I was going to put this as its own topic, but here will do, unless anyone thinks it should be on its own.



Cant get enough rust free Victa Power torque bases??
The older victa full crank bases are made from a way thicker less rust prone steel. Reuse one of them.


I made this up.
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Power torque is the same mount pattern as a Briggs/Tecumseh/Honda etc just with an extra hole/bolt under the carb.


Take your plate of steel (you could use alloy) and shape it on a regular Victa power torque base, Mark the engine mounting holes, find centre and drill them. Find centre in the plate and drill a hole here. You can refference the next steps off this hole.
Use the metal plate from under a power torque on a Full crank steel base, set the plate out on the base and measure a million times to make sure its concentric/central. Mark and Drill it out for the full crank.
Then put the plate on a dual drilled Victa base and you can mark up the forward facing holes (the ones with arrows in the pic)


For the middle step above you could also use an alloy mustang base, some of these had the lugs underneath that just needed drilling, but beware some were full crank or 4 stroke only. No power torque.



Now you can get a steel base victa with a dead full crank on it and redrill it to take another motor. I havent actually tried it on an alloy base, havent had the need as yet but I assume it would work fine.
Bolt your plate to the base and if it has the dimple, drill it for a power torque, or no dimple, a 4 stroke. Depending on the motor you might be able to mount the 4 stroke sideways or forwards. Then out with the plasma cutter to do the muffler cut out and cut out the centre hole to the bigger diameter, ive got a template for that too, its just a trimmed down cut out from another base. I suppose you could jigsaw/recipro it out too if youve got good blades.


P.S. Its a handy thing that plasma cutter. If you have a compressor you should put a plasma cutter on your to buy list. Way less heat than an oxy. It leaves a nice oxidised coating on the cut so that if you dont paint it it wont rust away. You can easily cut all sorts of shapes a grinder wont do.
Only bad thing is they do use a bit of air, like an oxy cutting freehand can make a fair wobbly mess.


Oh and I probably should have got some shots of it on an actual base.