Hi, recently started building a go kart of my own and your videos have been a big inspiration and guide to me so thank you for taking your time to make edit and post these videos I know it’s been a while but I hope your doing more than making go karts now.
Looks like Baracuda design, very nice, I think you may run into trouble with your steering U-joint being on that much of an angle, it may be binding when there is a load on the steering. Mine was setup on a similar angle and I had to change it. What engine are you planning to use? looks like you've got lots of room for any engine
Skyline Fabrication thanks for the input, I haven’t noticed any issues so far with the little amount of driving I’ve done in it the past few weeks. As of now I have a tiny 212cc engine in it with a massive gear reduction for testing only. After that I’m still playing around with different ideas for a powerplant!!
Your build looks very impressive, I'm looking at different builds from other videos, I too am going to build myself an offroad go-kart. So far I have the motor (Briggs & Stratton 25 hp v-twin)
d t when I planned out the front and rear suspension I had a general idea of how high I wanted it to sit as well as how stiff/soft I wanted it to be. Adjustment in the rear is actually very easy.. you can move the pivot point on the pushrods, put a spacer in under the lower shock mount or even one under the mount on the a arm. Similar things can be done to the front. Hope that answers your question! Thanks
d t in other words, I roughly estimated the initial position of the mounts and pivots and from there (just like in a truck) I can add spacers to lift it
New subscriber here. Really enjoying your videos, my only recommendation is to work on audio levels better. (I have to turn volume up to here you talking, but nearly blows my speakers when music starts playing)
Is there a way you could remember the exact measurements of all the Pieces. I’m thinking about build a go kart from scratch and by far this looks the sturdiest
Unfortunately no. Just get a bunch of steel and mock it up like I did. Or you could find a plan online somewhere which will tell you exact measurements
DIY MOTORSPORT I considered many different materials mainly steel aluminum and PVC. I chose PVC because it is extremely light, has a very high compression strength, and is inexpensive allowing easy replacement if necessary.
DIY MOTORSPORT I appreciate it, like I said if they fail they can be easily replaced. I use a lot of trial and error in my builds haha. Btw your banshee build is sick!
what gauge metal do you use? what type of metal? what amps u running on your welder? what kind of welder do u have? what type of electrode? how thick of electrode?
trav faiman metal is 1” square tubing 0.065 thickness( not sure what gauge that converts to). It is steel. I run my little welder to its max😂 about 85-90 amps. The welder is the forney stick welder you can find online or at tractor supply. I use 6011, 6013, or 7018 depending on the application. And they are all 1/8” thick electrodes... thanks!
Hey man where'd you end up getting the steel and some of the other components from? I am planning to do a simliar build soon. I'd love to hear how you came up with some of the dimensions as well.
Steel is from online metals.com, other components come from places like go power sports and BMI karts, Amazon, eBay you name it. I pretty much came up with my own dimensions based on how tall I am and how big the engine is. Good luck!
Interesting build, but too much time is wasted with music and fast motion. Nothing is learned from that. Stick to the technical stuff for a more watchable video.
Finally someone who knows how to make what we use to call kicker shocks great viedo
Hi, recently started building a go kart of my own and your videos have been a big inspiration and guide to me so thank you for taking your time to make edit and post these videos I know it’s been a while but I hope your doing more than making go karts now.
Looks like Baracuda design, very nice, I think you may run into trouble with your steering U-joint being on that much of an angle, it may be binding when there is a load on the steering. Mine was setup on a similar angle and I had to change it. What engine are you planning to use? looks like you've got lots of room for any engine
Skyline Fabrication thanks for the input, I haven’t noticed any issues so far with the little amount of driving I’ve done in it the past few weeks. As of now I have a tiny 212cc engine in it with a massive gear reduction for testing only. After that I’m still playing around with different ideas for a powerplant!!
