Archive for August, 2007

Going Karting

goingkarting

GoingKarting.co.uk: This website offers great tips and advice to help you get the most out of go-karting. There is some good general knowledge on karting, with all types of karts (pedal to petrol etc.) been covered for both young and old. It also has information on setting up a karting meeting.

Worth a look.

SolidWorks CAD Drawing of a Tony Kart Chassis

ABout Tony Kart

Tony Kart produces high quality racing kart chassis. A catalogue of their kart chassis can be found on their website. A particular chassis model, a Tony Kart Extreme ’97, was modelled using SolidWorks, and is available for download. Below is an overview of the chassis, in isometric and in a plan view.

Overview of Chassis in SolidWorks

This chassis is modelled perfectly in SolidWorks, with each member as an individual part and fully in-context. With the complete assembly and part files, it would be very easy to create 2d drawings of the chassis. The chassis is full size, so no scaling would have to be carried out.
Perhaps in the future the author will complete a fully dimensioned chassis using SolidWorks. Please contact the author if you have any queries etc. regarding this.

Download SolidWorks Files

The SolidWorks assembly file can be downloaded from its original location here, along with some other CAD drawings also. A backup local copy of the SolidWorks chassis is also available.

eDrawings Download of the Chassis

In case you don’t have a copy of SolidWorks to open and measure the components, the eDrawings viewer can be used to open the chassis, measure each component, and create a section view through the chassis. The chassis opened in eDrawings can be seen below:

Tony Kart Chassis in eDrawings

Download the Tony Kart Chassis ’97 eDrawing
Note: the eDrawings download of the chassis contains a self executable viewer application.

Conclusion

Hopefully the detailed professional chassis design will give you ideas on how to design and create your own chassis. An idea of the size of the chassis design can also be obtained using the eDrawing. Best of Luck!
If you have any queries or comments, please email them to the author at:

Edit: A few people emailed me asking for the above Tony Kart in AutoCAD DWG Forma: PDF Format of Tony Kart | DWG Format of Tony Kart (in a Zip File) | STEP Format (in a Zip File)

Vintage Go-Karts: A Website Review

The following website (http://www.vintagekarts.com/karts.htm) has some excellent photos and articles on old vintage go-karts. These karts were made using the basic necessities, and still achieved high speeds with excellent cornering and handling. Several ideas can be taken from these vintage karts where there were “no frills” to building gokarts. Ideas which can be combed from the gallery of photos include:

  • Twin Engines
  • Simple friction brakes
  • Types of Seats
  • Keeping Chassis Designs Simple

Thumbnail Previews of VintageKarts.com’s Gallery: 

      

View more photos here: http://www.vintagekarts.com/gallery.htm

Preview of VintageKarts.com’s Articles:

There are also some excellent in-depth articles about the history of karting, right up to the current day! Some of the topics discussed include:

  • Karting Grand Nationals, from 1960 to 2005
  • Transportation of GoKarts
  • Women Gokart Racers
  • Rocket Powered Karts
  • McCulloch’s Entry into Karting

Hopefully this website will provide further insight and details as to how simple engine powered gokarts were and can be made. If you would like your karting website reviewed and mentioned here, or if you have any comments on this or any other article, please contact the author by email at