Another go kart project completed...

[7thofa2nd]

Dude, bro'...I hate having to read instructions

EXACTLY!!! Real men don't read directions!!!

Evidently in the settings it's set to automatically shut down after a certain amount of time. So, when I pressed the button to start recording... it wasn't.

Then, this new camera fits into its case beautifully, but it doesn't attach to and fit the head strap quite like my gopro does, it tilts upward, so I got a lot of tree shots.

Then, my beaurtiful, awesome running yellow kart was misfiring at high end. Like they say... "It was running fine when I parked it" so I'm puzzled as to why this started.

The green one... well, I don't know quite how to explain what it's doing... but I'll try. While accelerating, it has quick response and a lot of torque, but it wants to like thump off the line, then it smooths out. High end winding out, it acts like the gas was shut off for a split second and it doesn't seem to wind out like the yellow one does... or did.

I just left 'em both at my sister's place parked under my brother-in-law's helicopter. I'm gonna start on another project and think about these two...

 

[madprofessor]

High-performance ignition coils aren't really any help until you get to that high end. That's where the timing will start to retard, and hi-perf coils have the resistors disabled to prevent that. Might solve that high end misfiring.

 

[Bansil]

What kind of chopper? Boss just sold his Hughes 500C

 

[7thofa2nd]

What kind of chopper? Boss just sold his Hughes 500C

huh??????????????????????????????????????????

 

[7thofa2nd]

High-performance ignition coils aren't really any help until you get to that high end. That's where the timing will start to retard, and hi-perf coils have the resistors disabled to prevent that. Might solve that high end misfiring.

But the yellow kart was running perfectly fine at high end last time I took it out a couple of weeks ago.

 

[Bansil]

I just left 'em both at my sister's place parked under my brother-in-law's helicopter. I'm gonna start on another project and think about these two...

I guess this was an auto correct then

 

[7thofa2nd]

I guess this was an auto correct then

?... you've lost me.

 

[7thofa2nd]

?... you've lost me.

...oh boy, now I know what you were referring to... the HELICOPTER. I thought you were talking anout a "chopper" as in bike.

 

[Bansil]

No worries, lol, I have had to "purchase" a few helicopters and planes over the last 26 years for my boss.....so...again what kind of helicopter

 

[7thofa2nd]

I guess this was an auto correct then

No worries, lol, I have had to "purchase" a few helicopters and planes over the last 26 years for my boss.....so...again what kind of helicopter

I don't really know... I was just now looking through my photos trying to find a shot of it... I know I have some pics saved somewhere.

 

[7thofa2nd]

I don't really know... I was just now looking through my photos trying to find a shot of it... I know I have some pics saved somewhere.

BTW... my brother-in-law crashed his plane about 20 years ago and crawled away from it alive. He now walks with a cane all hunched over and wobbly, but he survived. His next plane was a model with its own parachute. He sold that one about a year ago and has pretty much given up on flying.

The helicopter is a 2-seater. I'll get a few pics of it next time I'm over there.

 

[Bansil]

I have enough time in UH60's and Blackhawks to not care about any of them nowadays

 

[7thofa2nd]

I have enough time in UH60's and Blackhawks to not care about any of them nowadays

Me... I got about 4hrs air time in it, and dat's it. One ride... that doesn't even classify as a rookie... it was a ride along.

 

[madprofessor]

Was that plane chute a tail-dragger, or the high dollar version that lands you on all 3 wheels? Poetry in motion to watch one deploy.

 

[7thofa2nd]

Was that plane chute a tail-dragger, or the high dollar version that lands you on all 3 wheels? Poetry in motion to watch one deploy.

All I remember is him telling me it would set you down gently at something like a couple hundred foot deployment or something crazy like that. I was amazed when he was telling me, but don't remember the exact details. That's one helluva chute.

 

[madprofessor]

That's a grace landing chute. You might be surprised at the size of it, not as big as one might think. Gently? Only gently enough not to break off the gear, need a chewtoy in your teeth just in case the wind yaws it.

 

[7thofa2nd]

That's a grace landing chute. You might be surprised at the size of it, not as big as one might think. Gently? Only gently enough not to break off the gear, need a chewtoy in your teeth just in case the wind yaws it.

"gently" was probably my interpretation.

 

[Bansil]

 

[GregM]

I have owned this cart since I was 7. This post have given me inspiration to bring it back to life.... Oh the memories of being 8 and drifting this around our backyard track for those moments I was the great Billy Pauch!!

 

[7thofa2nd]

I have owned this cart since I was 7. This post have given me inspiration to bring it back to life.... Oh the memories of being 8 and drifting this around our backyard track for those moments I was the great Billy Pauch!!
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Now comes the fun part... the restoration.