I built this golf cart out a while back, it ran well, was fun for taking the wife and baby around the yard. I used a lawn tractor engine and rear end. Had to gear it way up to do more than...........lawn mower speed. After a few months, the rear end/transmission exploded. It is a verticle shaft engine, so I don't really have any options to use that engine. So, I thought about it for a while and I want to do a VW engine and trans. A little obscene and crazy, but that's my style. I would much prefer to use a rear engine setup since all I would really have to do is weld on a torsion tube with all the mounts and everything right there, shifter linkage would be simpler, etc etc. My concern is: will it be impossible to keep the front wheels down? If I can't drive through the woods ad go for a nice, slow, relaxing ride, it's really no fun anymore. Will a mid engine be that much more stable? Here's a quick picture of it with the tractor driveline. Obviously it will be MUCH bigger in the back half. Basically I will have to cut it in half and start over in the back, but that's fine with me.
