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    Clutch offset

    Hoping someone can help me here. I have an Arctic cat 440 off an 87 el tigre that I put on the kart I built. I'm wondering if anyone can shed some light on proper clutch offset and center to center distance? I think it's a little off at the moment and it's all acting pretty erratic secondary not...
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    What do I have? Can I stretch it & add roll bar?

    Have no idea what kind of frame it is. But that being said you can do pretty much anything you want as long as you support it enough. As for the rollbar that's almost a necessity if you do stretch it. Would help support the added length. I would use the same size tubing that the chassis is built...
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    Calculating top speed

    Yeah. I had bought a different kart before and was gonna modify it. But after looking at it and seeing everything I would have to change and rebuild to get what I wanted It ended up being less time consuming and actually cheaper material wise to build it from scratch. I did however fix that one...
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    Calculating top speed

    Wow thank you so much for the info you obviously know your stuff the driven is 10 3/4" OD. I'll definitely be changing out the sprockets. I probably should have been asking these questions before I got this far. But was designing and building the kart as I went and I'll admit I don't know much...
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    Calculating top speed

    Hi everyone I am currently building my first kart and I am having trouble figuring out the top speed it's about complicated for me just wondering if anyone has any incite into the matter. I have mounted the motor which is an old arctic cat 440 I have the primary clutch on the motor then the...
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    New Here from Michigan

    Hi my name is Brandon I'm 30 from Michigan been lurking for a while come here alot it seems like through Google searches for my current project. A little background about me I am a fabricator/welder/pipefitter by profession been doing it professionally for about 12 years now. A few months back I...
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