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Message: [QUOTE="steve.emma, post: 1231958, member: 36039"] ok first up this thread has nothing in particular to do with bikes or any type of bike engine in particular. the story is that i have an old racing go-kart frame in my garage that has been sitting around for ages. anyway i was thinking about repowering it with a spare 2stroke lawnmower engine that i also had lying under my bench. the problem is that the way that the engine would best mount to the frame means that the engine would spin backwards. now what im wondering is what would be the problem with this? i would not be using the pull start so therefore what else would be affected by the engine spinning in reverse? would the fact that the thrust side of the piston would now be against the intake side matter? any light on this topic would be useful. i remember seeing a thread on here ages ago about a guys whose bike somehow ended up running backwards, and it scaring the crap out of him when he let the clutch out! :laugh: [/QUOTE]