My old Little Petro
That's awesome!!! My dad also chopped off the footrests, but otherwise mine was stock. I just found out I must have seized my P7 pretty early on...cause my motor did NOT have the oem domed 22mm piston in it. I know because the piston was the only part of the motor I kept, and owned into adulthood. In fact, I had it as a shift knob on my 55 Chevy back in the 90's!! Only when I started buying Tas engine parts, did I discover that I had a later 1.2 hp outboard/aquabug piston, which was probably all my dad could find. I just received an NOS P5 and a good P7 crank from S. Geier in the mail yesterday. The P5 piston and rings will go in my P7 and I'll hone the barrel best I can for now to use the std. bore parts until I find a nicer cylinder. I'm super stoked!! My 2nd parts Petro will be getting a ported 1.2 hp iron bore Tas engine, maybe even made to run w/o the magneto, with a glow plug on Nitro...like the 2.5 hp racing P7's used bitd in RC boats! All I need is another gear reduction unit. Here's my bike as it sits now