years ago before scaling was done like today we had a starting line one ft wider than the kart taped on the garage floor , with another 6 ft long line taped 90 * off of that starting line of Tape , we would set the kart down on the floor as raced lining the left side up over the tape line, then with steering lock being Locked and NO driver in the kart we would give it a shove with our foot with just enough force to travel like 12 feet , we would then measure the drift left , actually we only measured it a few times , then we just placed a quarter inch wide strip of tape at the ten ft mark and if the left sides hit that tape good enough we loaded it up and went racing , this was before adjustable front end camber adjustments with using heim ends , If the kart missed it's mark we took front wheels off placed a 4 ft piece of pipe over whichever spindle stem side of the kart we wished to tweak camber by apply some mussel bending it slightly until we achieved what we were looking for , I can't remember 100 % what the drift left distance at 10 ft was , but it wasn't that much less than 1 inch . we knew another guy that did it a little different he had a short driveway from his garage door entrance to the road at a slight down hill grade , one night after his kart was extremely fast when he got home he unloaded the kart set the rear bumper in alignment with the joint between his concrete garage floor and the blacktop driveway , locked his steering lock, he crawled in the kart gave it a push marked the drift left with tape , then every week he just kept it there and won a lot of races or always up front . At the time we were racing a smaller bullring banked track less than a 1/8 th mile but bigger than a 10 th mile .
Bottom line a properly set up kart for LTO racing will pull left , you just need to figure out how much , which was easy with a real good smooth on the wheel driver behind the wheel that could always hit his mark in the turns , because he'd lock in and it looked like the driver was asleep hands never moved as long as he didn't miss his marks , KART DROVE ITSELF yes he had slight pressure on wheel to the right but not noticeable in his hand movement , and slight steady pressure . So If I'm you I grade myself in driving ability hitting my marks against my competitors , kart is somewhat driving itself , I then grade myself against my competition and my finishing position is always good based on handling alone , and I'm satisfied with my avg finishing positions. I then leave the set up alone, if I'm not satisfied with either I change it.
Hope this helps Good Luck !!
