[Silly Little Cars] Insurance for Cushman - help!

Thu Sep 22 19:51:24 PDT 2016

Has anyone considered a VW engine? It's aircooled also and almost an 
exact size match for the cushman engine and with a doghouse cooler it 
should fit with no alterations.  Everything would also be on the front 
of the engine just like a cushman making it easy to work on and access.  
It's nearly twice the HP @40HP and parts are cheap and easily found. I'd 
think an adapter plate could be easily made that could bolt to the 
bottom frame and come up in an L fashion to bolt on the motor and hold 
it to the transmission.  I've seen one before many years ago and it was 
able to do wheelies.  I can't remember exactly how the guy had it rigged 
up, I was just a school kid back then.

On 9/22/2016 12:50 PM, Charley via Silly_little_cars wrote:
> I have been considering a Honda 1000cc Gold Wing motorcycle engine (78 
> hp), but I haven't found one at the right price and in running 
> condition (rebuildable) from a wrecked Gold Wing, and it will take a 
> bunch of work and specially made machine shop parts to get it 
> installed. As best as I can tell, it will easily fit in my 1987 
> Truckster and provide awsome horsepower for it's size, but because of 
> the expected installation difficulty, so I haven't been looking very 
> hard for one.
>  Harbor Freight sells a 22 hp overhead valve V twin Predator engine 
> for about $600, but it too will require a lot of work to install. I 
> think the Cushman engine mounts will need to be lowered about 2" too, 
> and although it's a new engine and newer technology, it's still only 
> 22 hp. I think if I'm going to go to all of the trouble to install a 
> different engine, I'm going to want better performance.
> I hadn't thought about a Geo engine. I'll have to look into it. The 
> height of the motor space in the Cushman seems to be the most critical 
> problem. It's tough to be comfortable while sitting on a valve cover 
> or spark plug.
> So far I keep repairing the 22 hp OMC engine that's in it, using parts 
> from 2 other OMC 22 hp engines that I have, but I'm running out of the 
> parts that seem to be going bad. My best upgrade for it so far has 
> been the installation of an electric fuel pump, and removal of the 
> mechanical fuel pump and bypass filter. It will now almost always 
> start in the first revolution with very little choke, if a cold start.
> Charley
>
>     ----- Original Message -----
>     *From:* David Rosenblat via Silly_little_cars
>     <mailto:silly_little_cars at lists.sillylittlecars.com>
>     *To:* Will Hodgkins <mailto:batwill911 at hotmail.com>
>     *Cc:* Silly Little Email List
>     <mailto:silly_little_cars at lists.sillylittlecars.com>
>     *Sent:* Thursday, September 22, 2016 3:06 PM
>     *Subject:* Re: [Silly Little Cars] Insurance for Cushman - help!
>
>     You guys are great! Thank you for all your help and experience. I
>     will keep everyone poated with my progress. Any suggestions on a
>     motor swap. I want to convert into a micro camper probably with a
>     final weight of 600-800 pounds. Currently I have a geo metro motor
>     sitting in the garage.
>     Thanks
>     Dave
>
>
>     On Sep 22, 2016 1:01 PM, "Will Hodgkins" <batwill911 at hotmail.com
>     <mailto:batwill911 at hotmail.com>> wrote:
>
>         Dave
>
>         try state farm. I live in CA and Geico turned me down,
>         Progressive insured me for 2 weeks then canceled my policy
>         (went through an agent for that one), and farmers said no
>         State farm finally wrote me a policy on my 2000 go-4
>
>
>         Will
>
>
>         Sent from Outlook <http://aka.ms/weboutlook>
>
>
>
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>         on behalf of David Rosenblat via Silly_little_cars
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>         *Sent:* Thursday, September 22, 2016 3:09 AM
>         *To:* Silly Little Email List
>         *Subject:* [Silly Little Cars] Insurance for Cushman - help!
>
>         Hello Enthusiasts,
>         First a quick thank you to this community. I read emails from
>         the mailing list almost daily. I'm glad to hear about
>         everyone's modifications, reasons for owning, and of course
>         struggles haha.
>         I need to find someone to insure my 1968 and 1969 Cushman
>         trucksters. Both have titles and are road worthy. Geico said
>         no because they were formally for commercial use. Geico won't
>         cover them even under their Collectors/Classics insurance. I
>         live in Colorado.
>         Also I aim to repower my trucksters so I can go a bit faster
>         than 25-30mph. Any suggestions.
>         Thank you all!
>
>         Dave
>
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