I thought a stock VW engine that vintage was like 40 hp? At any rate, that
would be alot of hp for a cart. But, the problem would be weight. I think he
should be considering a dune buggy type vehicle, and not a true go kart. We
used to race go karts, and the upper class guys with money raced 250 cc
motorcycle engines with transmissions on them. These things would fly!
"Dave Hinz" wrote in message
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On 14 Jun 2005 19:47:50 -0700,
wrote:
Greetings all,
I recently acquired a 67 Type I VW engine for free, and just
happened to be planning on building a off road go kart as well.
Now, how feasable is it to use an engine with close to 100 hp for a go
kart? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

How sure are you that that engine has "close to 100 hp"? I seem to
recall that they were well under that, stock.