As the owner of 3D Motorsport, I felt that it would be best to not post on any public forums regarding the 3D manual clutch. I find that posts by company owners hurts online forums more than it helps. I'm posting now, not to promote this clutch or my company, but rather to shed some light on a few things being mentioned in this thread.
Beforehand, I would like to take the opportunity to confirm that I am the same individual that started Downs Brothers Racing. I do not wish to discuss the multitude of reasons for why that business was largely a failure. But to sum things up, there was significant fundamental, financial, and moral disagreements between the owners about how the business should be conducted and expanded and those disagreements led to many issues that unraveled the business in quick order. This coupled with technical issues and financial problems led to the dissolution of Downs Brothers Racing. We had what we felt was a good product
concept, but had no idea how to run a business successfully.
Now onto the purpose of this post. The individual that posted this thread was one of our earlier customers. He has been using the 3D clutch on his 15 horsepower Predator 212 go kart for about a month without issues. He and his father emailed my company this morning to let us know that the clutch was still performing beyond their expectations. In that email they asked if we had shirts and stickers that they could purchase since they have a race coming up and wanted to represent 3D Motorsport for their own personal reasons. I told them that they could either purchase those goods or receive them for free in exchange for honest feedback of the clutch on this forum so that you folks could direct any questions you might have to a third party customer unaffiliated with my company.
Clearly I did not anticipate a reaction like this but I completely can understand why the posters were called out immediately by the veteran forum members. New accounts, zero posts, both from VA, the list of suspicious factors is long...even so, I can assure everyone that these two are legitimate customers with no affiliation with 3D Motorsport except for the fact that I asked them to provide honest feedback on the forum in exchange for some tee shirts.
The two posters are very good people that I have had the opportunity to talk to on a few occasions both over the phone and through emails. They are great guys and so I feel obligated to make sure that the full story is out in the open for their sake as well.
For reasons that are unclear, they didn't post their video footage. To offer some proof, one of the posters is the driver spinning donuts in the dirt field in the following video between 0:21 and 0:33. All of the other footage is from different customers except for the sprint kart footage (that is me):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBxhAfgWqfA
One other small detail...their kart has a 54 MPH top speed and will also cover 75 ft in 3.8 seconds. Those two stats are independent of each other.
Thanks for reading this post and allowing me to provide some insight as to whats going on in this thread. As stated before, I will not be promoting the clutch whatsoever on any online public forum so this will be my first and last post regarding the clutch. Please private message me if you would like to discuss the clutch in further detail.
