212 Golf Cart

I know this has 4 wheels but the build is in the spirit of what we do here. A friend gave me a fairly nice Ezgo cart that needed too much
to repair the electrics. Having a new 212 and torque converter in boxes its a no brainer. About a zillion of these have been done, but as usual
I opted for the hard way. Not wanting to build all the intricate structures most folks do I opted to use the case of the old motor. Required a lot of tedious, actually a little over an hour, cutting of the motor case. With the case opened I can run a drive shaft inside the case turning the original input shaft with Lovejoys being driven by a a chain from the Preddy. This keeps every thing in its original places drive wise. Much less complicated fab wise. And yes thats 1/2 steel I cut and hole sawed from the case. Speed calculations indicate a pretty good top end.

The brush holder now holds a flange bearing to support the shaft on the other end. Just waiting on Lovejoys now. Ignore the rusty parts, they will be handled.

 

[Cannonball3]

Great job on the cart conversion DT! You know you can just press the shaft out of the motors armature and use it as is.

 

[Al Regresar]

Its a non hemi, I prefer them as a Honda electric start kit bolts on. Dont know about modding them, theres a ton of performance parts for them . Will leave this one pull start with a pull handle and choke outside the body. Think this thing might be a lot of fun in a go kartish sort of way.

If you look into the dirt kart crowd forums there are a lot of people modifying golf carts as well. The money that they sink into modding these is serious: billet everything, big blocks 460 cc +, cams, valves, alcohol carbs making 40+ hp. Pretty cool.

 

[Cannonball3]

If you look into the dirt kart crowd forums there are a lot of people modifying golf carts as well. The money that they sink into modding these is serious: billet everything, big blocks 460 cc +, cams, valves, alcohol carbs making 40+ hp. Pretty cool.

Yeah, I seen vids of some pretty cool stuff! Cars and Cameras does cool stuff too.

 

[Cannonball3]

I turned my gearbox 90 degrees, it lined up better for my build that way. The filler is still above the fill level as is the vent.
i didnt have much room for the shifter behind. Its on the top now.

 

[GW's Motorized]

Yeah, I seen vids of some pretty cool stuff! Cars and Cameras does cool stuff too.

Have you seen the kx80 swapped amf harley? Than thing is wild.

 

[Cannonball3]

Have you seen the kx80 swapped amf harley? Than thing is wild.

Yeah I did! Vasillys Banshee swapped Honda Grom is pretty wild too!

 

[Al Regresar]

Yeah I did! Vasillys Banshee swapped Honda Grom is pretty wild too!

Speaking of Groms, I ran into about 100 + Groms at a gas station in San Pedro (25th & Western). These things were totally tricked out. It was like a gas station take over. A lot of them were wearing a yellow t-shirt with a logo, “The Goonies.” A very friendly and welcoming bunch. They have some pretty good YouTube videos.

 

[GW's Motorized]

Yeah I did! Vasillys Banshee swapped Honda Grom is pretty wild too!

I wanna do a stupid swap of my own. I've been slowly working on my 1969 Honda ct90, and the engine is toast. It's rebuildable, but that engine, or any affordable bolt on option are way too expensive. Once I can fork out the money to order the engine I want it will be fun fabricating a mount for it. I want to put a suzuki ts125 two stroke engine in it. For a rebuildable engine from ebay its still like 200 plus shipping