Finished pictures of the 27hp Kawasaki Workhorse

[ACEGOLFCARTGUY]

These are a few pictures of my Workhorse buggy build from start to finish.

It started out bone stock when I bought it about 5 years ago. I then slowly added upgrades to it a little bit at a time, first with a lift kit from BU and eventually the 25" mudlite tires. I drove this cart everywhere and used it for all kinds of work. Last winter I bought another EZGO to fix up and stripped parts off the workhorse to use on the other cart. This summer I came across the 27hp Kawasaki engine on ebay and grabbed it right away for the Workhorse. Since then I totally rebuilt the workhorse literally from the frame up.

Starting the tear down and the old engine removed.

Everything completely stripped off of the frame. Primed and ready to paint.

Engine arrive, even bigger than I had hoped for.

Now a rolling chassis, painted frame and with the rear end installed as well as a new 7" Big Buggies Lift kit and 26" ITP Mudlites on 12" ITP polished aluminum wheels.

Preparing motor mount for the 27hp Kawasaki. I had to cut out the plate and weld in a new one moved back a few inches.

Welds look like crap in the pictures.

They aren't really that bad looking in real life.

Getting ready to drop the motor mount and engine in.

Engine with Comet 1190 clutch installed

Test fitting. I was grinding near the exhaust, thats the reason for the paper towels shoved up the pipes.

 

[ACEGOLFCARTGUY]

There is a big jump in progress from the last picture now. Unfortunately, I didn't have a camera handy when all the other work was done.


Mostly finished just need to add a few more last minute things.

Head lights, tail lights and soon to be added turn signals. Will be street legal in Georgia.

Chrome brush gaurd in front, polished diamond plate rockers. New two-tone seat assembly.

26" ITP Mudlite tires, 12" ITP Polished Aluminum Wheels

Painted the entire bed with Duplicolor spray on bed liner. Still working on the tailgate in this pic but it is now finished and installed.

Grant racing steering wheel.

Custom dash with Sunpro gauges (water temp, oil pressure, volt and hour meter) Equus tach soon to be added on the column.

Rubber diamond plate floor, custom grill for the radiator.

The 750cc water cooled big block Kawasaki engine with APC intake.

Built custom mounts for radiator. Had to mount an electric cooling fan on it in place of the original belt driven one.

Fabbed up some frame reinforcement and added a big a$$ battery to handle all of the electrical accessories.

Custom built exhaust with an Extreme ROL muffler.

 

[treeman]

Thats a real beauty. Do you use it for any particular purpose or is it just a fun machine?

 

[HotRodCarts]

Ace, The Workhorse tuned out GREAT!!! You really did a nice job on it. Thanks for posting the pics.

 

[ACEGOLFCARTGUY]

Thank you guys!!

I hope to figure out the tach soon enough to get in some good trail riding before the weather gets to bad. Treeman, I use to use it for hauling hay and horse manure all the time. I don't think its going to see much horse manure anymore but don't get me wrong, I didn't build it to be a trailer queen either.

 

[matt75]

That thing turned out great. Nice work.

 

[Fairlane]

Great job. Looks like a lot of hours invested there but worth every one. On the tach, you can set them for different # of cyl. Is it set correctly?? MIne sits at 1000 when ign is off but works great. It is normal for the needle to be there in the off pos. Good luck.

Glen

 

[OlBoy]

Outstanding job on the cart. You did a real nice build on it.