Project completed: The "whoa-kart"

[usedelectronics]

Finally driveable, and ready to roll!
It's a Trackmagic shifter cart, with a Kawasaki Ninja 500cc Motor "grafted" on...

I think I may want to call in a reservation at the local emergency room prior to going for a ride!

Pictures/video coming soon!

[Silas (son of Silas)]

 

[Benevolance]

  or it didn't happen!

[Zakk]

He's dead. 

[Ed_McCarron]

Never got moving.  Burnt the tread off the drive tire in 3 seconds and died of embarrassment.

[usedelectronics]

Hehe.. Been tinkering on the Kart too much to post.

Here's some pics:

[usedelectronics]

Here's a short video of the first time I managed to get it out of 1st and in to 2nd gear!
Amazing how quickly you can run out of parking lot!

[Silas (son of Silas)]

 

You are a crazy man my friend, but serious kudos to you for building what could potentially be the most pointlessly cool thing I have seen in ages.

[patrickl]

Lol, that's insane 

[hyiu]

VERY VERY VERY VERY COL !!!!!

for safety, you might also want to consider a hamlet...

did I mention its FAST and COOL ?!?!?!

[Silas (son of Silas)]

I really, really hope you got an oil temperature sensor with an electronic sender.  If not, do not drive that thing again without replacing it.  I nearly died last year in a similar vehicle.

I would love it if usedelectronics reply was "Meh, I wore safety glasses." 

[Roo]

I really, really hope you got an oil temperature sensor with an electronic sender.  If not, do not drive that thing again without replacing it.  I nearly died last year in a similar vehicle.

I would love it if usedelectronics reply was "Meh, I wore safety glasses." 

 

[usedelectronics]

Thanks guys.
Yes, next time a helmet will be used. Gotta live on the edge occasionally I guess...

As for a oil temp sensor, I don't follow.

I reused all the bike electronics, including the temp gauge/thermostatic fan/oil pressure warning etc.

[LLUncoolJ]

PBJ, you have had some ---fouled up beyond all recognition--- up ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- happen to you.

[HaRuMaN]

PBJ, you have had some ---fouled up beyond all recognition--- up ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- happen to you.

It's called Karma (tm).

[Silas (son of Silas)]

PBJ, you have had some ---fouled up beyond all recognition--- up ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- happen to you.

There's a lot going on in that statement.

[Zakk]

PBJ, you have had some ---fouled up beyond all recognition--- up ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- happen to you.

It's called Karma (tm).

[LLUncoolJ]

I gotta side with PBJ on this one. If  anything, karma would cause him computer problems or maybe tease with his great white whale of a pinball machine turning up on craigslist for $250 and some other dork beating him to it.

If it weren't for the PBJ's of the world, this would be a boring message board that I wouldn't frequent nearly as often...and I say that even though he has been mean to me on more than one occasion.

[RayB]

ehhhh,.... ya know they sell racing calibur karts right?? Might be safer to use one of those (and I HAVE seen them flip over despite being wider than that thing pictured above)

[HaRuMaN]

Pfft.  He didn't even get burned.  Just scared.  

[AtomSmasher]

ehhhh,.... ya know they sell racing calibur karts right?? Might be safer to use one of those (and I HAVE seen them flip over despite being wider than that thing pictured above)

I knew some guys who built 4 karts from scratch and they welded a whole roll cage onto the thing.  I remember when I rode in it, they told me if I ever start to flip, just make sure to keep everything inside the cage and I should be fine.  Of course they also built an oval dirt track that had about a 5 foot drop if you messed up the turn (they made it a fairly steep angle so you could go really fast around it), so I'm sure they rolled them fairly often.

[Ed_McCarron]

I knew some guys who built 4 karts from scratch and they welded a whole roll cage onto the thing. 

Roll bars are for sissies.

I built one of these a few years back for an engineering competition -- the only rules were the kart had to be electric and fit into a 2' cube.  Funny video.

[Zakk]

Oh yeah, because being snarky on a message board is worthy of dying in a fire.  Awesome.   

I checked the karma handbook, and being a consistent dooshbag does qualify for hair burning and oil spatters.  It's on page 645. 

[usedelectronics]

Of course they sell "pre-built" karts...
That kinda defeats the "BYO" concept doesn't it??

And besides.. This was way more fun, and substantially cheaper.

[shmokes]

Oh yeah, because being snarky on a message board is worthy of dying in a fire.  Awesome.   

Lol . . . poor pbj . . . lost his sense of humor when he's the butt of the joke.   

[ChadTower]

Oh yeah, because being snarky on a message board is worthy of dying in a fire.  Awesome.   

Fail.

[HaRuMaN]

 

[Ed_McCarron]

Oh yeah, because being snarky on a message board is worthy of dying in a fire.  Awesome.   

Fail.

Chad may have some difficulty with MDF, but PBJ just got loaded and taken away.

[Franco B]

I built one of these a few years back for an engineering competition -- the only rules were the kart had to be electric and fit into a 2' cube.  Funny video.

That looked like great fun Ed Which one was yours?

[Silas (son of Silas)]

Oh yeah, because being snarky on a message board is worthy of dying in a fire.  Awesome.   

Fail.

Chad may have some difficulty with MDF, but PBJ just got loaded and taken away.

After following the 'Fail' Link and then having to look up what DIAF meant, I am embarrassed to say I read this post and thought 'MDF hmmm, so what insult is that an acronym for then? Mother - Die - Fire? Something Mutha-D?-F****?' so I googled MDF and was promptly reminded that this is the BYOAC and that my own arcade cab is MDF 

[HaRuMaN]

You're gonna make Chad sad... 

[Ed_McCarron]

I built one of these a few years back for an engineering competition -- the only rules were the kart had to be electric and fit into a 2' cube.  Funny video.

That looked like great fun Ed Which one was yours?

Unfortunately, mine was still unfinished at that point, so its not in the video.

By the time it was done, it weighed about 120 lbs, had a 4HP motor on it, a speed controller from a forklift, and pulled over 200A at 24v under full throttle.  Top speed was ~ 40 mph.

Oh, and it liked to dump you on your behind.  No room in that cube for wheelie bars, and the center of gravity is, well, not optimal.

[Silas (son of Silas)]

Seeing this kart has re-kindled my desire for building a NCF Blitz2 but grafting a Hayabusa lump into it.

Totally off topic, seeing PBJs pickup reminds me that I need to continue looking for a pickup.

[ChadTower]

You're gonna make Chad sad... 

I haven't been around much but it's obvious within a few minutes that the quality of his dbaggery has really declined.  He can't even keep track of his own work anymore.

[HaRuMaN]

You're gonna make Chad sad... 

I haven't been around much but it's obvious within a few minutes that the quality of his dbaggery has really declined.  He can't even keep track of his own work anymore.

I concur! 

[ChadTower]

It's pretty weird that you would go to the trouble of doing that to begin with.