After initially constructing the axles and frame the spring of my junior year (with some welding help from my engineering teacher), my go-kart lay dormant in my garage for much of the following summer and fall. I knew that there was still a decent amount of work to be done, however, I was too busy with other life events to put in the time necessary. After my senior year AP tests finished, I dived back into go-kart fabrication with a new vigor. Two weeks out from the senior parade, I solved the motor problem that had been plaguing me via the addition of a centrifugal clutch on the output shaft. Next came brakes and steering. After several nights spent working in my garage way past midnight, I had thrown out the hydraulic brake that came with the axle kit (pictured below) and installed a much stronger manual brake instead. As the frame of the kart was just 1x1 tubing and a shopping cart, my brake mounts were custom-designed out of sheet metal and plasma cut at school. With just several days to go before the senior parade, I engineered a way for my steering wheel to freely "float" in the kart, not held in place by a steering column. Through this interesting idea, I was able to save the effort that would have gone into building g a steering column while still having an effective method of steering the kart. Many strategically applied zip ties and bungee cords later, the gokart was ready to test, just two days before the parade. Against my expectations, the gokart worked! After spending the weekend learning how to drive it, I took the gokart in our senior parade (a route over half a mile long) and it performed amazingly!