New engine (upgrade in progress)

[anderkart]

Nice, looking good man

 

[shake this]

good ol blue ribbon

 

[Screendoor]

Looking at that last pic. Could you get a 45 degree fitting for the valve cover to angle your VC Filter upward? Seems like it would make the look more complete. Or take a piece of steel tubing with an outer diameter same as the inner diameter of the rubber hose. Then you could just bend it upward. I think it would look sweet. Brake tubing might work.

Nice kart

Thanks, Yeah I was kind of wondering what to do with that. The steel tubing might work well.

 

[Doc Sprocket]

You could just fab a simple sheetmetal bracket an attach to a rocker cover bolt or the throttle plate.

 

[Screendoor]

PBR has been the beer of choice of my family for years. I turned all of my friends on to it. Not only is it cheap but it taste like Bud Heavy!

 

[Screendoor]

You could just fab a simple sheetmetal bracket an attach to a rocker cover bolt or the throttle plate.

I have seen a kit to mount it but a bracket seems to be the best bet for this application. Thanks Everyone for the support while i was building this thing.

 

[Screendoor]

the entire reason for this build

 

[Doc Sprocket]

Umm- You might wanna move the seat forward a wee bit... J/K. Cute little one!

 

[Screendoor]

thanks man.

 

[anderkart]

the entire reason for this build

Yeah sure. Now I totally understand why you needed those 18lb valve springs, the kid'll be able to smoke all the other ankle-biters at the daycare track still suffering from valve float at 5500rpm.

 

[Screendoor]

Just out of curiosity I put the kart on Craigs list to see what people would pay for this thing. I had a phone call within an hour. I have no intention of selling it, however I wanted to see what it is "worth." The first guy offered $200. LOW BLOW, ouuch

Is that wrong? haha, I don't care if it is or isn't.

 

[shake this]

I don't see a thing wrong with it. You never know, someone might offer you a
Price that's to good to pass up.

 

[redsox985]

Quite often homemade karts have little value on CL. People don't know if it's quality and they can get a used factory kart for the same price. Though, some factory karts are help together by bobby pins and a prayer. There's a hand built buggy on my CL with a snowmobile 440 in it, independent suspension all around, and just about everything else. It's beautiful mechanically but it's bare steel and homemade so it's only $800. Try building the same for $800. Homemade stuff has low resale value.

 

[jandj]

Just out of curiosity I put the kart on Craigs list to see what people would pay for this thing. I had a phone call within an hour. I have no intention of selling it, however I wanted to see what it is "worth." The first guy offered $200. LOW BLOW, ouuch

Is that wrong? haha, I don't care if it is or isn't.

If you put pics in your ad, and the guy knows anything at all about Karts, he was just seeing how desperate you were to sell.
As has been said many times before, "A Kart's worth whatever someone will pay for it".

 

[Screendoor]

so what was the verdict on the Fly wheels? Are they dangerous at high rpms or is that a myth? I want an experts opinion! Like Anderkart! Sorry to call you out dude but everytime I need advice I turn to you cause you know whats up!

 

[Doc Sprocket]

Well, I'm not Anderkart, but I'm gonna jump in anyway ('cuz I can).

So far, there has been precious little by way of hard evidence to prove the exploding flywheel thing. Anecdotal evidence is not evidence. Anecdotally, the earth was flat at one point... There is no doubt in my mind that a reciprocating assembly subjected to exceptionally high RPM will fail, but if the engine is more or less stock these RPM are pretty much out of reach. I believe that if all these flywheels grenaded like Hiroshima at 3700RPM, we'd certainly hear about it. I also believe that even crappy Chinese quality control manufactures these things with a healthy margin of error built in. If the engine is governed to run steady at 3600, the flywheel will not blow at 3700.

That said, I also believe that spit happens on two counts. 1) That manufacturing defects do occur occasionally and it IS possible for a brand new, brand name, bone stock flywheel to frag at 3600. Rare perhaps, but possible. 2) That if the flywheel had been altered, abused, or mishandled in any way, bad things can happen.

My two cents, anyhow.

 

[Screendoor]

thanks man. I wasnt tryin to leave anybody out I know alot of you guys are experts compared to me!

 

[Doc Sprocket]

I know- no offense taken. Besides, that topic in particular is very opinion driven so I figured you could use another one.

 

[r97]

someone has got to buy a bunch of flywheels and hook them up to an engine! i'm going to take a wild guess saying the mythbusters thing hasn't done anything? maybe an e-mail should be headed there way.....

 

[Screendoor]

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