I checked on shipping, but it looks like it may be prohibited.

Well i had even better news from my vortex . It was a previous grenade engine .
Not only countershaft is missing but half of my kranksfaft is gear shotted so im for replace the half of it . And if we had to go low then bearings and seals also had to replaced …
Evening gonna be testing for the other to drivers with the rotax and iame engines in the garage but for me … i have to take a mochito cocktail to bring my sorrow down and then haul them to cooperhead roads to do their test …
Thats racing babe .
And i love to hate it .
I helped my son get his new soft seat installed in his tillotson powered tony 401rr in prep for round 2 of the orlando cup next weekend, and I installed the Alfano EGT probe on the shifter and loaded it up for tomorrow’s free shifterkart track day at OKC.
Mkr 2 is over and i cooked:fried_egg:
Training 1 and 2 on race day went okay i was holding a p7 in both tests changing to a MS axle and gearing 11-73
Quali went pretty bad i would say, had a p4 laptime delta but a novice went off track and got back on track straight infront of me so i landed on p6 and 11th total out of 36 drivers
Heat 1, so this went shit, got a kart flying over my radiator and arm causing me to drop back and loose pace after flag my brake pads fell out and i went straight into the grass 100km/h no brakes
Heat 2, Decent start from p11 i was up to p6 but my chain fell of in the chicane causing me to DNF
Prefinal, This is where i started to cook:man_cook: started p24 had a great start and during intese 12 laps i worked myself up to p10 so 14 overtakes having 49:480 times so 3rd fastest time and 2 times faster where vortex engines 5hp more then me
Final i started p11 had another super great start but t2 i got rammed fron the back causing me to go into rubber gravel and loosing places down to p22 i picked up pace and started doing 49:380 times which was second fastest time that final
Ended at 9th but dropped to 11th in results so a pretty well deserved p11
Lets wait for the new kart and head onto the next weekend with hudge confidence!
Im little but dissapointed that i dindt find pace in quali i would of taken a pole or p3 and maby won the whole race but this is racing and a fun part of it
A fine kart quote. Love it.
Was the cadet ok?
Drove the old vintage shifter at Orlando yesterday. We did some practice, an informal qualifying, and two 15 laps races. Qualified 6th out of 15 or so karts, finished 4th in both races. I was up against a bunch of TM KZ-R2’s and some ROK shifter engines. Working on my camera angle, it’s too low, but this was the best video of the day, it was the quali session.
Id love to see a picture of the kart
Thats a wide front width!
Wow that things sweet
No, thats a narrow front bumper!
Ok, you’re right. Its pretty wide. But looks worse than it is, I think.
Engine teardown from the end of the West season. New cylinder off to be sanity checked. Begin race prepping another.
It’s a little on the wide side, the old narrow bumper makes it look super wide
That a full mod moto? Some of the mod moto’s were quite the Frankenstein pieces, cool as hell though. I heard (from good sources) that the real good mod moto’s were very close to 50hp back in the day, quite impressive.
It is. From 2002, my dad developed it. Our land and sea axle dyno was conservative compared to dynojets and others, it made 44 hp at 11.5k and held it there till 12.5k or so, overrevved to 13k, pulled from 8k on the bottom, made 21.5 lb feet of torque. Not sure what the loss through the chassis is, but it’s probably over 50 crank hp. The stock cr125 and yz125 were about 31hp on our dyno for reference.
I can tell you that a TM KZ-R2 has motor on me, maybe a kart length or two on a longer straight. I wasn’t able to pass them, they’d erase any run off the corner I got. My times were achieved mainly from braking and mid corner efficiency. The old road rebel has some fantastic brakes. Ceramic coated aluminum rotors. I think they hold up to modern stuff more than any other part of the kart.
At 22 years old, it has been through a lot, even though it still scales perfectly.
Maaaan that sounds awesome. How much of a difference do you see between your chassis and guys that run the newer stuff? I have a newish chassis myself but I wanted to get an old one initially, but was advised against it as it wouldn’t be competitive. An old chassis is definitely a solid option for me in the future, but I’m afraid I’d be at a pretty large disadvantage