belt driven clone

paul hir · Posted: Thu Oct 07, 2010 9:17 am Post subject: belt driven clone

Hi I was wondering if anybody has or had a belt driven clone setup?

Scott Farmer · Joined: 30 May 2009 Posts: 16

check with Tom Cole at ARCracing.com/ he knows all about them and knows who is making some drivers for shoe clutches
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Jamie Webb · Joined: 30 Aug 2001 Posts: 585

Many of us are running belt drives on clones (in the road racing series).

TS Racing has the front drivers and basket that will fit just about any disc clutch out there (Jammer, Bully, Horstman, etc). Several kart shops carry the rear belt drive gears. However, the gears only come in 1 piece gears now, but we all just cut them with a hacksaw or bandsaw into 2 pieces and they work nicely.

Your belt length will depend on your kart.
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Charles Pou · Posted: Tue Oct 12, 2010 7:48 pm Post subject:

Hello Jamie, where do you get 35 chain 25 tooth clutch drum for Noram GE clutch? I know about MaxTorque, but already have GE clutch I would like to use. Thanks Smile

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Bob Ogden · Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2010 3:31 pm Post subject:

charles hunter · Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2010 8:28 pm Post subject:

First there were rocks, carried down the hill. Then someone saw a round rock roll down the hill so everyone had to have round rocks to roll down the hill. Then someone saw a big bush roll down the hill so everyone had to put two bushes together to roll rocks down the hill. Then someone noticed that trees were round so everyone had to cut down trees to roll rocks down the hill. Then someone discovered rubber in a circle so everybody had to have rubber to roll rocks down the hill. Then someone put the rubber one a round metal surface so everyone had to have metal circles to roll rocks down the hill. Then someone found fuel and the motor so everyone had to have fuel and the motor to roll rocks down the hill. In the end, there were no more rocks on the hill Question

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Tracy Simmons · Posted: Thu Oct 21, 2010 9:12 pm Post subject:

Those $300 clutches he mentioned can be found for $100 used these days. There are plenty of people getting out of the sport that raced the briggs flathead with parts for sale. He never said there were not other options, just that he knows of an option at TS racing, a trusted parts source for roadracer's.

There is even a good disc clutch for sale now that only runs $150 anyway, no need to spend $300 anymore. But you probably knew that already right?

Chad, do you even race a clone?

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Jamie Webb · Joined: 30 Aug 2001 Posts: 585

Who said the clone class was a "spec" class? It's no more spec than the flat head or Animal road racing classes are. It's just another class and it IS a lot cheaper to run than Animal regardless of what clutch you have on there. Because of the low HP you also don't need the top of the line kart or new tires like you do on the Animal either.

The $300 clutch (I don't know of anyone that has paid $300 for a clutch) does NOT perform better than the Max-Torque clutch so I fail to see your point. It has been PROVEN on track, not in theory, so again, I fail to see your point. And obviously at a few tracks this is the BIGGEST class and/or fastest growing class so the "spec formula" if there is one, is working good.
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Les Prins · Posted: Mon Oct 25, 2010 11:54 am Post subject:

I think a lot of clone racers were flathead racers at some point and had those so called $300 dollar clutches on the shelf already paid for. Now if I go ahead and use what I already have, that is cheaper than having to buy a new one even if it is only $60 bucks. I think they are allowing the disk clutches since there is no advantage with low HP engines AND some people had them already. Why not use what you have in the garage in a "budget" class.