Recent content by ballistic

Okay, this aint gonna be as easy as I orignally thought. I cut and started welding the frame together, it looks more like a rocket car frame and my nephew says my welding looks like bird ****. Using 2.5mm x 25mmm square tubing and so far it seems very heavy. Still haven't had a chance to upload...

Okay toystory will keep that in mind. But pls help me to understand something. Is it the no of teeth, or the total diameter of the sprockets that makes it either acc faster or have a higher top end. Surely the chain only has to do with the pitch.

Okay, so I spoke to a guy that does engineering at his home and he might be able to make a sprocket for the axle. Will be taking the clutch sprocket and chain to him tomorrow to check the pitch on the sprockets. So I need some advice on whether to go for a 6:1 or 7:1 ratio. I need good...

AAAAAAARHH! thanx Landuse. will see what i can do as far as getting those sprockets.

Hi Landuse, the pitch on the axle sprocket is fine. I seem to be in a poop storm with regards to the ratios here. I thought a 1-4 or 1-5 would be okay for acc. The 1 being the clutch sprocket and the 4 or 5 being the axle sprocket. Maybe I'm mixing up the sequence or something. I took a look at...

Okay guys, I have been scrounging around scrap yards and the like and got some goodies. Picked up an old china quad bike frame with the steering, rear axle and brakes still attached. Got a secondhand sprocket from a motorbike mechanic as well, as finding a sprocket for that axle is almost...

Toystory, may I enquire about your avatar pic? The kart looks fairly simple and easy enough for us to do. LOL, I have to still teach myself how to weld and not get arc eyes. Buhahahaha.

Hey thanx to everybody for the warm welcome. As for the dutch, I understood most of it yes. Pretty similar if you look at it. And to all of you that offered to help me, be careful what you ask for hehehehe.

Hi jamyers, thnx for the welcome. It's much appreciated, i have nothing yet, my 8 year old and I are still busy working on it. I have posted a thread in the general section if you care to advise, pls, pls, pls advise :-)

Hello yall. I would like some advice on my first attempt at building a go kart. This will be a build done by myself and my 8 year old son. He aint gonna be doing much besides getting dirty, but it's father son time. Okay, what we have at the moment is a 3hp Briggs & Stratton horizontal shaft...

Hi everybody, Cedric here from Cape Town, South Africa. Just wanna say hi. I've been secretly going through this forum, and it's finally time to get to know the guys and get some valuable info from the more experianced users. So lemme jump in.