The frame we made for this go kart was in two parts the first part was a stencil on a piece of plywood and the second part was placing some RHS together on the plywood in the basic outline of the kart's frame.
Thanks, hope to be building a tire-smoking beast of a go-kart this spring/summer, and we'd appreciate as much help as possible on this. The design of the frame that is shown above, differs from the original, as many of the measurements have been modified to suit our group. Any links or pictures or advice would be greatly appreciated, and if anyone has AIM and is willing to help out by chatting on that, my screen name is:Īnd i'll be on this afternoon around 2:30 EST I havnt found any go-kart forums online, so i'm hoping that someone on this forum has some go kart building experience or even just some advice for us.
We are still working with a relativly small budget (around 200 bucks), i've got an arc welder but no place to plug it in.so we are having trouble deciding what to do about the frame.
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Now since thats ALOT of power, we've decided to figure out how to make it 2 wheel drive, and possibly seat two (side by side). I am not sure what type of engine, but I know its a 700CC motorcycle engine that just needs a carb rebuild to run, and its ours to use. we were going to use a 5 HP lawn mower engine (horizontal shaft) to power our one wheel drive/one person beast.but last night i got a call from one of them whos dad has a few old. Well me and a few friends have decided to build an on-road go kart. Then upgrade to a pedal powered wooden-go-kart and finally maybe attach a small engine. Building a 700CC motorcycle engine powerd go-kart. Typically these people want to make the wooden push go-kart first.
I get a lot of emails asking how to implement a pedal drive for the wooden-go-karts listed here. We were going to use a 5 HP lawn mower engine (horizontal shaft) to power our one wheel drive/one person beast.but last night i got a call from one of them whos dad has a few old motorcycles. Whats very nice about this kart is that it uses a pedal crank and chain to drive the kart.