Nice spot Doug.. hehe.. I'll leave it at that (sipping... must've been my mind playing tricks on me
)
BL lime sounds like a perfect drink (for female children up to 12...)
Anyways, trends are not exactly a reason (at least that's what I think).
Support your local brewery! that's what I'm thinking
Cutting a crate is fine (and necessary to mount it) no problem with that.. as long as it's the beer you drank while building it.
Leaving a beautiful corpse (of the crate in question) adds 'bonuspoints',
but if your engine needs room, no problem.
That's why I posted the red ones up there (coincidentally my local brewery
)
the red matches the Honda GX red just nicely.. a bit of white paint and a steady hand... and that'll work
Nah.. we're not too attached to beer crates at all, just a convenient package system.
The Bierkisten though (yes.. karts this time..) are kind of popular for quite some time now...
And from my perspective the 'closer' sibling in the US would be a cooler kart.
barstools are ... well... not my thing... for the very same reason (top heavy)
I never called an engine a motor.. at least not in english that is
Well excpt for one occasion, when you all do it..
motorcycles!
in fact that's the better term.. but when the french conquered england, they changed some terminologies and I respect that (at least I'm trying)
You (as americans) don't btw (ford motor company.. american motors corporation... endless list here
) just saying
terminology can be important though (the reason it should be respected)
especially in a forum where some of the inhabitants are non native speakers, and some native speakers are unable to differentiate between "their", "there" and "they're" and basically don't get half their words right...
it's important (at least from my point of view) to try to be on the same page.
And accurate terminology helps (yes.. pedantic.. sorry.. german... what can I say...)
That's why a predator will never be a kart engine although it sits on many karts, just as a motorbike engine will not be a kart engine, even if it's on a GiXXer..
You wouldn't call a pulse jet a kart engine either, would you?
And yes... Bierkiste or Bierkasten (both singular) are nothing but a beer crate (literally),
the first one can be used for a kart (which is lazy for 'fahrende Bierkiste' omitting the driving part)
and just in case you wonder, that doesn't work with Bierkasten though.
BahnRunner build a Bierkiste (again.. KART!) early this year.. and since that's what they're called and Bahnrunner already used that as terminology in here.. I chose to follow his example and solidify that as "
international terminology" for beer crate karts
IIRC at least one german beer is available in proper crates in the US.. Radeberger to be precise (The Charly Harper stuff ) I think I spotted a crate in his garage one time.
Anyways.. I'll see what the shipping of a crate would cost, just to get an idea how hard (expensive) it'd be to send one over.
'sid
PS And nope, at a bar we drink what they serve, as long as it's not too lousy
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EDIT]
Yes, the TAV2 (series 30 Torque converter with backplate)
is indeed better than a typical dry clutch, not only it adds torque on the low end for better acceleration it also adds top speed (10%) .
Tecumseh engines are not too popular thouhg.. expensive spare and repair parts being the biggest problem, a kinda crappy carb being the most often cause of failure.
As long as it runs it's as good as any other.. as soon as it fails it's likely cheaper to replace it with a predator than to fix it.
