Dan & Kyle's father and son project !!

[fabr]

Ummm,where's the safety glasses?

[hemi43]

Safety glasses and hearing protection is worn 99% of the time in my shop !! The 1 % is only for photo shots !! :-) Thanks for bringing that up.

I was not aware about the different sheave angles on polaris !! :-( I will be doing more research on that, because the clutch has not been purchased yet.
Hmmm !! I got the tranny from a huge polaris dealer ( he's actually a friend that owns it ), and he's the one that mentioned the Comet 94c. He's been in business for eons, so one would think that he may have known that !! Oh well, it will just be another hurdle to overcome.
I got tons done today, (Sat), so I hope to throw more pics up.
Thanks for the tips guys.
Dan

[Nutz4sand]

As mentioned I do not know the angle of the sheaves is different.

I mentioned it one time I was going to use a Polaris quad tranny behind a Ski Doo sled motor and was told the angles were different.

I still am curious is this was true or not. 

[hemi43]

[hemi43]

Here's pictures of this weekends progress. I'm hoping to get the cross bracing done this week, then I'll move to rear part of the kart.

[chrishallett83]

I can see design influences (whether intentional or sub-conscious) from a couple of different buggies in that chassis already mate! Looks great, all the best with your build!

Actually, while I'm commenting, why not make the rear end of the frame a little bigger, so you can swap in a motorcycle drivetrain in the future?

[hemi43]

Thanks Chris !!
Actually there's quite a bit of room, and I did that intentionally. If I do put a larger engine into it in the future, I would not put in a motorcycle engine but one from an ATV. I love the way CVTs perform and the kart would be already set up for it anyway.
You're right about the different influences. I like the look of the Barracuda, but I could not copy it 100% because of the size of my build. Right now it kinda looks like those swamp buggies from Florida !!
Western Australia EH !! You can't be any further away from me !!  :-)

[Doug Heim]

I picked out the influences right away. Influenced or not. Your doing some great quality work there. Great little machine you have started!

[hemi43]

I have to give "Lance W" the credit !! I stole most of my ideas from his "Samantha" build pictures. He even had cad drawings in his photo album. 
Actually, I have about a dozen pictures that I printed from his album with me as I build this buggy, but I make sure I hide them when I take pictures so that everyone will think that I'm building something unique !!
Shhh.. Don't tell anyone !! LOL

[hemi43]

OK, I got a little more progress done today. It's hard to get motivated during the week, because I would rather back with a couple of beers after work !!

The front half of the cage is more or less done, so I figured I would start on the rear.
I machined the flat plates on my CNC ( everyone has a CNC at home, don't they? ) which will get welded together to form the housing for the rear suspension



I actually built that CNC last year from an old NC mill. I used my old home PC for the brains and other parts which I got online. The only original electrical part that is still used are the servo motors.



A little deburring and the part is done !!

[T8erhead]

Nice work.   This is going to make someone very happy.

Also it's good to hear of people making or converting their own machines, so feel free to put up any info you want about it, or it's creation.  Maybe start a new thread if you don't want to clutter this one up. 
Thanks for the inspiration.

[hemi43]

Yeah I don't think this is the right place to be talking about machine equipment. I will add, that once I'm done with this go-kart, I will be building a CNC plasma table. If there's enough interest here, I will post build pics in the "Machine Shop" section of dtsfab/
Dan

[SPEC]

Have at er Hemi...I haven't had time to post on this thread but I think your doing a great job

[fabr]

Yeah I don't think this is the right place to be talking about machine equipment. I will add, that once I'm done with this go-kart, I will be building a CNC plasma table. If there's enough interest here, I will post build pics in the "Machine Shop" section of dtsfab/
Dan

Please do so!!

[Reidy02]

Cool lets get into the CNC stuff!!  MAN I thought Doug had a well equipped garage