Building a go-Kart Frame

You get what you pay for. (If you're lucky..)

Didn't take much to Google this up (one of many)..Screw going west, go Google young man!

Jeff

-- Jeff Wisnia (W1BSV + Brass Rat '57 EE)

"If you can keep smiling when things go wrong, you've thought of someone to place the blame on."

mark wrote: (clip) Please help me and point me in the right direction... ^^^^^^^^^ If you are going to build a cart, there must be a track somewhere near you where they drive them and race them. Go there and look at everything you see. This will not give you a finished plan, but it WILL fill your head with a lot of ideas, so the plan you finally adopt or work out will make sense.

You can buy a lot of the "fabricated" parts like steering arms, steering columns, keyed axle shafts, wheels & hubs, brakes, etc from places like Northern Tool

for "hobby/fun-kart" type projects or from American Powersports for more expensive "racing" karts (they have "fun-kart" parts, too). Northern Tool also has a go-kart building "manual" for about $10, they sell go-kart plans, and American Powersports has about 20 different karting books for sale. Good luck, David

See I am on a very strict budget and was looking for free plans online. There really isn't a track that i could go and look at to get ideas from other people. So I was wondering if anybody new a great sight for free plans. I looked at one but i really didn't like it.. thanks you guys for your help!!

Mark

If you want to build a "budget" kart, as opposed to a "performance" kart then you can do a lot with a few lengths of 1-inch RHS and a couple of those really cheap Chinese loading trolleys :-) You won't even need a tubing bender. Check out my "kart" at

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It sounds like in your position, buying a set of plans and/or components will be the most economical way to go.

Can you afford to build the kart 3 or 4 times trying to learn how to do it?

Rick

See I am on a very strict budget and was looking for free plans online. There really isn't a track that i could go and look at to get ideas from other people. So I was wondering if anybody new a great sight for free plans. I looked at one but i really didn't like it.. thanks you guys for your help!!

Mark

mark wrote: (clip) There really isn't a track that i could go and look at to get ideas from other people (clip) ^^^^^^^^^^^^ Yeah, but then where are you planning to run it? They're not street legal, you know.

You should have watched Junkyard Wars last night -- it's on again on Sundy -- don't miss it. Jet-powered gokarts made from scrap in 10 hours ;-)

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