Ultimate karting ?

[Mustang]

saw this thing thaught it was amazing, can anyone tell what engine running ?

me thinks some sort of bike engine

its fast as hell though

http://www.walesnet.plus.com/gixxerkart_video.wmv

[shr0olvl]

:eek: wow, that looks so baddass and so damn fun. i gotta do that some day, id probably kill myself on one of those things having so much fun but yeah, that thing is going pretty f***** fast. its probably got some kinda bike engine in it like you said though

[johnnynumfiv]

It looks like a bike engine, it says 1100 cc's, It seems like a pretty big bike engine though. There are legend cars that are powered by those engines and they fly.

[my porsche]

it says 1100 cc engine, i.e. 1.1 litre bike engine

[VtecMini]

It's a Suzuki GSX-R thou I'd guess, The term "Gixxer" refers to a GSX, it's one of those funny biker words, like "Kwak" (Kawasaki).

Edit: Did a bit of digging and I'm not so sure now. It says 1100 and the GSX-R1000 is a 998cc engine, which probably produces around 170ish bhp, but this one only makes 115... The next biggest is the Hayabusa which is a 1300 and produces nearly 200bhp I think. I don't think bike engines are usually bored out due to their already rather thin blocks, so I'm at a bit of a loss as to what it is now... :confused:

[Mattg]

HOLY **** thats awesome!! i bet it would benefit with some aerodynamics though :)

[SPHFerrari]

taht is extremely cool

[g01d1e]

I thought I was the only one who thought of putting a sportbike engine on a kart. I'm also considering doing a project like that myself and after seeing the results in the video it just urges me even more to build one. I mean the acceleration must be INSANE even if it loses a lot of traction when you floor it :eek: :eek: :eek:

P.S. I wonder how they made the tranny work... with the hand clutch and all, because in the vid the driver seems to only pull on a stick sort of like a sequential tranny :confused:

[pterps]

Here you can find more information about this kart:

http://www.ringmini.de/GSXR_Kart/gsxr_kart.html

Pterps

[Matra et Alpine]

P.S. I wonder how they made the tranny work... with the hand clutch and all, because in the vid the driver seems to only pull on a stick sort of like a sequential tranny :confused:
It's a bike engine, seqeuential is the norm and clutchless gear changes too :)