Originally Posted by
wingracer
Been there, done that. Fortunately our engine guru was also a sponsor
My favorite was running the Yamaha in practice at a little asphalt road course. About a half a second before standing on the brake for the hairpin at the end of the straight, the crank broke and the clutch beat me into the first turn. Damn near took a guys ankle off as it went under the fence. Fortunately our engine guys shop was just down the street so he got it rebuilt in time for the race.
After winning my race, we had to pull it out of my kart and drop in another guy's that seized his up. He went on to win his race with it too.
lol cant even think how many iv blown up lol ... the last one a few months ago was when i was out in a 2004 votex reed air cooled had it singing around 21k rpm then i came in and dad's like lets put on the 135cc long stroke big bored TKM .. im like ok never driven a long stroke .. went out and it felt like it didnt go at all soo i kept screwing in the jets leaner and leaner thinking is was 4stroking and till it started to go alil .. turns out long stroke motors dont rev at all and there all torque lol so its was WAY PAST LEAN lol and half way down the straight full noise at about 130kph it locked up shooting into the side fence at about 90 i reckon lol i was a lil sore after that . but i sware dad only cared about the rare as motor that i didnt crack the crank case or anything like that hahahahahah good times ..
did u guys over in the USA back then ever run TWINS or 200cc supers.. basicly 2 engines on one kart .. my dad use to race em f'n crazy