CW Kart USA / AMP Karting: My Journey Into Chassis/Engine Building

Do you have target MSRP at this point?

Goals man!!! That is awesome.

The engineer in me finds the prospect of something like that exciting. Unfortunately, there is not much welder or fabricator in me. :rofl:

Should be right at $4k

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Out of curiosity what components are you using for your karts? I mean there’s lots of options out there for components. I assume you’re using off the shelf components like spindles, shafts, etc.

Runner components mostly. MCP brakes.

Are you running your CW chassis at the CKNA Grand Nationals?

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I will be, yes. :crossed_fingers: It does ok up there so far on MGs.

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Do you have a finished product you are testing?

I’ve been on the prototype all year, making a few changes. It is currently on its final configuration that I have built a couple of for a couple other guys here.

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The good thing about doing things yourself and not dealing with a factory is you can constantly make tweaks and prototype. Things which can be difficult to get done if the karts are being built by a factory.

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I hear the real money is in repairing seat struts. :wink: :rofl:

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Aha, now the truth comes out!

If the chassis makers were smart they’d have bolt on replaceable struts that are bound to break eventually. Another part to sell to the consumer. Also be the opportunity to have different stiffness struts as a tuning item like different seats or front bars. They prefer to sell whole karts though. Just bare tubes are fairly hard to come by these days for that very reason.

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At a minimum OTK should make a nicely branded, exorbitantly price, crack-check kit, so you can find your impending failures in style, before you get to the track. :grin:

$50 a weld in my track garage.

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Thank you for the update. I’d love to see photos of the chassis from different angle so I can oogle it.

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Despite being a US chassis, will all fasteners remain metric?

There are a couple things on here that are going to be SAE, what 95% of everything is metric.

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I’m building #4 right now. I’ll throw some pics up when I get it all sorted (hopefully tomorrow).

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Here’s our solution to the seat strut breakage seen in many chassis:

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