im wanting to build a go cart, does anyone know where i can get good parts for cheap, like websites or whatever. ill need all of the parts, frame, engine(preferably at least 10 hp), tires, brakes, all of it. any help wouold be appreciated
just buy an old VW Beetle and strip it down. bit bigger than a go-kart and a hella lot faster. if you're gonna build a go-kart, it all really depends on how far you're willing to go. if i were you, i'd weld the chassis together myself and strip a small tranny/engine from some miniature import car and put all that together. however, i don't think you're looking to go that far. shopping around lawn mower shops will turn up almost all the parts you need, except the frame. not sure where to get that.
We once built one out of a lawnmower engine.... waaaaay too slow.... the next summer we built one with a vw motor like you were saying. Step Brother and I built the whole frame from scratch.... we even had a corvette stearing wheel out of one of our old race cars.... I can't tell you how many time the cops tried to give me a ticket...that thing was LOUD! haha that brings up a funny story... long story short, i bet my step brother he couldn't take it through the Motor X course...he did and nearly killed to kids on dirt bikes! omg it was funny tho. you should have seen those little dudes trying to get away from him and him trying to run them down through the woops....he broke the axel on the last woop..... god i miss those days.
next time use a heavy duty electric starter motor..with a variable speed switch.. and go to the junk yard to get the battery's.. i did.
never even thought of making an electic one. hmm.... i wish I was 14 again and back at my pops shop... the things i would build now!
The fact that I don't have my stepdads shop anymore is really the only thing. The man raced cars for 30 years and is pretty much Bob Villa with attitude so he had like every tool under the sun. I don't have a lot of space or tools at my townhouse.
My son and I built him one maybe 14 years ago or so (when he was about 15) and we used an old Kawasaki 750cc 3 cyl engine from a bike we bought at a motorcycle wrecking yard ... The darn thing was scary fast! ... and you get a transmission that way also
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If our garage was a lil bigger and I had 70 grand worth of tools lying around I'd do it in a heartbeat. now the only thing we get made in our garage is spud guns... for those of you that don't know what a spud gun is its a potato cannon made out of PVC using a bbq grill ignitor and hairspray (or if your really brave Ether) .... I live with 3 engineering students and I've seen a potato fly at least 200 yards.
i want this!! http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-269584588851996403 1100cc GSXR engine on a shifterkart chassis, now we're talking fun. notice the high speed drifting just by blipping the throttle.
Was about to say use a gixxer engine, you would need an airfield to see what it would do though! Awesome piece of kit. Take a look at this shoot out between a tickled Supra & a tickled Skyline. Note how the rev counter moves, esp on the Skyline... http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5272072647348632544&pl=true They are quick..
thanks guys, i like the idea of the motorcycle engine. that would be cool. i want to race it with some friends we are all building them, for drags and circuts and whatever else we feel like. it would also be good to have that tranny, go faster with it.
@Darthnip: It must be nearly impossible to keep ones self on that thing when goosing it at high speeds like that. I can't even imagine the force that puts on the body... also I don't know how stoked i'd be about going that fast that close to the ground... espessially without a roll cage of somekind.. but I guess the center of gravity is so low that its nearly impossible to roll.
no it's actually pretty easy to roll if you dont know how to drive it or your setup is wrong, not to mention touching tired with someone, which cause one of the karts to go airbourne usually. i've ran quite a few shifter karts and the speed is amazing even from a 125cc engine. my favorite was the 250cc enduro kart i ran, you literally almost lay down in them and the engine is right beside your head. i couldn't imagine what running a gixxer engine would be like, but i'd sure like to find out! and about the electric starter motor kart, we actually had an engineer where i work (worlds largest starter manufacturer) that designed a kart with 2 24V 50MT semi starters driving it. i guess the way he had it designed it was like "instant on" full power and he calculated 0-100mph in 3.1 seconds or something ridiculous like that. i'm not sure if he ever built it, i heard rumors that after he did the speed calculations it kind of scared him lol.
wow, i cant imagine driving a shiftercart around my housing with a 6 speed shiftercart and a engine with 15k redline, rofl. Ive seen that video, and have the whole movie that features mostley jdm cars, that tsuchiya drives. Yeah it gets to 8k really fast, damm thoes turbos must spool at 2-3K, and the engine probally has internals.