Your build looks very impressive, I'm looking at different builds from other videos, I too am going to build myself an offroad go-kart. So far I have the motor (Briggs & Stratton 25 hp v-twin)
Sounds good! It’s so much fun, it takes a while but once you get to drive it, it’ll be worth it.
Great job . How did you come up with the ride height? I guess what I’m asking is, how do you determine the ride height?
Thank you
d t when I planned out the front and rear suspension I had a general idea of how high I wanted it to sit as well as how stiff/soft I wanted it to be. Adjustment in the rear is actually very easy.. you can move the pivot point on the pushrods, put a spacer in under the lower shock mount or even one under the mount on the a arm. Similar things can be done to the front. Hope that answers your question! Thanks
d t in other words, I roughly estimated the initial position of the mounts and pivots and from there (just like in a truck) I can add spacers to lift it
New subscriber here. Really enjoying your videos, my only recommendation is to work on audio levels better. (I have to turn volume up to here you talking, but nearly blows my speakers when music starts playing)
Is there a way you could remember the exact measurements of all the Pieces. I’m thinking about build a go kart from scratch and by far this looks the sturdiest
Unfortunately no. Just get a bunch of steel and mock it up like I did. Or you could find a plan online somewhere which will tell you exact measurements
I’m curious as to why you would use pvc on your suspension linkage?
DIY MOTORSPORT I considered many different materials mainly steel aluminum and PVC. I chose PVC because it is extremely light, has a very high compression strength, and is inexpensive allowing easy replacement if necessary.
Fair enough I would just be more worried about where the heim joints are attached is all but pretty cool build, I’ll be curious to see if they hold up
DIY MOTORSPORT I appreciate it, like I said if they fail they can be easily replaced. I use a lot of trial and error in my builds haha. Btw your banshee build is sick!
Thanks, next I’m gonna build a 600cc turbo cross kart so that’s how I found your page just seeing what other people are building!
That's looking amazing keep up
Mantap bang...😁👍🙏
I don’t quite know what that means but... thanks I guess😊
@@gaspedalgarage7670 this is indonesian , means " great job brother" .. 🙏👍😁
what gauge metal do you use?
what type of metal?
what amps u running on your welder?
what kind of welder do u have?
what type of electrode?
how thick of electrode?
trav faiman metal is 1” square tubing 0.065 thickness( not sure what gauge that converts to). It is steel. I run my little welder to its max😂 about 85-90 amps. The welder is the forney stick welder you can find online or at tractor supply. I use 6011, 6013, or 7018 depending on the application. And they are all 1/8” thick electrodes... thanks!
Where did you get the rear cv axle setup I can’t find one anywhere
Where did you get the parts for rear independent suspension
Made all the control arms, axles from a Volkswagen, and shocks from amazon
Keep the vids coming👍
Hey man where'd you end up getting the steel and some of the other components from? I am planning to do a simliar build soon. I'd love to hear how you came up with some of the dimensions as well.
Steel is from online metals.com, other components come from places like go power sports and BMI karts, Amazon, eBay you name it. I pretty much came up with my own dimensions based on how tall I am and how big the engine is. Good luck!
@@gaspedalgarage7670 do you remember how much the steel was? It seems like it could get $400 or so.
It’s less than $2 a foot, I can’t say exactly how much it was because I made many separate orders to build all of the parts
I would guess more like $350
Is there anything inside of the pvc ?
Hello, from Lebanon. Do you sell the build plans?
No I do not sorry.
where can i buy those 4 shock absorbers?
Those tires are tiny. I think it would look much better with a much larger set of tires.
Your rear suspension is going to snap so easy.....
Your bracket that connects the shocks needs to be way stronger
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Bigger wheels needed it looks weird
Interesting build, but too much time is wasted with music and fast motion. Nothing is learned from that. Stick to the technical stuff for a more watchable video.
yo man, the music is way too loud, and your speech is waaay too quiet. Otherwise, great video!
Yeah I know, I’ve hopefully fixed that in newer videos
Wait so why isn’t he wearing weirdo girl gloves
What do you mean?