If you have searched 'how to build a go kart' any time in the last few years, you have probably already met this one. homesteadonomics built an off-road buggy from steel tubing and a set of SpiderCarts GrandDaddy plans, filmed the whole thing, and it has since passed 2.5 million views. By a wide margin, it is the most-watched build ever made from our drawings.
By his own count it was the most welding he had ever done on one project, and it shows. The video walks from bare tube to a rolling chassis to a finished machine, with the kind of plain, figure-it-out narration that makes you believe you could do it too.
“Building a DIY off road Go Kart from steel tubing, online plans and a lot of welding. This was definitely the most amount of welding I've ever done on one single project.”
- homesteadonomics
Then he points it at the desert. The closing run has the buggy picking its way down a cactus-lined trail, doing the exact job a suspension kart is built for.
It is thirteen minutes well spent, and fair warning about how much welding you are signing up for. Watch it, then grab the GrandDaddy plans he started from.
Watch the full build