Are Superkarts slow?

Gerry MacNutt · Posted: Sun Sep 23, 2012 12:29 am Post subject: Are Superkarts slow?

Well maybe not a superkart but 5.95 at 250 miles per hour in a 1/4 mile is pretty dam fast, no?

http://www.cruisenewsonline.com/ROT-RocketGoKart/Story.html

Jeffory Mott · Posted: Sun Sep 23, 2012 10:20 am Post subject:

Saw this run at the old Motor City Dragway. The stink of the exhaust emptied out the grandstand. Also got to see E.J. Potter(aka the Michigan Madman) run a slot car go kart at the same track. He had fitted it with 4 electic motors and would drag a cable down the center of the dragstrip, put the kart over it so the brushes hanging down touched the cable. The other end of the cable was attached to a generator on the back of a flat bed truck, hooked up to an old Allison 12 cylinder airplane motor. He wore rubber boots and gloves. It just had an off and on switch. When the lights came down he flipped the switch and took off. Top speed was around 135MPH if I remember correctly. Man I miss those old days of run what you brung.

Gerry MacNutt · Posted: Sun Sep 23, 2012 7:28 pm Post subject:

That's some crazy stuff

Chris Reinhardt · Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2012 6:41 am Post subject:

Add this to stupid things I was smart enough to avoid....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5U-grFuXZ9U

Pulse Jet, talk about dangerous!!!

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Jeffory Mott · Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2012 10:24 am Post subject:

Chris. One thing you have to admit is that that is a well engineered piece of machinery.

Chris Reinhardt · Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2012 3:30 pm Post subject:

alan speyrer · Joined: 22 Apr 2008 Posts: 1329

looks like something from WW II

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[quote="Chris Reinhardt] It's basically always on the verge of exploding!!! CR[/quote]

Yeah but they always fly right before they pop!!!!! Laughing

Paul Makarucha · Posted: Thu Sep 27, 2012 7:23 am Post subject:

Holy CRAP. I mean, I'm crazy, I really am, but that... thats a whole 'nother level.

I scuba, skydive (aspiring to Squirel suit!), race karts, road race motorcycles, dirtbike, snowboard, etc, but I wouldn't be caught dead going 250mph in a rocket/jet go-kart
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Jeffory Mott · Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2012 8:59 am Post subject:

Chris. You dont mean to say you thought I was serious did you? I am no engineer but even I know that thing is a bomb looking for a place to blow up.

Chris Reinhardt · Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2012 3:36 pm Post subject:

Yah well, you never know, it's a public forum, I don't want to be giving people ideas for dumbest stuff on wheels/101 ways to die!!!!

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