Question: Can a simple pulley and twisted belt drive system work on a go kart for a drive system? Answer: No, the belt will slip, and there will be tracking problems. The answer seems simple enough, the belts slipping and belt tracking, but there is more than meets the eye […]
The Go Kart Drive Line Program (This is an exerpt from the Go Kart Building 203 Book on the Drive Line Program) After having gone through all these calculations you may be anxious to get some answers quicker. The go kart program will help with that. Though it is not […]
Well it was a short year. Things happened way too fast, and projects went way to slow and uncompleted. It is going on two years now and the dual seater go kart is not complete. Which is frustrating, but necessary seeing we are videoing the whole process. Our ambitious goal […]
The ambitious go karter had this grand vision of a go kart that would do all sorts of things. It would hold four kids, have a vertical engine, be made out of wood, used lawnmower wheels, and go 10 miles an hour. It started to turned into a mini behemoth […]
The weekends they come and they go. You ask a guy on Monday morning what he did this weekend and he will say it was way too short. Usually that means is that they had limited family time to themselves. They did not have any time to do any thing […]
This may not sound like we are going down the road to actually talk about go karts ore may not sound like it’s even relevant to go kart at first but you’ll see as you read through this article how relevant this Menard’s disaster is to building a go kart […]
Question: I have this set of bevel gears that I found when I took apart this transmission on a riding lawn mower, and I was wondering can you use these bevel gears to convert a vertical engine to run horizontally and then run a go kart? That’s a great question, […]
I just wanted to comment on the steering system of the wood go kart using ropes. In the books I mention the pro’s and con’s of the rope steering. Number one, you don’t want to use a low quality rope but should be using a higher quality nylon rope. Use of […]
