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Chad Hartzell
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Chaz Clover
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 Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2004 9:03 am Post subject: Re: Oh no! Not another new TaG motor! |
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Dude,
You'll have to put a ton of lead on it though. Literally!
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Chaz Clover
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| Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2004 9:31 am Post subject: Re: Oh no! Not another new TaG motor! |
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| Chaz Clover wrote: |
Dude,
You'll have to put a ton of lead on it though. Literally! |
Because I'm bored, I did some math that's probably wrong, but to make weight you'd have to come in at about 6 tons. That's a lot of lead. You'd have trouble finding enough people at the track to lift it off the stand. You'd have trouble just getting the damned thing to the track.
On the up side, if you could make the grid with a 6-ton go-kart it would still give old men heart attacks and make small children wet their pants when it took the green.
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Tom Jensen
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| Is it a coincidence that the suicide bombers are exploding bombs made of hydrogen peroxide. Just don't add acetone to the tank. |
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Chaz Clover
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| Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2004 10:06 am Post subject: |
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| Tom Jensen wrote: | | Is it a coincidence that the suicide bombers are exploding bombs made of hydrogen peroxide. Just don't add acetone to the tank. |
This is excellent news.
I think we should split this thread into two sub-threads.
One to argue over how much a 1500 hp, turbine-engined kart should weigh before we allow it to compete in TaG Sr.
The other thread should be about the relative safety of such a kart, especially when mixing acetone into the hydrogen peroxide fuel
Does this motor even have an electric starter? We should redefine the meaning of TaG to mean touch and go - if you touch the gas on this monster it's gonna GO!
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scott bertken
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| Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2004 10:45 am Post subject: |
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ok Im in for one kart but the first corner will be hell speeds ok corners ok but the smoke will kill 
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John Denman
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| Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2004 11:33 am Post subject: |
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| Tom Jensen wrote: | | Is it a coincidence that the suicide bombers are exploding bombs made of hydrogen peroxide. Just don't add acetone to the tank. |
This one's for Tom
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Chip Durham
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| Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2004 9:09 pm Post subject: |
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| Turns will be tough with the wheels in the air, should we consider ailerons? |
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scott bertken
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| Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2004 9:43 pm Post subject: |
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18 to 20 of them flying into turn one ...hang on to your hats lol
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Bill Fenwick
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| Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2004 1:26 pm Post subject: |
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| Well I'm all for including this package in the Tag class, providing we stick with rear only brakes! |
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Chris Shieldsmith
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Check out this site: www.turbokart.com . These guys have made a couple sweet turbine karts. These would probably have a little better throttle control. I wouldnt want to be behind either of them though! I also think nomex would be mandatory with these things 'flying' around the track.
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