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just picked up a 11 hp briggs magnatron motor on a leaf blower. anyone out there ever use one of these? has a downdraft carb and starts and I can keep it running by manually playing with the throttle on the side of motor because the linkage is not hooked up correctly. Not sure if it is...

I'm new to gocarts and I'm presently building one. Now I just picked up another cart separate from the one I'm making, a racing cart but I'm not familiar with them. I've looked at pics of other peoples on here and it seems to be the same set up, the seat offset to the left and engine mounted...

OK, so in my book I scored majorly. I'm a carpenter first off. I went to a home owners house on tuesday to start a new job doing some rot repair and I saw this racing gocart on the side of his shed outside and such. I'm in the middle of building a 11hp cart myself and just commented that it...

Ok, I'm continuing on my 11 hp project cart, and have spark now, and rebuilt the carberator on my 11 hp briggs and stratton magnetron motor. Now It didnt start due to what I think is a problem. Kind of hard to explain but i'll try---- The intake baffle shaft seems to have a little play side to...

Ok I have an extra go cart frame and 500cc bike motor around, so anyone have any pics or good directions how to hook up the clutch and tranny set up off the motorcycle? I've never built a cart like this before. I see some people say on here about spinning the existing shifter 90 degrees? I'm...

I'm new to building go carts. Now those of you with bike motors on go carts-- do you still use the transmition set up with clutch off the bike, or do you just utilize the bike motor with some other clutch set up on the gocart. Basically I didnt know if had multiple gears on your cart and had...

I'm going tommorow to pick up a frame with brakes, tires but no seat for $30. Says it just needs to be painted but is straight and in decent shape. Now I've aquired a leaf blower with a 11 hp briggs & stratton magnatron motor with now spark. Question 1: is this a decent motor to start out...

Hello all newbie here-- I've never done a go kart before but am looking forward to having some fun with it. I hopefully have a used frame as of tommorow with tires and I have a 11 hp briggs motor off a leaf blower. Could anyone tell me what else I need for the build? I see from the other...