My Homemade go kart
September 30, 2010 by chec
Filed under Snowblower engine
This is my home made go kart. It has an 8 horsepower briggs and stratton magnetron snowblower engine. There is a jack shaft which gears it down 15 to 1 . Top speed is what the video shows approximately. It basically has no muffler, so it back fires a lot. It is really loud too! It is only 1 wheel drive, except for when the loose wheel locks up and it becomes two wheel drive. When that happens, you have an amazing amount of acceleration. When I first made the go-kart, it had a 5 to 1 ratio and had a top speed of about 50-60 mph, but it burned the centrifugal clutch up. Also the frame is way too short.
yo thats a hot ass gokart
i love it zeno age 11
No the frame was homemade out of square steel tubing.
is that the frame of a lawn mower or sumthin?
It was started when I was about 9, but im 18 now… And yeah, it is about 2 feet too short for a 6 foot driver.
It was red, but a couple of years old
ummmm is it my eyes or is that thing pink lol