wrecked quads?

orange150

orange150

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I recently stumbled across a good deal (free) on a single seater go-cart large enough to fit my 6' frame. Im thinking that it would be a fun little project to put suspension on and maybe tweek out a little bit. I would like to use a sport quad as sort of a donor vehicle, using the front and rear suspension parts and maybe some of the drivetrain and electrical system. Problem is that I have never once seen an ATV or motorcycle salvage yard. Anybody know where such a place is, or just know of anyone with an old/beat up/cheap ATV?
 
There is a motorcycle and fourwheeler salvage yard in High Point or Thomasville (i think). I think it is called 220 cycle salvage but again im not sure. I know there is a place in or around that area hopefully someone can help out with exactly where its at and the name.

Edit: I just looked it up and here is the adress and phone number.
220 Cycle Salvage
5501 Randleman Rd
Greensboro, NC
Phone: (336) 674-6483
 
I rode a home made go-kart this summer that had a honda big red drivetrain in it. Thing had a rigged up shifter on the left side that you shifted with your hand right by your side. It had no suspention at all but was running 4whlr tires aired quite low. Slide it anywhere... Pretty fast for what it was.
 
751 up in the durham area.

i've always wanted to make a shifter kart, and hopefully will one day. either a 2 stroke dirt bike motor or a 600 from a street bike...
 
Sounds to me like a crash in the making with raptor motor or a 600 street bike engine. But it will sure be fun, good luck on the project. I dont think 220 cycles has any fourwheeler stuff now I think they moved to all motorcycle stuff.
 
yeah, well that's the point. something with insane power to weight ratio. your average 600cc sportbike is in the neighborhood of 400lbs. you could likely cut that in half with a kart frame.

there's a number of people out there that have built such things. google for gixxer kart or kart vader, those are a couple of the more common videos out there i can think of.

if i ever do it, it'd be with a racing/shifter kart frame. that's the "safest" way to do it imo, not one of the cheap kind you can buy at northern or wherever.

there was some company that used to make what was basically a go kart with a 4 wheeler drivetrain, suspension, tires, etc. someone posted one on raleigh craigslist a while back.

is there a problem Futbalfantic?
 
i finally got around to picking up that go-kart the other day, took about 1 hour to have it stripped to the frame. there is hardly anything to it!
 

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i built one out of a suzuki street bike motor a long time ago, ( at least 12 years ago) the only way we could make it work was to have the motor sit between our legs and that way we could shift it with our hand. put an electric fuel pump on it and it would haul. you could burn the 25 inch tires off from if you had the balls to hold the gas down long enough. the only problem we had was it kept bending the sprockets in the back
 
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