Honda GX240 8hp homemade offroad gokart
Well heres the start of it, rescued from the local scrap-heap, this rolling chassis was laying there and i felt bad about just walking past it, I knew the first time i seen it it could be something, but after pondering for a while I drove off thinking what a waste, it wasn’t until later that afternoon when the guys showed up, we talked about it and decided f**k it, and drove all the way back and shoehorned it into the back of the car….
After the thing was unloaded back at the shed, young Marty showed up and mentioned he had an old (when i say old i mean, laying in the back garden under a pile of shite for 3 years old i mean old) Honda GX240 generator that had the engine but was battered about a bit, we thought its worth a look, but we were just dying to see how it would look with some kind of engine on the back, after close inspection of this piece of watery crap, we says again, f**k it and took it back to the shed, I wish that we took photos or a video when I ripped the engine apart to see what kind of mess it was in, the spark plug was missing so this as you could imagine after being left out in the elements for years was just a gaping hole for the water to get in, and by f**k it got in… the barrel and the outlet ports were full of rusty muck, we managed to strip it down and get it all working, the internals were fine once it was all cleaned up…
After the re-build, we fired some fresh petrol into the carb, and believe it or not it started on the first pull, and pured away nicely! superb, I now had a fully working 8hp beast of an engine to graft onto old Frankenstein. That got me onto thinking about stopping the beast, so I fitted a brake disk from the rear wheel of a Kawasaki Zephyr 550 onto the rear axle! worked a treat, just need to mount the caliper, run a brake hose and fit the master cylinder onto the front of old Frankie.
A few weeks and it should be tearing up the grass!
The images below is basically step in the process of how this crazy pile of metal will be transformed from a pile of metal and a few wheels to a lean mean drifting machine…
Ill keep you updated with a few piccys as I proceed.
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you really think this will amount to anything…?
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lol m8 yer a genuis u really are bet u it will look like a porsche once youve got it finished
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