Somebody always comes out with something I need / want after I buy one.
I’m trying to watch the video close enough to figure out if it still cuts grass
There’s no deck on that thing
British TV series “Top Gear” is known for building some pretty outlandish automotive creations. The latest in that lineage is a Honda FH2620 mower. That doesn’t sound very exciting until you learn just how heavily modified it is, from the tires to the engine.
“Top Gear” called in Honda racing group Team Dynamics to help turn the lawn mower into a lawn monster. The steering rack is from a Morris Minor. It got a fresh set of racing wheels and tires. They managed to stuff a VTR 1000cc motorcycle engine into the thing. The theoretical top speed is 130 mph.
The modifications don’t end there. The back axle comes from a go-kart. There is one important requirement that can’t be overlooked here. This beast of a lawn mower still needs to be able to cut grass. The Honda team dumped the regular metal blades and installed two electric motors with two bits of brake cable attached. Those suckers spin at 4,000 rpm. That might be enough to slice through an entire tree.
Like to see one of these whipping across a soccer field shredding grass at 60 mph.
Upon further investigation I guess it “could” mow grass, but more of just a novelty really:
With a little help from the company’s British Touring Car Championship (BTCC) team, Honda U.K. took one of the company’s HF2620 ride-on lawn mowers and turned it into a fire-breathing grass-shredder they called the Mean Mower.
The 688-cc OHV V-twin engine, the stock ride-on mower wasn’t enough for Team Dynamics, who prepped the championship-winning Honda Yuasa Racing Civic for the BTCC. So the engineers took the 996-cc V-twin from the VTR Firestorm superbike and built a new frame around it out of chromoly 4130. They then mated the engine to a custom paddle-shift, six-speed transmission; crafted a fiberglass deck; put a 15-liter fuel tank in the grass bag; fitted a new cooling system; slotted in a custom Cobra bucket seat; rigged the steering rack from a Morris Minor (of all things); bolted on a Scorpion exhaust; tuned a custom suspension; and stole the wheels from an ATV.
The result? A 109-hp lawn mower than can hit 60 in four seconds flat and reach an estimated top speed of over 130 mph. But it still wears much of the original bodywork from the stock mower, and most crucially, can still cut grass at speeds of up to 15 mph—which is a lot slower than the 100-mph machine has reached on the track with reigning BTCC champ Gordon Shedden behind the wheel, but is already double what the stock mower can do. See it in action in the video clip below.