home build off road go kart (56k may be dodgy)

[cobalt6700]

well i promised some pics, and here they are. enjoy!

kart
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v248/cobalt6700/DSC01303.jpg

matt and kart
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v248/cobalt6700/DSC01305.jpg

MIG (tripped out again, and god was she sexy!!!)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v248/cobalt6700/DSC01306.jpg

trustly little grinder
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v248/cobalt6700/DSC01307.jpg

my ped, woth welding rod :D
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v248/cobalt6700/DSC01308.jpg

we had a break from welding, so we went and got new bikes, no jokes!

mine:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v248/cobalt6700/DSC01309.jpg

matts:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v248/cobalt6700/DSC01310.jpg

workshop!!!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v248/cobalt6700/DSC01311.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v248/cobalt6700/DSC01312.jpg

[cobalt6700]

matt grinding:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v248/cobalt6700/DSC01313.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v248/cobalt6700/DSC01314.jpg

minnie and mikky mouse :D

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v248/cobalt6700/DSC01315.jpg

FLAME!! :h34r:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v248/cobalt6700/DSC01317.jpg

lunch! nice bacon sanwige:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v248/cobalt6700/DSC01319.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v248/cobalt6700/DSC01320.jpg

matt and welding hat!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v248/cobalt6700/DSC01323.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v248/cobalt6700/DSC01322.jpg

[cobalt6700]

me!!!

how the f**k do you use this thing
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v248/cobalt6700/DSC01324.jpg

ohh like that!!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v248/cobalt6700/DSC01325.jpg

no i really can weld, look:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v248/cobalt6700/DSC01326.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v248/cobalt6700/DSC01327.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v248/cobalt6700/DSC01328.jpg

and finially, the fog lights:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v248/cobalt6700/DSC01329.jpg

and im sorry dudes, didnt manage to get a pics of holly, matts sis. though i got a slap again! and she was prooer hot in her dressing gown! haha:shock:

gaz out.

[Psykotik]

Nice work fella, although I demand we see Holly! :D

[cobalt6700]

lol, she wont let me take pics,

ill see what i can do!

hehe

[Marquee]

Nice m8. This is like every kids dream to have his own little cart to zoom around in his advantures. LOL

At least as modders we can fo-fill those dreams.

[biggiy6]

lol, she wont let me take pics,

ill see what i can do!

hehe

Sneak up on her and take a picture or do it when she least expects it.

[Starbuck3733T]

Rawk! :rock:

[cobalt6700]

god shes only fifteen! i tried again today. and the reason i didnt take a piccy of her was cos as i aimed matt pointed to gas torch at my balls. so i turned the camera off and walked back rather fast!

[Psykotik]

god shes only fifteen!!

:eek:

[cobalt6700]

what im 16........ lol

[fillip]

what im 16........ lol

Yeah, but now Psykotik just looks like a school girl perv' http://wizdforums.co.uk/images/smilies/grin.gif

[Vis]

boy, am I ever glad I didnt join in this perv-fest

[Pug]

While you lot are fighting over the scantily-clad schoolgirl, can I have a go in the kart please? :huh:

Looks very nicely built, did you come up with the design yourself or base it on something? - Nice bikes too, btw. B)
[edit]I'd have thought more rake on the steering column but that's just an impression I get.

[cobalt6700]

well we have built it from plans, and we got some parts, but we have had to make a few bits here and there, plus lots of love and attention. :thumb:

plan is to get it up and runiing, do a wicked paint job, and the sell it on. its only something to tickle our intrest with, and depending on how this one goes, the next plan is either a 2 seater with a large motorbike engine or a trike with a car engine, or something really wacky. :wiz:

w will see.

BTW if anyone is intrested in buyng it, we may have it finished for christmas (what a nice christmas pressie for your son ;-), or you!!!:D)

idea for coulor is yellow and blue.

another update either this friday with pics, or next week end some time. were also moddin the volvo. mini fridge, footwell lighting, and a induction kit, maby a boost valve. :dremel: ^_^

gaz

[fivecheebs]

hehe ... this thing is way cool :D

Years ago, a mate of a mate made a gokart which was leathal yet soo much fun!. Kind of similar you your design, it had a 600cc bile lump with a mental home made linkage that went to an old mini gearstick with sequencial forward and backward shifting :D It had a mini seat with masses of pipe lagging on the roll bar because the springy seat used to bounce your head into the roll bar at the top :lol:. It also had mini wheels with no suspension what so ever. and was liable to wheelie accellerating hard over bumps!

