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Steven
09-17-2006, 04:18 PM
So... your walking down the street, what is the most unlikely event to occur? A tornadoe, a tsunami, a plane crashing infront of you? NO...


It's a shopping trolley on a go kart!!!

http://img121.imageshack.us/img121/1113/img28672ai.jpg

Note: The engine wasn't mounted at the moment, it is sitting under a towel on the bottom left of the picture...

Running on a very pleasant 6.5HP Honda GX200 engine, horizontal shaft of course, and amazing power as you push that foot right down hard on the accelerator! Made all by myself and my father, in his workshop we made this, over 20 hours of hard work. It's worth it though, once the final product is made.

Brought some new wet tyres for it, as racing slicks would suck going around the roads in the wet...

I just recently blew the engine up, I was driving across the motorway's bike path, full speed (Bout 60 km/h) and it randomlet starts smoking like a pig! Turns out I wasted up the head gaskets, the piston rings stuffed up... and it just... sucked...

Cost $230 to fix at the moment, and now we're having eidling problems. Air is actually COMING OUT of the air cleaner, no kidding, we acellerate, and it blows **** smoke out... sucks.

Anyway, just a picture to make you all dribble, and to know that the go kart world isn't just boring fun karts, there's a complete different story, when a 14 year old is involved!

Note I'm now 15 :p

jrjulien1
09-18-2006, 11:37 AM
its a kool kart but i think its kind of small or at least it would be for me {im 6ft 2} but other than that i would build one

imported_robertdjung
09-18-2006, 01:25 PM
Cool kart, steven! Got any more pictures to share? I'd love to post some if you would.

Steven
09-18-2006, 07:40 PM
Yeah I'll get a picture of it once I've got the engine on it again, just gotta get the engine back from the lawnmower shop, I blew the flippin piston rings... darn.

jrjulien1
09-21-2006, 04:24 AM
howd u do that they dont usually just blow

frank
09-21-2006, 09:37 AM
thats awesome, my friends wanted to make a kart outta a shopping cart, but they just dont have the initiative we have