anyone driven a twin engine vintage kart?

shaun stafford

I've seen a few of these in pictures and what not. They look insane in the pictures.

Are they really that fast?

Jeff Stamper · Posted: Thu May 28, 2009 4:09 am Post subject:

I have driven duals, what you need to know ? Go to New Castle on the 18,19,20 of June and watch some of the greatest names in Karting drive the C-Open Karts. They will thrill you
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Andy Finke · Posted: Thu May 28, 2009 7:06 am Post subject:

I traded sessions in my HPV/Birel for sessions in a '63 Fox with dual Mac101's with a racer a couple years ago. Good times for us both.

What's it like?

TAG horsepower with shopping kart tires, effectively no brakes, no bumpers, and about as long as a cadet kart. I loved it!

Now if you could just make them reliable...

Andy
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Walt Gifford · Posted: Thu May 28, 2009 7:12 am Post subject:

I had a Rupp dart Kart with 2 McCulloch 101aa reed engines in 1972. It would push your head back when you open the throttle and slide sideways for days. BTW, it wasn't vintage when I drove it, it was state of the art.

Gif Cool

Brian Mead · Posted: Thu May 28, 2009 9:30 am Post subject:

Drove a B-Open Bucket bug with dual bm-100's, Hartman clutches. No weight, so the acceleration was shocking. Those Goodyear bluestreaks left a bit to be desired, I must admit. Blew up the left hand motor bad. All sorts of "fuel" was used back then in the open classes.

al nunley · Joined: 13 Nov 2006 Posts: 3038

Gary Emmick once let me drive his twin B-Bombs. Shocked

What a drive, but I wonder if I would have had much more fun if I could have seen where I was going. The vibration was so bad, my eye balls were rattling in their sockets. It was a lot of fun.
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shaun stafford · Posted: Thu May 28, 2009 1:30 pm Post subject:

Man they sound fun. I was looking at a picture of a enduro kart at cmc the other day with some kind of air cooled twin 2 strokes. Looked to be a fairly newer chassis, No body work but the engines looked something like a pc90r prc90 whatever that engine is. I'd say it was a 80s kart. I just got that sick fascination with 2 engines...

John Kuntze · Posted: Thu May 28, 2009 2:16 pm Post subject:

Mid 70's C-Open with B-Bombs
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Brian Mead · Posted: Thu May 28, 2009 2:50 pm Post subject:

If I remember right, the method for finding the correct gears on the sprint tracks consisted of taking teeth off until you no longer burned the tires off coming out of the corners. There is some great you tube stuff of twins if you want to look.

william yourgulez · Joined: 19 May 2009 Posts: 6

THE VINTAGE GUY'S AND GAL'S ARE IN BAKERSFIELD THIS WEEKEND
AND YES THER WILL BE PLENTY OF DOUBLES Shocked

Chad Stapleton · Joined: 19 Jul 2001 Posts: 4403

Twins are not confined to the Historic racing scene.
Down here in Australia they are a regular class in the dirt racing arena. Dual KT100s, dual Parilla reeds, etc etc.
Some European manufacturers offer dual Rotax TaG karts, and one of the biggest classes in Europe /UK and Australian Endurance racing is a Dual engined 4 stroke honda powered kart.
Riley Will up in Canada has also built new dual engined reed powered karts recently. They are featured on this very forum.

And more recently the SQ Racing outfit produced the "Diablo" .. a dual motor TaG kart.
http://sqracing.businesscatalyst.com/images/video/sqtv/streetrace_diablo.wmv

This was the previous thread ..some tasty pictures !
http://www.ekartingnews.com/viewtopic.php?t=55208&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0
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john cochrane · Posted: Thu May 28, 2009 6:24 pm Post subject: duals

also run them on dirt, I have run vintage Aero's with duals, and the current stuff.. roadrunnerracingengines.com

Jerry VanDeusen · Joined: 26 Sep 2001 Posts: 415

just had mine running tonight on akly killing all the flys lol
getting ready for bake this weekend
there a blast when they both run and clutchs are working. Evil or Very Mad

dam clutchs

there tons of FUN!!!!!!!!
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Pete Muller · Posted: Thu May 28, 2009 11:27 pm Post subject:

shaun stafford · Posted: Sun May 31, 2009 1:44 am Post subject:

I'll have to build one one of these days...

I just noticed the kart in that first pic has front disk brakes. Pretty awesome to see what kind of equipment they were working with back in the 70s.