Design and Analysis of a Professional Go Kart Steering System

With increasing popularity for F1 in India go karting has started attracting a lot of attention especially among the young engineers and neophyte drivers. This has set many motorsport enthusiasts and other automotive societies to organize go-kart competitions and events to fulfil the crave to learn more about automobiles of graduating engineers. Spurred by passion, many engineers have started teaming up to tussle against teams participating from various engineering colleges in India. Steering system is one of crucial areas in designing of go kart as even the slightest of improvement in response of this system could reduce the lap time and help to reach the driver beyond the finish line to win a position. Thus, steering has to be reliable enough such that the driver could have the complete control over the kart even in the toughest tracks. On the other side, any failure in system could lead to serious injury or loss to the team. This paper is written with an aim to improve a steering system of go kart and overall responsiveness and control. This paper covers most of the concepts of steering system of a professional go kart. This paper is written after practically manufacturing three steering systems in two years of experience for national level competitions. With the help of this paper one could understand and manufacture complete steering assembly individually. The paper consists of theory, formulae, calculations, diagrams and simulation results which give top to bottom understanding of a professional go kart steering system.