick silly photo with one of the first WN exhausts bolted on Honda put the quad exhaust can about here, but as I have two cylinders and two of these cans it makes sense to put one each side And of course with every build comes videos.. So here's the first... Enjoy

Looks like your in for a fun weekend guy's, fingers crossed the weather will be good to you

Your soon have it up and water tight. Are you adding insulation and boarding it out inside?

Thanks for all the great comments guy's, yes it was a very relaxed day apart from when I did a couple of "demonstrations" in the arena I couldn't agree more, I'd of loved to of taken it home Slightly off topic but I thought I'd show you this Norm

Stunning, just stunning.. That's a fantastic job Ewan

Well?????? Who won the race?

You have been busy Chris.. Did you find any WH's you had forgot you owned buried in the back of the workshop?

That's a fun way to spend the day The video was nicely filmed and edited too

Thanks James. The quad is a FourTrax but I'm putting a 500 engine in.. Ok, I may have to think up a better name for this project. You got that right Norm It's not my fault you have been walking past it countless times a day and not really noticed it After a lot of faffing about yesterday the quad was dragged out from it's hiding place under a pile of racing mower parts and put on my bench.. It could of gone easier as the quad would only roll backwards but we got there in the end. The offending engine, it looks quite small for a 250cc.. To make it easier to get around the quad a chopped a foot of the bottom of the bench legs and Nigel welded these massive caster wheels on.. The bench is now easy to move, turn around or even push outside should I feel the urge to work in the sun

It would seem that somehow today I managed to buy one of these with a shot engine (not this one) late this afternoon... Well, I needed somewhere to put the spare CX500 engine I have

This weekend was the Brenzett Bygones Show. Nigel and I had hoped to go for both days but WN was not running until Saturday afternoon so we only went Sunday.. A great relaxing day, lot's to see.. I didn't take many photo's but there will be a rather good video to come at some point soon.. Nigel for carting WN and myself there and back

Very good

That looks like a seriously fun machine

Morning chaps, well yesterday was a very good day with a parcel containing custom decals arrived from Mark.. Perfect timing as it happened as all we had left to do was get WN off the bench and put some fluids in her.. So, a big Mark for the great decals, the cream rather than white works really well I guess now's a good point to do the "before and after" thing As arrived from Chris's collection.. The green engine wasn't part of the deal, I just needed somewhere to put it The same machine after a bit of work All I need now is a better seat, get the engine running (fuel starvation for some strange reason!) and a nice sunny day to get some good photo's/video footage

Nice filler work Ewan, not easy to get right on things like curved fenders

A job well done there Norm

Nice work Ewan, the box will come in handy for carting all sorts of stuff about

I like your thinking Doug, all we need now is a video of it in action

Top job Ewan

A good use for scrap metal.. Nice work mate

A small world eh.. I was chatting the bloke on the JD row crop Thursday evening.. The JD was on a trailer almost opposite my house Great photo's Paul, it looked like a good show.. Matt.. Your Cortina looks great mate

Thanks Woz, the paint will look even better once the clear coat has been flattened back and polished up. You did indeed mate, thanks.. Thanks also for the wheel pinstriping

An interesting build Norm, I will be watching with great interest