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July 1st Go Karting day at Eastern Creek
nifty:
for sure thet are great fun.......but if given the chance try and get a drive of a clubman kart...they only have 15hp or so but the 4 strokes only have about 5hp.
i raced clubman for a number of years,including on a street circuit,where i was clocked by police radar at 156kph.an inch off the ground...sounds fast ...but the higher powered karts were the twin supers.....using 2 x 100cc read valve motors,putting out about 35hp on methanol and revving to 26,000 rpm....yeeeeaaahhhh baby.they were topping out at 210kph...no gears or clutch...direct drive.funny thing was in all classes they used a 380zx as a pace car....cept for the supers who kicked him out the way because he was going to slow for the roll around.
72vet:
--- Quote ---Originally posted by nifty
for sure thet are great fun.......but if given the chance try and get a drive of a clubman kart...they only have 15hp or so but the 4 strokes only have about 5hp.
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nifty the way that i am at the moment the rigor mortis has set in,the pain killers aren't working ;41
I would imagine the extra hp + if the kart was tuned to your own individual driving it would only get better.
Vette Obsessed:
--- Quote ---Originally posted by nifty
for sure thet are great fun.......but if given the chance try and get a drive of a clubman kart...they only have 15hp or so but the 4 strokes only have about 5hp.
i raced clubman for a number of years,including on a street circuit,where i was clocked by police radar at 156kph.an inch off the ground...sounds fast ...but the higher powered karts were the twin supers.....using 2 x 100cc read valve motors,putting out about 35hp on methanol and revving to 26,000 rpm....yeeeeaaahhhh baby.they were topping out at 210kph...no gears or clutch...direct drive.funny thing was in all classes they used a 380zx as a pace car....cept for the supers who kicked him out the way because he was going to slow for the roll around.
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I saw a twin super in a kart shop when I went with a friend to get his Rotax fixed. I saw the thing and realising how quick it would be expressed an interest. The guy wouldn't sell it to me unless I had a certain level karting license - said I'd kill myself. He was probably right. ;41
While more power would be nice down the long straights today I found I wasn't driving the 13hp kart I had today to its potential - straights would be more fun but I was working just to improve my lines and driving technique. I'm also sure we would have gotten into bigger and nastier prangs if we were going faster today. ;40
Vette Obsessed:
--- Quote ---Originally posted by 72vet
--- Quote ---Originally posted by nifty
for sure thet are great fun.......but if given the chance try and get a drive of a clubman kart...they only have 15hp or so but the 4 strokes only have about 5hp.
--- End quote ---
nifty the way that i am at the moment the rigor mortis has set in,the pain killers aren't working ;41
I would imagine the extra hp + if the kart was tuned to your own individual driving it would only get better.
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Past experience tells me anyone feeling muscular aches right now might want to try goanna cream or similar right about now. ;41
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