cbr 600cc kart

[nick 15]

hello,

im going to build roughly the same chassis that korn built,

shouldn't be a problem, just wondering,

how would i do the gear linkage?

i mean, how was korn gonna do his, i sent him a PM 3 days ago and no reply,

like positioning the gear stick next to the steering wheel isnt a problem but how am i gonna make it link to the gear box and make the gears like they are in a car...

basically i want to know how to do the gear linkage...any ideas?

ive looked on the net and found nothing help full

many thanks

Nick
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[T1z3R]

you wont be able to make a shifter like a car...cbr gearbox works differently. will just have to operate like a bikes...1 down/5up.
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[nick 15]

ok but how am i gonna link it to a gear stick and make it work 1 down 5 up?

Nick
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[sickpup]

The obvious way. A gear linkage rod.

[nick 15]

yeah, lmao,

but the angles and that for the linkage rod, would that be hard to make, and to make it change gear?
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[sickpup]

[Gazdaman]

Nick, get it out of your head that it's going to work like a car. And start thinking about operating it with your foot and working it like a bike.

Then all you have to do is make a fucking long gear lever.

Capiche?

Gaz

[nick 15]

because me and my dad are gonna build a cbr 600 kart v.v.vv. soon and were worrying about the gear linkage

thats the hardest thing!

Nick
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[Bendy]

Why change gear?

I'd build a mk1 cart and just run it in 1st gear, then worry about changing gear once you've sorted out all the things you'll doubtless find are wrong when you actually run it.

[Gazdaman]

[nick 15]

how many people in this forum have build karts with bike engines?

Nick
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[mr jamez]

Have a look at some kit car sites (locost builders etc), plenty of bike engined examples out there. It's a simple linkage using universal joints most of the time.
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[nick 15]

mr jamez were do you live?

Nick
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[sickpup]

[nick 15]

gonna be a bit tricky though
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[T1z3R]

but you didnt decide to build one cos it was easy did you?

linkage can be worked out once youve made up a frame and positioned your engine...foot operated will likely be easiest option and should only require minimal work if you look at the way it works on a bike.
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[Adam_P]

Gear linkages are dead easy to sort out once you've got the thing bolted to a chassis that's halfway decent. You just need to sort out the linkage directions etc. Racecar linkages are never straightforward but there are loads of ways around it.

It's not that hard, you just need to get it built up first then approach the problem when you know what you've got to overcome.
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[Yoshi]

Nick you should've asked me. (he knows me)

Look at a bike, any bike (not your minimoto) and look at the gear lever, see how it is connected to the engine (Well the crank casing etc) by a rod that moves when you click the lever up and down. What you would do is have something like this rod but longer going to the front where you have a hand (or foot) lever connected to it that you move up and down (1 down 5 up) like gears on a bike.

I have seen this today on my friends old kart that is rusting in his field.

I am gonna build something like this at some point, but it'll have a turbo'd, supercharged, NOS'd, bored, tuned ZZR1400 engine in it. Fo Shizzle Or Two CR500 engines
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[nick 15]

lol, thanks yoshie,

wanna help me with it when i get it all built up and that time comes,

LOL

thanks guy's

Nick
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[mrchips]

You're going to build a bike engined kart and the thing that worries you most is the gear lever? You have a lot to learn.
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[nick 15]

i have a lot to learn, go on www.renault-5-build.piczo.com

im just new to bikes,

not machinery and making stuff
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[Aikman666]

Right ive got a general idea. You couldent have a "gearstick" persay that you would see in a car, however you COULD have a stick attatched to a massive gear linkage, pull the stick back into first (only back and forward movement in the stick) then push forward into 2nd, forward into 3rd, so on and so forth, simple.
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[Yoshi]

[nick 15]

opps,

sorry

YOSHI!

lmao

yeh

that would be cool

im just gathering all the bits now

thanks

Nick
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