Recent content by jbmatth

Many ways to skin this cat, it'll depend on the shocks and springs I use then the math will tell me the rest. Luckily I have a tubing bender I bought to build the cage for my Gambler 500 car this past winter and I have some left over metal from that as well. In truth when you or I in this...

@Joe-405 I see what you mean now, yes with all of that extra leverage from the extension there is likely to be no go cart coilover strong enough to get what I need. Especially with as how thin the tubing is on the cage of these things. It now just becomes a math problem, well I guess more of a...

The shocks work, but I just don't have enough spring in the rear especially since I now have a swing arm back there about a foot longer than stock. I have an idea on the shocks/springs I want to use but just have to get it back in the working bay of the shop. In other news I'm putting a...

It is all of the above and I really enjoy it as well. I read his thread last year before deciding to build mine, he did a fantastic job, mine is not in the same league. I build a lot of crazy stuff and usually jump from project to project quickly when I'm 90% complete but tired of spending...

That was it, it was all ready to take for a rip around, here is the drivable product: From start to finish it took about 1.5 months working about an hour a day and a few hours each weekend. Sadly, that is the condition it is still in, once it was running and driving I took it for a few...

I hooked the CBR throttle cable up to the cart pedal pretty easy: Then came the shifter, using a few bell crank type levers it was pretty easy, I had to buy a few different cable to get the hand clutch to work but it now does and works great: The location is not ideal and I plan to...

Next came the air box and some wiring mounting: Brake/tail light and rear blinkers came next, why would I do that you ask? Well Oklahoma has some pretty lax laws on registering and I planned to get a tag for it. :) I had a set of C4 Corvette seats I'd been using as shop seating and decided...

I thought I had posted my build here previously but I suppose I never did, so here goes. I started with a Yerfdog my cousin gifted my brothers and me in ~2002 when he worked for them. It was initially to test the strength of the parts as R&D for them and he would send us parts as we broke...

I know it has been almost a month since you have posted in this thread but wanted to say how thankful I am for the work you are performing and the way you have documented it. I do not have the time to do research and test the many theories you have done and presented for us. Being able to...