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Season 2012 Right Around Corner

Tuesday, December 6th, 2011

I have a few items coming in as I prep for 2012 Season at NOLA Motorsports park.

  1. KT100 Engine, mount, and carb
  2. RLV-L3 pipe and header
  3. Bell vortex helmet

Hopefully I can do some wrenching next week, and get them installed and start checking configurations and weights.

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Inward drive on KT100

Thursday, December 1st, 2011

I was researching purchasing of some new engines for the upcoming season at NOLA Motorsports Park and found that my setup is not the norm.  You must keep in mind I am a complete rookie to kart racing, and therefore had no idea what the norm was for a KT100 engine set-up.

So, I start looking to buy engines from many of the normal online places and notice that they all have the crankcase reversed from how my kart is set-up.  It turns out my kart has been set-up for inward drive by flipping the crankshaft, filling old pulse line, and creating new pulse fitting on crankcase.  Now I don’t even know if my current engine will be legal for my class!?!  AWESOME!

More to come on how things turn out…

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