Thanks for your build write-up, Fabroman. I spend the past 2hours reading over every post and all 16pages to look for valuable information you guys on this site had. My mind is racing fast with trying to comprehend it all -- there's a lot of great information in this thread. It's very comprehensive, and gives me ideas of "do's" and "do not's" for the design of my off-road kart. I have a quick question about the front axle. I'm curious to know if a front axle would be ok to design into an off-road kart plan with full suspension, or, would it just get in the way and cause major clearance issues?