Cheap fun little toy... Maybe AutocrossToy? - $150

KyAllroad wrote: I've gotten ahold of the owner. Long story short he wants it to go to someone who will follow through on what his father envisioned but never built. He describes it as a "shifter cart" and we set an appointment for me to come pick it up on Saturday.

Part of me wants build thread, part of me hates you because i didnt really have an opportunity to call because i was working in someone's house so you got to it first. If you stall out or otherwise don't want after you dig in, let me know

84FSP wrote: This is some of the most impressive enabling I've seen. Thank god this isn't Silk Road.

True enough. Admittedly since I put the bike down I've had my eye out for just exactly this sort of thing at this kind of price. I've never built anything even resembling a shifter-cart/B-mod/whatever so who knows what the eventual outcome will be. More than anything I'm wanting to challenge myself and have some fun in the garage.

Time will tell.

whoever builds it gotta do a youtube video of the ensuing carnage

fasted58 wrote: whoever builds it gotta do a youtube video of the ensuing carnage

and if it tries to kill you before breaking in two, you must call it amy.

It's Saturday. Waiting for updates.

It's mine. It's in a three horse slant gooseneck trailer sharing space with a pair of Emu.

Heading for home directly after lunch at a '50s diner called "The Knuckle Sandwich". Enjoying some quality time with my son on the road.

I'll take a closer look at everything tomorrow. When I get home it'll be unload, shower, and go see Star Wars!

My daughter is currently about to lose bladder control she's laughing so hard at your last post.

She's impressed that you took them for a ride to pick up your new car.

Ha! I didn't exactly "choose" to take the emu for a ride. When I asked my sister for use of her trailer she started grinding her mental gears to arrange for me to buy these things from (and I'm not making this E36 M3 up) a one legged man and his septegenarian friend who lived in a trash pile house in the middle of west Indiana corn field. I litterally had to catch each one and carry it bodily into the trailer. A trick when getting in front of one can result in getting a nasty kick/raking/orcyectomy (surgical removal of a teste).

On a different note. This thing is caged, weighs about 300 lbs, has one rear brake and no front brakes, is set up for a shaft drive motorcycle motor, and runs on 10" LC3 asphalt Hoosiers. Anyone know of such beasts?

OK New GRM rule. Always wear GoPro when going to pick up sketchy death machine style cars and/or large flightless waterfowl.

It looks similar-ish to an F500 car, sort of. I remember vaguely somewhere down south they had an F500-based circle track class with wings added. I wonder if this was built for a more extreme offshoot of that using bike engines.

WTF

Differential I don't think it has. Straight axle that appears to be.

Ive got an 82 XJ1100 motor that would sit nice in there.

Thanks but my '95 Kawasaki 1000 should be fine. It was still running when I put it down three years ago, hence my desire to be caged and belted when moving faster than my feet can take me.

The 10" LC-series Hoosiers are what we used to run on our FSAE cars, you may be able to score some takeoffs if a local school runs 10" wheels.

KyAllroad wrote: Thanks but my '95 Kawasaki 1000 should be fine. It was still running when I put it down three years ago, hence my desire to be caged and belted when moving faster than my feet can take me.

Haha, I don't blame you.

End of the thread here. Time to move this over to the build thread page. Today son and I removed the bodywork, power washed everything, and generally took a look at the various bits.

Couple of questions: it's a big shifter kart right now, how tough would it be to get suspension under it? What class in autocross do you foresee it getting to?

Will some sort of suspension, front brakes, and a liter bike motor be what I need to call it a B-mod? Is there more to it than that?

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link to build thread please?

If you put in a motorcycle engine its either bm or am. Check the wheelbase that's one decider as to which.

Ummmm, well I seem to have overestimated my garage skills and underestimated the amount of work this will take. It's sitting in my garage mostly taken apart with a big honking bike motor sitting in the appropriate spot but not mounted yet.

Patgizz, are you still interested?

probably. wonder if my shaft drive engine would work.

In reply to patgizz: I sent a PM but forgot that us yahoo types can't do that so try emailing me: armstrong390@

Thanks

bringing up a Zombie thread....

Did this thing ever get built? Or sold to Pat?

Seeing the Subaru van built on a dwarf chassis this year, maybe this thing could be challenge legal with a production body thrown on.

Neither.  After my son spent a few hours cutting bits off the upper care and we studied how to tie various bits together we came to the sad realization that our combined skillset is much more in line with repairing existing car bits than creating new items from scratch.  I sold the cart, all the parts, and the motor to a local friend who had delusions of grandeur for $200 and a large upright air compressor that needs repair (and that I still haven't picked up).  Last month he messaged me that he went out to the barn and was surprised to see that he now owned a kart chassis, it had slipped his mind!!   

My best guess is that it will never become anything of any use.