[Greg Wright]

I’m no Rotax expert but doesn’t the Rotax use a “total loss” battery powered ignition?

[Greg Wright]

The three steps to kart racing sponsorship.

1. Obtain competitive equipment

2. Campaign said equipment successfully

3. Give up all hope of finding meaningful sponsorship

 

Not always true but overall that about covers it.

[Greg Wright]

More interesting all the time, a little more information, kart at this time has a hard axle in it and I just discovered that the owner raised the seat which I”m sure didn’t make things better.

TJ oddly enough adding caster helped a little, working on seat location and height and ***axle. I don’t think it’s coming down to soon I don’t think it’s unloading enough period.

Still digging!!

[Greg Wright]

Gary, He’s in a late Top Kart Flash, currently has a Top Kart Tillet style seat installed but a new seat will be going in. There’s little question that the inside tire is not staying unloaded long enough. Any suggestions will be appreciated, I’ve never tuned for somebody with this body type and it changes almost everything.

[Greg Wright]

Fast Freddy, driver is about 5′ 10″, flat bottom seat in kart now, moving seat forward is a priority as is a soft axle. He needs no weight at all.

[Greg Wright]

David Cole and Rob, SPAM  alert, not just in this thread either. Fake passports GEEZ!

[Greg Wright]

Johnny, that was worded a little stronger than I would have done but by the same token I agree with you completely. I’ve been in the karting business for over 35 years and the last thing we need is to get publicity for the wrong reasons. Should there be a tragedy from somebody using public streets or publicly accessed areas the lawmakers will come after everybody including legitimate kart racers.

 

Keep it on the track boys.

[Greg Wright]

[quote quote=53694] If I replaced just my Tonykart frame it would cost me $2850! [/quote]

 

You can buy a frame for a full blown sprint car frame for less than that and yes it would be a quality piece. That’s what gets me to wondering.

[Greg Wright]

Shawn, You are going to find that the kart racing community overall will take a dim view of running a kart on public streets and areas. Most will complain about sullying the image of organized karting not to mention that it’s dangerous and illegal.

Don’t expect a lot of support on this forum,

[Greg Wright]

i’ve had great luck with the RLV chain tools.

[Greg Wright]

OK here’s my take on it, take it for what it’s worth.

By 2004 imported sprint karts had all but destroyed  US sprint kart manufacturing with Margay being one of the few exceptions. From 2004 to 2008 wholesale prices on imported karts went up nearly 20% a year. Sounds like predatory business practices to me.

Yes I can document this.

[Greg Wright]

It’s a must to run a fuel filter on a KT100, the internal carb screen is very small and will clog quickly.

[Greg Wright]

Since you have to use two piece sprocket (no choice) are you certain that you have the sprocket installed properly? The sprocket will have a stamping (# of teeth, logo etc. The sprocket must be installed with the stampings on both halves facing the same direction.

Couldn’t help but notice that the “skipping” issue occurs as the chain passes the split on the sprocket.

[Greg Wright]

Personally Roger I think this is a good move, not sure about having enough data but there is enough to indicate that a helmet mounted camera may very well “focus” the impact in a very small area of the helmet. Pounds per square inch and all that. NCMP banned helmet cameras last year.

[Greg Wright]

Nobody said that he should run leaner.

[Greg Wright]

Not arguing either but would like to hear Gif’s response. Having road raced lots of Yamahas I can’t make a direct comparison but I’ve also road raced and sprint raced with 125 shifters and for road racing they had to be much, much richer.

My reasoning? The heavier load on a road race engine should require more fuel.

 

[Greg Wright]

How would the video determine if the trailing driver rammed the leading driver or was he brake checked?

[Greg Wright]

my experience matches what Jim just said. Road raced Yammies for years, won lots and lots of races and championships. My headers and flex were nearly snow white.

[Greg Wright]

Many of the Caretta and Hartman karts had bare frames, some were clear coated. One of the coolest I ever saw was gun blued.

[Greg Wright]

Yes it does, compression may be good, in fact with the modern “Gold” ring compression rarely suffers.

But piston wear will create extra slap which is bad for top end performance not to mention the chance of skirt breakage. Main bearings also lose power after X number of hours.

[Greg Wright]

Listen to Gary.

[Greg Wright]

Give it a shot Rob, you couldn’t do much worse than what’s already going on. A little tough love and the removal of some “rubber baby buggy bumpers” might get the sport back on the right track. Or maybe not.

[Greg Wright]

Like I said Frank, they have become high performance bumper cars.

[Greg Wright]

Derek, I want to emphasize that modern sprint kart racing in particular DOES produce some really intense racing. I must have watched some of the same videos and the beating and banging was pretty intense.

It also appeared that the predominant passing technique was to knock the guy in front of you too deep into the corner and pass them. The good old fashioned “bump and run” method.

If kart racing intends to continue to be a “stepping stone” (Damn I hate that term) then this type of racing needs to get a new mindset. Of course I’m the one that always felt that kart racing should be a sport that can stand on its own merits.

I know that some will take the following statement as being against safety improvements but WTH. Over the last 10-15 years sprint karts have become high performance “bumper cars” with all the plastic these days. Has this stepped up the rough driving due to the minimal penalty incurred?

Yes, yes it has.

[Greg Wright]

I read that article a few days ago and there’s no way that it could be considered good for karting. Unfortunately to some extent Emmo is correct, contact is rampant in kart racing and the higher the level the rougher it is.

I’ve heard too many “coaches” encourage young drivers to bash their way through the pack and the roughness and lack of respect is being carried over when they move to a different category. Kart racers are being taught methods that can’t be used in a “higher” category and that’s what we get as a sport by allowing it to continue.

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