Project No.
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Jacobsen Lawn
Mower, Jg. 1971
It was again a 'too much beer' idea!! Buy an old beat-up lawn mower and do some modification to make it faster....
The modification is pretty simple. Take the 12hp engine out and replace it with a 140hp jap motor (1100ccm, 4 cylinder Suzuki). This sounds really easy, but....
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The original mower at home in my garage. |
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First test riding. The new motor is fixed in the frame. |
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| A 140hp, 1100ccm 4-cylinder Suzuki engine. I guess that's fast enough! |
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| It was quite a bit of engineering to bring the power to the custom made rear axle and to the ground. |  |
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The self made exhaust pipes... |
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| Flames for ever, of course!! |
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That's it.
The damn tracker is fast as hell. As it is geared
up you could go 180km/h (115mph) but so far I did
not dear to do that!-) Next thing to do is to build a wheelie-bar - than the tracker is ready for drag-racing! |
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we go!!
And now let's go racing!!! |
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6 weeks (mainly at night) ~ 1'000.- CHF 1100ccm, 4 cylinder Suzuki GSX-R (140hp) Jacobsen GT Hydro, ~1971 |
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