j par
Well-hung Member
So day before yesterday I went and got my kart aligned. We put it on a four corner scale and tweak the frame just a little bit to get the front even..
He took the old style spark plug out and put a newer four-cornered style spark plug in... Did some adjustments on the carburetor but I had to do more once I got to the track to get it to run well...
There's a strong possibility even after I cleaned it that it could still have some issues from the previous owner leaving bad gas in it..
Anyways I took a wild swing at my gearing and added about 4 teeth to my rear sprocket to get it to hit the rev limiter before the end of the long straight away. Again our local Sprint track is very technical. Has seven corners two short straightaways and one long one.. previously I was never hitting the rev limiter at the end of the long straight away.
With the new gearing I was hitting it way too long before the end of the straight away.. on those few passes I barely got the time to warm up the tires and was flagged in for the rentals to go out... Knowing I had taken too big of a swing that's a gearing put another sprocket on and lost two teeth on the rear...
This next time I got a full session of laps warming up the tires and getting my rhythm going.. I pulled off my fastest laps yet...(47 second range) But was still hitting the rev limiter a good ways before the end of the long straight.. which follows along with my personal theory that I need more zip and all of those corners and the end of the long straight away is a small portion of the track..
So now to tell the difference if it was the alignment or carb tune or spark plug I went back to the previous gearing that was yielding me 49's and one 48... I hit the rev limiter long before the end of the straight away again! And it didn't do this before so something in the alignment spark plug carburetor or whatever I feel contributes??.. but back up to the 48 second laps..?
BUT... Am I now getting more seat time and exiting the corner faster to reach a better speed at the end of the straight away?...
Well as you can see by this post I'm all over the map LOL
He took the old style spark plug out and put a newer four-cornered style spark plug in... Did some adjustments on the carburetor but I had to do more once I got to the track to get it to run well...
There's a strong possibility even after I cleaned it that it could still have some issues from the previous owner leaving bad gas in it..
Anyways I took a wild swing at my gearing and added about 4 teeth to my rear sprocket to get it to hit the rev limiter before the end of the long straight away. Again our local Sprint track is very technical. Has seven corners two short straightaways and one long one.. previously I was never hitting the rev limiter at the end of the long straight away.
With the new gearing I was hitting it way too long before the end of the straight away.. on those few passes I barely got the time to warm up the tires and was flagged in for the rentals to go out... Knowing I had taken too big of a swing that's a gearing put another sprocket on and lost two teeth on the rear...
This next time I got a full session of laps warming up the tires and getting my rhythm going.. I pulled off my fastest laps yet...(47 second range) But was still hitting the rev limiter a good ways before the end of the long straight.. which follows along with my personal theory that I need more zip and all of those corners and the end of the long straight away is a small portion of the track..
So now to tell the difference if it was the alignment or carb tune or spark plug I went back to the previous gearing that was yielding me 49's and one 48... I hit the rev limiter long before the end of the straight away again! And it didn't do this before so something in the alignment spark plug carburetor or whatever I feel contributes??.. but back up to the 48 second laps..?
BUT... Am I now getting more seat time and exiting the corner faster to reach a better speed at the end of the straight away?...
Well as you can see by this post I'm all over the map LOL