[Brian Spek]

I have a max’d out ROK shifter cylinder, broken clip has now scratched it and ended it’s useful legal life. $75

[Brian Spek]

its good, although much of it is very roughly translated into english.  they had a black friday deal for $5 or something when I got it.

[Brian Spek]

added pics

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Kart and one motor sold.  Rotax EVO still for sale.

[Brian Spek]

we don’t have a lot of high speed turns at the AMP track, Stock Honda shows max 2.8G braking, and 2.3G Accel on one of our better laps.  Lateral G’s are pretty similar at 2.78 and 2.69, but we get an occasional 4g lateral when we don’t take a 2nd gear downhill/uphill corner correctly, or 3.8g lateral in a 3rd gear corner.  these were in cooler weather during Nov-January, between 45-60 degrees, sunny.

[Brian Spek]

Well maybe the poster can go and make a roadracing site and keep it updated.

[Brian Spek]

The winner may have won with a full grid anyway, but this must have put a damper on it for him too.  If 1 or 2 drivers were late to the grid due to their own fault, then cool.  But 10+ drivers getting caught out seems to be an event problem.  I feel bad for both the guys who got to race with 1/2 grid, and worse for the guys who did not.  Sucks for the sport. Makes one want to get an old Rotax again.:)

[Brian Spek]

I’ve driven TAG with front brakes for 1 season (32mm Swiss) and then 2 seasons with rear-only brakes (Tony 32mm).  Front brakes had a 20 lb penalty, and was winning at AMP.  TS decided to ban fronts mid-season just before their big money race, didn’t bother to go.  Next season started with rear-only. Lap times were faster without the 20 lb penalty obviously, but we tested adding and removing weight with rears only, and was faster overall without rears.  Just need to get used to it.  Only downside is you change pads more often with rear-only.

[Brian Spek]

Thanks. Worked great.

[Brian Spek]

Check classic forums.  I posted info on a guy who can install a new battery.  Worked great.

[Brian Spek]

Robert,

I have 3 used Rotax Pipe mounts that only attach to the engine side of the frame, which prevents the pipe from bending – in case your pipe attaches to both sides of the frame.  I’ve seen many welds around this spot due to this problem, not sure if Rotax legal or not.  If you want a mount, $50 plus shipping, they sell for $120.  We sold all our Rotax motors.

Thanks

Brian

[Brian Spek]

lawn mower battery, keep it on the battery tender, usually 14-18 months.  use it for 2 karts on race day, figure min 10 lifts and 10 drops for the day, plus load and unload on trailer, no problem with battery.

[Brian Spek]

had a similar issue.  first check to ensure a good spark.  throw in a new plug to be sure and get the plug grease to ensure a good fit with the boot and no arc’ing.  Then if that’s ok, go to the fuel system.  Mine started running again after rebuilding both fuel pumps, and replacing the pulse lines.  empty these after every race.  Also, if someone accidentally used the wrong oil, or a low oil-fuel ratio, it can cause problems.   if all else fails, check stator in case it was knocked out of synch.  also check all ignition connectors.

[Brian Spek]

short 1 lap video to show some of the cool elevation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPOFIm25u-c&feature=youtu.be

 

[Brian Spek]

We had a great 09 Rotax that would beat the X30’s, but our other 3 Rotax’s were around .6 sec slower on a .8mile track. We bought an X30 since more of them were appearing locally, pulled it out of the box and ran it with factory carb settings w/ no problem.  We read the plug and will make slight top end changes if it looks rich, but other than that, nothing.  So far on the X30 I am 25 hrs on bottom end and changed top end at 15 hrs. X30 will probably do 2 top ends and 1 full rebuild to get me to 50 hrs vs Rotax we would do 3 top ends to get to 50 hrs, so X30 will be more $ to maintain…but revving to 16000 is cool.  Not sure what the EVO upgrade will do for you if you get one.

[Brian Spek]

Thanks, it worked.  Now just have to figure out why the lap times don’t show on the screen.

[Brian Spek]

lots of good questions answered in the classic/old version of ekn as well:

http://www.eknclassic.com

 

[Brian Spek]

ok so is there a trick to adding pictures to these forums?  Dustin, just text me your email address thanks.

[Brian Spek]

sure, can prep for shipping, but you arrange pickup/delivery.  uship.com is easy and has worked well for me in the past.

[Brian Spek]

you can try spraying sea foam into the carb while running the engine. $5 at auto zone.

[Brian Spek]

turn it on, and then try a hair dryer on it for a few minutes, some lasers won’t turn on when cool.

[Brian Spek]

valhalla 360 are good, stay away from donuts in my opinion.  have not tried a leatt.

[Brian Spek]

Any reason you cannot run it as-is in the TAG class there?

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