Lightning McSlamkart; we sold out too.

[FunfGang]

So yesterday night as my buddy and I were hanging out in the garage, doing random maintenance on our cars, we remembered our old mini-buggy sitting in the shed. We decided we'd try to bring it back to life, but this time the goal was not to climb over stuff, jump or generally leave the road at all. No, this time we came for sparks. We wanted to have a pit vehicle for auto-cross, meets and race weekends that had some character. We tried to have fun, and not try to spend any money. Now, you probably didn't read that so on to ze' build!

When we first got her in the garage;





The massive power plant that powers this beast;



The first thing we addressed was the front suspension, heres how it was;



We decided to just take out the springs/shocks for now, and shorten the shocks/ chop springs in the near future, but heres how it sits with slightly under inflated tires;




Then it got a bit trendy, I had some of my scooters lying around and some snowboard attachments for a roofrck;



Starting to come together;


Then we found a soon to be hooked up oil cooler;



And thats how she sits until my buddy gets his welder back, still on the list to do:

1. New carb, we couldn't get it to idle/ actually move with the old, gunky one.
2. Sort out front suspension.
3. Front skid plate so we don't catch and flip over.
4. Chop the roof/ cage.
5. 5pt. harness we have lying around.
6. Reweld front hubs for mad camberz.
7. Throw some sparks.

[andybob]

If your buddy has a welder why not just make new mounts for the springs instead of cutting them?

[FunfGang]

If your buddy has a welder why not just make new mounts for the springs instead of cutting them?

The rears are getting new mounts, the fronts are going to be tougher to do so. Were still deciding how to add camber and do the springs.

[FunfGang]

If we do new mounts, the plan will be to lower the mount on the bottom A- arm down, thats really the only way we can get sufficient lows.

[K.rischan]

Haha, that's nice. Love little fun-projects like this

[cobrawannabe]

Put turnbuckles in the upper control arms up front camber. For springs, weld a plate to the top of the upper nose bar and triangulate it to the knee halo and the nose bars. Weld the original shock mounts to that plate.

[NickBlais]

could you flip the a-arms?

[FunfGang]

Put turnbuckles in the upper control arms up front camber. For springs, weld a plate to the top of the upper nose bar and triangulate it to the knee halo and the nose bars. Weld the original shock mounts to that plate.

Thanks! could you elaborate? Haha. My plan was to simply shorten the top a-arms to add camber.

could you flip the a-arms?

I could, but I'd have to press the bushings out, ruining them in the process. So I ruled that out, but thats for the suggestion!

[los02]

Air bags!!!

[FunfGang]

Air bags!!!

Never

[Lupton_20vt]

Ha thats awesome. I had my old go kart being a skip find that I got modding with. Wish I never sold it!

[KürBFèéleR]

Very cool.i always have liked gokarts.cant wait to see this complete.should be sick

[Chuckdee]

this should be interesting. i'll keep an eye out for this.

[AlwaysStunting]

sweet!!!!!!!

[JVC]

I wanna buy a go-kart this winter and slam it sooo badly. Might have to make it light so I can slap it up on my roof rack and roll hard to shows.

Definitely watching this for awesome content!