Go-Carts

My son has gotten me into building an off-road go-cart. I have no
go-cart experience and am wondering if anyone has plans for go-carts.
I've looked over the internet, but am unsure about what's good.

All help will be appreciated. I am using SW 2006.

Tom

 

Be sure you include a place for automatic weapons on your design. It
will come in handy when the revolution comes.

 

Thoughts of "Mad Max" come to mind.....

 

not very helpful...
how about you find an old ATV quadbike and cut that up for bits - add a
couple of fibreglass bucket seats, roll cage etc...

 

Go karts are one thing. Off road go carts another. Many years ago, my
father helped me make one (with great concern for my safety, he did 90%
of the work). We salvaged a metal fire-engine cart (old christmas
present) for the front end stearing, and used wood (chassis) and the
rear wheels were ment for wheel barrows. It was mostly cobbled
together. I grew out of it before the plans to retire his Briggs &
Stratton (~2hp) to my gokart were realized.

I think for a basic off roader, you would want to first have a strong
chassis and other componets lending themselves to abuse. Depending on
your resources, you may want to get parts from atv (as suggested by
other users). You will likely need a stronger engine...and then start
to install the many safety devices to help junior return relatively
unscathed from his adventures (ideally).

 

In NZ we use quadbikes a lot for agriculture and horticulture and they are
pretty versatile. A while ago I was a temp survey assistant and used one to
carry our gear around a traverse on some pretty steep and rough county.We
used a 250cc machine to scoot around for the first few days and it was a bit
underpowered and light weight -read dangerous - for inclined terrain.The
600cc machine we used after that performed very well - even over tracks
covered in 4 foot high lupin - good fun! There have been many fatal
accidents with these though so be very safety conscious. Roll overs and
flips art not forgiving even if it is only a light vehicle.