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Thank you for your responses by the way! As for the honda engines, what would be the best way to acquire one? Online or craigslist? We honestly do not know where to start in terms of acquiring the engine. Because we don't plan on racing or anything, we don't want to spend a fortune. Also...

Would a Honda GX engine be the best choice for this project? Given that we are planning on selling this vehicle and donating the proceeds to charity, we hope to have an engine that has a good resale value. Also, with a gas engine, will we need a clutch? (Please excuse these "noob" questions..)...

Right! Would you happen to know anything about going ahead with this conversion route?

I mean, if we decide to go this route, we would definitely scrap the diesel idea. We would instead purchase a gas engine and go from there

Yes we are currently set to use diesel as a source, but given that using a gas engine with an lpg conversion would be significantly cheaper, we are leaning towards that route. It's actually not too late to change our proposal to the school

toystory_4wd, I thought he was speaking of a gas engine to lpg conversion...

DJeeper, We're interested in the gas to propane conversion kit. Using a gas engine would definitely be significantly cheaper than using a diesel, not to mention quieter. Have you done this? Could you give us some more information? Thank you

The first one seems to be in good condition, but we liked the Murray because we could use the extra space in the two seater to install our dual tanks. Thank you for your input by the way!

Fabroman, thank you for you reply. We predicted that having someone else weld it would be expensive, given that we can even find the metal. We searched craigslist for a while and found this: http://newhaven.craigslist.org/rvs/3617983952.html Could someone ID this kart? Also, would it be...

Hello all, Thank you so much for the replies. Due to an overload of school work, we have not been able to post as often as we would have liked. We have decided to use a diesel engine and design a dual fuel tank system with one tank containing diesel and the other corn oil. The engine we have...

Once again, thank you all for your responses. We thought about the generator onboard idea, and we are split so violently on the idea, that we don't want to risk our friendship haha For the possibility of solar, we played around with the idea of building an electric go kart with a separate...

Thank you very much for your responses! We've decided to go with a part aluminum, part steel body, and scrap the pvc idea. I'm sure the school will be fine with us using a hybrid body, as the senior projects are meant to give us as much freedom as we want. We're still not sure what engine...

Greetings, My friend and I are currently two seniors at a Connecticut boarding school and are writing out plans for a senior project. As we are planning on majoring in engineering and business, and always had a deep interest in vehicles, we wanted to focus on go karts. However, in order to...