G'day guys now for sumthing a lil different :P ... basicly saw on the hobbyking.com website they made a 1/4 brushless kart that look pretty trick .. being that i live and breath go-kart racing and raced for 10yrs and still very involved i thought this would be a sick project to turn into nitro ..





that is how it came ... BL motor on it and only needing a esc and radio gear.. but



next step was to mock up the engine.. i went for a JAMMIN P/S .12 for the simple fact i had one new on my shelf gathering dust and it worked out great because of how the exhaust bends round..

i did buy a chain drive set up off the kyosho kart to run but when this kart got here i worked out the spur gear was the same pitch as the clutch bell so i changed how i was gunna mount it ... right behind the seat..

and this is where i finshed work on it today ... got a fair bit done in a couple of hrs ... motor is mounted , exhuast is mounted .. tank is mocked up .. (hyper st tank ) still got a heap of work todo ... mount servos work out how to run the breaks .. got a really good idea for them il see how it works when i start on that . ummmm got sum billet slip on rear hubs coming off the TAM F104 F1 car that run the 14mm hex .. soo im gunna put thos on with the duratraxx F1 green foam rear tyres .. should give it a heap of grip ...






also in the works in the future will be a engine change when i no it all runs and can handle this ... this engine my bros gunna put on his mugen mst-1 and im gunna buy a RB .12 10 JR roto or a NOVA .12 roto hahahahah gunna hammmmmmmer :P

that wheel monkey's gonna need a burn specialist .....!!!!!.....lol.....sweet looking project bro..

It all looks pretty cool, only problem I see is that the engine is going to overheat if its behind the driver.

lol yeah yeah i no its pretty much touching him ... might notch out his back a lil to save the thing catching fire ... all in good time did all this just today soo , see where i end up with it

and i might drill a heap of holes in his cheast and back soo air gets through to coool the engine but only if it is over heating .

ok put a only a couple of hrs on it today ... cbf working all day on it the suns cranking over here on this saturday soo im off to the beach but what i got done was jump on the lathe and make sum alloy posts tapped out m4 to mount the servo and fuel tank .. which worked out awsome and got the throttle linkage all done .. as it stands now if i put on radio gear, i could drive it .. but i wanna go over the whole thing with loctite and make sure it does not all come loose ... thats where i am today :P whooop whoooop

looks like a bought one hahahahahaa

brakes?
how you going to slow this beast down?

Hey mate, was it you running the Vortex reed valve??

well the plan is to use a shortened mbx6 break set up ( only one side ) and use a hub and break disk of another car .. il start working on the breaks soon maybe next week .. waiting for my alloy 14mm hex f104 hubs to come first and also i might have to run another servo just for the breaks . gunna be a lil bit of a stuff around but , itl all work in the end ..

[QUOTE=CHRISP76;8566613]Hey mate, was it you running the Vortex reed valve??[/QUOTE


yeah thats the VORTEX reed in my display pic its a monster .. but i blew it up a few months ago and dads still got to rebuild it for me ... i have not been out testing in a kart for a while cos the weather's been bad and dads been flat out building a historic 80's-early90's TWIN engine kart ... front breaks the whole nineyards .. that will be the next thing il take out to have a few laps in hopfully soon ..

Nice little project you got there. I love kart too.

cheeers bro wait till its RB or NOVA power'd ha

beeen off work sick today so did a hr or two on this today .. well its RUNS ... today i basicly got all the radio gear done , i carbon vinyl wrapped the REC bat pack so its kinda blends into the chassis .. i think it turned out very well . also i sum how floooked the gearing because when i started and gave it a lil drive around, it all seams to be geared great and i think its reallly gunna hammmer , theres sum more pics and a lil teaser vid this weekend il try and get out in a car park and get a good vid of it driven.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7Iy3zztSh8