Recent content by garciafamily

Its funny that you say that firemanjim, we had the cops visit us at the school we were at, and really to be totally honest and trasnsparent with you my son has had his fair share of run ins with the cops here in Denver. They were very happy to see him involved in a good positive project and...

As I promised, here are some pictures of my sons go kart.

I bought a really nice mig 115V gasless from Northern Tool for 129.00, it has been a great welder no problems with it whatsoever. Does everything I need it to do.

Found a solution to No Ride Rules Thank you all so much for the advice, we were out pretty much all day with the go kart. We took the Go Kart to a local school and soon we had a police officer come up on us. We told him this was a project we worked on together and mentioned to him that we did...

Go kart done for the most part however, found out about an hour ago its illegal to ride miniature motorized vehicles in the city limits of Denver, CO. Does anyone have any information on where one can go and enjoy riding this thing?

Yup that's the one.

Well test drive went pretty good however, the front end seemed a little squirrely a little hard to keep it under control. It is like super super responsive you barely turn the wheel and you are turning. We took it really slow at first the first run a little faster the next and so on for a...

Well today is the day, my sons first real test drive. After work today I will be purchasing the brake and chain. Me and my son will do whatever fabrication work we have to this afternoon then if all goes well, he will take his first real test drive this evening. Its been a great project for...

I agree that's one thing I pointed out to him as well, he wanted to fabricate his own steering wheel so I let him loose on it after looking at it on the kart he said "Dad we should have just bought a regular steering wheel"

Just a few pictures of my sons go kart in various stages of his build all he needs the get it on the road is the chain and the brake we hope to get that on this weekend.

I have been reading about ways to increase the HP on a Honda 6.5 GX200 engine and it seems like the views are mixed on removing the governor. Some stories I have read say valve springs MUST be changed along with exhaust and air flow improvements. Any suggestions about this would be very helpful

firemanjim; Its a dead axel, and the frame is made from 2 dollies that I had around the house I showed my son how to cut and stretch them, we also incorporated some square 1x1x16gauge into this build. My son named it Frankenstein because we pretty much just took bits and pieces from here and...

Me and my son just started building a go kart this past April and its almost complete. It surprised me on just how expensive these parts have become since I was a kid and locally (Denver, CO.) its next to impossible find a place that we can purchase parts from especially on the weekends.