turbocharged bike powered GO-KART
 

For those of you who were talking about turbocharging a go kart here ya go ;D in case your wondering this is a turbocharged bike motor in a GO-KART that looks like it weight 300 or 400 lbs. Its suppose to go 0-60 in like 3 secs and puts like 3 or 4 g's on your body or something like that.

http://www.samcosport.com/images/large/fs7.jpg

http://www.samcosport.com/images/large/fs9.jpg

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Ok,ok... I take back all of the laughing at anyone on here who wanted to turbo their scooter... or moped. whatever. Damn I wish I knew what those little motors sounded like!!! haha. ;D

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that intercooler looks homo mounted like that :-\

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haha nice ic mounting job... i bet it just sounds like a crotch rocket with a pipe like that on it.

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I need those trick samco coolant hose kits.. PIMP

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at first I was thinking.. "WTF, where's the damn turbo" Then I saw it. Holy ---- that thing is small!

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ya it is a small turbo but my god you don't need a huge turbo for that kinda of engine.

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I get a bad feeling from that setup...and is that a DRAW THROUGH carb setup??? WTF??? fuel will puddle up inside the cooler, pipes. and drain back into the turbo after it's shut off. I don't like it!

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the radiator and the ic are mounted in really stupid spots!! :)

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ya i do have to agree with that ic and radiator. You would figure they spend all this money as well as suppose to be future engineers they would of found a better place to put them exspecially the ic. oh well thats people for ya

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Um yah, that its probably a formula sae car and the the engine is probably a 600cc motorcycle engine. Not very small really. The funky configuration is beacues you have to have a 20mm restrictor before the turbo.

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i like it, its probably fast as ----

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Ya our Formula SAE team, which i am technically [art of but have been a bit busy to help out much, used to turbo the honda 600cc engines. N/A the car is really fast now 0-60 coming in around 4sec.
http://www.me.gatech.edu/gtmotorsports/loader.html


Oh and as you can guess i go to Gerogia Tech

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i want one ;D

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i just want to know where i can get 4 of those turbos, i think quad turboed dx sounds kewl... or then again really gay too

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yeah, it's an FSAE car. i was on the university of minnesota FSAE team for 2 years. we had one in 99 that used a CBR250RR engine turbocharged and running on methanol, redlining at 19,000 rpm. fast little bitch :)
i've only driven the 98 car and the 01 car, and the 98 car was converted back to carbs (no bullshit restrictor). that was the most violent acceleration i've ever experienced in my life. from 9000-12,000 rpm i couldn't see it was pulling so hard. i think that car's 0-60 was a tick under 3 seconds.

speaking of SAE, the competition is this weekend in detroit. i know we've got a kickass car this year, but so do about 50 other schools. good luck to all you guys involved with you school's teams..

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now i really want one take that bitch on the road and you would own everyone and everything but if someon hit you ,you be in some major pain if not dead oh well. I still would do it ;D

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http://www.cheesepie.com/images/nos_scooter.jpg

http://www.cheesepie.com/images/nos_scooter2.jpg

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man, that scooter thing looks like a darwin award just WAITING to happen....

i think it'd be fun to take a shifter kart out to university and race a few 'maros. nothin warms my heart like making a mullet cry....

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ok now I want to take a welding class and make a go kart and turbo it. I swear some point in my life I will make one. that would be soo fun just to say that I have a turbo go kart. with a giant fmic too. I know that they are trying to make a turbo for a gas rc car. but a go kart would be sooooo cool especially a shifter kart. you know? because you would hear the blow off... mmmmmm I am going to look around I know theres one out there.

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Does anyone know where you can find those midget turbos??

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NEWS FLASH: TURBOS DO NOT WORK ON 2 STROKES....

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derrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr ::)

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i only said that because someone was talking about turboing an RC car...I've never seen a 4 stroke RC car.....yet

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nope, i've got an rc car and that mother fucker don't need a turbo!

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thats the truth..I used to have an AWD HPI mini civic...fast as hell, gas of course, but it was more fun to build than to drive.

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yeah, i've got a traxxas 4-tec with an integra type r body and replica type r rims. it looks phat as hell, but they lose their fun level after a while.

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that's when you put the 2 speed tranny in it. i have a nitro RS4 with a ferrari 360 body on it. thing hauls ass. like was said before, they don't need a turbo =)

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I would like to say my rc engine is 4 stroke but not sure although it does spin 36 grand. As for small turbos get one off of an old chrysler New yorker or what ever those things are like micro. The compressor side looks like 1.5 inches thick and the thing is no more than maybe 5-6 inches in diameter.

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as far as turbocharging a bike engine, the one we used on the 250 was the IHI RBH31 from the chevy sprint. it' s made for a 1.0L, but since our redline was 19,000 instead of 5000, we figured the airflow would be about the same. didn't spool till like 8000 rpm, but screamed like a banshee after that..

that's a project i wanna do someday. not necessarily a gokart, but something like a triumph spitfire with a turbo yamaha R1 engine and gearbox in it. i'd think that megasquirt could handle the fuel injection...

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it has a 2 speed tranny in it, how does that make it funner, you get to hear it change gears ::)

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AHA, yes they do make 4 stroke rc engines. Go to towerhobbies.com, and you will find these 4 stroke rc engines. Im not sure they manafactur them onto rc cars, but i know people have used them on monster and stadium trucks. They like to use them in planes.

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what's not fun about an R/c car that can go 70mph??

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ummmmmm.... the fact that you can't get in it ;D

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hmm, you got a point.. ahh to be a fetus again...

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okay, just found out that university of minnesota got 7th in the competition this year. helll yeah! (out of 123 schools from around the world).