I have recently stumbled upon a rare internet gold nugget, of which you seek long and large but seldom find.
The following public document totals a staggering 227 (two hundred and twenty seven!) pages of in depth information of the TM KZ family of engines, starting from the K9 all the way to the R2. The doc goes over:
In depth generational evolution of each model
Tuning principles, applied to each model of engines and which cover pretty much the entirety of the components, from pistons to con rods to cylinder heads,
Carburation tips and explanations
Ignition values and their influences
Exhaust tuning
Crankshaft balancing and its influence on the power delivers
And a lot more
The information within will obviously not make you Galiffa over night, but the indepth explanations allow everyone (even decently well informed people) to better understand how to operate their shifter platform
The only problem : It’s in FRENCH
I really really highly encourage you to run an automatic google translate on the doc, as i promise it is worth it.
Happy reading !
EDIT: I tool the time to run an auto translation, for convenience’s sake
For anyone curious, links containing “TM golden documents holy grail rare internet nuggets of gold and platinum” is pretty much a guaranteed way to get me to click
I’ll ask him for a book version. I am currently working on a Karting book series covering every aspects of Karting. From the basics to the technical stuff, chassis and engine related. My aim is to have a real Karting Bible out there for the beginners as well as the enthusiasts to refer to.
Je suis au courant de votre presence sur les forums Francais, mais je vous invite a faire un tour ici de temps en temps. Y’a des sujets vraiment pas mal qui pourrais beneficier de vos connaissances.
Les Forums Kart en Europe ont en grande partie disparus, c’est dommage, il y en avait de très bon. On trouve encore de l’info sur FB et autres, mais bon…
@KartingIsLife How hard would it be to implement a “translate” feature on the forum for posts in a different language ? Is that something that you could envision for your platform?
Didn’t you get the memo Simone? That’s your new position, full-time KP translator.
I took French for six years in school, mais j’ai oublie beacoup de la langue… Currently working on learning Italian. Dom and I sound like we can stumble through a bit of it, @kartingpro are you proper French, I can’t remember. And of course, @tankyx could help translate too! We have lots of French speakers here.
I was thinking same and did some poking around yesterday. There is a translation plugin available and we’re due a major upgrade for the forum software so I’ll include it in that and we’ll see how well it works….
Browser translation is nice, but if the entire site appeared in one’s native language by default it could be very nice.