Anyone raced other SUVs, cars or trucks?

[Artie]

Riding lawn mowers popped over the 20 horsepower mark in the early 2000s..
They have always had larger ones but they became more mainstream. Briggs & Stratton single-cylinder overhead valve has dominated from around 95 on up. The most common riding lawn mower in existence is a 42 inch 2 Blade. The started out having a 12 to 15 horsepower engine and then they crank them up and most all them had at least 17 and the most powerful singles had 25 horsepower. You also had horizontally-opposed twins that had 12 and 14 horsepower but we're a twin flat head. Then for most of the mowers larger than 42 in which for a long time was most commonly at 48 but there were a couple of 44s. These almost always had a twin-engine. At first the Twins were horizontally-opposed L heads or Flathead Briggs but then they came out with their V-Twin. On the Kohler side Kohler had their Magnum engines which were a flat head opposed twin and then they came out with her between also. It's just as bad as the car manufacturers. They just copy each other and always make the same basic thing and every basic period.

I always complain that too many 42-inch mowers have a twin engine and it will cost you at least $100 more and they call it an upgrade! It's not an upgrade. We were mowing grass of 42 inch lawn mowers in the 80s with only 14 horsepower. You don't need 20 or 24 hp to cut your grass on a 42 inch mower. A twin-engine will almost always give you more problems than a single engine and its lifetime.
The twins also have more catastrophic failures where
there's very little that actually damages the singles to the point where they can't fairly easily and cheaply be fixed.

I do this every day as one of my businesses. I have laid hands on probably 12 to 15 lawn mowers today.
I don't like the riders so I don't really mess with them too much but I did quite a bit in the past several years.

Lawn mower engines are still little low perform little turds! Those 22 and 24 horsepower V-twin Briggs are right around 749 ccs.
24 horsepower for a lawn mower sounds like a lot but look at the CC's. It's pathetic. A Kawasaki Ninja in the late 80s had under 600 cc's I was putting out 75 to 100 horsepower.

Well, that was very informative! Thanks for the explanation.

 

[3tonsoffun]

Obviously you do. Or you wouldn't have replies.


So enjoy your super slow brick.

Nobody cares some JDM POS Paul walker wannabe skyline. It’ll get beaten by a track hawk so not impressed. Just remember you drive a super slow brick too little guy!

 

[TobyU]

Remember almost anything can be fast if you put enough money into it. There have been a few cars over the years that were simply amazingly easy to modify and handled quite drastic horsepower increases while staying quite durable and fully daily driver operational.

 

[carymccarr]

I’ll take a ‘slow’ Ferrari over a ‘fast’ Celica or a Datsun any day.

 

[JExpedition07]

I’ll take a ‘slow’ Ferrari over a ‘fast’ Celica or a Datsun any day.

Amen, even then I’ll take the even ‘slower’ Bentley or Rolls tank.

 

[carymccarr]

Amen, even then I’ll take the even ‘slower’ Bentley or Rolls tank.

Damn I love the continental GT




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[3tonsoffun]

Damn I love the continental GT




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Man I saw one of these today cruising through the more country part of Virginia Beach, looked stunning. Followed him back into town... looks can be deceiving... paint ships all over the bumper, curb rash on the wheels and tires, dents, looked like it had been trashed. Very sad

 

[carymccarr]

Man I saw one of these today cruising through the more country part of Virginia Beach, looked stunning. Followed him back into town... looks can be deceiving... paint ships all over the bumper, curb rash on the wheels and tires, dents, looked like it had been trashed. Very sad

That is sad. It could have been an old one. They’ve made them for decades and they don’t change a lot (kinda like the last gen expy lol). Here’s a 2002. Still beautiful.

 

[Blksmk]

Nobody cares some JDM POS Paul walker wannabe skyline. It’ll get beaten by a track hawk so not impressed. Just remember you drive a super slow brick too little guy!

Ran a few trackhawks no dice I still won.

It's ok..

My expy is super slow, so is my 250000 truck.
Oh my 68 cuda is slow too

 

[3tonsoffun]

Ran a few trackhawks no dice I still won.

It's ok..

My expy is super slow, so is my 250000 truck.
Oh my 68 cuda is slow too

Video or it never happened bro.