Here is a video of this thing on the Dyno. It was on ebay for 20k in Aug.
Sunday, October 23, 2011
GEM Car That Does 200mph?
Ok this is scary and bad ass all at once. Try a Suzuki Hayabusa motor in a GEM car. This is pretty crazy.
My GEM Car First Post
A few weeks ago I found a 2001 4 seat Gem car in West Covina for $3,000 and bought it. It had charger problems and tags were back 2 months but only 500 miles on it. After sending out the charger to Zivan and registering it and driving it I found that I wanted to do a few things where the information is really lacking.
So I am planning on documenting with some videos for other GEM owners on a few things like:
Installing disc brakes from the drrums (pre 2005 models). I am currently looking at using Geo Metro disc and calipers on the GEM stock spindles as this has been done before but I am ironing out a few details
Also I am going to document adding a rear facing bench onto the Gem car. I read that they used to have bolt on kits but I cannot find anything out on these anymore. I am planning on starting with the cargo frame (I know its only rated at 100lbs) but I really want the rear of the seat to still lock into the back of the car. I am probably going to beef up the bottom plate the seat sits on and add a boxed frame under the whole seat that attaches to the frame (kind of like ride for funs tool box frame/hitch) so it can be mounted to the frame, shock absorbers, and rear seat latch. Also with the boxed frame under it I wont have to worry about someone twisting the handle and the seat flying off the car.
Another thing will be motor. I do have the 3.5hp motor and will be looking to upgrade but not with the expensive ride for funs. I might have found someone to do 7.5-8.5-9.5hp motors that will be less but I need to calculate how much distance I still want to get after the upgrade without blowing out my batteries.
Doing rims also but that has a ton of info so I wont go to far into those.
More info and pics to follow.
John
So I am planning on documenting with some videos for other GEM owners on a few things like:
Installing disc brakes from the drrums (pre 2005 models). I am currently looking at using Geo Metro disc and calipers on the GEM stock spindles as this has been done before but I am ironing out a few details
Also I am going to document adding a rear facing bench onto the Gem car. I read that they used to have bolt on kits but I cannot find anything out on these anymore. I am planning on starting with the cargo frame (I know its only rated at 100lbs) but I really want the rear of the seat to still lock into the back of the car. I am probably going to beef up the bottom plate the seat sits on and add a boxed frame under the whole seat that attaches to the frame (kind of like ride for funs tool box frame/hitch) so it can be mounted to the frame, shock absorbers, and rear seat latch. Also with the boxed frame under it I wont have to worry about someone twisting the handle and the seat flying off the car.
Another thing will be motor. I do have the 3.5hp motor and will be looking to upgrade but not with the expensive ride for funs. I might have found someone to do 7.5-8.5-9.5hp motors that will be less but I need to calculate how much distance I still want to get after the upgrade without blowing out my batteries.
Doing rims also but that has a ton of info so I wont go to far into those.
More info and pics to follow.
John
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