I was wondering how to mount a 200cc Lifan engine to a shifter kart frame. I have no welding knowledge, nor access to welding equipment, so I can't just make a custom one. Are there bolt-on mounts you can get for it? I've looked around and can only seem to find mounts for other engines.
Engine mount for Lifan 200cc
- Thread starter Sparks
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Compu-kart
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The Lifan engine is a Clone engine. Basically a copy Honda GX200. It uses the standard clone engine mount.
twostroketoowoke
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Why a shifter chassis? They are pretty expensive, have thick tubing, and use all metric (expensive) components.
Ted Hamilton
Helmet Painter / Racer
Do you mean the dirtbike Lifan engine, or a clone kart engine? Likely a QRC mount could be modified to work if you mean the dirtbike engine. It will be slow, but fun.
I think It's the clone kart engine. Are the mounts different on the two engines?
What do you mean by standard clone engine mount? Like the 4 bolt slot mount? Or is it different?
Ted Hamilton
Helmet Painter / Racer
The dirtbike engines use a cradle mount, the kart engines use a flat plate or surface with 4 holes or slots.
Oh ok. There are no bottom photos of the engines so I couldn't tell what type of mount it has. So the first photo (The name brand non-clone) would have the cradle mount, vs the second photo(clone) would have a flat slot mount right? Or am I blind and they both have cradle mounts?
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Okay hol'up. This engine isn't the Lifan model clone engine I thought we were talking about. Don't know anything about this model Lifan. I'm tapping out.
Were you talking about a horizontal one like this?
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twostroketoowoke
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It’s a cradle mount. One bolt in the front, one in the back. Just gonna be honest, to get a mount you’re either looking at making something homemade or something very expensive made by the open/outlaw machinists that make our custom components. Motor mounts for common MX engines we use aside from the common 125 platform run from 250-500 bucks. This would be a one off creation.
Ted Hamilton
Helmet Painter / Racer
Yes, this will require custom fab. And it will be fun, but slow compared to the "real" shifter karts. Don't let that discourage you, but it won't be legal to race in any org on asphalt....and you'd need an oval chassis to race in UAS / RWYB.
flattop1
Dawg 89
Both look like cradle mounts .
Fabrication is definitely going too be needed .
Ok, thanks
Thanks for your help!
Ok, thanks for the help.
Oh, that's a good alternative. I might just do that. Thanks for all your help!