{"id":143,"date":"2008-04-03T00:06:03","date_gmt":"2008-04-03T05:06:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=143"},"modified":"2008-04-03T00:06:03","modified_gmt":"2008-04-03T05:06:03","slug":"hayabusa-powered-go-kart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=143","title":{"rendered":"Hayabusa Powered Go-Kart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Take a Hayabusa 1300cc engine and put it a couple of inches off the ground on a go-kart chassis and you get something really fast. Depending on what year this engine is it has 151 hp &#8211; 171hp. I don&#8217;t know what the weight of this go-kart is but I would assume it has a very sick power to weight ratio. <a href=\"http:\/\/karthayabusa.blogspot.com\/\">Creators website<\/a>. The videos speak for themselves.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/U2-ROIibQiI&#038;hl=en\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/gjHMFd4Bln8&#038;hl=en\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/jalopnik.com\/365341\/busa-kart\">Jalopnik<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Take a Hayabusa 1300cc engine and put it a couple of inches off the ground on a go-kart chassis and you get something really fast. Depending on what year this engine is it has 151 hp &#8211; 171hp. I don&#8217;t know what the weight of this go-kart is but I would assume it has a&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=143\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hayabusa Powered Go-Kart<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-go-kart","category-hayabusa"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":14874,"url":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=14874","url_meta":{"origin":143,"position":0},"title":"Hayabusa Powered Golf Cart Races a Supercharged Corvette","author":"swaptastic","date":"March 3, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"We all know that power-to-weight matters more than just producing the most amount of power. 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