V8 Garden Tractor

[DennisThornton 4,769]

Way too radical for me so not on my ToDo list but it's neat to look at.  And LOTS more to look at here:

https://www.ihcubcadet.com/threads/cub-chevy-283.8631/

 

[ebinmaine 68,887]

I do it for sure but I have no idea why.....

[WHX?? 49,488]

47 minutes ago, ebinmaine said:

I do it for sure but I have no idea why.....

To kill yourself??!?!? 

[ebinmaine 68,887]

1 minute ago, WHX24 said:

To kill yourself??!?!? 

Naahhhhh. 

I wouldn't make something like that go fast. 

 

I would make something like that pull heavy stuff. 

 

Camshaft with a nice tight lobe separation angle so it idles like it's loving life but  low RPM

[Stormin 9,981]

1 hour ago, ebinmaine said:

I do it for sure but I have no idea why.....

 

 It'd take longer than Colossus.

[ebinmaine 68,887]

20 minutes ago, Stormin said:

 

 It'd take longer than Colossus.

Yeah you know. A year or two ... here and there.

[JoeM 7,874]

I know I hear from time to time about some of the things I do. I have not got that bad but have had thoughts. 

Like the one neighbor that had RC planes. Crashes most of the time. (he is really bad at it) He refereed to my stuff as junk. I ask him hows that flying thing working out? He walked away. 

Hey what ever turns you on, some folks like collecting baseball cards, I like tinkering with wheel horses. 

 

And if that is what I think it is in the picture, cub super garden tractor, those are pretty nice machines. Used a Kohler opposing 20HP magnum engine, shaft driven with CV joints, ring and pinion rear end, and power steering. Except for the plastics on the hood and side panels, just might have the 520 and xi on the ropes.  

[ebinmaine 68,887]

20 minutes ago, JoeM said:

. I ask him hows that flying thing working out? He walked away

[oilwell1415 563]

Lots of those on the tractor pulling circuit.  The local show I used to follow had a class with a few blown big blocks in it.  Total waste of almost everything on the tractor trying to put that much power through a pair of 26x12x12 tires, but they tried and it was a great show.

[ebinmaine 68,887]

1 minute ago, oilwell1415 said:

great show.

[ebinmaine 68,887]

Back about 30 years ago I guess it was I had a customer with a 64 mustang convertible. 289 four-speed. 

 

He wanted the noise and idle of a drag engine but fairly calm Street demeanor so he had a custom cam ground. 

 

That's the kind of thing I would do with something like this. 

 

Provided of course I had a few thousand dollars....

[SylvanLakeWH 26,155]

Oh the carbon footprint... 

[ebinmaine 68,887]

6 minutes ago, SylvanLakeWH said:

carbon footprint

Carbon Bigfoot print

[Howie 899]

A guy I know here is putting a Ford 302 in a JD. His does not look a lot better than Cub.

[oliver2-44 9,929]

If you can’t get the original hood back on it it doesn’t count. Ok maybe a little trimming, but no hood and it’s not a GT anymore JMHO 

[giddyap 1,569]

23 hours ago, ebinmaine said:

I do it for sure but I have no idea why.....

 

I am not a therapist, but I play one on social media. 

"Echopraxia is the involuntary repetition or imitation of another person's actions ... There is no formal test for diagnosing echopraxia."

[ebinmaine 68,887]

19 minutes ago, giddyap said:

 

I am not a therapist, but I play one on social media. 

"Echopraxia is the involuntary repetition or imitation of another person's actions ... There is no formal test for diagnosing echopraxia."

There's that. Yes. 

And I like shiny things. 

And engines of many types. 

And tractors. 

 

[SylvanLakeWH 26,155]

52 minutes ago, ebinmaine said:

There's that. Yes. 

And I like shiny things. 

And engines of many types. 

And tractors. 

 

Squirrel!