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Location:
Melbourne
Registered:
June 2004
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Re: go kart
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Mon, 09 May 2005 06:45
 
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The thing about getting lots of spares with karts, is they're usually half-worn out stuff that's been pulled off the karts, to be replaced by new stuff. have a good-old look to see what you're getting! Kart chassis' tend to "go off" after 2-3 years of normal use, which is made worse by the continual small gains made by each new model that the manufacturers release.
What I'm saying is, you won't be competetive unless you join a small, less-serious club where everyone else has year-old tyres and ancient karts too.
I drove my guts out, on 3-6 month old tyres at a city club, where dudes spent seriously, to keep their ego's floating, and top Five was best I could do, usually top 10 (in 12->25 Kart fields). Now I'm at a country club - people are just as nice, but they are similarly tight-arsed, and I'm competitive all the time in Heavy with a 3-4 Year old Arrow AX-6, wearing 18 month old tyres!!!!!
I even dusted off my old '95 PCR kart to run in lights (I'm 7kg overweight) and I almost keep up with the leaders in that old hack!!
Hope that gives you some kind of picture of what machinery does to help one's competitiveness. 
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