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[UTERUS]

Could I please see some pics of it erect.

[cletus]

No problem. It starts out quite small but it gets much bigger once erection is complete  

[Valiant]

Wow! It's a grower, not a shower.

[cletus]

I bought this for my daughter probably 5 years ago. When I was a kid I would have given anything to have a go kart so as any good parent does, I project my childhood dreams onto my own offspring 

The first time she drove it, I was pretty lax with the explanations, and she was 4. It's a 2 seater so my mrs sat on the other side. I'd backed the throttle right off but on grass with 2 on it, it was frying the clutch and wouldn't get moving so I had to give it more 

She started doing laps of the grass paddock but freaked out and forgot how to take her foot off the gas so she's going quite quickly, my mrs started freaking as well , kid starts screaming... I took a lunge at the spark plug lead but missed, luckily she hit a bump and her foot came off the gas

Left it parked under the house until she was 6. Had another go, gave her a lot more training this time, and took her to an asphalt car park. She was going well until she turned too sharp and rolled it, her and the wife got a few scrapes and bruises. 

Parked it again, was going to sell it but daughter was still keen to have another go, she's 9 now and asked about it this morning so finally got around to fitting some smaller tyres to gear it down and make it less likely to fall over  

[RUNAMUCK]

Have you considered upping the horsepower? 

Itll be a small leap from a fast go kart to junior dragster.

[cletus]

I'm pretty sure they were NZ made in the 90s. I used to race a kart when I was 13-15. Roundabout kart shop was where we got my kart and parts from and I vaguely remember seeing a brochure for these 

It has a 4hp 2 stroke briggs on it that has been turned from vertical to horizontal shaft , it has a carb and fuel tank from an iron horse mower by the looks of it  

I made the exhaust longer cause it used to just chooch straight up out of the muffler  

[cletus]

11 minutes ago, RUNAMUCK said:

Have you considered upping the horsepower? 

Itll be a small leap from a fast go kart to junior dragster.

It's scary enough to watch as is, she needs to get a lot better before any more power 

[Valiant]

That's a cool little cart!

Have you considered a remote controlled kill switch?

Could could use an Ali Express RC with one servo to trip a micro switch and earth the coil if things were getting a bit hektik.

[Raizer]

Those Briggs stickered Zenoah engines are a decent engine, was just parts availability that makes them uncommon these days.

Bike carb and a small spanny would wake it up once she gets the feel for it!

 

Remote kill is a good idea too

[cletus]

22 minutes ago, Valiant said:

That's a cool little cart!

Have you considered a remote controlled kill switch?

Could could use an Ali Express RC with one servo to trip a micro switch and earth the coil if things were getting a bit hektik.

Good idea!

16 minutes ago, Raizer said:

Those Briggs stickered Zenoah engines are a decent engine, was just parts availability that makes them uncommon these days.

Bike carb and a small spanny would wake it up once she gets the feel for it!

 

Remote kill is a good idea too

Ah, I thought it was odd that it was a Briggs and 2 stroke. 

[flyingbrick]

Rather than a servo, there are 12v garage door style remotes and receivers that would work well. I have one sitting around I think, pm me your address 

[Muncie]

Ive got some 1/2 used drift trike sleeves throw those on no speed but plenty of fun for a learner. She can pretend shes at summernats.

[SOHC]

Is there some kind of government on that engine?

[cletus]

Nah just a stopper you can adjust on the throttle pedal 

[cletus]

Was unable to resist , was a good price. Boss sold it to me, it's a 98 so last of this shape, quite high miles but in the last 80k it has had a rebuilt trans and a new crate tree fiddy  

Needs a little bit of work but came with most of the parts to do so, and needs paint tidying up

I'm not actually sure if I'll keep it or not, the only things that put me off are the size of it and how much pertol it will use. Apparently this engine is a bit better than the earlier TBI engines, economy wise  

Is considerably more comfortable than the van.

 

If I keep it , it will be getting a reduction in ride height, it handily came with a set of drop spindles in the parts pile 

 

[kyteler]

Oh man. 

Jealous. 

[kyteler]

Swaps for a shitty D21 VG30 5spd double cab beater? 

[RUNAMUCK]

Drop spindles?

They'll need cert. Those cert guys are nazis/totally unreasonable to deal with..........

Trolololol

[BlownCorona]

weve got a single cab/facking mahoosive tray '97 that we bought of the certifier in carteron to crash test. did its job and wasnt too banged up so we had it repaired it for a work vehicle. 

its so mint, can carry a whole dodge rams load of crash repair parts including a hood laying flat in the tray. and i cut half the exhaust out so it sounds like a muscle car, with its matty b D Windows, it looks the part too.

its not great on gas,  but its also not awful, really depends on if you mash the gas pedal or not. its got the spider injector 350 in it which i assume is what you have.

[cletus]

Yeah that's the one. oddball thing that wasn't made for very long- 96 to 98 as far as I know 

The body is a bit different as well, 3 door which was only made for 97 and 98 

 

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