'kin scarey but oh so much fun! :wiz:

Good luck with yours man, ill be watching closely ^_^

[cobalt6700]

me cries.

i think i deserve the worst week of the week award, awarded weekly on a week by week basis. try saying that fast (radio 2 listeners know im not mad:thumb:)

my week has been so shit. citylink cant delvier the back axle cos the lost it :mad:, my scooter is in bits, and i mean carb off, oil reg off, gears out, body work off. it killed its self. i dont think there is any oil getting trough. <_< :wallbash:
and i had to push it 2 miles to work and 5 miles home. :rant:.

:bat: (http://misc.php?do=getsmilies&wysiwyg=1&forumid=24#) to the bloke i got it off.

tho i have found an engine for the cart. so i braught that. :D

[GodsUnicorn]

(radio 2 listeners know im not mad:thumb:)



Both of them...

Tough week mate, but things can only get better.

[cobalt6700]

:o

my poor baby.......

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v248/cobalt6700/DSC01334.jpg

dont the gears look really cool. :huh:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v248/cobalt6700/DSC01335.jpg

and my shitty oil reg and carb, which one is to fault, fook knows. <_<

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v248/cobalt6700/DSC01336.jpg


just thaught u maby were intrested :shrug:
gaz

[cobalt6700]

just got the engine off of ebay. link here.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=7717507544&rd=1&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWA%3AIT&rd=1

back axle still hasnt come. arse holes.

hopefully some time this week.

scooter now works again. thankfully.

gaz

[Da_Rude_Baboon]

While you lot are fighting over the scantily-clad schoolgirl, can I have a go in the kart please? :huh:

I can't find that pic. <_<

[cobalt6700]

what pic?

[cobalt6700]

WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHAAAAA AAAAAAA!!!!! :D :D :D

eh hem. yeah. well the engine is here!!!!!!!!

woooo!

umm yeah lol. very exciting moment . i didnt get many pics of the packagine with it in, cos it came off faster than my girlfeinds clothes. me and matt came back from college to get my mum saying, what the hell is this f**king huge box on my door step, and we were like, dont know mum. lol. we knew what it was. she thaught it was a graphics card??!!!?! lol.

mums for you..

anyways, we got it oil'd up and petrol'd up, mounted it to a board and it vibrated its self accross the grass while we were running it in. lol. alll good fun.

it really marks a crucial milestone in this project, we now have a powerplant. we still dont have a back axle. lol. plus we only have £500 left to spend on it, and that is £250 each next month, and then its the home straight!!

just got to get some paint, and bits and bobs, work out shit, get some lorry mudguards, genral stuff. plus move enigne stop switch ot front of kart. anyways nuff of me fogging on, some pics of the beast, and she is, it kicks the board up when you rev it!!!!

box
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v248/cobalt6700/DSC01337.jpg

fuel and oil (im building the suspence :D)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v248/cobalt6700/DSC01338.jpg

matt and engine
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v248/cobalt6700/DSC01339.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v248/cobalt6700/DSC01340.jpg

me and engine
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v248/cobalt6700/DSC01343.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v248/cobalt6700/DSC01344.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v248/cobalt6700/DSC01342.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v248/cobalt6700/DSC01341.jpg

what a bute!!!! ticks over nicely, and purrs like a happy cat. brill.

very econmical as well, we had it running for 30 mins and we still had a full tank!! lol

hope that excites some of you as much as it has me..

gaz out :wiz:

[jaguarking11]

Nice motor. Sounds like its built rite. I was wondering if you thought of forced induction for it? :D

I been cooking ideas over the past cuple of months on how to make cheep forced induction units for small mototrs like that. Lets just say it involves something very unlikely. Anyways.

Also how about a water jacket for it and a heatercore and nice 12v pump to keep it cool?


Anyways nice motor.

Ps get rid of the muffler and put on a cuple of strait pipes in horn shapes. It should sound like a machine gun.:wiz:

[fivecheebs]

Your having far too much fun with this cobalt. :thumb:

[cobalt6700]

lol, i was looking at some tuned pipes on ebay, and i think i my go with that. also, a scooter induction kit may fit onto it, but its got a weird mounting place.

how the hell would i put a water jacket on it?? (or were u being sarcastic?)

and can u give me a hint as to your forced inducton, i might just give it a try :D

gaz

i just got this through for the GFX from fibbs (the one that my mum thaught was in the huge box, hehehehehe :D)


Service Type: International Parcels

Shipment Activity Location Date & Time
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Acceptance SANTA FE NM 87505 10/08/05 3:47pm

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yey! :wiz:


hold on, that was a while back, it should be here soon. :mellow:

[jaguarking11]

THe water jacket can be done in a fiew ways.

