ahh. thanks man. then i shall go get the 54 toother. hahha

Yup, but mind you acceleration is gonna be slower. Think of it like a bike, when you shift gears. To get the highest gear, you go the biggest in front (engine) and smallest the the rear (wheels), and visa-versa for torque. ;)

ooo ok. i thought it was mroe teeth more speed. lol nvm. so they make a like a 54 tooth sprocket. is that what im looking for?

So right now its a 5:1 reduction, Thats what I had on mine I believe (its in here, i know).

Then the other gear set is 6:1. So the larger gear to is going do slow you down. You want either a larger clutch gear, or smaller drive gear if your looking for speed.

And a normal B&S engine is limited at 6000 rpm I think, maybe 7000.

ok i finally got them

clutch is a 12 tooth. my sprocket now is like a 60 i think but im getting a 72 tooth one. you can just average or whatever u were gonna do. with the 12/72

:lol: WOO HOO FREE SCORE FOR ME! I JUST GOT A FREE 5 HORSE! that makes a tit load more horsepower than my ten horse if I run it on alcahol and modify it, stock the ten horse owns it but modified the 5 will make more power and wiegh less :D

OUCH.... :!: Smart idea of mounting a Cadi. Exaust tip on looks like a blower sort of

:lol: By the way nice sig, I noticed it and about fell outa my freakin chair laughing!

Well Its a freshly rebuilt by me ten horse briggs and stratton with the head milled forty over, K & N air filter, synthetic oil, and straight pipe basically ran on premium gasoline with octane booster governed at 5300 rpm.

How many HP does your engine run. Seriously, I never noticed any difference in performance. And my go cart, if theres any extra oooomph, its noticable. Even differences in gasoline are highely noticable. Regular, the engine runs a bit smoother, but accelerates slow. Premium gas, the engine is a bit more throaty, and hauls.

Mufflers, I just got a cooler sound. And it shot fire.... Ill have to attempt to start it sometime. It hasnt run in months, so its gonna be a biyatch to me. Then again, this engine I put in is peppy, even after sitting dormant for 5 years, an oil change, carb cleaner spray, and a full tank of gas, and it started in 5 pulls.

:D Hey Tex, you remember how you said that muffler would be cop prone? Well I managed to score a free muffler for my engine thats brand new, so i can just unscrew my gutted muffler with the tip on it and screw this one in when Im not racing I figure with the lesser back pressure I have whilst racing the more up top rpm power gain it will give me cause Ill be flogging the throttle all the time racing circle track.. anyways I fired the engine up with the gutted muffler and 3 1/2 inch tip and it sounds DEEP not really farty like I expected Ill get a sound clip sometime...

no I have a bar welded between the wheels where my REMOVABLE axle goes in. If I can, later, I'll get you a pic. I need to install my new brakes anyway.

OH, tell me them, lol. Im just trying to see what the gear ratio is.

No, its not fixed... And your axles arent removable, their welded to the fraom.

ok i will. What do I do with the numbers?? anyway is it fixed or still broken? Cause man that sucks it got broken lol. i'd be pissed lol. yours dosent have a removeable axle? Mine does. anyway yea i do have one I cant find out how to mount it to my wheel.

Hmmmm, that seems slow. Count the number of teeth on the clutch gear, and the drive gear (The one on the wheel).

Its sitting in the garage for now. Ever since the CST/10 poped up, I got distracted.

I see you also have one of those cheepy blue bike speedometers too, lol.

lol ok well did you get it fixed? I think mine maybe a manco or something? idk it runs great and goes pretty fast. Tops out at about 25-27 mph.

Nope, lol.

My go cart is over 15 years old, I have no clue what make it is. :lol:

The seat is ok. I just have to have that pad there to keep my back from hurting. But the bottom isnt bad. The seat kinda bows in. Yea they are the same. what make is your go cart? I cant seem to find anything about mine. And the steering wheel? I though thats how it went? lol w/e ill try it. It handles like you wouldnt believe. Can you cut doughnuts on a dime? I sure can and i'll have a vid tomorrow of it.

I think your gonna have a soar butt, lol, no seat?

Thats the exact frame design mine is. Theres a few differences. But about exactly the same.

Though your seat sides are higher too, and your steering wheel is upsidedown. You will have a buttload more leg room if you mount it 180* around.

But its light, simple, and handles good eh? :)

hey Texan, hows this?

ok people. Heres my Go cart. I've had since the day before thanksgiving. I got it for $50.00 at a lawn mower place near my house. I'ts been a great go cart and I just got done painting it and mounting my NEW engine. Its been though many mud puddles, tires, and its second engine lol. I had a 8hp. Ran like it had maybe 4 because it was 32 years old. LOL anyway, my new one is a Tecumseh 5hp. runs like a sewing machine. Enough talk here the pics!
Main frame:

Frontend:

Side pics:

My NEW engine:

Well tell me what ya'll think!

Ok Fillip how far have you gotten? I got my frame done, and two braces put in, as well as scoring some steering off of like 4 riding lawnmowers, and getting an axle and steering wheel, and I got some free aluminum diamond plate treadbrite for free and i got my exhaust tip cut down to size and welded to my bored out used to be muffler.. and i gotta finda gas tank, tires, and rims and im goin to the harware store wednesday to get some pillowblock bearings, the store here only had cast iron, not hardly as strong as steel! i might just beat you to get done!

