nOOb with pair of Club Cars

[s10xtremist]

Hi! I've been lurking for a few days searching for info on identifying what I dragged home last week. I bought a pair of gas Club Cars for $275. I believe one is a '97 and the other is a 2000-2001. They both have rear seats with aluminum diamond plate foot rests. The ~2000 is missing the rear axle, one front wheel, starter, and a few other smaller items. The '97 is mostly complete, other than some missing electrical components. I put a car battery to the ground and starter wires and the starter spun the motor just fine. I have no spark, but I'm sure it's because of a few missing key components. The F-N-R selector is missing (have one on the '00), and there are no fuses in the fuse box. There's also 4-7 wires hanging out inside the fuse box. I'm not concerned with keeping the accelerator pedal start setup. I bought this cart to swap a motorcycle engine in it, but for now I'd like to see if I can get it running off the original FE290, minus the retardedly-small exhaust, governor, and safety ignition cut-off doodads. I tried studying the wiring schematics in the resources thread, but I got lost. I'm sure there's a simple way to bypass all the original ignition/safety pieces (key switch, etc.) and make it about as simple as a go-cart engine. What would be the easiest way to get the coil to fire? I'm looking for what wires to connect to bypass whatever switch(es), and what wires to ground or hook up to 12V, so that all I'll need to do is get fuel to it and spin the motor to start it.

 

[spr]

welcome to cartaholics

nice carts, we'd love to see pics

btw, nice username! im thinking about seiiling me mercury and buying a s10 and dropping a junkyard 350 in it, lol hard decision, the mountaineer is a 5.0L

 

[s10xtremist]

I'll try to get some pics today. I'm an active member on a few other forums (mys10.com, s10forum.com, s10planet.com), so I should have known to follow the "post pics" forum etiquette. I have a pair of s10s, one's a slammed Xtreme that's waiting for a 6.0 and the other is my plain Jane daily driver that will be lifted 10-12 inches sometime this year. You'll find all the info you'll need on your 350 swap at s10v8.com. (Mods, please delete these other forum references if they're not allowed here).

So, back to the carts...
After removing the canopy and rear seats and testing the starter, I gave up on it for the day until I could figure out how to get the coil to fire. As I was cleaning things up, I found a key in the '01's dash cubby hole that operates the key switch on both carts, so that's a start.

I needed to accomplish something with all the junk I have behind my shed, so I dug out an old Thunder Kart frame and threw on the Harbor Freight 6.5HP engine I scored last week for $71. Damn, those things have gotten a lot smaller since I last remembered...

I'm gonna go play around with the wiring and see if I can get this thing to run.