Kart only gets good front wheel grip while steering to the left

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I have a Carter hot bodies 1435 with a stage 1 212 and a torque converter. The front wheels grip pretty good steering to the left, but grip is mediocre when steering to the right. I have adjusted the tie rods. before there was about 15 degrees of toe out and it would pull to the left if I let go. I screwed the right ball joint on the right tie rod in(shortened the right tie rod) as far as it will go. I took the toe out from 15 to 5 or so degrees. It made the front end grip better and solved the pulling to the left problem, but the right steering grip is still bad. It is just barely enough to be able to do low speed donuts in the dirt. What adjustments should I make to improve it?
 
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About 1/8" toe in on both front tires works good on mine. ( All 4 of them ). If you have a torque converter, then I assume it's got a live rear axle. NEVER going to turn very good because both rear tires are spinning the same speed. I'm sure you understand that the inside wheel needs to turn slower than the outside wheel for normal turning. You don't have that with a live axle. Best way to cut donuts in the dirt is get the kart going pretty fast, turn the steering wheel as far as it will go
( either way ) and hold the throttle wide open. It's a go kart, not a Cadillac. Have fun with what it does.
 
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panchothedog said:
About 1/8" toe in on both front tires works good on mine. ( All 4 of them ). If you have a torque converter, then I assume it's got a live rear axle. NEVER going to turn very good because both rear tires are spinning the same speed. I'm sure you understand that the inside wheel needs to turn slower than the outside wheel for normal turning. You don't have that with a live axle. Best way to cut donuts in the dirt is get the kart going pretty fast, turn the steering wheel as far as it will go
( either way ) and hold the throttle wide open. It's a go kart, not a Cadillac. Have fun with what it does.
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Yeah I know but the façt that it gets more grip turning left than right is a little confusing.
 
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HULKSMASHNOOBSGOTIT said:
but the façt that it gets more grip turning left than right is a little confusing.
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HULKSMASHNOOBSGOTIT said:
8hp for 52hp
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Idk what you're smoking, but Dude just stop.

That engine is a 36 BHP parallel twin 2cycle, I've looked up the specs and can tell you that Polaris maximized that engine so even with a little extra tuning you're not getting more than 40BHP out of it IF YOU'RE LUCKY.
You're also looking at around 180lbs worth of engine and transmission.

GTFO with your delusional nonsense.
 
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Idk what you're smoking, but Dude just stop.

That engine is a 36 BHP parallel twin 2cycle, I've looked up the specs and can tell you that Polaris maximized that engine so even with a little extra tuning you're not getting more than 40BHP out of it IF YOU'RE LUCKY.
You're also looking at around 180lbs worth of engine and transmission.

GTFO with your delusional nonsense.
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It's a 1981 Polaris txl Indy 340 motor. Look it up
 
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I didn't get back on here to argue about horsepower. Your original post was to complain about poorly gripping front tires and the kart not steering well. Now you are going to put on an engine that weighs four times as much as the one that's on there now. Think maybe that might affect the balance of your kart. Good luck with even keeping the front tires touching the ground. Certainly don't think your steering problems are going to improve.
 
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