Comments on: Who can mount my motorcycle engine to a go kart? http://www.karts2go.com/uncategorized/who-can-mount-my-motorcycle-engine-to-a-go-kart Step into Karts 2 Go Fri, 20 Aug 2010 23:27:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: lbhietala http://www.karts2go.com/uncategorized/who-can-mount-my-motorcycle-engine-to-a-go-kart/comment-page-1#comment-2984 lbhietala Fri, 04 Sep 2009 13:53:59 +0000 http://www.karts2go.com/5/who-can-mount-my-motorcycle-engine-to-a-go-kart#comment-2984 This is all work you can do yourself. You can construct the brackets from some plate steel, attach that to channel steel and attach the channel to the gokart frame. It's pretty straightforward stuff. With that engine and the level of experience / forethought you're bringing to this project, I'm afraid you're going to die. Not from doing the construction job wrong - you can screw up a lot and still get it to all hold together. But with that much muscle driving you, you're liable to try to become One With Nature in a very bad way. Follow-up: Reading your follow-ups it strikes me you're making this thing up as you go. Just any ol' sprocket on the axle, one that you happen to have but is bigger in diameter than the intended go-kart wheels, is Not Gonna Work. You'd need to add a jackshaft and step the ratio down again to where you can use a more reasonably-sized sprocket, or yes, you'll need bigger wheels and tires on the rear axle. I strongly recommend you stop any and all work on this go-kart project of yours now, before you blow any more money on it. Go to some of the local sporting goods shops, Northern Tool, Pep Boys - anyplace that sells go-karts. Look at those things carefully, puzzle out how they made those things work. Then draw your design on a blank sheet of paper and follow your design in a comprehensive fashion, not following the whims of what chance sends your way in the form of random parts. That, or sell that engine and go buy one of the ready-made carts. You're less likely to die that way.<br><b>References : </b><br> This is all work you can do yourself. You can construct the brackets from some plate steel, attach that to channel steel and attach the channel to the gokart frame. It’s pretty straightforward stuff.

With that engine and the level of experience / forethought you’re bringing to this project, I’m afraid you’re going to die. Not from doing the construction job wrong – you can screw up a lot and still get it to all hold together. But with that much muscle driving you, you’re liable to try to become One With Nature in a very bad way.

Follow-up: Reading your follow-ups it strikes me you’re making this thing up as you go. Just any ol’ sprocket on the axle, one that you happen to have but is bigger in diameter than the intended go-kart wheels, is Not Gonna Work. You’d need to add a jackshaft and step the ratio down again to where you can use a more reasonably-sized sprocket, or yes, you’ll need bigger wheels and tires on the rear axle.

I strongly recommend you stop any and all work on this go-kart project of yours now, before you blow any more money on it. Go to some of the local sporting goods shops, Northern Tool, Pep Boys – anyplace that sells go-karts. Look at those things carefully, puzzle out how they made those things work. Then draw your design on a blank sheet of paper and follow your design in a comprehensive fashion, not following the whims of what chance sends your way in the form of random parts.

That, or sell that engine and go buy one of the ready-made carts. You’re less likely to die that way.
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