Project GO-kart muwhaha

[bigbass032 10+ year member]

Well, I decided a few days back to start this lil project. The frame was a gokart I had awhile back, bought from walmart, with a 6hp murray //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/help.gif.cee8f684da1ba626487a8bc51152e1ec.gif

I first off, took the old murray engine off and put a briggs 16hp vtwin on it. Turns out 16 hp is hard to get to the wheels (torque converters weren't very affective.)

Now she is coming together //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif

The Old Motor:

http://zoidberg.routesys.com/~ecsold/motor/DSC01671.JPG

The New Motor:

http://zoidberg.routesys.com/~ecsold/motor/DSC01672.JPG

The motor came from an Yamaha R1 (1000cc)

Plz be aware this is a VERY temp setup (below) as I put it together just to get an idea of what needed to be placed where. I had the main mounting locations 100% welded but turns out its a tad to small, so I cut the very top and temp welded a small tube to hold it apart. The motor is sitting on 1 bolt of about 4 to hold it up (just for fun.) Tomorrow I will finish the motor mounts.

PICTURES:

http://zoidberg.routesys.com/~ecsold/gogo/DSC01708.JPG

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Metal is 2x2" 1/8" wall

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[Bing 10+ year member]

Vroom vroom!

 

[Expy2000]

mmmm Sure will be fast...

 

[swaptrex 10+ year member]

omg that is by far the sweetest thing i have ever seen in my life, ive always wanted to build one. once i rode a homemade cart w/ a Artic Cat 440 motor and that was crazy, i can only imagine that beast. please keep us posted!!! //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/popcorn.gif.32dd9e22fd77e77bc3c907062768fcd2.gif

 

[bri487 5,000+ posts]

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dig it. thats me. you want to play with real karts, look into the world of shifter karts.

 

[bri487 5,000+ posts]

i will post more pics later, that is an older one, new chassis and body work since then. that is the 03 body work. i know a guy that did a 750cc on an extended 125 chassis, it was a piece of ****. there is no way to apply that kind of power without snapping the axle. a 250 shifter at sears point gets about 140 mph. those lay down so much torque, that they break things all the time. this is a 250 shifter that belongs to a nearby team.

 

[bigbass032 10+ year member]

this is something different from shifter carts. Don't hardly see 1000cc motors on 400 lb frames

 

[bri487 5,000+ posts]

this is something different from shifter carts. Don't hardly see 1000cc motors on 400 lb frames

it is going to be **** hard to beat a purpose built chassis and motor built for racing though. i highly doubt that it will perform nearly as well as anything related to the shifter kart racing world.

 

[bigbass032 10+ year member]

i highly doubt I could afford a 30k gokart

 

[Buckshot 10+ year member]

i highly doubt I could afford a 30k gokart

//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/laugh.gif.48439b2acf2cfca21620f01e7f77d1e4.gif//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/eek.gif.771b7a90cf45cabdc554ff1121c21c4a.gif//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/greedy.gif.5a53e6246569d7ab79867170f3b06629.gif Pocket Change. Uh Bro, how you gonna keep that beast cool?

 

[bumpncarstereo 10+ year member]

anyone ever seen the gixxer cart, it has a gsxr enigne on it, if someone wants it pm me or hit me on aim, also if someone wants to host it let me know and i will get it for you

 

[HOAX_1 10+ year member]

I will host the pic, send it to admin@tunnel-rats.com. I am a HUGE Busa fan... CMON SPRING!!!

 

[carguy83 10+ year member]

****, hope you'll reinforce that frame. saw a vid where some dude was in a gokart powered by a gxr engine. some crazy stuff.

http://www.m90.org/./gallery/video/goookart.wmv

 

[Echo42987 10+ year member]

My Buddy Brian Races for Lindstrand motorsports and He just put a Yamaha R1 engine in his Class D sports car. I love Road America...Your crazy on that little go cart! Your gonna scream buddy have fun!

 

[Buckshot 10+ year member]

Hell yeah bro. Careful at first though man. That coolnig honestly scares me a bit.