CarlsonMotorsports
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There's a WHOLE LOT more to developing a competitive chassis than discovering the wall thickness in a particular kart.Sorry gang i'm a little suspicious helping someone, who obviously has a manufacturing background, about how to determine the specs of one of the hottest karts on the current market. In other threads I have seen people refuse to divulge the inner diameter of a Jones tire ring in order to divert a copy from being constructed.
The Slack Pursuit is an awesome chassis that has proven itself against all others time and time again in all classes. that's anybody really needs to know. Would you NOT buy a winning kart because you disagreed with the wall thickness of the tubes? are we really going tell him how to build a chassis without R&D for the price of a sandwich?
He can always just buy one and chop it up. at least Performance would have made some money for their efforts
No one's giving away any trade secrets. Just like one guy taking a particular tire cut profile and copying it, or rolling the cam in a particular winning engine.
As a chassis builder myself, I can tell you that Slack (and most kart manufacturers) is way ahead of the guy that is going to try to copy something they have developed. By the time someone were to put into production, test, and market their own "copy" (if there were even a market for such) the original would have been improved enough to merit a new model. We see it all the time. That's what makes racing so competitive. The folks copying tire profiles, cams, or chassis tubing thickness, are not on that competitive leading edge.