Mr.Mediocre
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Hey everyone,
It took me almost a year to get everything put into place to get this build going but it is finally here and I wanted to share my progress.
Backstory:
I work for a company that makes battery powered stuff and so naturally as a car guy would, when I started I thought… “How do I make something really cool that I can ride using some of our discarded products?” I started setting stuff aside and each time I kept taking the idea bigger or better or should I say bigger and faster.
It later came to me that I should do something performance based since we don’t make those things, and being in the marketing department I thought that’s a fun story to tell. Here are all these pieces I pulled and this is what I made, this is how they work in this performance application and here’s how they work for normal stuff…
So, I ran into one of our service guys that works on a ton of this stuff and saw his mix of parts he used to make something. I told him that I wanted to put a ridiculously fast motor onto a racing kart chassis. (I know it’s been done but the work would be minimum.) He told me there are always spares lying around and next time I saw him he’d get me something good. Well that wasn’t a lie, he got me the biggest motor we use. And I know size doesn’t alway matter but I also know that in this case, it might.
But wait there’s more, It wasn’t just the motor; it was the rear differential, axles, disc brakes, front axle… basically I got the whole drivetrain in pieces. I had to jump into a dumpster and cut the front and rear off the chassis to get it all but I was way too happy to do so.
Once I realized that I had so much a an almost complete vehicle I found it hard not want to use a much of it as possible. So I scrapped the racing kart idea and decided to use what I had to build something closer to a cross kart. It was tempting to build an off-road version since I had adjustable coil overs all, but I really wanted to embrace the low to the ground kart feel and be able to rip through corners. (Hopefully) I am however keeping it so a simple tire swap and pool over swap will give me the off-road ride if I want it in the future.
So that bring me to the build.
Two of my many concepts.
It took me almost a year to get everything put into place to get this build going but it is finally here and I wanted to share my progress.
Backstory:
I work for a company that makes battery powered stuff and so naturally as a car guy would, when I started I thought… “How do I make something really cool that I can ride using some of our discarded products?” I started setting stuff aside and each time I kept taking the idea bigger or better or should I say bigger and faster.
It later came to me that I should do something performance based since we don’t make those things, and being in the marketing department I thought that’s a fun story to tell. Here are all these pieces I pulled and this is what I made, this is how they work in this performance application and here’s how they work for normal stuff…
So, I ran into one of our service guys that works on a ton of this stuff and saw his mix of parts he used to make something. I told him that I wanted to put a ridiculously fast motor onto a racing kart chassis. (I know it’s been done but the work would be minimum.) He told me there are always spares lying around and next time I saw him he’d get me something good. Well that wasn’t a lie, he got me the biggest motor we use. And I know size doesn’t alway matter but I also know that in this case, it might.
But wait there’s more, It wasn’t just the motor; it was the rear differential, axles, disc brakes, front axle… basically I got the whole drivetrain in pieces. I had to jump into a dumpster and cut the front and rear off the chassis to get it all but I was way too happy to do so.
Once I realized that I had so much a an almost complete vehicle I found it hard not want to use a much of it as possible. So I scrapped the racing kart idea and decided to use what I had to build something closer to a cross kart. It was tempting to build an off-road version since I had adjustable coil overs all, but I really wanted to embrace the low to the ground kart feel and be able to rip through corners. (Hopefully) I am however keeping it so a simple tire swap and pool over swap will give me the off-road ride if I want it in the future.
So that bring me to the build.
Two of my many concepts.