Let me explain my experience on it. Everything happens down south and trickles up north. ALL the big money events are down south. Most of the engines down south are NKA. They have a no porting rule. ( I won’t get into that ). Even the sloppy seat job on an NKA head would have been seen by them if heads were pulled. Let me explain that last sentence. Many promoters don’t want the tech to disassembly the engine by removing the head because it makes the owner upset that he must send the engine back to the builder. An upset customer could end up in a loss of revenue. Tracks are competing for karts so let’s keep everyone happy. Then you have the politics of the game of if “ I make this call I may not get called back for future tech.” Up here in Pa we don’t have any big money races just series racing. I can’t remember the last time a series racer up here had his head pulled. OR his engine cc’d. Again, let’s not make the racer mad!! NOW, how did I discover it? Keep in mind that the 75 cut if done properly can be disquised very well if done properly and not noticed by the untrained eye. Let’s face it, how many of you really want your head removed on a Friday/Saturday night event? Some of you believe as I do in that it is a part of the process to determine legality at the end of the night BUT others of you that don’t have the skill of putting it back together and need to send it away for reassembly don’t agree. So there in lies the second reason it hasn’t been discovered. Here is another. Only recently ( in the last year ) has this head seller been selling this particular costly head to individuals and kart shops. With the comings of COVID ( not many tracks open or not many people wanting to risk their health, me included, less tech has taken place up here. There hasn’t been a tech seminar in three years. Oh, by the way, how many tracks don’t have certified techs to do the job? You know, that trained eye!! One of my certified techs purchased two of the heads and called me. I ask him if he could get it to me and he did. I could have turned my head as probably others have done but I couldn’t let it go. You asked how it got this far? Here is a perfect example. Once I notified the public of the problem a particular builder who has the heads on his engines called a promoter of a big event that was only two weeks away and said his engines wouldn’t be participating because of the situation. That promoter informed the public on Facebook that their tech committee decided they weren’t calling it at their event. From what I was informed, no heads were removed. And now you know “the rest of the story”
