Jake Ashenfelter Capstone

My group and I decided to make a go kart for our capstone. We have two mentos which are Mr. Lawrence and his friend Sal who we work with at downtown SLA. We decided to make a go kart because all of us are going into engineering majors and we are all really interested in cars. Since we didn’t know where to start with building the go kart we started to look on ebay and craigslist for different parts of a go kart that we thought we might need. We bought was a frame and an engine. Sal told us that the most important thing is to create a design for the go kart so that it’s easier to understand all the dimensions and where everything needs to go. We ordered all the other parts that we need for our go kart like the rear axle, the clutch, and brakes. We haven't finished completely building the go kart but we just finished the final design. We have all the correct dimensions and the parts that we need. Now we have to weld the frame so that it is the size that we want. Then we have to attach all of the parts to the rear axle and then weld that onto the frame and then place the engine on the frame. Once we finish this all we have to do is attach simple things like the steering wheel, pedals and wheels to the go kart and we will be finished.