First way (I dislike this way) is hacking the fins off the motor and smothing them down on a lathe. Then getting a pipe larger than that and welding some O shaped rings ontop to create a tight fit and welding the whole thing to the head. Taping two holes and puting barbs then just runing water through it.

I would prefer keeping the fins geting a pice of pipe that has the diameter of the fins (if the fins are round) and piping it with a larger pipe and create two compression flanges ontop and bottom to tighten the thing water tight with bolts and use barbs again to flow water through it.

As for the forced induction. Lets say its sort of like supercharging but with some very cheep unlikely parts and electronicaly controlled.

[cobalt6700]

yes well some plans might be nice lol, (for the induction) if you want to give the to me that is...... :D :D

and we will wait and see before we put a waterjacet on, lol. maby on next build.

hairdryer....?

[jaguarking11]

yes well some plans might be nice lol, (for the induction) if you want to give the to me that is...... :D :D

and we will wait and see before we put a waterjacet on, lol. maby on next build.

hairdryer....?

LOL@hairdryer.

Not quite tho. Ill tell you this mutch, it does involve a :dremel:. Im thinking about building a small motor first to test it out, before I get laughed at. And im even thinking about intercooling it. Lets hope I dont blow the motor to bits.

[Pug]

If that's a new engine, I hope it got 'run in' before you revved the tits off it with no load on it. :-p

[jaguarking11]

If that's a new engine, I hope it got 'run in' before you revved the tits off it with no load on it. :-p

Yeh that could be problem. No breack in time means short life. It means gauges in the cylinder walls, warped parts due to heat and general breackdown and short life cycle. But im shure they know what they are doing pug:cool:

[cobalt6700]

haha, yeah it was run in lol.

we had osme fun this weekend. a bit sad......but hey, what elese are you supposed to do with £700 a month??

the go kart website is down, so we cant buy parts. but we did buy some r/c minis..... and some meccano. hehehe. ill gie you after pics later. here are the before the tornament.

[cobalt6700]

mini tornenment:

mine

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v248/cobalt6700/DSC01360.jpg

yup. thats a blow torch :D

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v248/cobalt6700/DSC01363.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v248/cobalt6700/DSC01364.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v248/cobalt6700/DSC01365.jpg
muhahaha

parts
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v248/cobalt6700/DSC01371.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v248/cobalt6700/DSC01374.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v248/cobalt6700/DSC01375.jpg

[cobalt6700]

matts:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v248/cobalt6700/DSC01370.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v248/cobalt6700/DSC01378.jpghttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v248/cobalt6700/DSC01380.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v248/cobalt6700/DSC01379.jpg

the two warrior's

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v248/cobalt6700/DSC01382.jpg

size comparison

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v248/cobalt6700/DSC01384.jpg

FiGHT!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v248/cobalt6700/DSC01385.jpg

i do have videos.... if you wants to see them. just a lot of burning and stuf....

ill take some pics when i get back from colleg tomorrow of the minis now. BTW, they dont work anyome. youll understand when you see.......

gaz

[Mr.stubbs]

right i know what im doing at the weekend

[cobalt6700]

hahaha, dude, maplins..........£20 for the two. it was sodding awesome. lol. we starpped sparlers to them as wel.. hehehehehhe. nite.

[mnpctech]

The red one needed a cordless dremel on it's roof with the shroud removed on this mini saw (http://i13.ebayimg.com/04/i/04/73/6f/63_1_b.JPG) attachment :D

[zer0]

im sorry but your blow toarch looks like a hair dryer...

[cobalt6700]

The red one needed a cordless dremel on it's roof with the shroud removed on this mini saw (http://i13.ebayimg.com/04/i/04/73/6f/63_1_b.JPG) attachment :D


hahaha.....clasic... dont they need 240v power though..... sod.

we are buying two more next month. and we will change the design. and get some more weapons i suppose. suggestions are welcome. has to be cheap and able to be modded onto mini.

thanks

gaz

[mnpctech]

10.8V Lithium Ion battery (http://uk.bizrate.com/buy/noncat_prod_details__oid--307757404.html)

You could make a Cow catcher! (http://www.station.sony.com/battlebots/images/tcmechwars/armokuolema.jpg) from sheet metal...

[Mr.stubbs]

get a small electric motor and stick some little chains to it make a sort flail thing.

[cobalt6700]

i like that one......i know you all want to see some destrctuion, so get those brains going for ideas!

[ỒĊBłůē]

Go with the blowtorch still, but knock up some home-brew napalm and figure a goop-launcher for it ^_^

[cobalt6700]

lol i could get depleted urainium from work hahaha. make a small railgun......... hehehe

[fivecheebs]

Rip the servos etc out of the old minis and use them to control some wepons. You could use one to spray an aerosol over the torche's flame at will. do you have a friend called will?

