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Hi, I sure like the positive attitude this post has. I think things will work out
This is really what makes it tuff for every one to stay in karting in any class.
You are Lucky! There is just too many issues for me to even try and type about right now.
The season is coming!! 🙂Jamies, It sounds good. I have been hearing of Gregs efforts in this.
I would put a valve lift tech on it as there are many ways I would increase the rocker ratio with no valve train tech. Also stock valves. Spec the carb as any tilly with the 383 venturi size or smaller, as to not exstink all 2003 and older carbs.
What are you going to race? I do enjoy the punishment my Briggs racing has given me and I will more than likely be racing one this year. Yet, I am a little tired of racing against small or even no feilds of other competitors.
I agree with Gregs idea on the mod package, mainly because if we look to WKA/IKF or even F200, the rules just don’t look like they are written to get the most Bang for the Buck when your buying your BP parts to build them with. I do really like all the attention Briggs has put into there Motorsports department with the animal and WF, even the new Yamaha 200 F and Burris’s F200 efforts. But whats up with all of them going back to gas rules? When the cheapest HP mod we have ever had is pouring in $2.00 a gallon meth.
Just too many choices, I got to get off this thing, going to the ice pond today to test a WKA Open in hopes of prepairing for Extreme Ice Kart Racing 1/22/04 at Loveland. http://www.icespeedway.com
The insanity never stops!!Yep, I agree as well with Angie and Rob.
The WF motor is a nice package as well, but that doesn’t mean it should be allowed in the Jr I class with the other aproved motors.
The animal is experiancing some growing pains. Like James posted earlier, to be leagl in WKA or IKF next year every one is going to have to update to at least the new flywheel. This does take away some of the interest I had with the animal, as this will be the third time I haven had to replaced the flywheels on just my flock of animals.
The new price on the New animal along with the needed extras to get it on track make the WF motor even more appealing. Gee a class of 15 hp TAG motors for $800- $1000 and not one kart dealer in Colorado is promoting it. Instead they push a $2300.00 motor and wonder how much weight to add or how to restict it to fit in somewhere.
All of these motors are being used in the US, it is up to us to figure out which combonation would be in the best interest in getting karters new and old to race.
The old flathead is hard to beat, as far as the number of available cheep motors and parts to make them go. The only problem with them is Briggs wants them to disapear and is making that happen with every stock rod they now ship out. What is CSC’s stance on the billet rod issue in the flathead? WKA’s new ruleing is to let the local tracks deside this on there own.
I do not, at all, think that the flathead is the answer to large numbers of kart racers in the fewture. It is just still the most available motor in the country that has been used for kart racing for years and it is nice that the CSC is continueing it’s use in thier seires.
I will admit that as an addicted user of “industrial junk” I have been looking to see what will be in the junk piles for years to come and I think the 4 stroke OHV will be there in numbers unlike a kart specific motor.
O-well, Happy New Year!!It’s to bad it couldn’t be earlier in the season, as I do think we are flurting with snow that time of year up there.
That’s funny, I heard that too. How much does a Briggs TAG have to weigh? Any one have a rotax seal I can use on my Briggs? I hear it makes them run longer?
Chaz, So you do see my point. The map will depend upon the accelerometers inputs. A shifter and a TAG will have very different accelerometer readings. Even two different drivers would have a different map.
I am still working with Advantage Motorsports on my accelerometers problems. Once it’s fixed this program does do traction circles as well.I too am interested in the data aquisition department. I don’t have any experiance with Mycron, yet, but may soon.
I have been tring to use an older data system over last few years.
To my understanding even the mycron makes a track map based on a G force sensor imput of a run preformed on track.
To me that would mean that a map from any thing other than your kart would have some kind problem?
I sure don’t know as my track mapping system has been plaged with magneto noise from my darn briggs motors.
Does the mycron provide histreograms or traction circles? I think the race studio soft ware has that?
I see in the snowmobile mags AIM also makes data systems for the cold and wet conditions. Are the kart models water proof or simular to the sled models? That would be nice in the case of rain conditions.Hello, I am enjoying all the race talk.
I am interested in all unbuildable/junk TAG motors and parts. Please contact me.
Chaz, you need to sponcer me in your kart. 🙂
I too would like to here how the Biland is doing in run time maintenence, while trying to win races.Very cool John, you are ahead of the times. I think you need a larger exhaust pipe on that system. 🙂
Angie, If it came down to sticking to the rules, there really wasn’t such a thing as a Jr I animal class either in IKF. That class adapted the adult rules for the class from demands of our local racers wanting to utilize the new OHV motor. If you want to race something you have to choose a class and know what the rules are. It doesn’t matter if the rule breakage is intentional or not there was a set of rules agreed upon that would take someone reading them to know what they were. If a racer doesn’t read the rules and understand them then they shouldn’t be too upset when they are DQ’ed. There is a funny story about one of them DQ’s about a jet pack sold and returned. Just because there is no speed limit sign doesn’t mean there isn’t a speed limit.
