200cc Buggy

200cc Chinese sand rail style go-kart/buggy. Has more low end than I thought it would, that hill at the beginning is pretty steep. The one thing I dislike the most is the highly restricted steering geometry. This thing has a turn radius of approximately 34 feet. It's a safety thing, along with the super wide track of the front wheels makes it very hard to flip/roll.
Unfortunately both of those make it very difficult to pick your way through the woods, and you can see the result at the end. I think I need to adjust my toe in a little now, lol.
The plan was/is to mod the thing and increase the power which is relatively easy, but I really want to find or if I have to make a smooth dirt track. My property as is is just too bumpy. These things are a hoot on a smooth dirt or gravel surface. Need to find one.

[@billthames9564]

Great video of your kart. this is my reply from your reply on my Joe Novice channel. Yeah, it may be 10 HP. When I bought mine in 2014, they had just "upgraded" the engine from 149CC to 170CC or so they said. Will do 30 MPH on level road. Mine now has 1200 miles on it, with 90% of it being in rough terrain. All the geometry, struts, springs, etc on this kart have never failed, and the grandkids hit some pretty tough bottomings, so I think it is well engineered to be an off road vehicle. I encourage you to make the wheel lug changes mentioned in my You Tube video. I will leave the url at the end of this reply. I had some instances of the fenders flying off ( you gotta have fenders if you go in mud), but I fixed that by welding on some slightly larger plates where the bolts go thru to hold the plastic fender on the frame. the only really maddening thing that it did was that the FUSE HOLDER, of all things, rusted inside (poor chrome coating), and caused intermittent problems with starting. I almost never figured that one out - who looks INSIDE a fuse holder?? that's what you get with Chinese stuff: some well done stuff and some poorly done cheapo stuff. I also changed out the 9 MAH battery for a 14 MAH battery. starts with only half a turn of the starter, even in 10 degree weather. had to enlarge the battery box a bit.
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