Having built 12 various varieties of go kart more than the past 25 years, the query has been asked of me quite a few times: "How Do You Construct A Go Kart?"
I'll be sincere, my first go karts weren't pretty, but the moment I got the knack of it, it wasn't so poor.
Generally what you do is comply with a series of actions:
- Style it in your head
- Place it on Paper
- Analyze it
- Procure Materials
- Fabricate
- Test
- Tweak
- Paint
- Start more than....
Sounds simple adequate...
1. Style It In Your Head
The initially step of "style it in your head" actually implies you are wrestling with all the variables:
- Quantity of Persons
- Engine Size
- Clutch Type
- Drive Program
- Suspension Sort
- Component Sizes
- Material Variety
- Expected Terrain
two. Put It On Paper
The second step is to place all those variables on paper. You want to layout the go kart preferably in a scale drawing format. If you can use a personal computer that is fine, otherwise, I utilized to use a piece of paper and scale the go kart at 1 inch = 1 foot. The easiest is to lay it out in actual life on the floor in the garage or shop.
What I mean by that is to take the tubes lay them out on the floor, put the engine in the spot you want, and the seat exactly where you want it. This will give you a pretty rough thought of the size of the gokart.
three. Analyzing The Go Kart
Analyzing it is likely the step most skip, mainly because they think they know much better, and can style a go kart any old way they please.
Not analyzing the go-kart style is okay to a specific extent, till you learn that when you step on the gas the clutch smokes and the go kart does not genuinely move. Also the go kart is so heavy that it takes three men and women to get it back in the garage. And it that wasn't undesirable enough now the go kart doesn't corner pretty nicely (it just goes straight), it is tipsy (likes to ride on two wheels) and the frame keeps bending and sagging. Things begin breaking off, and you just throw your hands up and say enough! All these issues could be prevented by analyzing the go kart.
Analyzing the go-cart requires the following areas:
- Center Of Gravity (Over All Weight and Weight Centers)
- Engine to Drive-Line Ratios
- Strength Of Frame
- Component Sizes
4. Center of Gravity Calculation
The center of gravity calculation sounds complicated, but it actually is not. The poor mans way to get the center of gravity is to take two scales (or if you are poor but 1 scale) and place it exactly where the wheels would be situated. (Factor to preserve in thoughts is that an equivalent weight of a individual(s) needs to be included and distributed effectively.) When the scale reads one half the total weight, you have a 50/50 weight distribution.
"Fifty-Fifty" (50/50) weight distribution is vital for very good driving and handling. When you get started stepping out of that ratio, you will have handling troubles. Again, this weight distribution can be performed on the floor with scales, or it can be calculated. I favor calculating it due to the fact the placement of things can be changed effortlessly with out having to do mega-redoes, and rethinks about the go kart layout.
The downside about laying the materials out on the floor and weighing them is that you need to have to have common idea about the frames layout, and you might have to tack weld pieces together to get an approximation of exactly where items should really be. This may perhaps involve breaking welds to location components in new locations to optimize the frame. (Again a good layout on paper helps here.)
5. Engine Drive Line Calculations
The engine drive line calculation is pretty significant if you want a go kart that is basically going to move. The size of the drive components are taken into account and then calculated to see how nicely the go kart will basically carry out with the engine size, weight and ratios.
When I was designing go-karts I grew tired of getting to calculate the drive line systems, so I put with each other a laptop program and had it calculate for me. I created it fairly fancy at a single point exactly where you could insert horsepower and get out how insanely quickly the go kart would go. Or I could do time trials with my go kart and calculate how much power my go kart basically had. So bottom line is do some sort of drive train analysis, or calculation.
6. Strength of Frame Calculations
The strength of the frame can be an illusive point unless you know a bit about strength of supplies and really how to calculate the cracking pressure and bending deflections. Ordinarily what we do is: "If in doubt make it stout." That is a good adage but it can be detrimental to a go kart design. You can finish up throwing a lot of steel at a section of the go kart and essentially not get any headway. So analyzing the frame prior to in fact putting it together is a very good notion. The final thing you want is a frame that snaps in half, or cracks in the middle.
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