General Category => Simplex Sportsman => Topic started by: Bruce on October 28, 2013, 03:02:53 PM

Title: Sportsman project, off and running!
Post by: Bruce on October 28, 2013, 03:02:53 PM
Im gonna start a thread for this instead of posting all over like I been doing....this is gonna be a winter project for My friend Ken and I.  picked it up this week and started making plans.


   so...off and running we go!
Title: Re: Sportsman project, off and running!
Post by: Bruce on October 29, 2013, 06:36:23 AM
soon as a find a photo resizer i can figure out i'll post some pics of the fenders etc we intend to use.
Title: Re: Sportsman project, off and running!
Post by: pd on October 29, 2013, 12:03:50 PM
Why not upload to Photobucket and have them resize for you ?
Title: Re: Sportsman project, off and running!
Post by: illMATTic on October 29, 2013, 12:06:28 PM
Quote from: racie35 on October 29, 2013, 06:36:23 AM
soon as a find a photo resizer i can figure out i'll post some pics of the fenders etc we intend to use.


Resize them to 800-1000 wide. This size works well for most people to view the photos. Any smaller and it is hard to see the details.  ;)
Title: Re: Sportsman project, off and running!
Post by: Bruce on October 29, 2013, 01:39:56 PM
here we go.....fenders from 2008 ambassador...you get the idea

(http://imageshack.us/scaled/thumb/842/5qew.jpg) (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/842/5qew.jpg/)
(http://imageshack.us/scaled/thumb/268/ycnf.jpg) (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/268/ycnf.jpg/)
(http://imageshack.us/scaled/thumb/31/kywo.jpg) (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/31/kywo.jpg/)
Title: Re: Sportsman project, off and running!
Post by: Bruce on October 29, 2013, 01:43:07 PM
few more....bike and Ken

(http://imageshack.us/scaled/thumb/13/edak.jpg) (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/13/edak.jpg/)
(http://imageshack.us/scaled/thumb/202/hmot.jpg) (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/202/hmot.jpg/)
Title: Re: Sportsman project, off and running!
Post by: Bruce on October 29, 2013, 01:45:59 PM
okay..heres how I installed the 212 on my ambassador and probably will make something like it for the Simplex...not sure if I posted these before but here it goes anyway

(http://imageshack.us/scaled/thumb/839/imag0409tn.jpg) (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/839/imag0409tn.jpg/)
(http://imageshack.us/scaled/thumb/707/imag0410q.jpg) (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/707/imag0410q.jpg/)
(http://imageshack.us/scaled/thumb/850/imag0420o.jpg) (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/850/imag0420o.jpg/)
Title: Re: Sportsman project, off and running!
Post by: Bruce on October 29, 2013, 01:48:24 PM
few more...how it came out

(http://imageshack.us/scaled/thumb/221/imag0452w.jpg) (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/221/imag0452w.jpg/)
(http://imageshack.us/scaled/thumb/189/imag0418cu.jpg) (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/189/imag0418cu.jpg/)
(http://imageshack.us/scaled/thumb/802/imag0454v.jpg) (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/802/imag0454v.jpg/)
Title: Re: Sportsman project, off and running!
Post by: Mike Sal on October 30, 2013, 10:24:04 AM
How did you construct your intake manifold? 
Mike Sal
Title: Re: Sportsman project, off and running!
Post by: Bruce on October 30, 2013, 11:43:32 AM
I bought the carb intake from agk for go carts... Its round down to the D shaped of the HF engine... Cut that and just an elbow on (hose) with a inner pipe to stop it from caving in.   It needs a sharp 90 made really... Around 1 1/2" if I remember correct.
  That let us install the motorcycle type carb...that ones a 26mm whizzer carb
Title: Re: Sportsman project, off and running!
Post by: Bruce on October 30, 2013, 04:51:54 PM
this part but I bought one of the earlier ones without a pulse fitting...wouldnt matter anyway really.

http://www.affordablegokarts.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Session_ID=d4cc0b8a79b0c9b3f455c5b4fc257646&Screen=PROD&Store_Code=A&Product_Code=AGK202&Category_Code=PA
Title: Re: Sportsman project, off and running!
Post by: Bruce on December 10, 2013, 06:51:07 AM
worksman wheels are on the way for this...so its gonna have to be a 26" cycle now.  we will probably use the whizzer fenders from a newer ambassador if we cannot locate a good set.  We found a beat up rear and front for the brackets and salvaged the taillight braket parts....the light itself is toast.
  Now we can just source out 26" tires more commonly used instead of the cokers.
Title: Re: Sportsman project, off and running!
Post by: Ricks on December 10, 2013, 07:48:19 AM
Quote from: racie35 on December 10, 2013, 06:51:07 AM
worksman wheels are on the way for this...so its gonna have to be a 26" cycle now.  we will probably use the whizzer fenders from a newer ambassador if we cannot locate a good set.  We found a beat up rear and front for the brackets and salvaged the taillight braket parts....the light itself is toast.
  Now we can just source out 26" tires more commonly used instead of the cokers.

Coker also makes the more common size 26" simplex tire.  Will you use this, or a whizzer or bicycle tire?
Title: Re: Sportsman project, off and running!
Post by: ltcps on February 15, 2014, 08:35:52 AM
bought a new set of Ambassador wheels, fenders, handle bars,brakes, controls and cables from Whizzer for a little over 200. great to deal with. They took them off a new bike.

Their number is 877 944-9937.

Good luck

P.S. axels are the only problem being only 10mm, made spaces.
Title: Re: Sportsman project, off and running!
Post by: pd on February 15, 2014, 08:59:45 AM
"Their number is 877 944-9937."

Here's a website to go along with that^ # :

http://www.whizzermotorbike.com/

Pete . :)
Title: Re: Sportsman project, off and running!
Post by: Ricks on August 06, 2015, 12:07:58 PM
Bruce, did you and Ken ever do anything with this?
Title: Re: Sportsman project, off and running!
Post by: kartjockey on July 05, 2017, 03:37:54 AM
Bruce,   Off?  Or running?   let's see that Sportsman!