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Vertical shaft go kart?
I have a vertical shaft briggs and straton lawn mower motor that I'm planning on using to power a go kart. Instead of converting the shaft to horizontal, I was thinking of doing a V-belt type setup to make this work. Just want to know if anyone else has ever tried this and what they did to make it work.
What I was thinking of doing was getting a small, lightweight flywheel or something of the same general idea, and putting that in place of where the original blade of the lawn mower was. Then I was going to mount a pully under the kart, and also mount a type of gear under the axle. Then I would tack weld another a gear onto the axle itself and have a belt running around the flywheel and pully setup to turn that other gear that will then mesh with the gear on the axle and spin the axle.
Is this in the realm of possibilities? I'd rather not buy a horizontal shaft motor or convert this one.
Chevrolet Corvairs had a horizontal crankshaft with a pulley that drove the cooling fan with a vertical axle. The crankshaft was parallel to the x-axis. There were two idler pulleys whose axles were parallel to the y-axis and the fan axle was parallel to the z-axis. There was a 1/4 turn twist in the belt between each of the four pulleys.
To adapt this to your go kart put two idlers on an axis that runs horizontally from front to back on one side of the engine. The idlers spin in opposite directions. The drive axle for the wheels would run from side to side.
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