I’ve often pondered what a Briggs and Stratton swap would do on these trucks. My Snapper riding mower has the 23 horsepower V-2 engine.....I think the limitation would me how much you can get to the ground. 23 ponies will likely just shred rubber.
Anyone raced other SUVs, cars or trucks?
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That baby would struggle to turn the starter motor over one of these lol
For real, when did mowers get into the 20 HP range?!? It’s been a long time since I’ve cut my own yard.
Everyone knows the Kawasaki is the better mower motor. [emoji6]
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It’s on like Donkey Kong! I’ll see you at the strip buddy, nothing pulls like a Briggs when you throw the throttle from turtle to rabbit.
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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.
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Deadman
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Right, but these engines need to last thru overheating by idiot homeowners, low oil, long hrs, dusty intakes, etc. They detune them so they run forever for a homeowner.
Blksmk
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That’s fast but you are not SMOKING these guys. Demons can run 9.5 9.6 all day long. GT500 with drag pack and about $2500 bolt ons and a tune just ran 9.1!!!
either way I think you are full of shit. I have been to 5 or 6 wannagofast events and twin turbo Gallardo with 2,200hp we’re pulling 223 in the half mile. 1,800-2,000 hp GTRs were pulling 208-210mph
but back to that GT500!!! That is my next car. I am buying a Velar for my daughter middle of next year for sweet sixteen. Then I will be selling the GT I have and buying a GT500. I am just hooked on this car. I have researched and seen the new vette and while a really really like them and think they have just really knocked it out of the park for an all around sports car, it just doesn’t have that guttural, brutal 700hp supercharged goodness. I think the vette has changed the landscape, but I have always tilted towards the blue oval!!
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Funny how this thread turned to mowers. I recently stumbled onto a YouTube video. On Grillo awd riding brush hogs. I guess they've been around awhile, I've just never herd of them. The video I watched, looked like as much fun as riding a ATV.It’s on like Donkey Kong! I’ll see you at the strip buddy, nothing pulls like a Briggs when you throw the throttle from turtle to rabbit.
Any how back on topic, I dont have a rider, just a 22" push mower. Best small engine mower I ever owned, had a tecumseh engine. Man that thing ran for years, replaced tires several times. Finally broke the shaft for the blade, either a tree stump or curb, I dont remember. Currently I'm pushing a Honda powered mower.
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