Originally Posted by
AZTman
Hey all, we're still waiting for stock in the US I guess, can't wait to try the new carb for my GXII in buggy and a full 3 needled 2072 combo for the truggy. The 2 needle is running great, but the reviews on the 3 needle have me excited to try it out. The GX5R from a year ago is still running strong in my truggy but the GXII has just a bit more runtime and I want to make 10minute stops safely for our 20minute mains.
I've been running buggy lately to learn it before the upcoming series and the last couple weeks I won the open class and was very close to putting 2nd place 2 laps down on a track with laps between 43 and 46 seconds for the open class. I think I'm getting bumped to the expert class, and this past week I got 4th place in expert after winning the open class main and starting 10th on the grid for the pro class. In 40minutes of mains there was never a hesitation from the Go. I match or beat just about everything down the straight in our open and pro classes. Can't say enough about this thing, it's been incredibly reliable and predictable since I got it in November. Pre-heating will keep you from changing things and messing up the tune when it's still cold.
Glad your finding the GO motors to your liking Travis
+1 on the pre heating. The GO's have always taken a couple of minutes to come on song from cold, and guys have a habit of mis-tuning them before a race because of this. The heater removes this "performance lag" if you like, and does make fine tuning pre race a whole lot easier.
Nice driving too
Hold off on the 3 needle either from GO or Arrow, as all the carbs out there at present have the old slide in them.
The new slide assemblies come on line in around a week, so the carbs will start leaving the factory with the modified slides very soon. The older carbs have a dull chrome coated throttle slide, the new slide will be hard anodised (the same as the OS slide system I am told).
We had a few problems with the coating quality on the old slides, so hence the upgraded hard anodised units.
Worth the wait, as the 3 needle is a nice upgrade on the GXII or any of the previous GX Series motors. Better performance and more accurate tuning.