Switched from a greyhound to a jecko d7 and my 2024’s tonykart dd2 rear handling suddently became shit. There is one support bar added to the left side of the seat to prevent the chasis mount from breaking, what can I do to fix tge rear handling?
What’s the kart doing?
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To follow up with TJ’s question, which Greyhound did you have?
Does the kart scale the same? Are the seat stays stressed? And yeah, describe what it’s doing wrong. My guess though is that it’s not got the same corner weights anymore
If it’s just a change in feel in the rear, it could be seat positioning, as others mentioned.
Personally, I find the OTK DD2 extremely sensitive to seat stiffness changes - way more than a seat change on a standard OTK chassis.
I almost always run a softer seat in the DD2 (Tillett T11VG). Just switching to the standard OTK seat totally changed the feel of the kart - it’s like it took away all the feel of the connection from the seat to the track surface, and the entire kart was much more on edge, and felt like it took away overall grip - not just the rear.
If you went from a soft Greyhound to a stiffer Jecko Closedge, that could be where you ended up.
The new otk seat is super soft. I don’t step on mine getting in and out.
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Thank you for all the comments, allthough i changed it a couple of months back, before puttin in the jecko the rear was a lot more willing to turn, after the jecko it just seemed like it had stiffened up a whole lot, like adding a couple of extra seat supports. I do not remember which greyhound I had before. Due to the track surface at another track that i’m using now having a lot of bumps and holes from the drift competitions, we raised the rear of the kart by removing the spacers under the motor and suddently it seemed to counteract the change by the seat