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The fella flogging that delightful wee Honda wrote:The 545cc 2 cylinder engine goes like a sewing machine.

Now call me fussy if you will, but I've always rated the internal combustion engine above the sewing machine for its suitability as a means of getting a motor vehicle down the road efficiently and equally, I've yet to use an engine to repair a damaged item of clothing. Or does he mean that the thing rattles like a b*stard and only runs for a few minutes at a time?



I like these tiny Daihatsus too, but it needs a Toyota 1NZ-FE engine transplant to give it the performance to match its stunning looks! I could see that being a far better thing to drive than the frankly rather feeble Aixam that looks vaguely similar but is French, has the world's worst CVT, with only one belt, and has a small vertical twin engine that tends to shake itself to bits when thrashed.

JPB wrote: ↑

Thu Jun 15, 2017 9:47 pm

The fella flogging that delightful wee Honda wrote:The 545cc 2 cylinder engine goes like a sewing machine.

Now call me fussy if you will, but I've always rated the internal combustion engine above the sewing machine for its suitability as a means of getting a motor vehicle down the road efficiently and equally, I've yet to use an engine to repair a damaged item of clothing. Or does he mean that the thing rattles like a b*stard and only runs for a few minutes at a time?

Best of both worlds?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-L39ZrL0iM

Now that's a sewing machine.

given what was coming out of the exhausts, I think it may have a slight "problem"

I think John has been trying to save a few quid rebuilding his lawnmower engine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2Wp-7kqEKI

I like the idea of the perspex head, but who'll be first to make one for an OHV engine like the one that actually resides in my lawnmower, picture of just such an engine below, sorry Rich..




Happy birthday to Terry!


And yes, the engine in the Allett is the all-aluminium Reliant one, originally a 600 but where that will fit, so will the big one (848cc/40 to 55bhp) and quite a few Reliant folk own uprated Alletts with the 850, the bloody lunatics!

what could i fit in my ride on mower then? it had a 502 cc briggs engine that died & im too skint to replace it even more so now i have sent the galaxy to have a service & cam belt change... chap found what the annoying rattle was.. only 150 odd euro for the part not including the service kit

rich. wrote: ↑

Mon Jun 26, 2017 9:31 pm

what could i fit in my ride on mower then?

You've got three kids, all that energy to spare, why waste it? And as plus, they will sleep well too,

rich. wrote: ↑

Mon Jun 26, 2017 9:31 pm

what could i fit in my ride on mower then? it had a 502 cc briggs engine that died & im too skint to replace it....

599cc Kubota (Diesel) or 505cc Lombardini (Petrol) engine? French scrapyards must surely have plenty of dead Aixams and Ligier Ambras that could donate one of these dreadful vertical twins.

GHT wrote: ↑

Tue Jun 27, 2017 10:08 pm

That could be a really effective form of transport, sort of an internally driven unicycle.