7AFE powered GO-KART!, What do you guys think? Options

[richee3]

As several of you know, I recently parted out an ST. Well, as it turns out, the 7AFE and it's automatic transmission are in incredibly low demand Who knew that when someone pulled the 7AFE out that they would want to put something more powerful back in??? So that leaves me with a 7AFE and trans sitting in my garage. I have an uncle who happens to be an excellent welder and has a LOT of scrap metal sitting around. So after reading some of the more recent threads on here, namely the one Exterior Styling where gokarter put a rubber lip in his front bumper. Everyone starting talking about how the lip matched his name. I started thinking... Celica, go-kart... Celica, go-cart... What if I bought a few supplies, and had my uncle build me a frame (with a kick-a** roll cage hahahaha) and mount that 7AFE on it? It would be heavy, yes, but it would be the most BA go-kart in Southern Illinois. 110 HP isn't very much in a Celica, but it'd be massive overkill on a one-off go-kart. So do you guys think I should do this? And if so, how would I do it? Keep in mind that I do still have the transmission, and I'm not sure whether I should use it or not. So... Tell me!

[richee3]

Alright, 3 votes of yes. That's good enough for me Might as well try it, right? I can always just stop what I'm doing and find something else to play with lol. I think I'll go with Stetsonaw's idea and make this my progress thread. But it may be a little bit before I get started. In the meantime, does anybody have any good ideas of how to go about doing this right? Block, you'll probably be getting a lot of PM's from me lol. And your brother-in-law is building one with a B16? That's crazy! His will definitely smoke mine when all is said and done.

[block]

Alright, 3 votes of yes. That's good enough for me Might as well try it, right? I can always just stop what I'm doing and find something else to play with lol. I think I'll go with Stetsonaw's idea and make this my progress thread. But it may be a little bit before I get started. In the meantime, does anybody have any good ideas of how to go about doing this right? Block, you'll probably be getting a lot of PM's from me lol. And your brother-in-law is building one with a B16? That's crazy! His will definitely smoke mine when all is said and done.

to get started, you need a lot of good welding lol. think of what your base go-kart will look like and start from there. my bro in law used 4" thick metal bars. he's a honda guy so he used a lot of parts from hondas to build his go-kart.