J3 Competition Compkart

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- November 27, 2014 at 5:37 am #37840
  
  Anonymous
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  It cant hurt being different than everyone else. If your running good everyone will jump on the bandwagon. You will be way ahead of them if that happens. Those guys do have great customer service. I wish them all the best.
- November 27, 2014 at 8:10 am #37852
  
  Walt Gifford
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  Couldn’t find any good pics, is it a secret what it looks like?
- November 27, 2014 at 5:54 pm #37871
  
  Brock Weiss
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  Walt, the Kart is the closest guarded secret next to the pentagon. However the kart looks awesome! There are only about four pics that I could find total and virtually there is no information on it!
  
  I’m just going on the fact that J3 knows their stuff and it will be a solid chassis. Hopefully
- December 4, 2014 at 3:55 pm #38353
  
  Scottie Melancon
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  I spoke to J3 about the kart and it sounds legit. The frame is their proprietary design built by BirelART. At first I figured it was just a copy of the new Birel S7 chassis painted to match J3 livery, but after looking closer at some pics they sent it had some obvious differences. I noticed that the vertical supports for the fuel tank and steering column looked more like an OTK, so that in itself shows that it is a one off design and the fact that it is built to the quality standards in Lissone is great. Even if the frame shares some similarities to the S7 then that’s probably a good thing as the few S7’s and CompKART’s that raced at Super Nats all faired pretty well. Apparently they get the frames shipped to the US bare and inspect and paint them here. 30 mm only. Black or Flor Yellow. They also decided to go with Freeline brakes. You can get the new 2015 one piece caliper brakes also. The remaining components are what they feel work best with the kart. Many of which are J3 developed and branded. These guys have a great reputation. I’m sure their karts are well thought out and developed. With J3 strong support it’ll be a sure winner. Ours ships tomorrow.
- December 4, 2014 at 6:36 pm #38367
  
  David Cole
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  https://new.ekartingnews.com/2014/11/19/paddock-insider-mg-tires-skusa-supernationals-xviii/
  
  Scroll to the bottom for a photo and information.
- December 11, 2014 at 3:48 pm #38751
  
  Brock Weiss
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  Thanks for all of the information. I decided to give up my OTK kart and get the new CompKart. I am confident I made the right choice!
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