Blazkowiez
Kart Aficionado
He said the kart is for his children dude. The last thing we need is someone getting hurt from someone jumping the governor and popping the engine in half... a high RPM rate is fine up to 3600, after that point unless you are racing something for competition change ratios and be happy with what you can achieve. The limiter screw on the control arm on the linkage pack on those engines has very little to do with jumping a governor, its a limiter and frankly gets bent out of place the second time most people ride a kart and becomes obsolete.
Just so you know, there are ways to adjust a governor so it can limit a bit higher but you should also be aware on how dangerous tinkering with something like this is without knowledge. I've had a Dingo in the shop with a GX-200 who someone had loosened the governor and placed it in the wrong position loosely to where when I started the kart it immediately engaged and revved past 5,000 rpm locking the torque converter and nailing the boards on the ceiling with the front end of the kart as the whole thing went vertical hurting me in the process, bending the front end of the kart, and making it very difficult to turn off anything in that position considering they thought it would be cute to wire the killswitch to bypass the engine's switch. End result was an hour of Robert's life resetting the governor to factory while I helped customers and stayed as far away from that kart as possible to avoid rage. Fooling with the governor without knowledge is not a game and can hurt you in ways you never thought possible, not simply putting a hole through the front of the back and breaking ribs or taking money from your wallet when you wear down the lobes of the cam. Sorry I don't think its cool to put children on anything dangerous.
The mini-bike will pretty much always win by the way.
Just so you know, there are ways to adjust a governor so it can limit a bit higher but you should also be aware on how dangerous tinkering with something like this is without knowledge. I've had a Dingo in the shop with a GX-200 who someone had loosened the governor and placed it in the wrong position loosely to where when I started the kart it immediately engaged and revved past 5,000 rpm locking the torque converter and nailing the boards on the ceiling with the front end of the kart as the whole thing went vertical hurting me in the process, bending the front end of the kart, and making it very difficult to turn off anything in that position considering they thought it would be cute to wire the killswitch to bypass the engine's switch. End result was an hour of Robert's life resetting the governor to factory while I helped customers and stayed as far away from that kart as possible to avoid rage. Fooling with the governor without knowledge is not a game and can hurt you in ways you never thought possible, not simply putting a hole through the front of the back and breaking ribs or taking money from your wallet when you wear down the lobes of the cam. Sorry I don't think its cool to put children on anything dangerous.
The mini-bike will pretty much always win by the way.
