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Hey!! Let the kid drive it!! lol!!

Looks Great!!

Awesome!

I did let the kids drive it, just my daughter took pics of me at the wheel. I don't exactly want them tuning the carb with the chain right under it, and the only way to tune the carb is drive it and dial the needles.

Fortunately they are a bit more reserved in the use of the gas pedal than I am. I'm thinking my combined weight with the kart is around 380#'s, and with ~20hp it pulls hard, drop the combined weight to 250#'s, and it'll pull wicked hard!

It's not too bad to bump start it with the kids in it, lift up the rear end from the seat, lurch forward and drop it while pushing hard. When I drive it, the kids can't push start it, so I have to run along side of it, lift it up, drop it and push til it starts, then hop in. I'm thinking I'm just asking for a runaway one of these days

I know this is a semi old thread...

but Dave, I remember you could find a bunch of old cool cars in MN, but what I hated back there was how they were always rusted out..

since moving to Oregon in 95, I love that you can find stuff around here still in great condition.. at least a solid body..not as plentiful as the barns of MN and the upper Midwest..

at the end of July we always have a Back to the 50s weekend in town here..with a Saturday cruise where they block off the two main drags thru town... and the cars get to cruise.. with zillions of people on the side walks... and plenty like me taking tons of pictures...between 500 to 700 each year...aren't digital cameras wonderful..

have a 68 Mercury Cougar that me and Seafire JR would like to start work on.. only hold up is lack of facility and cash flow under Obama-nomics..

Here's a crappy picture of my Cuda.

Sweet!

sweet car!

You look different in that pic than in your avatar. My how time changes us....

I've been playing around with different tuned pipes on the kart. Seat of the pants tuning says the current pipe is a bit too long as the engine seems to fall on it's face at top rpm, but it pulls harder down low.

An older couple stopped by last night and I asked the husband if I'd shown him the racing kart, he said no I hadn't, so we looked it over, and later I had the boy hop in and take a ride around the street so he could se how it ran. Then I hopped in and took a couple zips up and down the street. Friend had a big smile on his face saying he'd never seen a race kart and was amazed at the performance.

I asked my youngest boy if he wanted to drive it, and he said no, it scared him.

I think I'm going to pull the 50cc motor out of their mini atv and mount it on the kart. It won't be scary fast, and it'll be much quiter, not to mention you can come to a stop w/o killing the engine.

I'm really wanting another 125 shifter kart, highly impracticle with very few options to race it, but the performance is unreal. The other thought is get a porsche 914 I saw on craigslist, build a light tube frame, mount a hayabusa 1300 turbo in the rear, and plop the 914 body on top. Would make a neat street legal kart, sequential shift 6 speed gearbox and I'd probably set it up with a spool vs. a diff, if you're going to build a radical impractical toy, might as well make it radical.