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and had everything running
smoothly, he took the entire
body apart again to improve
its looks. Rulien says the
finished cart could clear 120
mph and use its four-wheel-
drive system to tear up even
“Every vehicle I own is red. I’m a red kind of guy,” Rulien says. For
the deepest sand traps. He
the Overkill build, he added the International Harvester Scout’s red
is waiting until golf season to engine and painted the shock absorbers and the driveshafts.
really push the vehicle, but it
has already made an impres-
That let him shrink the truck's wheelbase
sion. When a truck driver eyed the beast, he
and get closer to cart scale, but it also means
declared, “Jeez, that’s overkill!” And thus was
riders will feel every bump in the road. "We
she christened.
didn't care about the ride," he jokes.
How It Works
Curb Appeal
Red All Over
Time: 2 months
Cost: $4,300
Off-Roading
Rulien doesn't plan to rip up any golf courses
with his V8 cart; he's thinking about showing
it off in parades and events. Either way, the
look was important to him, so he searched
There won't be any shifting to four-wheel on
for the right add-ons—chrome headers for
the fly: The driver has to get out and reach
the engine, aluminum diamond plating—and
under the cart's floor to change into off-road spent four 12-hour days grinding and clean-
mode. The good news is that despite the orig- ing the Scout's chassis to get it ready for
inal Scout's brake problems, Overkill can stop painting.
because Rulien replaced all the brake lines
and calipers. The truck's master brake cyl-
inder still worked, but Rulien moved it from
the engine area to the middle of the vehicle,
under the seat. "There was no real room up
front," he says, "and I wanted people to just
see the engine."
Suspension
The Scout's rear axle had large suspension
springs for off-roading, but Rulien swapped
in shorter, heavy-duty ones from a trailer.
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