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Go kart builds we love
Go kart builds we love, from around the web, with full credit to every builder. Extra points when they started as a set of SpiderCarts plans.
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The Most-Watched SpiderCarts Build on the Internet Has 2.5 Million Views
homesteadonomics turned a stack of steel tube and a set of GrandDaddy plans into an off-road buggy that has now been watched more than two and a half million times. It is still the best start-to-finish build tour we have found.
homesteadonomics / July 24, 2026
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"The Black Widow": a Two-Year GrandDaddy Build in Gloss Red
Derek Newbold spent about two years turning our GrandDaddy plans into a gloss-red off-road buggy he named the Black Widow. It started as welding practice. It came out looking like a kit.
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HolmesMade Built Our Tarantula From Bare Steel. Watch It Rip.
A stack of square tube, a $200 Harbor Freight engine, and a home garage. Four minutes later the HolmesMade channel has a rear-suspension Tarantula hammering across a hayfield. The whole build is on camera.
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A Father-and-Sons Arachnid With a Wilwood Brake and a Custom Rear End
Spfun11 built our Arachnid with his sons, reused a Wilwood hydraulic rear brake to save some cash, and reworked the rear suspension to their own taste. Proof the plans are a starting point, not a straitjacket.
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This GrandDaddy Build Comes With a Miter-Saw Trick Worth Stealing
ILoveBuildingThings documented a GrandDaddy build in real detail, including a clever way to set a wood miter saw fence for accurate steel angle cuts and a 3D-printed jig for the A-arms. Watch before you cut.
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A Predator 420 in a GrandDaddy Is Exactly as Fun as It Sounds
lightningxx dropped a 420cc Predator into a SpiderCarts GrandDaddy and strapped on a GoPro for the first drive across the field. The two-tone paint is a nice touch. The pull is the main event.
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Projekt SpiderCart: a German Build That Loves a Gravel Corner
Stefan Blum built a SpiderCarts off-road single-seater and took it to the forest gravel roads, where it turns out to be very happy sliding. Under a minute of footage, a whole lot of grin.
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A Red Arachnid, a Dirt Lot, and a Lot of Roost
13barmyfool finished his Arachnid and took the kids to a vacant field to break it in. The best frames are the ones with a rooster tail of dirt behind them.
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A Helmet-Cam Lap of the Neighborhood in an Arachnid
Tony Burns bolted a GoPro to his helmet and drove his SpiderCarts Arachnid around the block. There is something great about seeing one of these in its natural habitat: an ordinary street.
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The Itzy Bitzy's First Ride, Before It Even Got Paint
King Experimental built our free Itzy Bitzy kids' kart and put a young driver in it for the maiden run, bare metal and all. Then it went straight back to the bench for paint.
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