[cobalt6700]

haha yes i do. have a friend called will that is.

the minis are totally blackbox. as with any off the shelf RC stuff. so that ,means motors intread of servos. and there shitty single acting put into one jobbys. so. we are just using them for spare parts. and were going to put a firewok on one.......probably matts.

im strapping mine onto one of those boxes that gos blam blam and shhots up little ball shaped fireworks..... ill dig a hole over the common.

well see.

[biggiy6]

There is a new show out with Ryan Dunn off Jackass and Viva La Bam called Home wrecker. Last night he wired up two paintball guns to a servo. The guy walks in the door and he sees a picture of him self get shot full of paint, 400 paintballs all in this one spot and I thought I saw a small chunk of drywall missing.

I want to do that to my gun lol.

[penguin]

I would get two pencil torches, cause they're smaller than that blowtorch and you could place them more strategically ;)

[dragracing_fan]

THe water jacket can be done in a fiew ways.

First way (I dislike this way) is hacking the fins off the motor and smothing them down on a lathe. Then getting a pipe larger than that and welding some O shaped rings ontop to create a tight fit and welding the whole thing to the head. Taping two holes and puting barbs then just runing water through it.

I would prefer keeping the fins geting a pice of pipe that has the diameter of the fins (if the fins are round) and piping it with a larger pipe and create two compression flanges ontop and bottom to tighten the thing water tight with bolts and use barbs again to flow water through it.

As for the forced induction. Lets say its sort of like supercharging but with some very cheep unlikely parts and electronicaly controlled.

LEAFBLOWER!!! HAHAHAHA, btw very nice im almost done mine, i got a 6.5 hp tecumseh that i rebuilt and it making about 15 hp now on a 16" tall tire with a torque converter, it hauls ass

[mnpctech]

LEAFBLOWER!!! HAHAHAHA, btw very nice im almost done mine, i got a 6.5 hp tecumseh that i rebuilt and it making about 15 hp now on a 16" tall tire with a torque converter, it hauls ass

Have pics?

[dragracing_fan]

Have pics?
yeah il try and get some, right now its cold out and my garage dont have heat so im lazy but il try and get em by the end of the week

[cobalt6700]

well dudes.......the go kart is back in swing...

weve got wheels coming in feb, along with other parts.

bad news is, both me and matt are low on money......so its gunna take a while.

on a good note, i got to first base with holly!!! :bounce:

and were now like seeing each other. ish. :naughty:

matt got over it....but he didnt have much choice.

right im off to college (half day :woohoo: )

gaz

[penguin]

...
We *still* don't have pics of this elusive "Holly" creature... How do we know she/it exists?
But nevermind that... I wanna see the pictures of the kart!

[simon_C]

sweet project! cant believe i missed it..... reminds me of my own minichopper project...

[cobalt6700]

...
We *still* don't have pics of this elusive "Holly" creature... How do we know she/it exists?
But nevermind that... I wanna see the pictures of the kart!

haha...im taking her out to dinner soon. ummm....picture i can get...maby.

mat has been shagging the apprentice school bicycle since new years...so i havent seem much of him, and he hasnt got much money.

nor have i to be honest. my moped is screwd. been the the shop and they had a look, told me it was the crank seals......costs £300 quid for that. the bikes only worth £500. so they got a middle finger and now im stripping it down in my garage. very very intresting stuff.

pics hopefully coming soon guys.......AND we have a paint colour.......i think ill let you all stew on that one....

gaz out

[cobalt6700]

hey guys,

the time that its taken


but


THE BEAST IS READY!! MUHAHAA

well, matt got it working, forgot to paint it, and now its rusty as hell, so were sanding it and painting it, promise some pics soon guys!

i never took holly out either.....:shrug:

ohh...and holly ...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v248/cobalt6700/x1pbglk-vqL4BvdiYVnye1H7UA3HPYjm2Lp.jpg

not the best in the world...

shes legal now :wiz:

[cobalt6700]

well.....

ITS FINISHED!!!!!! (only took 2 years :-p)

hehe!

:D

just a sneek preview

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXaE8B6JL3g
xXaE8B6JL3g

[jaguarking11]

Ever thought about forced induction?


Well I have an idea for you. go to a junk yard and get an old turbocharger, the smaller the better. Find a weedwacker motor (30cc or so) hook up to direct drive the compressor housing by removing the collector housing and bold directly. The weedwacker engines spin up to 40k rpm easily so you should get some very good boost. Connect to the main engine intake and bore out the sprayer for gasoline.

