Kart Rods

[Kelly Wood]

Have some kids.

Sooooo... you're telling him to have sex then wait 12 years?

You hear that BM? Go get busy ok?

ToyStory: Yes sir! I'll have video and pics, for sure.

Kelly

 

[DaiSan76]

I have kids... Now what?

Kelly and Desertdueller- sounds like an absolute blast. I hope you guys have a great time, and I expect your reports on my desk first thing Monday morning!

Now you have some buddies to ride go karts with. Pay attention!

 

[DaiSan76]

Sooooo... you're telling him to have sex then wait 12 years?

You hear that BM? Go get busy ok?

ToyStory: Yes sir! I'll have video and pics, for sure.

Kelly

12 years? Mine oldest 5 and he's tearing up the turf.

 

[Doc Sprocket]

Now you have some buddies to ride go karts with. Pay attention!

There is a distinct difference between goofing off with my kids (which I love, and wouldn't give up for ANYTHING), and having a day out with the guys, bench racing, BS, beer, and ripping it up.

Sometimes, we need to play with our peers.


...And if your 5-year-old can keep pace with you, either he's a child prodigy, or you are waaaaay too slow...

EDIT- My children, I love. But they are my kids, not "buddies". Big mistake. Another topic entirely. And now, back to your regularly scheduled thread...

 

[Kelly Wood]

Ok then. Hope your lawn is ok.

Onward. An update. I found the proper tank for the Sarge. Seeing it has a bit of a military look, I had to have just the right tank for it... and here it is.

 

[Doc Sprocket]

That's it, alright! What'd it come from?

 

[Kelly Wood]

Power Products, AH47. Totally unusable but the tank was nice as is the mount. So, on we go.

 

[B.M.800]

Have some kids.

Im only 18. Im not that far in life yet.
{OTHER EDIT} 'sides that, if I got some girl pregnant Id be a dead man for sure.
Unless of course I was married...


{EDIT} Oh and, sweet gas tank there.

{EDIT #2} Oh and, do you reinforce the frames much?

 

[Kelly Wood]

Thanks!

I do reinforce the frames a bit. Whatever piece of steel I find that fits, I gorilla weld into place, hit it with spray paint... and let it be.

Lather, rinse, repeat.

 

[Kelly Wood]

An update:

Cruising the local ads, I run across what I think would be fun since my daughter needs something to drive when I go kartrod racing... and I got 60 large on me. The guy even threw in the gas can and battery powered drill he uses to start the black one...

Mini karts! Well, a baby kart rod could be cool... so the black one runs and will become my daughters little throw around ride and the blue one is probably parts for the runner... so that leaves this extra blue mini frame...

I wonder.

Sooo, with some whacked out mods and reinforcements, stretch it a bit.. we'll see what happens here.

I'm thinking school bus yellow... the 5th kart rod in my arsenal... The "wednesday's child" of the kart rods...

...Meet the beginnings of "short bus"

 

[Kelly Wood]

Moving on...

After a much closer inspection of the black one (keep in mind, I knew this thing needed some help... but hey, it runs.)

I thought I might put up a few pics of this sweet hillbilly engineering for y'all to look at.

Pic 1. It's a lawnmower cover/gas tank. Yup, it's rigged.

Pic 2. That's where the air cleaner should be.... The rest... I dunno what they were thinking...

Pic 3. The greatest of all... the whole contraption is held on by... Count them... ONE big ole hose clamp.

Then, there's the blue one. PIC4, a crappy mock up of what Short Bus is gonna possibly look like... except the wheels that is. There's gonna be 5's up front and 6's in the back. This one will handle well.

LOL

Thanks for lookin.

 

[exenos]

Geeze that's scary.

 

[jamyers]

I admire their faith in hose clamps, LOL!

 

[Kelly Wood]

Quick update: Weekend coming, time to finish a few of my rides. 2 will roll this weekend, then some scouting for a place to go...

then video... Got myself killer software for video editing and made mee-self a youtube channel.

http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiFmzWf7Zn95RmQhe96rynQ

nothing special really, just playing around teaching myself with a bunch of free music & stuff, it's cheezy for now, but... gonna make something cool soon.

... and I gots ideas. Yup I do.

Thanks for lookin.

Kelly Wood
kartrods.com

 

[Jparks54]

I like the videos and really like old theater theam or what ever you call it on UD007. Nice carts by the way I hope to get started on a few "kart rods" my self soon and will also have a youtube channel set up for it.

 

[Kelly Wood]

Thanks man. Like I said, they're just test videos as I learn but this is a riot.

If you do decide to build something along these lines, that'd be great. Not like it's the next big thing or anything, the more the merrier and it's fun.

Kelly

 

[Jparks54]

Ya it looks like a blast

 

[Kelly Wood]

Moving on...

After building a trailer today for hauling these around, I got on to this project a bit.

If anyone's been following along in my journey, there was an azusa kit kart I got a while back that I stripped for parts... and left it's frame in the back 40 last year.

So...

Out with the azusa frame, cut here, cut there, size it up... and VIOLA!

ShortBus is taking some shape and evidenly, this is gonna be a bit of a cab forward jalopy, I'm sitting more forward in this one.

Lots of welding to do tomorrow & reinforcing this beast.

Thanks for watching.

As always, more pics on my site.

(keep in mind, as this thing evolves... it's name could change... and probably will)

Kelly "kartrods" Wood

 

[Kelly Wood]

And as usual... if I stare at the pics long enough, it takes on a totally new direction.

Keep in mind, it's just a mock up as it sits on the ground in pieces in the pic, so...

Also... Now, I'm not un-american... but it fit... because it's different, and I don't have a red one.

I think with the additional braces in the back (3 bars, 1 large & 2 small, I'll get away wid it....)

Name's changed... meet the 5th KartRod

The Red Baron.

Just wait until you see the seat back and tail fins I've got planned for it.

MUA HA HA HAA HAHAH!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[DaiSan76]

Now every time I see this kart I'm gonna picture this.