Yea. the basement did keep it up pretty well. The ironic thing is I bumped into one of my friends today when I was buying a new sparkplug for the kart today and I found out my buddy just got one over the holiday to mess around with . And a guy in our offroad club has 2 , so were thinking about getting a 4 cart race goin on soon I need to build my briggs . I want to be the fastest