Recent content by driftkartmat

cheers! I made the body myself at work! basically steps to make the body where: make mdf car shape box glue on polystyrene foam shape foam epoxy fibreglass over pva release brushed over foam polyester fibreglass body 3 layers 450gm chopstrand mat bog and fair in paint

another quick video just drifting down he street https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcR-B4h2bf8&feature=youtu.be

The steering actually works perfect, the chain isn't loose its welded along the entire length of the steel bar which slides back and doth in the channel I've made with a couple of pieces of steel. Here's a video of me drifting the kart https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2MZOCuAiMPg

i got a few good drift sessions out of it before i needed to do some upgrades, so first thing was better steering as there was not enough steering angle once you where out sideways to hold a drift. rack and pinion style sorta steering made using a kids bike cog, chain. Also put in an...

**** that's a big spool!! My winch had 1000ft of spectre and that was heaps, this could hold 50 times that!

Not long after i got everything else sorted to get the kart running, including a hand brake for some drift action! First drive went great, although got a liitle wet! My straight through exhaust was quite loud aswell! sounded like a mini v8! After driving the kart around for a week or...

My frame was now coming together, steel i used was 25x25 rhs which was reasonably light and sturdy and wall thickness was good for the ol trusty stick welder. Steering was next, i used some old parts from a 50cc quad bike. The tie rods and ends were quite small and lightweight (still going...

Yes! Way too much camber, Although with the shell on I loved the stance look. It also helped with major steering angle during drifting but I'll get into that later!

I thought i would start a build thread on my current project which i call the Driftkart! My plan was to initially build a basic kart frame, throw on my honda gx160 i had laying around and leave it at that. little did i know at the time that it would consume all of my free time for the next...