Just like you, I was also looking for go karts for sale before. It was me and my sons passion and I always desired to buy go karts for them. At the beginning, I guessed finding a good go kart will be easy. But merely after searching and comparing costs, I realized that it would cost me so much and even the used ones are still expensive.
After numerous hunts for affordable and inexpensive karts, I thought about making them myself. Having an architectural plan or guide in making go karts will make things easy. Thus, instead of buying go karts I opted to buy a kart building plan instead.
I then bought a simple to follow go kart building guide. I first check into the diagrams and pictures prior to anything else just to make myself acquainted with what the appearance of the kart after completion. Gathering all the required parts and stuffs is hassle-free since everything is stated on the guide plus the best places where to buy them too. When all the materials are bought, the next thing I managed to do was the frame layout. I again relied on the detailed instructions given on the go kart building guide. In less than a week, I eventually made my first ever go kart without spending too much money. My two sons are both thrilled that they wanted me to make them their own go karts too.
What I like the most about constructing my own kart is that I could customize it to whatever I want it to look like. Even during making my sons go karts, I still was able to build them a safe and secured one. And if you’re thinking of buying a go kart too, you should also consider building them yourself. The go kart building guide I used is so simple, detailed, and very complete that even an average person can start building go karts without any problems.
This is the Neuroti-Kart. Homemade electric go-Kart.
Design Goals: electric powered, quiet, fast, capable of doing donuts in my street. Home run!
FAQ:
Build cost (parts): about $1500
Motor: ADC shunt wound (separately excited)
Controller: Sevcon 300A
Motor and controller source: used, Ebay, about $550 for both
Top speed: about 40 mph
Run time: 1 hour hard driving
Charge time: 4-6 hours using 4 12v chargers, one per batt
Weight: 325 lbs without driver
Q:“Can you make me one?” A: Not for a price you’d be willing to pay. I’ve got a day job, and if I tried to make money doing this, I’d probably starve.
Q:“Then how can I get one?” A: I’d recommend getting an existing gokart and converting it. The bolt-on and weld-on parts add up quickly, and an existing kart already has at least some of what you need. The better the frame you start with, the better the kart you’ll have and chances are, the less work you’ll need to do.
I'm Tom, an engineer based here at Lawton, Oklahoma.
I've fully devoted this blog on finding the best go karts for sale. I was then looking for karts for sale and planning on purchasing one. Now I was able to build my very own go kart using the most simplified and complete go kart guide I ever used.