AN ENGINE FOR HOMEBUILDERS

"Anthony W" wrote

I'd rather use a Harley belt primary drive. It's an off the shelf set up
that would require minimal machining to adapt to the purpose. Off the top
of my head, I'd say the reduction is better than 2 to 1 and replacement
belts can be purchased in any city in North America if you didn't want to
bother with mail order.

I had thought the same thing before, also.

I've never priced that type of thing, before. Are prices reasonable?
Probably not, I'm thinking.
--
Jim in NC

Morgans wrote:
"Anthony W" wrote
I'd rather use a Harley belt primary drive. It's an off the shelf set up
that would require minimal machining to adapt to the purpose. Off the top
of my head, I'd say the reduction is better than 2 to 1 and replacement
belts can be purchased in any city in North America if you didn't want to
bother with mail order.

I had thought the same thing before, also.

I've never priced that type of thing, before. Are prices reasonable?
Probably not, I'm thinking.

Define reasonable. No not cheap new but you can find complete belt
primary drives used on eBay when the hotrodders are swamping them out
for the 3.5 and 4" belts for the custom engines.

The 3.5 and 4" belt setups are running about $1500 and probably not
worth it for what we're talking about. These belts are for engines that
run over 100 BHP peak and the riders of these bikes can be very abusive
when doing burnouts and drag racing.

Tony

Tony

"Anthony W" wrote

The 3.5 and 4" belt setups are running about $1500 and probably not worth
it for what we're talking about. These belts are for engines that run
over 100 BHP peak and the riders of these bikes can be very abusive when
doing burnouts and drag racing.

Humm, I saw some brand new 3" with 2 pulleys and belt for less than 500
bucks, but they were set up for installing the one pulley on a clutch, so an
adapter would probably have to be made for that one.

If they are available on Ebay for less, that would be what I would consider
reasonable. 500 bucks isn't too far out of reach for most non 3rd world
country resident, either.
--
Jim in NC