Drift Trike Re-Birth!

[Son of Kradus]

Ok so we all know that to make the Quad drifter I used the wheels ,motor and rear brake system off my "hot Wheels Drift Trike" I had every intention of buying a new motor for this but hadnt got round to it,

low n behold I found a water blaster biffed out and on the kerbside, I grabbed it and brought it home, Gave it a clean up and Managed to get it going, all it needed was a carby clean and new gas!

Work was canned again last night so I stayed up all day but had a nana nap about 4pm.... woke at 2.30am, "sheesh", I left specific orders to wake me up at 8pm...anyway! life just rolled on LOL.
So I was in the shed quietly pottering about, shifting things n moving stuff, making room and then started to clean up the motor and put it on the trike! after a good spit n polish it came up fantastic. looks good and the replacement tank looks the goods too!

I could of hooked it all up and i would only be waiting for tyres ,Brakes and throttle cable tinkering, But the Shaft is only 19mm, My clutch has 20mm so its a no go for fitment, I've already sourced another of the correct size on flea bay! was all too easy really! $37. probs be next week before I get it!
While im waiting this week i'll have a look at making a new exhaust system and make some airbox mods so this thing can breath a lot easier, it'll be the same mods as the quad bike, extracted exhaust flow and huge air intake!
Im suspecting this motor is only 6.5HP and not 7. the give away is the shaft size being smaller, there was some 7HP with the smaller shaft but they were sort of in the cross over period when the factories began beefing the things up a bit, so they were actually marked as 7HP, in any case those mods to the motor I mentioned should bring the thing up to at least 8hp possibly more!, its well run in this one and feels a bit looser in its running when I started it yesterday!

 

[Ulu]

The grass certainly doesn’t grow under your feet! Lucky find on the engine too.

 

[Son of Kradus]

OK so back into the swing of things, there quite possibly could be a build off bike yet so we'll have to see, I do have pans but.... Anyway ive started the airbox mods, its really only removing the factory air cleaner and replacing it with a more open flow, this coupled with a more free flowing exhaust should bring it up to speed....Remembering these motors are classed as "Low performance high quality" meaning they're quite reliable but the performance (@7hp/212cc) is staggeringly low, but provided you keep the fuel and oil clean they run for years with minimal servicing.
1. air box off

Then if simply unscrews and alls revealed….. which is absolutely nothing

 

[Son of Kradus]

Assortment of parts,
The small PVC angle was from Bunnings (equivalent of home depot in US), the small rubber seal is just a piece of bicycle tube, the filter is a failed buy for the cafe racer and the clamps were found in a drawer,

Assembled it looks like this,
The whole assembly will get glued n glassed to the airbox , the PVC angle gets a few coats of the trikes accented color,,, hammer tone blue.

 

[Pondo]

performance (@7hp/212cc) is staggeringly low

Lots of room for improvement there. Intake and exhaust is a good start. You can probably modify or removed the governor too for longer legs. People do a lot to their Predator 212 motors for gocarts. Not sure what motor you have but might be similar? Very fun project!

This guy has a whole set of hop-up videos for the 212 Predator