Karting??..

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All this makes me miss dirt karting.

Me too. Speedway has an event this coming Sunday. Now that I've been shot twice I may go check it out. It was really nice when the track operator had a kid that was into karting, once a month at least he put on a show. New guy could care less. A local electrical contractor has a fetish for QRC Winged karts and he rents the track and others can pay to play. Safety rules apply, K&K Insurance is present. I would like to get in touch with him to see if he needs any volunteer help for his activities.
 
Me too. Speedway has an event this coming Sunday. Now that I've been shot twice I may go check it out. It was really nice when the track operator had a kid that was into karting, once a month at least he put on a show. New guy could care less. A local electrical contractor has a fetish for QRC Winged karts and he rents the track and others can pay to play. Safety rules apply, K&K Insurance is present. I would like to get in touch with him to see if he needs any volunteer help for his activities.
Our local track has been turned into a cow pasture. Owner wanted more for rent, so the guy renting it just abandoned it. One of the guys who used to race there tried to buy it, but everything's in such bad shape he said it would take way more than he wanted to invest in it to get it running again.
 
When CK was running the show he did a New Year's Day show "The Hangover Nationals" he called it :lol:
70 karts from all over SoCal. It was great fun.
 
Please spell my name right on the trophy.
What do they call that trophy for the person who doesn't have the strength to finish the race? Oh yeah a participation trophy... LOL..
Took a friend last week and told him he could probably make it about 6 laps and he gave me a whatever look.... LOL,. He couldn't do over six laps LOL... He did that about four times and was done for the day.
 
About twice a year, when I was in the local kart club long ago, we did a 45 minute enduro so to speak. Darn near a full tank of fuel on a KT.
 
About twice a year, when I was in the local kart club long ago, we did a 45 minute enduro so to speak. Darn near a full tank of fuel on a KT.
the track I was talking about was the easier longer faster track that I took my friend to. There's another smaller track that's much more technical with many more corners and I had myself worked up to about 22 laps or so which took about 15 minutes.... That was before my accident..
 
There are in champ buggies lol but to your point, I saw a few people get messed up in them when we were racing. Hopefully it has gotten better safety wise.

Fractured elbow here. Bounced off the cylinder head I think. It chucked me out before it proceeded to cart wheel down the top of the tire wall :steering:
 
Fractured elbow here. Bounced off the cylinder head I think. It chucked me out before it proceeded to cart wheel down the top of the tire wall :steering:
Thankfully I never had any injuries, but my first race a guy rolled down the front stretch about 8 times in a buggy and had to have his helmet cut off. Needless to say my 10 or so year old self didn't want to race that night lol
 
@lead69 post 260 ^^^
Wasn't that you that told me to grow up and stop posting needlessly on stuff I don't know anything about... Just to stir the pot?... Is there a double standard?...
 
Perhaps somewhat related, I've been writing installments for Nuts and Volts Magazine on designing & building a small engine ignition timing controller. (So far they've published 5 out of 7 installments.) The objective is to use an automotive ignition coil that can vary ignition timing, and program the Table with a touch screen controller. It gets installed on my son's Manco 2-seater. Not sure if it'd even be legal in class racing.

For the gauges screen on the programmer, I Photoshopped the tach and vacuum gauge (Performance Gauge) from the center of the '67-'69 Barracuda cluster.

NV3_Fig8.jpg
 
What's the temp up there, could be a fun skate fest!
The track was about 50°...
It took a few laps to get heat in the tires..
I had been so busy with work and my truck project it had been 5 months so it was more a fun ride then anything..
 
The track was about 50°...
It took a few laps to get heat in the tires..
I had been so busy with work and my truck project it had been 5 months so it was more a fun ride then anything..
That's not too bad, I think it's kinda easier to play around on a slippy track as you don't get beat up as much and can practice kart control.

Have fun Man!
 
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