RE: SOTW: A trio of karts
Discussion
andy-integrale said:
I had one when I was a kid with a 200cc Villiers engine and a unpadded seat....
The thing absolutely scared me to death.
And I loved them once I was a kid, I even drove one on a snow with winter tyres and it was great. I would love to have one now, but nowhere to keep or drive The thing absolutely scared me to death.
Crazy Don said:
You guys are missing the point, the family fun you an have on 3 go-karts is unbelievable. We have 3 cheap chinese 4 stroke gokarts and a dirt track round our 5 acre paddock. We spend hours out there sliding around together as a family and extended family and neighbours, no need for Playstation or the Queens Speech.
Crazy Don...or can I call you Crazy? I live in London, I don't have a garage, and can't even park in front of my house, as it's a yellow line...I would love to have a paddock where I could play on a go cart...but I can't.
The other point being, SOTW is supposed to be about a road worthy car..so speaking of missing the point...
Merry Christmas!
Here's to a great 2012 SOTWs!
Karting is awesome.
Real karting that is and not this pro kart stuff but I'm afraid all this rotax max and electric start beaularx is after my time.
I used to race 89 -93/94 (ish) in Junior britain, senior britain, 100 national / formula A/ intercontinental A. I remember distinctly putting a rod through the front of the casing near the end of the straight at clay pigeon on a reed valve Atomic that revved to +21k ......backwards into the tyres = water all over a spanking hot motor with I though had gone up in flames with the steam/smoke
As other have said, Karting costs money if you have any aspirations of getting remotely close to the podium even at semi decent club level. New tyres per meeting although at first this probably wont be needed till you get the near to the pace, engine rebuilds, wet tyres (a couple of sets to have decent wets, scrubbed wets + rims for them all, chains, sprockets and then theirs the motors themselves - you'll be looking at close to half a dozen for a meeting with your top spec motor for the finals, and your next spec motor for heats & spare in case a seize/blow up with a couple for general testing/practices.
Or you could just do it as cheap as you like with minimal of equipment, go and enjoy yourselves with your family and have a huge grin - although Karting is addictive, propping up the tail end of the grid and taking part wont be fun forever in which case say goodbye to all your disposable income + more!!
Some fantastic memories of racing Super 1 (British champs back in the day) and some awesome tracks - Rowrah (before the track extension), 3 sisters, shennington, clay pigeon, little rissiington, wombwell, larkhall were some of my faves
Real karting that is and not this pro kart stuff but I'm afraid all this rotax max and electric start beaularx is after my time.
I used to race 89 -93/94 (ish) in Junior britain, senior britain, 100 national / formula A/ intercontinental A. I remember distinctly putting a rod through the front of the casing near the end of the straight at clay pigeon on a reed valve Atomic that revved to +21k ......backwards into the tyres = water all over a spanking hot motor with I though had gone up in flames with the steam/smoke
As other have said, Karting costs money if you have any aspirations of getting remotely close to the podium even at semi decent club level. New tyres per meeting although at first this probably wont be needed till you get the near to the pace, engine rebuilds, wet tyres (a couple of sets to have decent wets, scrubbed wets + rims for them all, chains, sprockets and then theirs the motors themselves - you'll be looking at close to half a dozen for a meeting with your top spec motor for the finals, and your next spec motor for heats & spare in case a seize/blow up with a couple for general testing/practices.
Or you could just do it as cheap as you like with minimal of equipment, go and enjoy yourselves with your family and have a huge grin - although Karting is addictive, propping up the tail end of the grid and taking part wont be fun forever in which case say goodbye to all your disposable income + more!!
Some fantastic memories of racing Super 1 (British champs back in the day) and some awesome tracks - Rowrah (before the track extension), 3 sisters, shennington, clay pigeon, little rissiington, wombwell, larkhall were some of my faves
Indeed, we have a couple of old 2 strokes we do practice days where, me my brother or nephew can chase each other or the clock. We can buy used tyres, and run gearing slightly longer than optimum to extend the engine rebuilds with lower max rpm. A lot of fun and performance. Direct drive and no electric start, but when the adrenaline is flowing can usually manage a restart on my own. Has any tried o.e of the rotary (wankel style) engined ones, they look mighty.
There is some video here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-OOEOJLl0Y&fea... of johnny Herbert in a 100cc direct drive kart after his big crash at brands. I love the fact he describes it as getting back into something quick. Pretty sure the start of the program showed him climbing out of an esprit turbo which was pretty quick at the time for a road car.
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