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Old 09-12-2009, 09:51 AM
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hi!
anyone do a go kart?
i am thinking about starting one
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Old 09-12-2009, 10:20 AM
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I remember way back in the day, my friends dad built a go kart with a 500cc 4-cylinder Honda motorcycle engine... That thing was STOOPID fast!!
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Old 09-12-2009, 10:38 AM
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I bet Venice
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Old 09-12-2009, 11:02 AM
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I used to race karts mine is an alcohol fueled kart, briggs flat head old style engine powered still have it along with a bunch of parts, engines and extra tires etc. fun to do gets expensive being competitive I built all my own engines. I raced under wka rules in and around Virginia and west Virginia, here in Texas I raced outlaw run what you brung against 2-strokes and over head valved engines. I built one engine that has a blue printed tilliston carb, hot cam, lightened flywheel ,billet ARC rod, racing piston, ported, lots of secret things it will turn over 9,000 rpm. I'd rebuild it after a day of racing.
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Old 09-12-2009, 12:00 PM
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Kool norm
i am cobsidering the following:
1) buyong the stuff for a go kart from a rider mower
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2) buying a full built mb
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Old 09-12-2009, 01:23 PM
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I remember hearing you can squeeze something like 13hp out of a 5hp B&S but it isn't cheap to do.

Weekend-fun, why not just leave all the stuff on the riding mower. There's a kid in the neighborhood with a yardman tweaked out for racing and it's faster then most karts I've seen. lol
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Old 09-13-2009, 09:25 AM
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ill try.
get the mower and low racerized it
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Old 09-13-2009, 11:50 PM
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Go Karts? Yeah, I remember karts, way back before there were rules or classes. My dad and I ran a 12hp, twin cylinder Mercury chainsaw engine on one. That beast was clocked at 103 on a 1/2 mile asphalt oval track. And that's no bull, my friend. I still have the scar next to my right eye I got when the live rear axle broke, locked up the rear wheels going into a turn and flipped the car. That was the very early 60s. I also recall when Car Craft magazine was small and devoted half their coverage to go karts. Wow, that was a long time ago. Good memories though. Dad and I raced karts for about 5 years, then I got my first car and gave up the small stuff for the full sized ones.
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Old 09-16-2009, 03:44 PM
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good story tom!
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