thanks for the reply Sundog and Flattop. the tires are what the club allows for my class. so i can't do much there.Toe is at zero. just so you know the front end outside to outside of the rim is 38 3/4. with the spacers this leaves me just enough thread for the castle nut and get a carter pin in it. I haven't scaled the kart yet, as i'm under weight for the class. the class wt is 375lbs. i come across the scales at 341lbs. I'm just trying to get a handle on the kart and the club is letting do this. now for the rest of the story. originally it had a 15 tooth clutch with stock clutch springs. it was killing me out of the hair pin turn. (I've upgraded to the green springs in the clutch.) now rear gear, it came with 59 tooth. then i changed to a 14 tooth clutch, for the track, from the hair pin thru the front short chute, down the long straight it was pulling the whole way and was still pullin by the end of it. (both 14 & 15 tooth) so i've changed the rear gear to a 64, in hopes between the clutch springs and the gear it's a better balance on the track. The animal engine, that lacks the updated flywheel and PVL mag. now for the seat, in my search, i found a seat setup guide for coyote, it says that the seat needs to be layed back as far as it can be, for low center of gravity. i'm not really comfortable layed back, but if it effects kart balance. Then I'm told the early bullets the seats were more upright. (so here we go again.) and i'm going to have to check seat ground height. my main concern was the stock settings of the kart. Now I have some info i can work with. I'm sure as I go I'll have some questions along the way. Thanks for adding me to the group, Thank You for the information and Thank you for your time. Bobby.
**update** 10-29-18 My last time out i did set the stance as wide as it would go. after 3 laps and not being able to hang on to it even at half throttle i brought in the pits. this kart doesn't like "wide". I took the rear wheel width back where it was and went in another inch. This was the best it's ever been. also note, this was with the green clutch springs, 14 t-clutch and changed from a 59 t main sprocket to a 64 t. AND had put the new PVL and flywheel in it. Cant wait for next season.