Butane, that has some funny properties, some tour-trams run off that. Like at NASA here in houston. I havent heard of it being used as a power adder though. Interesting..

im gettin a custom built off road gokart with a 150 honda dirt bike engen from my frend it was his and he gave up on it so i am going to pick up were he left up and replace the piston and rings and going to bore the valves and replace them with +.05 mm Titanium valves and run a butane dyrect port sprayer system on it to get more power out of it and yes it will be air/gas mix with the butane sprayer system on it similar to nitrous

SICKK GO-CART love it.

And the FBI, and the CIA.... :lol: Good ol rap.

Just keep the muffler on atleast, so you dont have desbri easily gettin into the engine while its off.

HaHa Its gonna be a solid axle, and in the words of the rap band N.W.A. "**** The Police!" haha, we dont have cool cops back here, theyre evil

With in a week or two. You better actualy know about suspension geometry before you attemp any sort of live rear axle to any use. Unless your going solid like mine. The mufflers, if you have an engine like mine, that does nothing for the performance. The stock B&S ones flow quite well, your just gonna be louder and more cop prone.

well, I got my frame tacc'd up I gotta take it to a friends to lay the heavy beads on her, frame looks pretty cool too, I welded a flange for headlights too :lol: and drilled out the center of my muffler, to add the tip and my go kart is gonna be a live axle, Hey tex ill race you! see if you can get yours running before I BUILD my go kart haha

ok well I guess I will just have to mess with it tomorrow seeing how has its 10:41 here. anyway thanks for the help! :D

Ss long as the magnet passes close to the sensor, the what ever works for you. Mount the sensor on the steering arm too :wink:

awesome! glad to hear it wasnt broken for good! well anyways, I looked at my rims and all that I see is a the thing the the air valve piece thingy lol I cant describe it. sorry. but its the round metal thing sticking out of th eback of the rim. Could I mount it there?

Mmmhmm! Its at my dads for now, and then getting it fixed in a week or so.

alright thanks man. Is it not at your house due to it getting fixed at your dad's work? But anyway thanks.

the magnets have a cut out for the bike spokes, and on the rim of my gocart, theres those ribs, i just got a think wood scrap, and used it to buffer as i hammered the cut out onto the rim's rib. Id love to get you a pic, but its not at my house now, :wink:

good hear man! I have also have a small question. How did you mount the speedometer on your cart? I bought one but cant figure out how to mount the magnet on my rims. Its a solid rim I think just like yours.

buying an axle soon, and a guy at the Cadi dealership where my dad works at will weld it on...

well phil you gonna start workin on it over the winter?

wow man sorry to see that. :( but im sure if you can put a cadi tip on the motor, then you can surely fix the rear axle. I am getting a go-cart similar to yours tomorrow. Good luck fixing it.

memorial:
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=142...
new hope for the engine:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0thBlo8wwM

Thats the NASCAR spirit! Lol, the axle is something that can be replaces yes, its the engine im most worried about. You see the oil puddle. And like I said, it didnt just stall, it down right stoped as soon as the axle broke, but the engine isnt seized, it can still be cranked by the pull start, but i dunno its condition.

I got bored and made a video memorial thingy, its uploading.

Nothing some tape and bubblegum can't fix! :D

yea it prolly came from the axle id say, just oil thatd gotten in there over the years..

Im gonna use a solid steel tube this time. just a matter of getting it, threading it, and welding it. and that wont be anytime soon.

It stoped leaking thankfully, might have been some oil that creeped into the axle? I have no idea, but I havent tried the engine.

HAHA Phill-O (last time saying that I swear) yea you could fix it for 'bout 60 bucks i say :) and get some high speed bearings and build it better than before im pretty sure your engines 'aight those b & s engines take one hell of a beating hope you get it fixed, i decided to build my owen frame.

not really, the engine block might be cracked too, see the oil? and its still leakin in my garage...

to fix it, which i dunno if i will, i need to cut the old axle off, buy some solid steel bar stock, thread the ends, weld it (cant weld, to my dads auto shop...) and hope this one lasts.

what happened was i was just turning around on this one section of new side walk, smooth, dirty, so its fun to go all rally style on. at 1st the chain poped off, which was very odd. my guess is that, that was when the axle cracked. there was slack in the chain, more than normal. so i got it back on, got back on the throttle, it rolled about 3 feet, and then that happened. i felt the rear drop and the engine stoped immediatly. didnt stall, it stoped. the tire and chain jammed up the clutch, and that forcefuly killed the motor. i walked home 7 miles (my cell was dead) and drove it home in our GMC after I GOT PERMISSION :lol: . rust wasnt the cause, its a near 20 year old frame, and its seen just about every kind of road, and terrain.

im still thankful it happened when it did, 30 seconds later i would have been hauling ass on a 3 1/2 foot wide side walk at 35mph. and that would have sent me off the path way, and 7 inched down into the dirt. it would have not been good for me.

that name is saved only for my best chick friend, not you. :lol:

by the way how in the world did you do that exactly?

Well Phill-O you should been checkin your frame for rust/corrosion and weak points, but even dont do that.. if you got a welder its an easy fix.

It's fixable..... :lol:

And so the saga ends...

:cry:

Pictures speak a thousand words...

Thank GOD I wasnt at 35mph when this happened, thank god. Or I would be a dead texan...

Oh, I don't know. There is something about going exremely fast, riding that fine line between control and out of control, while riding on a platform on wheels with your butt an inch off the ground, and no roll cage.

Sounds like a good day. :lol: