TAG Setup for Road Racing

[Clark Gaynor]

By the way Bob, at Summit Main start with a 16:78 gear and take it from there. I assume you're running Stock Leopard?
Clark Sr.

[Jim McMahon]

Al your narrow approach works with karts that are very low powered. KT's and the like. For TaGs its a different story, they make almost double the power of the KT. A narrow setup with these is a great was to tune yourself to the rear on almost any road course, especially with a typical CIK/TAG chassis that is designed to work with a 140CM rear track.

Now if they run Daytona, all the way around a narrow track/hard tire approach would work, but that's about the only situation that it's going to help. Ie somewhere where cornering means next to nothing. For a lot of road courses with a KT thats probably the case, not so much with a TaG.

You also need to consider that karts are a LOT heavier these days.
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[John Kuntze]

The old theroy of narrow is faster died along time ago even in the KT100 classes. For a new guy start with sprint set up once you are use to it experiment with taking out a little bit of camber and caster if you want to see what happens some tracks you can some you can't.
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[Peter Zambos]

We followed the trend some years ago and moved from WKA sit up enduro with a KT100 to TAG. Without thinking of the consequences, we put a similar set up on our TAG kart. Took the key hole at Mid Ohio and it worked so poorly that it nearly stalled out the motor.

[Bob Wimmer]

Wide works for a TAG! Over a second a lap faster at Summit Point this weekend when running the rear track at 54 1/2 vs. 52 inches. Saw no appreciable loss of speed on the straights. Front track didn't seem to effect lap times nearly as much.
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