I'm contimplateing swapping a crotch rocket motor onto a shifter kart. I'm sure many of you have seen them on youtube, Im just curious on what kind of problems you guys think i would run into. Also any ideas on how to make the transmission/ shifter work everything else seems pretty staight forward. any help would be great thanks.
You would need to come up with custom linkage. I ran into this a few years ago with mine. Ended up selling the chassis instead. What size motor do you intend to go with? I wouldnt recommend anything over 600 if you want to keep your skull in one piece.
Go with a 500cc 2 stroke or if you wanna really rip get a newer KTM 5xx 4 stroke motor, either way that kart is gonna move. Sadly it would more than likely be quicker around the track with a 125 pinger/250 thumper less weight still 35-40 horsepower. My $.02
I wanted one like the gixxerkart... I am trying to get my dad to send me my go-kart from OZ with the yz80 engine...
yeah I am looking at like a 600. this is just a project me and my dad are contimplateing doing when i move back home in june. its deffinetly going to take something on the whole transmission setup but i should know very soon if we are going to attemt this because I found a great deal on a kart in forest lake. if you guys think af any other things i should look for let me know. i appreciate the help
THe transmission from the 600 motorcycle of choice should be fine. Just the linkage that you have to figure out.
Thats a lot of motor to put in a tiny little shifter cart. And I'm just referring to size. A sportbike motor works out much better in Formula SAE style of car.
yeah its just for fun really, I have a large paved road loop(about 2 and a half miles it will be perfect to open this thing up) around my house and i want to go out and show the two nieghbors who always rip around it in thier karts something new. And yes i do realise that this is way to much puwer but thats half the fun of it right.
Just out of high school a buddy of mine and I did a buggy with Gsx1300r engine that we received out of a coworkers wrecked bike('99 busa). We took the front suspension from a 2wd S10 along with all the brakes. For the rear we used the front suspension from a 4wd S10 minus the brakes but used the axle shafts and the adjoining flanges from the differential which we mounted on a shaft on a set of self aligning bearings with the sprocket and brake rotor also mounted on the shaft to drive/stop the rear axle. Shocks were made by works performance(coil over motorcycle shocks) for us and netted about 18" of total travel on all 4 wheels. With a set of 10" comp TAs you could take a 6" curb at 60-70mph and never feel it. We never topped it out but we do know in 4th gear we could pull away from my '95 f-150 at 100mph like the truck was standing still. Our build cost was less then $2500 all said and done(shocks were $1400, but worth ever penny) Denis was offered $6,000 for it, and it was sold.
