G -Day from the Land Down Under

[truck]

G - Day all,
forty something yrs old boilermaker, new to gocarts and this site.
I am planning on building a cart with an old Kawsaki 600 engine I have in my shed for off road tracks and will be using this site to gather a plan of attack. Looking forward to getting a lot of good ideas like correct tyres/rims, if suspension needed or not.
looking forward to it.
truck

 

[fowler]

welcome
can i rekomend the edge products site
they sell good plans as well as plans for buggies

 

[modelengineer]

Welcome truck,
fowler beat me to it. I built an Edge Sidewinder Plus and it is awesome.

 

[truck]

Thanks Gents,
am planning on doing a lot of the fabrication work me self but will be on the look out for a bargain along the way.
truck

 

[fowler]

i do reckomen u buy the plans because it will most likely end out better than if u design it your self
no offence and i dont know u at all but the designers know what they are doing
i am curently designing and building my own cart and i do wish i build to plans as it is remarkablly complicated to design some part

so if i was u id get some plans and change them to your specs

 

[truck]

Thanks Fowler,
will look into it and see what I can do.
The edge products site mentioned previous looks promising.
truck

 

[freakboy]

Dont they race the baracuddas down there in ausie world?

 

[fowler]

yeah iv never seen one even though off roading is very popular
but i think people are more into modded up utes and other 4x4s rather than buggies
id love to make one

 

[freakboy]

Id love to have a baracudda bro