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Hello,
I have bought an old ride on mower (as per photo) with the idea of making it into a mini tractor /ride on for my young son. I have stripped of the cutting deck, heavy brusher/collector and all of the excess weight , redundant brackets , levers etc that altogether came to quite a bit of weight between them. The original engine was a 12hp Briggs and Stratton but unfortunately it had had it and so I have removed that as well. Basically with everything taken off it weighs quite a bit less. I have been looking for another mower engine to fit into it it and have been looking at Honda ones because they are fairly quiet. Originally I was hoping for around a 10hp engine for the torque but they seem to be very hard to come by and expensive. There are however a lot of 5.5 hp Honda engines out there for sale.
My question is if this engine only has to power the pulley system that drive the rear wheels of the mower and he is light should 5.5hp/ 6.5 hp be enough for this?
In case anyone is worried about him driving this he drives around on my existing ride on mower all the time and is used to how it all works and has complete awareness.
One other thing... if I want to make the motor even quieter would it be alright to completely clad the engine cover/cowel to muffle it further. I had thought of having " flue" or air intake to the air filter a bit like a snorkel on some four wheel drives coming through the cowel.
Thanks in advance for advice
James
I have bought an old ride on mower (as per photo) with the idea of making it into a mini tractor /ride on for my young son. I have stripped of the cutting deck, heavy brusher/collector and all of the excess weight , redundant brackets , levers etc that altogether came to quite a bit of weight between them. The original engine was a 12hp Briggs and Stratton but unfortunately it had had it and so I have removed that as well. Basically with everything taken off it weighs quite a bit less. I have been looking for another mower engine to fit into it it and have been looking at Honda ones because they are fairly quiet. Originally I was hoping for around a 10hp engine for the torque but they seem to be very hard to come by and expensive. There are however a lot of 5.5 hp Honda engines out there for sale.
My question is if this engine only has to power the pulley system that drive the rear wheels of the mower and he is light should 5.5hp/ 6.5 hp be enough for this?
In case anyone is worried about him driving this he drives around on my existing ride on mower all the time and is used to how it all works and has complete awareness.
One other thing... if I want to make the motor even quieter would it be alright to completely clad the engine cover/cowel to muffle it further. I had thought of having " flue" or air intake to the air filter a bit like a snorkel on some four wheel drives coming through the cowel.
Thanks in advance for advice
James
