Hello all and thank you for having me here on your forum.. First I'll say I use my phone and voice command and I try my very best to go back and check everything out so it sounds coherent. But bear with me at times when it doesn't LOL.. I've been on the FABO car forum for several years now (under the same username) so I'm familiar with forums..
I had been missing my YZ250 for some time now but yet even if I had another one I would have no one to ride with and riding out in the woods is dangerous by yourself... I recently picked up an old Bonanza mini bike that I restored not in original condition but in nice running nice painted condition and got myself into small engines and stuff again. Back in high school a prerequisite for auto shop was small engines and I went to State finals for that so I'm aware of how things work inside the engine..
Anyways fast forward to a couple months ago and I'm starting to think about a go kart. So much so that I actually jumped in and bought one. Now here I am trying to figure it all out and I absolutely love learning..
I bought what I believe is a 2017 ckr kart. 30 mm sg2?.. I bought it from a guy who bought it to teach his son how to drive. I don't think it was ever raced and I definitely had to get a new seat. It has the orange lo206 animal engine...
He didn't put oil in the new engine and blew it up instantly and had another engine put in it. I have the original seized engine with all its accommodating parts. I have another rear axle that was probably the original so I'm assuming the one in it is thinner wall? Also the bearing nearest the sprocket has been removed again assuming for more flexibility.
I've took it out once so far just to ride it around our local track (Pat's acres)..
I started at 12 lb in the tires and ended up at 14 and 15 hot which I believe is a little too much? It came with a mychron 4 and I quickly learned that I need a beacon and bought one for next time. I noticed at the end of the longest straight away I was only at about 5,500 RPMs. I'm not sure of the front sprocket but I'm assuming 17 as I have a 59 in rear. I bought a 61 and a 62 to give them a try and get the RPMs more near the red line at the end of the straight away?.. I'm going to try and start off with 10 pounds of pressure in the tires next time as well?..
Not meaning to be so terribly long-winded but I need to give an idea of where I'm at...
thank you as I will probably be asking a lot of questions to try and learn and if there's anything anybody can tell me I would be very thankful..
I had been missing my YZ250 for some time now but yet even if I had another one I would have no one to ride with and riding out in the woods is dangerous by yourself... I recently picked up an old Bonanza mini bike that I restored not in original condition but in nice running nice painted condition and got myself into small engines and stuff again. Back in high school a prerequisite for auto shop was small engines and I went to State finals for that so I'm aware of how things work inside the engine..
Anyways fast forward to a couple months ago and I'm starting to think about a go kart. So much so that I actually jumped in and bought one. Now here I am trying to figure it all out and I absolutely love learning..
I bought what I believe is a 2017 ckr kart. 30 mm sg2?.. I bought it from a guy who bought it to teach his son how to drive. I don't think it was ever raced and I definitely had to get a new seat. It has the orange lo206 animal engine...
He didn't put oil in the new engine and blew it up instantly and had another engine put in it. I have the original seized engine with all its accommodating parts. I have another rear axle that was probably the original so I'm assuming the one in it is thinner wall? Also the bearing nearest the sprocket has been removed again assuming for more flexibility.
I've took it out once so far just to ride it around our local track (Pat's acres)..
I started at 12 lb in the tires and ended up at 14 and 15 hot which I believe is a little too much? It came with a mychron 4 and I quickly learned that I need a beacon and bought one for next time. I noticed at the end of the longest straight away I was only at about 5,500 RPMs. I'm not sure of the front sprocket but I'm assuming 17 as I have a 59 in rear. I bought a 61 and a 62 to give them a try and get the RPMs more near the red line at the end of the straight away?.. I'm going to try and start off with 10 pounds of pressure in the tires next time as well?..
Not meaning to be so terribly long-winded but I need to give an idea of where I'm at...
thank you as I will probably be asking a lot of questions to try and learn and if there's anything anybody can tell me I would be very thankful..