[Silly Little Cars] Silly_little_cars Digest, Vol 110, Issue 13

Fri Sep 23 13:53:07 PDT 2016

RE: VW swap. On the Facebook Cushman Truckster page there are a few members
that have done interesting swaps.
A Honda ATV engine/trans/suspension swap
A VW swap
A few Honda GoldWing swaps

On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 1:37 PM, via Silly_little_cars <
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>    1. Re: Insurance for Cushman - help! (Javier via Silly_little_cars)
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> Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2016 15:36:52 -0500
> From: Javier via Silly_little_cars
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> To: Keith Charsha <keithx1 at earthlink.net>,      Silly Little Email List
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> Subject: Re: [Silly Little Cars] Insurance for Cushman - help!
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> Recent trip back home (Puerto Rico), I saw this Cushman Police parked on
> the side of the road selling Piraguas (snow cones). The owner switched out
> the original engine for a VW beetle engine and he said it's 100 times
> better. Unfortunately, I didn't get what modifications he had to make, but
> I guess I will find out soon enough as I'm planning on doing the same.
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> Javier
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> > On Sep 22, 2016, at 9:51 PM, Keith Charsha via Silly_little_cars <
> silly_little_cars at lists.sillylittlecars.com> wrote:
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> > 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
> >> To: Will Hodgkins
> >> Cc: Silly Little Email List
> >> 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>
> 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
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> >>>
> >>> From: Silly_little_cars <silly_little_cars-bounces@
> lists.sillylittlecars.com> on behalf of David Rosenblat via
> Silly_little_cars <silly_little_cars at lists.sillylittlecars.com>
> >>> 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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