Lead Shock

Harold Hammerly · Joined: 24 Jan 2012 Posts: 24

I was making lead pucks last night and had the kart and son on the scales, am wondering what weight distribution is reccomended for JA, had 47% front 53 rear and 4-5 # more on f&r r/h side.
Boy 305 is a lot of lead when you have a 94# kid.
Any advice is apreciated

Scott Boito · Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2012 2:32 pm Post subject:

Answered in the 2nd post - about 43-44% front.
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Joe Ricard · Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2012 4:59 am Post subject:

Harrold you are lucky to have a kid @ 94 lbs. Scott and I still have kids that haven't broke 60 pounds yet.

Michael just reached 57lbs the other day and is now back to 55 again. Rolling Eyes

hanging out at the sprint tracks waiting for a huge growth spurt. But we finally got rid of the pedal extensions on the cadet kart Very Happy

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Brian Garfield · Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2012 5:03 am Post subject:

It's sad that not having a kid that's overweight is a PROBLEM... Believe me, I'd change the entire karting landscape if I could. Average size kids have to throw a crap load of lead on a kart...average sized...

Brian

Joe Ricard · Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2012 7:30 am Post subject:

How big is Carson now? is he still JB?
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Brian Garfield · Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2012 7:46 am Post subject:

Carson is in JA now.

I'll work it backwards because I didn't weigh him. We just started building his kart a few days ago.

Kart with KT100 (1/3 tank)- 150lbs (confirmed)
Lead added - 72lbs (confirmed)
Carson with gear - 87lbs (this was "X" Smile

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Total - 309lbs (confirmed)

We went to 309 so that we could run the kart out of fuel if necessary.

Brian

Joe Ricard · Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2012 8:12 am Post subject:

You should post a picture of where all that lead is. you know like "school us" on how to do it right.

Please Laughing

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Brian Garfield · Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2012 8:18 am Post subject:

You mean: how to make swiss cheese out of your seat?

Haven't finished mounting, but will take a pic when I'm done. Really not that hard, but as I've said in the past, I don't use pucks or dive weights (except one here or there) because they don't make good use of space. All my stuff was bought in bulk, very dense, and melted to easily mounted shapes of squares, rectangles and triangles (3, 10, 1.5lbs respectively)

Brian

Joe Ricard · Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2012 8:40 am Post subject:

Oh yea I would be VERY interested to see that.

I guess when you get to the point of adding amount of another driver to a kart you have to get pretty creative.
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Brad Fish · Joined: 03 Oct 2008 Posts: 45

I was thinking that making Evan's kart a 3 seater would solve all my problems.....until I realized that even with his 2 brothers sitting on the kart, I would still need to add 10 pounds of lead.

That's right, all 3 of my kids combined won't meet minimum weight in JB!

Joe Ricard · Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2012 10:17 am Post subject:

Yea that is probably not far from the truth.

8 yr olds can be pretty little. bet with three kids you would never have a DNF.
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Brad Fish · Joined: 03 Oct 2008 Posts: 45

Knowing my 3, there would be a fist fight before they broke the beam.

Joe Ricard · Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2012 11:44 am Post subject:

Now that's funny right there.
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