Back to the drawing board - Spoke to the local All Terrain and Mower store (as they are the local Victa dealers) His advise is that the VEX160 two stroke (largest available and on the Victa Slasher) would not be powerful enough to drive a self propelled (the Victa slasher is a push job)
Incorrect, I might suggest he is trying to sell you the more expensive unit, that's all.
In fact Victa HAVE run self propelled slashers, going as far back as the 1974 V164 Super 24" self propelled.
Set up correctly, a good Victa engine would power a self propelled slasher, it would not handle the same maximum load as your 10hp, but it would happily power the unit.
Further, the VEX160 is no bigger than a VE160, V160, V40, V35 or V45 engine, they are all 160cc, with minor variations, mostly surrounding port shape and carburettor tunning.
If you were to go Victa, I would suggest, as Bob has, that you look into a full crank Victa from before 1984, either series 70 or series 80 160cc would do.
But you may fair better, again as Bob has pointed out, with a Suzuki 2-stroke engine, they were released on rovers From 1992 on wards i believe, I don't think they are still in production, but a second hand one would do the Job well.
I believe Briggs also made a 2 stroke, however I do not know much about it's power output.
