Hi Ho Silver

[OneTimeUser]

Just for giggles.

My shop has a ramp up to the main bay door and a loading dock just about tailgate height over to the left.

Often when I finish working on my little cart (Fox Hornet with no reverse) I will push the cart backwards down the ramp. It will roll 20 or 30 feet into a clear space and sit their patiently waiting for me to start it and drive away. Gravity reverse, if you will.

Well, yesterday I followed this common routine, pushed the cart down the ramp, closed the shop overhead door and walked down to start the cart. It usually starts second or third pull. Not this time. It started first pull and ROARED away at what seemed to be full throttle. It's much faster without the weight of an occupant.

Long and short, it closed the distance between where it was parked and the shop door at what probably would have been a 11 second quarter mile (had the ramp and door not been there to interrupt its high-speed run.

It flew up the ramp, jumped the corner of the loading dock, went airborne and slammed into the frame of the shop where it meets the roll up door. I stood there in amazement as this little cart zoomed off and smashed into the shop building. It had the good manners to shut itself off at this point and just sat there with the left front wheel and suspension mostly removed from the kart, and hanging on only by the shock absorber.

Whoops.

A hammer, a pry bar, and some welding re attached the wheel.

When I got this cart one of the first things I did was to remove the ratchet and hook parking break. Who would need such a thing, I thought?

Anyway, the ratchet and hook parking break is re installed, and I set it every time I get out of the cart.

Lesson learned, and one more entry into the Book Of Stupid that I am compiling as I learn about go karts...

 

[Whitetrashrocker]

Where's the security footage?

 

[Hellion]

 

[Denny]

 

[OneTimeUser]

Oh you of little faith. Four pictures to validate my story:

1) The challenge

2) The loading ramp--aka the launch pad. It's steeper than it looks. Not quite enough to clear the Snake river canyon, but neither was Mr. Knevil's.

3) Point of impact of wheel on the door jam. Notice tire marks where the little Fox Hornet made contact and removed the front left wheel--suspension and all. Notice also, that based on the height of the marks that the little Hornet was airborne.

4) Totally gratuitous pic of the Kiliowtt up on blocks whilst I figure out how to install brakes.

Hope that clears up the questions regarding my veracity...

 

[Hellion]

Me like um super tall exhaust pipe. Now you need an intake snorkel that’s just as long, Honda Odyssey style!
Could our industrial engines still run underwater that way?

 

[Whitetrashrocker]

Me like um super tall exhaust pipe. Now you need an intake snorkel that’s just as long, Honda Odyssey style!
Could our industrial engines still run underwater that way?

The coil would ground out.

 

[Grizzlymi]

The coil would ground out.

Start video at 1hr 1min. Don't worry about main part of the video. Underwater 212cc later.

 

[OneTimeUser]

Me like um super tall exhaust pipe. Now you need an intake snorkel that’s just as long, Honda Odyssey style!
Could our industrial engines still run underwater that way?

The yahoo I bought it from had the HUGE stock square muffler can welded to the end of that piece of hand-bent galvanized pipe. The galvanized pipe looks like it was part of a swing set or a drain pipe or maybe a backyard fence. I cut the square can off (to prevent crazy vibration) and stuck that lawnmower muffler in the pipe. It's not welded or threaded, just jammed in to mitigate the noise a bit. I'm planning on a proper exhaust once I have a chance to find on that will clear the frame properly. Although, underwater go carting is a intriguing idea. Perhaps you could patent it and get a reality show going. You could call it "Go Go H2O"...