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    This progress report summarizes the design considerations for a student-designed go kart. Key steps completed include building the chassis using welded steel pipes, installing wheel hubs and steering components, servicing the 150cc engine, and outlining remaining tasks like mounting the engine, rear axle, and safety roll bar. The objective was to design an improved go kart through analysis and optimized manufacturing methods while gaining mechanical and teamwork skills. References include international karting standards and the vehicle dynamics textbook used.

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    This progress report summarizes the design considerations for a student-designed go kart. Key steps completed include building the chassis using welded steel pipes, installing wheel hubs and steering components, servicing the 150cc engine, and outlining remaining tasks like mounting the engine, rear axle, and safety roll bar. The objective was to design an improved go kart through analysis and optimized manufacturing methods while gaining mechanical and teamwork skills. References include international karting standards and the vehicle dynamics textbook used.

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    This progress report summarizes the design considerations for a student-designed go kart. Key steps completed include building the chassis using welded steel pipes, installing wheel hubs and steering components, servicing the 150cc engine, and outlining remaining tasks like mounting the engine, rear axle, and safety roll bar. The objective was to design an improved go kart through analysis and optimized manufacturing methods while gaining mechanical and teamwork skills. References include international karting standards and the vehicle dynamics textbook used.

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    Progress Report

    Design considerations of Go Kart

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    NAME ENROLLMENT NO.


    Abhishek Shukla 35115603615
    B.Lohit N Reddy 00615611115
    Deepanshu Joshi 41215603615
    Harsh Vardhan Kirar 01296203615
    Krishan Gopal Sharma 35415611115
    Mohit Kumar 41096203615
    Naman Aggarwal 40996203615
    Rishab Verma 03115611115
    Shubham Sharma 03596203615
    Sourav Singh Rawat 07915603615
    Vibhu Jain 03996203615

    In partial fulfilment of requirements for the award of degree in


    Bachelor of Technology in Mechanical & Automation
    Under the Guidance of
    Prof. Neeraj Kumar
    (HOD, Mechanical Engineering)

    Department of Mechanical & Automation


    Dr. Akhilesh Das Gupta Institute of Technology & Management
    Affiliated to GGSIPU
    August, 2018
    1. Introduction:
    By definition of International Karting Commission – Federation International
    Automobile (CIK-FIA[1]), a kart is defined as a land vehicle with or without a
    bodywork, with 4 non-aligned wheels in contact with the ground, two of which
    control the steering while the other two transmit the power. Its main parts are the
    chassis (which consists of a body frame work that is made up of a set of bent steel
    pipes that are welded together) with an engine, four wheels and tires attached on it. It
    can either have suspension system or not.
    The first go-kart was simply a cart consisting of wheels and handles jointed together
    as children pushed from behind when learning to walk. Go-kart was invented in
    California by Art Ingels [2] and Lou Borelli using 100cc mower engines and strong
    steel frames. Go-karts emerged in India in 2003 from MRF. Kart racing is generally
    accepted as the most economical form of motor sport & there is ample amount of
    scope to step forward in motorsport field.
    For our project we have designed a Go-kart powered by 4 stroke Single cylinder Air
    cooled 150cc engine vertically rear mounted; Bell crank steering mechanism;
    Without suspension.

    2. Objective:
    Our objective is to provide a better solution to currently existing go kart by analysis
    of pre-existing information and improved design and manufacturing methodologies.
    We not only got to learn basic and somewhat advanced mechanical practices but also
    learned how to be a team player, how to act on given situations and overcome
    obstacles during the course of project.
    Personally we learned how to achieve the most optimised solution & got first-hand
    experience to work as a vehicle dynamics engineer in designing the steering system
    of our Go kart.

    As of now we have realised that teamwork in the most crucial element for our
    project, by smartly distributing the work load to members according to their area
    expertise we have experienced ourselves working at maximum capacity.
    3. Constructional Progress
     Chassis construction:
    The plan of chassis was designed on Solidworks 2016 and then optimised with
    removal of unnecessary members, hence helping us in weight reduction of the
    overall vehicle. We have successfully build the entire chassis using 1inch
    diameter AISI 1018 metal pipes with circular cross section joined using TIG
    welding process. There are various mountings provided on this structure to
    fasten several parts of the vehicle and support the main bodywork and engine.
     Wheel Hub:
    As we have used front wheel steering system hence installed two knuckles with
    wheel hub with desired angles like camber, caster and king pin inclination as
    previously stated in our final project report at front wheels. Although every
    precaution was made to get the angles as accurate as possible but due to
    unavailability of instruments with high precision, error in the acceptable range
    was compensated and corrected by cold beating the joint with strong hammer
    force.

     Engine clean-up, tuning and maintenance:


    We used a 150cc single cylinder air cooled engine from Bajaj pulsar itself.
    This engine is coupled with a 5 speed reduction manual gear box. The
    engine and gear box together is a single assembly which weights 30kg.The one
    we received was not functioning properly hence we got it serviced from the
    local garage and then self-tuned for our operation. We diagnosed that due to
    prolonged unused state of bike made engine oil leaking into the chamber and
    jamming up the piston, new piston was installed with new gaskets and then
    engine checked OK in its working condition.
    As we still have to install all the mounting points on chassis hence engine is
    now resting followed by time to time inspection and proper maintenance.
    4. Remaining procedures
    We yet have to follow several procedures before submitting our final prototype:
    A. Mounting of engine and securing it with nuts and bolts
    B. Mounting of rear axle and disc brake assembly.
    C. Roll over bar and steering assembly mounting
    D. Paint job and electrical wiring.
    E. Fixing tires
    F. Final inspection and several quality control tests
    SUBMISSION of our vehicle
    References
     [1] CIK – FIA website
    http://www.cikfia.com/home.html

     [2] First go kart


    www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_Ingels

     [3] Official website of ISIE


    www.imperialsociety.in/ikr/

     [4] Solidworks 2017


    www.solidworks.com/category/3d-cad

     [5] Rulebook for IKR,2018


    www.imperialsociety.in/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Rulebook-IKR-4.0-1.pdf

    Book referred
     Race car vehicle dynamics by William F. Milliken Jr.

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