@Andy_Kutscher that’s a good idea. If it gets warm, I could detail the cars! This would please my ocd.
Wait, wut? Babies? Congrats!
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I feel like I could spend another month in isolation and still not get my projects done. Lol.
I’ve been building my family kart trailer which takes some time. Also gone thru all of the motors and carbs for mine and my sons karts. Had to get my chassis straightened because the one damn practice day I got this spring had contact with someone. So I need to fully put my kart back together and then work on the kid kart for my daughter. Haven’t even done any damn car projects which would occupy my whole summer. Haha.
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Much as I love kartkraft, iracing is a complete game that will be more enjoyable for now.
I wasn’t expecting this topic to reopen this early when I made it. I was hoping it would be another year until we got back to it.
So far ive been doing a lot of forza, f1, and pc2. Unfortunately I don’t have a wheel and prices are shooting up so it seems it will be a project for the future. Another unfortunate thing, my kart is stored in my teams warehouse, so I can’t stress clean it. I don’t seem to be going crazy yet, but I’ve taking racing lines while walking around my house a lot more than usual
Always working on the next season except in 2020 which I didn’t run and instead did tech for the club. I had planned on continuing to do that but fate intervened. So now, I am re-building a kart I bought for my wife and changing my kart over to run that class as well.
So far I have made some progress on her kart.
Purchased an abused Intrepid Freedom for cheap.
It had been hit at the Grands pretty good broke the frame, bent steering parts etc… etc… This was the repair that was on the chassis when I purchased it.
So first tear it down.
Lucky for me, I might know a thing or two and have the facilities to make everything right and even better then before.
First, I had to make sure the frame was strait where it mattered.
Then I had to repair the weld correctly.
The kart was used at the grands and the operator of the kart was using oil for bearing lubrication. The bearings all had to come apart (I tear apart new bearings to optimism anyways so not a big deal) but here is a photo of the front hubs for reference of bearing teardown/polishing/ball checking/lubrication and reassembly.
Front Hubs done for both my Kart (2010 TrackMagic and Her 2020 Intrepid. Also Motormounts
I blasted the frame, then fracture tested the rest of it before powder coating but didn’t get a photo. Here is it after powder coating though…
Then I got it back and started assembly
Then the current progress, going to start working on it again. I was able to straiten the spindle,tie rod ends and had a new steering shaft. However the tie rod was fighting me to be strait (I gave minimum effort) and for $15 each I just ordered a few.
I still got more to go but so far that kart is coming togeather. I have to machine some hub spacers for my kart to run the non-shifter hubs and get the correct width so will make those soon. I also have a few other things I need to do on my own kart but needless to say I should have both ready for testing next month.
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Beautiful welds. massive improvement from the previous hack job. Wish I could weld that nicely. Sometimes I regret storing my kart at my teams warehouse because I cant just go down and work on it or clean it when I whenever I want to. kart looks great!
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I’m with you Eli. Sometimes I wish I had my kart sitting at home.
Amazing work Ronald
That’s what happens when I notice our driver’s kart has an entire frame rail cracked clean through the weld 30 minutes before my driver’s feature race. We had to run that thing to Comet’s shop on site and have them weld it for us. It got the job done for the rest of weekend at least.
The kart actually never even got caught up in an impact, the frame just broke the weld from stress under regular driving in a 206 all season. I think that chassis ran almost every weekend from May through October.
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Didnt mean to call anyone out… Im sure you didnt have a lot of time. good eye and impressive that it got done in less than 30 min. Ive seen more cracked karts from just driving than from actual crashes.
No worries, you’re good. I just wanted to add a little more backstory to the kart since I had been working with it all season in 2020
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Bringing this back for the winter, Im down to do any online races if others are down for it. We did a PC2 league a few years back that was good fun.
Im on xbox
my games;
PC, PC2, F1 2018, F1 2019, FH4, Dirt Rally, Dirt 4, FH3, FM6
still looking for a sim setup if anyone’s looking to sell
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Sounds like fun.
Off-season I always intend to develop pecs and abs of steel.
It never actually happens.
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youve got it backwards. winter is bulking season
Continue racing. We have 2 winter series to run. Lots of practice in between
I usually talk about how I used to be decent at racing, plan out the next season on my calendar, and get some weird ideas about racing a kart in the snow and whatnot. One time it actually produced a halfway viral video during quarantine, but usually it’s not particularly productive.
Wax up the skis and hit the slopes! I also have been RC racing again. Online games would be fun, but I don’t have the passion or motivation for it.
Skiing is a good alternative to karting in the winter. It keeps my weekends interesting
Karting in snow, Not weird 
I do alot of DIY projects around the house, and I have my old Willys to wrench on in the winter months.
Fireplace Hearth Build:
1949 Willys:
I used to do paint and body as a teenager at a shop that painted small aircraft, so I do all my own stuff in the garage instead of farming it out to a shop.
I have to get all my “projects” done in the winter/ spring because because with my day job, I’m on an Incident Management Team that deploys to natural disasters (hurricane, floods, wildfires) all summer everywhere in the United States. If it wasn’t for that I’d have alot more productivity time.
Willys still needs an engine overall and wiring, so that is next on the winter to do list.
Once that is done, I want to tackle an air cooled VW project. I have a thing for restoring vintage technology!
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