Start them in synch, or you can start the main first, the compression of the main engine should be able to fire the secondary engine easily.

Be careful though, you can blow the engine to bits. It would guzzle fuel but you could be looking at allot more power.

I wanted to ask, what kind of gearbox do you use? is it a torque converter kind? or is it a full gearbox.

Congrats on finishing it up.

[cobalt6700]

Ever thought about forced induction?


Well I have an idea for you. go to a junk yard and get an old turbocharger, the smaller the better. Find a weedwacker motor (30cc or so) hook up to direct drive the compressor housing by removing the collector housing and bold directly. The weedwacker engines spin up to 40k rpm easily so you should get some very good boost. Connect to the main engine intake and bore out the sprayer for gasoline.

Start them in synch, or you can start the main first, the compression of the main engine should be able to fire the secondary engine easily.

Be careful though, you can blow the engine to bits. It would guzzle fuel but you could be looking at allot more power.

I wanted to ask, what kind of gearbox do you use? is it a torque converter kind? or is it a full gearbox.

Congrats on finishing it up.

cheers for that -

getting a small turbo was an idea i had. thats an intresting way of doing it though....i was simply going to made a custom exhaust manifold and run the turbo off the exhaust.

no gearbox as of yet. no diff either. its a direct drive via a centrifugal, geared down 4:1.

ill have a chat with matt about a turbo today.

[jaguarking11]

Be careful with forced induction and two stroke, engines made like that are not very strongly made, so if you overboost you can blow the block to chunks hurting yourself. If you decide to go forced induction though, get a barrier between you and the engine, at least a thick layer of alu.

Also when experimenting get a mustard bottle full of fuel and feed the engine manualy in case of overheating, and for gods sake take proper precautions when experimenting.

Kawasaki had a very sucessfull two stroke turbo from the 1980's so google that up and you will find some helfull ways of tuning it. Remember two strokes have not timing chains or belts or valves so to prevent detonation add some alcohol to the fuel.

I know its very complex but it can work if done properly. I am currently looking for an old turbocharger and I cant seem to find a decent one for cheep. The engine I plan on starting to experiment with is from an old moped I plan on gutting.

I figure its my first window to tuning engines, then I plan on getting a small 4 cyl off the junkyard and play with a 4 stroke. The possibly an FI v8 later on.

You see I analyzed building a votus and realized that I need some experience with engines and transmissions before jumping in, well more experience than what I have now. I plan on picking up a ride on mower transmission as well.

GL and for god sakes be very careful when dealing with engines.

[jaguarking11]

a vide I found.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pV7E2N_2N7E&mode=related&search=

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6agXwQp-MWo&mode=related&search=

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YF0SCxIQ6PU&mode=related&search=

[cobalt6700]

Be careful with forced induction and two stroke, engines made like that are not very strongly made, so if you overboost you can blow the block to chunks hurting yourself. If you decide to go forced induction though, get a barrier between you and the engine, at least a thick layer of alu.

Also when experimenting get a mustard bottle full of fuel and feed the engine manualy in case of overheating, and for gods sake take proper precautions when experimenting.

Kawasaki had a very sucessfull two stroke turbo from the 1980's so google that up and you will find some helfull ways of tuning it. Remember two strokes have not timing chains or belts or valves so to prevent detonation add some alcohol to the fuel.

I know its very complex but it can work if done properly. I am currently looking for an old turbocharger and I cant seem to find a decent one for cheep. The engine I plan on starting to experiment with is from an old moped I plan on gutting.

I figure its my first window to tuning engines, then I plan on getting a small 4 cyl off the junkyard and play with a 4 stroke. The possibly an FI v8 later on.

You see I analyzed building a votus and realized that I need some experience with engines and transmissions before jumping in, well more experience than what I have now. I plan on picking up a ride on mower transmission as well.

GL and for god sakes be very careful when dealing with engines.

its a fourstroke..... ill send you a PM later
ohh ohh - that fist video is the same engine as mine (just a bit more HP though! )

[Pug]

well.....

ITS FINISHED!!!!!! (only took 2 years :-p)

hehe!

:D

just a sneek preview

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXaE8B6JL3g

:lol: Nice one Gaz. Looks like fun.

[Evenge]

Cool...:wiz:

[fivecheebs]

Why were'nt you the one to test drive it? :lol:

Funny insane giggling too :wiz:

[cobalt6700]

Why were'nt you the one to test drive it? :lol:

Funny insane giggling too :wiz:

yeah, thats just my hiper laugh... :wiz:

i was filming you see....

shes getting a 125cc geared motocross engine in her.... give it a bit more grunt:thumb: